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revenant-99 — Boris Karloff plaque
Published: 2010-02-26 19:04:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 2504; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 54
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This is my first attempt at relief sculpting, and after a lot of trial and error I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.Karloff is one of my all time movie heroes and I had been planning to try a portrait sculpt for some time...so when I thought about trying my hand at relief sculpting, he was an easy choice of subject for me to try!
It's approximately A3 size and was sculpted in water based clay. I'm planning to mould this and do a cast in bronze resin.
Thanks for looking,
Terry
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Fantastic sculpt! I love all the attention to detail!
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Thanks a lot!!
I love your work by the way.....I just had a quick browse through some of your sculpts and I was blown away by the quality and the imagination on show. Very inspirational!
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Thanks man! That's a huge compliment and I feel the same about the work you do.
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You're very welcome!.....and thanks again. I'll definitely be visiting your gallery again soon!
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Great sculpt, it's inspired me to try sculpting something like this.
How thick is it? It doesn't look very thick but it appears to have such depth to it.
Keep up the great work!
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Thanks a lot1
The background slab of the plaque is around 5mm to 8mm thick I think, and then the rest of the sculpt builds up from there. The thickest part is the hand and sleeve which if I can remember correctly got to be around 25mm in places.
I'd recommend having a go at relief sculpting, this was the first time I attempted anything like it and I really enjoyed the process.....it looks simple but you have to keep thinking of ways of implying depth without actually sculpting a completely 3D figure. Have fun!
Terry
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Okay, thanks. And yeah, I definately will try it
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Incredible. It almost moreso has the feel of a drawing than a sculptured relief. I'm really amazed at your technique. Great subject matter too! Love the oldies. And he was the most bad ass of them all.
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Thanks, when sculpting this sort of thing it feels a bit like a combination of both drawing and sculpting at the same time...Karloff is one of my heroes from way back and had such a great face full of character. It was a real labour of love for me to try and capture that great face in clay.
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I can really see that. And I completely agree, he was a master.
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This is an interesting sculpting technic, I never even thought about doing something like this. but many cultures have art like this now tha I think about it lol
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Yes it's certainly a challenging technique to get to grips with....I struggled at first but eventually managed to a result that I was happy with.
Cheers!
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Thanks! I'm glad you like it.
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thanks a lot, much appreciated!
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You did a wonderful job! He made some great movies! You captured his expressive face very well!
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Thanks a lot, he had such an interesting face, lots of character...it was a pleasure to sculpt.
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My pleasure! You captured him completely! He looks like he's worth the time and effort....well done!
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