Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Polar Bears…

I've been playing around with some other illustration techniques—mainly creating 3D sculptures and photographing them. This is my first attempt and was supposed to be this year's Christmas Card. *cough* They didn't quite get done. I wasn't happy with any of the photographs and need to make myself a portable photographers studio to get the lighting to come out better.

I made the bears out of sculpey clay then added eyes with a sharpie and nose and foot detail with powdered graphite. I then burnished that with a hog's hair bright to "set" the graphite. I tried photographing on a piece of glass over blue paper. I think I would have preferred to use the flaked snow in the background as opposed to the blanket of snow…




The lighting differences all have to do with the way I'm setting the white balance. I try a number of different settings and focus on different areas. Well, maybe this will be next year's Christmas card.


1 comment:

Sunrise said...

Aw, the bears are adorable!!

I'm fond of sculpey, but my new favorite sculpting material is Apoxie Sculpt - air-dries (I worried about my kids breathing in the polymer fumes from the oven) and is more durable than sculpey. I find I can get a smoother finish on it, too. Anyway, just a plug if you ever want to dabble in new media. It's popular among the toy-customizing community since no baking means you can build onto plastic.