some new pieces

[DarkEden]

Hi,

This is my last sculpt, an olive's rydley turtle. Size 1:1, 14 cm long. Made with soft chavant
All comment are welcome
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/8306/dscn8732pz6.jpg
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/5691/dscn8729ze7.jpg
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/8071/dscn8728pj0.jpg
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/7422/dscn8730id2.jpg
http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/995/dscn8731vh4.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/4535/dscn8733rs9.jpg
Thank you for viewing

Rémy

[rvbhal]

Very real,lifelike.What is soft chavant?

[DarkEden]

Thank you.
chavant is a none-sulfured plasteline. It exists in soft medium and hard hardness

[maddmaestro]

beautiful work! will you be doing the body as well? also did you cast this?

Maddmaestro:afroboy:

[DarkEden]

I won't make the body because it requiered too much money for me, the turtle is about 30 inch long. And for a test of life-size sculpture I prefer to keep simple. And I will cast the head with resin plaster

[Atastrophea]

love the neck wrinkles/ texture :) wish I didn't hate the smell of chavant so much now, this makes me want to try it again!

~^-^~

[misael]

now I want to see the whole turtle. Looking good.

[ROOSTERCAT]

Great job!

[MikeMakesModels]

Wonderful texture :)

[Møøse]

I love the little details on the scales, very cool. But I can't help but wonder what it would look like with a blue, red, orange or purple bandana.

[mkat]

my goodness! this turtle head is great. i'd like to see the whole thing! wow ever since i came on this site i get inspired. i am very inspired by your turtle head. keep them coming!

[RockinAkin]

Wow... I've been working on a turtle similar to this lately, and this is AWESOME.

Really great job - keep it up!

[SoulWraith]

Beautiful Job! Is this the Green Sea Turtle? It looks smooth like the Green ones. I just completed a baby sea turtle and posted it...I did not see your post till now! Mine is 2½ inches tall, a life size hatchling.

I absolutely love Chavant Clay, but I messed up and bought the sulphur kind, and yes it smells bad LOL...plus I cannot use silicone for casting unless I seal the clay, rendering it useless for another sculpture.

[animachina]

Stop casting turtle heads and calling them sculptures! CHEATER!

Seriously,awesome realistic study. Great job!

[MichaelMotion]

great work! Lovely eye for detail!

[KingUnicorn]

The skin along the throat is so rich. The way you've knocked back the texture to create a natural feeling to it is inspiring. Makes me want to play with some thick-skinned creature concepts.

Is this a personal project or a professional assignment?

~KU

[DarkEden]

Thank you for your nice comments :bashful:
It's a perosnnal project. I'm building a portfolio with other kind of stuff than my usual 54 mm miniatures.

So it is an update. I added the eye with crystal resin over acrylic paint. I made a kind of lens over the reworked plaster casting.

Thank you for viewing
Rémy

[SoulWraith]

Oh The eye looks great!!!!

[DarkEden]

Hi!
I have painted my plaster casting with acrylics and pigments.
I'm pretty happy with the result, I think we cannot see that it's casted in plaster so it's cool.
I must paint the eyes and add the resin lens over it to finish the model. I hope thta you will like it.
Best regards
Rémy

[Mariahc]

You are an expert. The head seems absolutely real!! The color tonalities are perfect, and the eye is incredible, I have a lot of interest for the way in that you have gotten that the eyes seem real, I will look for the crystal resin to prove it. A thing that I have liked much of the work has been the way in that you have given the texture to the mouth. I am wanting to see more.

[maddmaestro]

Beautiful...every step you take just serves to add to the overall beauty and realism of the piece. I am awestruck...

Maddmaestro:afroboy:

[barbelith2000ad]

Wow that looks real,amazing paint up really sells it.

[KingUnicorn]

Oh, yes - you've nailed it now. The paint scheme here and your lens effect over the eye have created something all too real.

This is a great example of strong reference and careful technique coming together.

~KU

[ROOSTERCAT]

Great Job Man!! Bravo!!

[oracrest]

very well done! It is looking great!!

[SoulWraith]

I believe the lens over the eye is just a cover to protect it from the paint until it is finished, Then it will be peeled off. I do mine the same way.

This is so awesome!!!! Waiting impatiently for more!

[psychoboy]

cool work B

[DarkEden]

The lens will be crystal clear when glued on the turtle. There is a shot of the finished eye without the translucent eye protection that turtle have underwater.
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6158/tortueoeiljr0.jpg
Thank you

[maddmaestro]

Dude so what gallery can we see this on exhibit in? Cause I want to see it up-close and in person. Amazing work...that eye looks perfect!

Maddmaestro:afroboy:

[DarkEden]

For now I'm not exhibit my work. I must have my diploma this year. I would like to move form france to LA to do some exhibit with more stuff. But in few year I hope it will be OK

[maddmaestro]

Oh you won't have any problems of that i am sure! If your current work is any indication you have a long and exciting carrer ahead of you. Best wishes...

Maddmaestro:afroboy:

[lilalex]

The lens will be crystal clear when glued on the turtle. There is a shot of the finished eye without the translucent eye protection that turtle have underwater.
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6158/tortueoeiljr0.jpg
Thank you

:ae: :ae: :ae: :ae: :ak: :a!: :a!: :a!:
Someone chopped off a turtle's head!!!
Oh, it's a sculpt?!! :tihi:

Not a whole lot to add, DE - just, Wow! - what an exercise in realism; it's gorgeous.

Congrats - and I really forward to seeing more of your work!!
Thanks for sharing.
la

[Kinjiru]

hope you like??? this is amazing!! It looks so, so, real that Green Peace will come after you! :P

[El Jeremie]

Really impressive.
I've already see some Wip picture on Creafig, but damn, it's looks so really.
Stan Winston would proud of you

[DarkEden]

Hi !
So there are the final shot of the little turtle.
Thank you for viewing
Rémy

[Greyguy]

Beautiful work !!! the paint job on a plaster cast is SO translucent looking !!

[fruitdot]

Man, that eye is so mesmerising!! o.O The whole sculpture is so realistic, if I saw it washed up on shore on some beach I'd seriously take it for a real turtle head!! :P (I'm not sure how large you've made it tho, so the scale could give it away) Great job!! *applaud*

[StarFyreXXX]

DarkEden...

Are you the same, from Coolminiornot and the sculptor for JMD-miniatures?

The turtle is beautiful.

Regards,

Sanjay

[DarkEden]

So the sculpt 1:1 scaled, 15 cm/6 inches long
And I'am the guy from coolmini and jmd miniatures . :^^:

[StarFyreXXX]

:) it appeared to be you :) hehe

I remember you answering some of my questions at coolmini :)

The soft chavant plastilene...that never hardens permanently, right?

You said you were casting it in resin. What happens to the original sculpt when you mold it?

Sanjay

[DarkEden]

You're right about plasteline, it never cures. So I casted the head with resin plaster and the original sculpt has been melt in the oven to re-use the clay.

[Akeyla]

you know, if it werent for the fact that it stops after the neck I'd not believe this is a sculpture... its so REAL!

[Mariahc]

A perfect work! the detail of the particles of sand is very good, the eyes seem that they are alive. I Love it, I cannot stop to look at the images!!

[VulgarDragon]

Splendid job! It looks so real. I'll have to give this chavant material a try. Right now I'm not too satisfied with Sculpey for detailed work.

[MichaelMotion]

This is just a treat for everyone's eye, I think!
Very well executed, lovin it!

[sleepingbeauty]

wow, it is amazing work

[maddmaestro]

Beautiful, beautiful work. The finished product lived up to all the expectations, and exceeded them. Take a bow, my friend...you deserve it!

Maddmaestro:afroboy:

[Siamese Goldfish]

it's been said a few times already but it wont hurt to repeat, this is amazing. simply amazing.

[mkat]

wow once again i am very impressed! i was blown away without the coloring and now it looks like you chopped off a turtles head lol. great job once again. you really inspire me. i have looked into sculpturing. ive gotten alot of help on this site and seeing artist like yourself helps even more. thanks alot. peace

[Robert.B]

Amazing 0_0!

[misael]

This is just tooo good. WOW.

[Breath of Life]

Phenomenal! The paint is amaaaaazing! Can you be more specific about the clear stuff you used for the eye?

[DarkEden]

I use a water-clear epoxy resin. (pébéo in europe) So I made a mold to do a kind of lens like the one we have sometime on the eye. It's sanded and polished then glue with the same resin. I apply a glazing coat on the finished eye.

[SoulWraith]

WOW.
You have got to sculpt and paint the rest of the turtle now! I mean, I would be happy to see you do him flipper by flipper!!!!!

I do have to ask about the plastic on his beak though...I am assuming you are making a statement about pollution since it looks as if the turtle has bitten into plastic and is crying. I really love the sculpture and paint job without the plastic, because I can see everything, but I do understand the statement made too :)

I would love to have this! Or a casting to paint myself!

Lora

[DarkEden]

I can have you a casting if you want, even the painted piece.

[StarFyreXXX]

how much for a casting?

Resin, right?

Sanjay

[rvbhal]

Really fantastic! Impressive. You stretched the boundaries of man.

[DarkEden]

The casting are in plaster resin, as hard as resin. A very good product.
So 40 euros one piece. 56 $ plus shipping cost

[SoulWraith]

I will get a few of my horses sold and I will buy a casting from you!
Thanks so much!

[DarkEden]

Hello CA's people.
I show to you my last job for art school.
It's a chameleon XD calumma parsonnii.
20 inches long including tail.
I make the master with plastiline, then cast it with resin an painted it with acrilics. I made the eye too.
Thank you for viewing, have a nice day
Rémy
http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/6205/camfinal1ew1.jpg
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4910/camfinal2yw2.jpg
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/6603/camfinal3bl0.jpg
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9161/camfinal4im1.jpg

[ROOSTERCAT]

fantastic JOB!!! You are a GENIUS MAN!!!

[maddmaestro]

Another beautiful job! You have nailed it! excellent work!

Maddmaestro:afroboy:

[JohnID]

Where did you go to school?

[fruitdot]

OMG!! o.O your sculpts are so realistic it's almost scary, lol. ^^ I would easily be fooled into believing this was a real, living chameleon if it were put in a terrarium! :O

[StarFyreXXX]

Remy - once again, your work is beautiful.

I still want you to make a copy of your nurgle sorceror statue that you won at the golden demons with, and cast it in resin :D

Sanjay

[Wykin]

So.. many.. scales... :xpld:

Just as with the turtle.. mind blowing ><

[VulgarDragon]

I'm totally flabbergasted. It looks so real, like a live one. I absolutely have no idea how you were able to do all those scales and textures and make them so lifelike. I bow to your mighty awesomeness!

(Any chance you will ever show us lowly mortals your secret techniques? :bashful: )

[AerialInk]

Astounding attention to detail. Every day I go to work I get to usually see a chameleon or two, and having first hand experiences with theses guys I don't think you could pack any more life into that sculpt.

[DarkEden]

Hello. I was busy with studies last months.
So I painted a casting of a sculpt I made last year. 10 inches tall
It's made form translucant epoxy then painted with acrylic inks.
I glued my hair's leg on this poor guy. The tattoo were made by masking all the face then cuttinf the pattern in the mask. Then I airbrushed the greenish color.
The eyes are simply painted with a brush.
So there are the pics. Thank you for your attention and sorry for my english, I don't pratice for ages now...
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8517/sirob008.jpg
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4909/sanstitretxz.jpg
A wip to test plaxtin, 5 inches
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8504/popeyez.jpg
And a miniature I made in april, base on warhammer online concept. 2 inches
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/4637/elfemontage.jpg
Good bye
Rémy

[Bongsplat]

Absolutely wonderful! I love the weird fella at the top..Looks so realistic.

But seriously .....your own leg hair!! *yuk*:D

[SoulWraith]

Yes, The guy at the top really freaks me out a little, he looks very alive and realistic....At first I thought it was a PhotoShop job using someone's face...
The WarHammer sculpt is awesome..and only 2 inches tall....wow.

[Aizkur]

increible job! only one word,Wow.

[KingUnicorn]

Haha. Nothing quite says, "That's my art!" like gluing your own body hair to a piece.

The eyes are what make the paint job for me. The glistening terror they beam is excellent.

I'm a fan of your miniature there. I've been playing around at 32mm myself lately and I commend the realism you've nailed at such a small scale.

~KU