Monster Rambles 14 Sculpting and Model Making
Sometimes it's just good to venture into 3 dimension and get your hands dirty!
I love sculpting and model making and used to do a lot more in my younger days. I have several unfinished model kits in storage. Plasticine was the thing when i was very young and I remember making a Mekon figure, enemy of comic strip hero Dan Dare. As he was bright green, plasticine was perfect with all its choice of colours.
Drawing and painting has always been the main thing for me , but I was always fascinated by the model maquette’s the special effects departments would use to develop ideas, before 3d computer software put those to pasture. I remember the Star Wars teams using them for Return of The Jedi to show George Lucas the alien character ideas. The making of movie books would have once always have photos of these that I would pour over. These days, much like scratch building and photos of model kits, the books now just have 3d computer renderings . The art is brilliant, but the books seem a little souless to me.
I stumbled across the awesome sculpts of Dug Stanat on Instagram and then the epic you tube monster maker Dan Does. That algoritm is handy sometimes! It inspired me to give it a go. I use mix media stuff, air dry clay, polyfilla, texture paint, broken branches, tissue paper etc. I like mixing all kinds media, including real worlkd stuff like moss!
Anyway, here are some images of completed stuff, let me know what you think!
Thanks again! Any support is greatly appreciated!
All of the links!!!
Dansmonsters Library of Doom - Pulp reviews from my stupid collection
You Tube- Join the Monster Bomb Club
Kofi - Buy stuff so i can buy more pens or just a brew! Thanks!
My website! I need to update to be honest!
Instagram ( a necessery evil i suppose )
Here are a couple of links to buy some actual books:
More importantly, remember the rules for drawing monsters, the weird and the wonderful!
1. They are not real, so draw them any damn way you want.
2. Forget stuff like anatomy. Who cares.
3. Use any tool and as many as you like as long as it makes an unholy mess.
4. Most importantly, have some bloody great fun!
Dan’s brother, Bill making things, and miscast on YouTube are two of my favorite builders. Their stuff is well worth checking out!
Really cool stuff! I’ve always wanted to make something like that. How did you get into it?
And I agree with the last bit of advice: fun is always the best way to learn and do for.