Sculpture

First thing i made was the head. I went for some really exaggerated features to make him look almost inhuman. I thought some dredz would be pretty sweet too for the hair and pretty easy to make so i went with those.



Next thing was the torso. The head only took me about 4 tries, but this thing too like 12. At first i was trying to build some bigass amps into his shoulders and go for the transformers look but that ended up being impossible for me (sorry, i've never sculpted anything before....shut up). Also i was trying to make it smaller at first but the only way i could ge thte detail i wanted was to go a bit bigger. The shoulder strap i ended up switching over to the other side too.


After the torso the legs didn't take too much effort. Since the top was pretty heavy i threw some wire in the legs to help support the weight later. Then i attached the two sections together with more of a waist and ass so he'd be able to stand upright better.

Next thing was the guitar. I went with a Parker style guitar, it was the most futuristic looking one i could think of. My guitarist has one of these too so i thought it'd look pretty badass. I wasn't gonna make it from scratch so i printed a black and white outline of the thing and just lined up the clay over the paper. I had to put some wire in this thing too cuz it was kinda flimsy.






I added the guitar to the body i already had going with the right arm being build directly into the bottom of the instrument.



After that i attached his head to his massive neck.








After i attached the head i decided to make his hair like huge wires that went throughout his body and hooked into this power box type thing on his back.










Then i just kept adding the wires where i could and built him some feet. I knew i needed alot of support for the feet so i tried the sticky suction-cup style feet u see in comics alot. It worked perfectly until i actually put him in the oven...see no one told be that...before the clay hardens, it actually gets softer. It still worked out alright, his legs just ended up doing more of an 80's style power guitar stance than the one he started out with. I had to take him out of the over a few times during cooking to make sure the whole thing didn't go to hell. once his left elbow was resting on his left knee he had enough support to not droop anymore. After that all i had to do was paint. Painting wasn't so fun, there were lots of awkward spots to reach around wires and such. His skin was white cuz i wanted him to look pale like a borg off Startrek type deal. I went with bright colours for the guitar added some warpaint to his face and arms, kinda tattooish, and lastly my initials on his chest. I was pretty pleased with it in the end.