2012/365 - Day 41 part two

oh well...try again later



It felt like the tail was going well, but I guess it started getting too long...then it wouldn't set w/o support.















This is an hour and a half later ... that tail just kept getting thicker and thicker and it didn't look at all like I wanted. I think I might have been fighting it too much -- trying to make it look the way I wanted instead of the way the tail wanted to look.



















Nope...nothing like I was going for.















At least the head is starting to look better.
















I pulled the second tail off while I still had a chance.
















Ha ha ha...now I have two tails drying on the hook on the bathroom door. I can probably use them sometime down the road. They will go on the "save-it-for-later" shelf once they are dry.

That's what I get for trying to direct instead of being directed.
A good lesson learned.

2012/365 - Day 41

heads and tails

This guy is going to require a LOT of painting...I need to get his body constructed or I will never make the deadline!



Re-shaping his head once again. I was not happy with the way he was looking like an antelope...not that there's anything wrong with antelopes.


















I wanted the back of his head to be more round and I wanted his face to be longer looking somehow, but without making the entire head larger.













I rounded his cheeks a little more and took away the sheep forehead (not that there's anything wrong with a sheep forehead).

The nose/muzzle area is looking slightly bullish or something. That is fine -- mostly I want it to be a totally made up creature.









I think I like the look of that one horn and will do the same treatment to the other one.


















I needed to shape the rear end and make a place for a tail to attach.















I tried several different tails...

This one was sort of horsey...I would've feathered it out more as I added more plaster cloth...like a model of a horse.

















This version was made with a little more overall shape...it almost looked like a necktie and ended in a diamond point.

















another view of the neck tie tail

















This was my second favorite. A sort of a stylized zebra tail.
















another view of the stylized zebra tail

















This is the one I like best (in theory)...if I can make it work.

I was going to do this for the cat-creature but decided against it. I think it would fit this creature better.











I will talk more about it as it develops (if it stays on -- and if I decided to keep it...I could still remove it and go with my second favorite).

I wanted to keep working right now but the tail is really unstable...it needs to firm up and tell me if it is right or not.