Art Farmer
May 16th, 2009, 04:20 PM
This is the third in the series, or more correctly, the third to be finished. This came with inherent design problems. How to construct a speed-blur base? I played in clay for awhile. I knew I wanted Superman to be massive and have everything taper and blur from his waist down. I tried angled V shapes and collections of lines and zig-zags but everything I tried made him look like he was wearing a skirt. I spent some time looking at Art Deco and back again to Leyendecker and came up with a staggered crystal pattern and treated the speed elements very graphically, especially the back of the cape. And then had the whole thing dissolve into a cloud vapor element. I sculpted additional speed patterns in the interior of the base so, as you move around the statue, the interior and exterior patterns play over each other creating more movement. I used the same effect for Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Batman.
That's the theory, anyway.
As always, hope you like the work.
That's the theory, anyway.
As always, hope you like the work.