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[shiye]

Hi all, It took me some time to gather enough courage to writhing my first post. I been lurking here for some time and seen so much wonderful work, I guess I will never manage to get that far but I’ll try it anyway:) .

And for some sort of introduction, I live in the Netherlands, am 24 years old and currently working as a taxidermist in a museum in the Nederland’s. For the people who don’t know what a taxidermist is, I stuff animals and make lifelike models.

Alright, here it comes…some photo’s of my work. I’m currently working on this one, her name is Dirkje (the name is not my idea but it just stuck) the wings on the second photo are already gone. It was an experiment but it didn’t look the way I like so I’m making new ones right now.
The material is air drying clay, I have sculpey and apoxieclay but I’m lacking an oven right now. So I have to use air drying clay for now.
I still have lots to do on her, her muscles are all wrong and the scales….well. but its going the right way I guess. I have no building drawings or things on paper, I just use my head and see were it leads me.

Please, if you have comments or ideas… let my know they would be most welcome.
Thnx,

Shiye
http://www.ferretsworld.net/draakjevklei3.jpg
http://www.ferretsworld.net/dirkje.jpg
http://www.ferretsworld.net/dirkjeklein.jpg

[OMB]

This is really good , i love the brilliant smooth finish that its got. Sorry what type of air drying clay did you use? Is it your own concept?

Ollie

[pijay-brown]

great

I like her face, good shapes, smooth surface, as a taxidermist, eyes look nicely worked

scales are a little weird, you are right, but i guess you'll work on it

for me wings seemed to be good except the articulation on arms levels, it s going in a wrong way but as a dragon everything is possible

checking for next steps

[tysiony]

i've seen a tutorial for this dragon thought i'd bookmarked it but can't seem to find it,is that what you've taken it from? If so nice interpretation, i like the cute character you have in it's face.

[shiye]

Thnx for the comments guys! I was almost afraid I did such a crappy job on this one, no one would react.

OMB: its just the cheapest air drying clay available here in the Netherlands (it’s called DAS) I tried others but they just shrink way to much.

Pijay-brown: I know the scales are off but I haven’t figured out how to make them better…it will come in time I guess:^^: . And air drying clay is horrible to work with, especially in details like scales (its extremely soft and horrible to model) but if you have any suggestions I love to hear them. This is the first dragon…and the first sculpture in ages I’m trying to make. Where I’m I going wrong with the arms? You could be right but I cant see where the problem is. I took the wings off with a lot of violence:muscle: so it could be that it looks a lot worse then it is.

Tysiony: I don’t use tutorials but I think I know which one you mean. The only thing I “stole” from there is the bust idea, the rest is my doing. I don’t have drawings and don’t use examples for this one (guess that’s why I make some mistakes). And your right…she’s cute…just the way I wanted to make her, I really don’t like the “always nasty and grumpy looking dragons anymore…just seen to much of them.

Anyway, thnx again for the comments, its really helping a lot. I will keep you posted with pics.

shiye

[shiye]

Just taken a good look on her…I really deed help with the scales a lot, its looking like a disaster:nohope: (I could just take everything off and start all over…:[ :confident )

[tysiony]

i like them the way they are- i think they fit in with the character of your sculpt
but if you really want some tips heres a thread i started over at the clubhouse,it's about fish scales but it might give u some ideas.
http://theclubhouse1.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=384586#384586

http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/texture_tool.html


http://www.fishcarver.com/making_fish_scale_tips.htm
Hope this helps.

[shiye]

I just took them all off 5 minutes ago! *looks really really scared:x * guess it’s better to start with a clean sled and go from there again. The links you gave me are great! Only the one on clubhouse… I cant get in because I have to register (I did a view weeks ago but I haven’t heart if I’m accepted). I’m now building her neck mussels, I didn’t before (skipped that part, don’t know why) but it kept looking a little bit odd. I think I’m happy to start all over again, I put the good parts back in but I want to do something with her anatomy first.
That’s the great thing about air drying clay, you can sand dust everything off again in minutes with a dremel:wink: .

[tysiony]

oh right, i thought that you could go in as a guest and read the thread.maybe email the administrators again? Good luck with that.