Sculpting challenge: Day 81!

So things are moving ahead slowly but surely! I wanted to get so much sculpting done this weekend but unfortunetly I didn't feel well so I didn't get as far as I wanted. On Sunday I rolled eyes like I'd done with the animals since I didn't have the beads to make the eye molds I needed. I rolled them in white clay and put them on wires so they could be on the painting stand I made.

( Eye molds, eyes, and stand )

Here is my eye mold, the stand, and all the eyes on stalks. I noticed that I accidently grabbed my translucent clay instead of white though! Eep! They look rather neat actually, but that's not what I'd been going for. I have painted them white and they are currently drying on the rack. I need to actually paint the eyes of course. Not sure how this is going to look in the end since I normally paint them after the sculpt is totally done.

Then since I was waiting on the eyes to dry, I decided it would make the most sense to just start on the body armatures. Since I don't usually do groups it took me longer than I expected! I keep saying that foil armatures are like foil origami.
( Armature stages )

Here's a picture of the armatures in stages. They use a lot of foil!

And here are all of the armatures together, and the eyes with a thin coat of paint drying on them. They still need some more shaping but they are mostly finished!
( Progress for the night )

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to continue my sculpts! I'm probably going to finish the eyes and start the body sculpts. I don't think they eyes will be done in time to do more face sculpting tomorrow.

Sculpting challenge: Day 82!

Tonight I shaped the body armatures and put the plaster layer of clay down on two of the bodies. It looked really neat actually to have the unshaped armatures next to the shaped ones, it made a big difference! I don't have a picture of that comparison though. At this point I just have a very basic torso shape, but tomorrow I'll start sculpting the body. Not sure how far I'll get though! It takes me so much longer to do a group than one model at a time though! I think that doing it this way is a good idea, but it sure makes it go slower. :P

( My progress so far! )

In other news, I really need to put up my tree! I normally have it up by birthday. I don't have any decorations up yet, so it doesn't feel very festive atm. My office has a little tree and lights set up in our entryway though, so that does feel festive. :3