Yay, I finally got back to my figure challenge!
This fellas name is Everett and I titled him “Just Imagine.” Everett is kind of a geeky guy who loves all things adventure, fantasy and make believe.
Is he pretending to be Indiana Jones? A wizard? And what’s in that letter? Is it a call to come participate in some grand quest? Rescue a princess?
I’ll leave it to your imagination.
I have absolutely no idea why, but I totally love sculpting shoes, boots and hats! It was really no hardship to spend the afternoon staring at a young Harrison Ford/Indiana Jones while sculpting the Indiana Jones hat. 😎 I’m pretty pleased with how it came out.
My patrons were the first to get to see this, my latest figure sculpture. They got an advance viewing on Friday. Just one of the little perks I like to send my patrons’ way.
Everett is number seven of the polymer clay figures I’ve made this year. This works out perfectly as July is the 7th month and I am now officially redefining my 2017 polymer clay figure challenge to be only one figure per month.
If I didn’t have other things to do, like things that bring in money to pay the bills, I would definitely want to keep working on two figures a month to continue growing my skills. But, you know, it’s ok because it’s good to be working on a variety of things at the same time.
I’ve also realized at this point that I am totally done with making figures that have any size to them without full wire armatures on the inside. It may be easier to sculpt without them, but I am so tired of their arms falling off! Argh.
Another thing I think I want to do more of is making soft bodies on a wire armature and clothing them with real fabrics. Since my first love is sewing I have quite a collection of fabrics, and I’ve been saving many special ones for dolls.
So perhaps I’ll make one or two more from Maureen Carlson’s How to Make Clay Characters because she has some interesting ideas for using millefiori techniques to make patterned fabric clothing out of clay. But then I think I’m going to go more to using actual fabrics.
Although I still want to sculpt the hats and the shoes!
Watch a short video of Everett the Adventurer Wizard Wanna-Be at YouTube.
Oh, he’s great! Love the sweater, too. And he’s just the friendliest-looking wizard I think I’ve ever seen. 😀
Thank you! I did want him to be a kindly old gent. 🙂
He’s very kind and gentle looking. Like a character from the Hobbit maybe. You are very talented, I love looking at your creations. Thank You for sharing.
Thank you so much for the nice comment, Erin! You are right, he does sort of look like a character from LOTR! In fact, I almost gave him elf ears while making him. 🙂 Thanks again for your kind words.