Sculpting challenge: Day 61!

So tonight I continued on my siamese cat sculpt! First I sculpted the hindquarters and attached them to to body. Then I figured out the positioning of the back leg/feet and put those onto the sculpt. Then I sculpted the neck further, repositioned the head to work better with the pose, gave the tail armature more support and sculpted clay onto it (tails are surprisingly finicky!). Then I decided that even though I already had finished and baked front legs... they were a touch too big for my taste. So I made a new front leg armature, re-sculpted the legs, textured and baked them. I needed extra clay, especially since I was re-sculpting the the front legs legs I needed to mix up some new clay. It's a bit lighter than my original mix but since I'm planning on painting it I think that's fine. I also prepared the pieces that will be the cat's shoulders after I attach the new legs.

So tomorrow I will need to attach the front legs, sculpt the shoulders, attach the tail, do any touch-ups, and texture everything. Hopefully I have enough time to do everything and bake it! I am so excited by coming to the end of this phase of my sculpting challenge!

( Picture of the cat sculpt so far! )

I'm wondering if I should go to the painting stage of all of my animal figures first or if I should start the human figures.

Sculpting challenge: Day 62! PHASE ONE COMPLETE!

I finished my siamese cat sculpt today. OMG! That means I have sculpted all of the animals that I set out to do for this part of the challenge! Now I need to decide if I want to paint them all next or if I want to start the human sculpts. It might make more sense to go to paint. I'll see how I feel tomorrow. :3

But for the last bit of sculpting! I attached the prebaked front legs, sculpted the shoulders and shoulder blades, attached the tail, and then textured the whole cat. After that I baked it. Unfortunately the tips of her ears got a little burned, which basically just means they are a bit discoloured. Which doesn't seem too bad since it's a siamese and I'm going to be painting the ear tips dark anyway. hehe What happened was I accidentally didn't reset the temperature alarm after venting some heat out of the stove when it got too hot (because of the way stoves heat up, they don't maintain temp, they go up higher than they need to and shut off until they get to a lower temp, and then start again). So when I looked back after a few minutes I realized the temp had gotten too high. All and all not too bad though! It's still hot so I can't really take full pictures of it until tomorrow, especially since the clay isn't fully set until after it's cooled so I don't want to mess with it.

( A couple of pictures of the cat, one before texturing and a picture after baking )

In unrelated news, I was listening to The Voice tonight while I was sculpting and two of my favourite people were cut tonight. So disappointed! xP