Vladislav as a Cat in Clay

 Ever since the Sculpting Patreon group I was part of dissolved, I had a hard time coming up with ideas for something to do. So I ended up doing nothing. Until "What We Do" showed up on a cable channel.

One of the lesser known movies that I really like to watch over and over is the mock-umentary What We Do In The Shadows. It is the inspiration for the TV series of the same name. 

In the movie however, a film crew follows 4 vampires in New Zealand. The each have their various quirks, and one, Vladislav the Poker, played by Clement Jermaine.  Vlad was very good at transforming, until his difficult breakup with his girlfriend- The Beast.   From then on he could still transform but now he "couldn't get the faces right."  

The camera switches away to show Vlad as a cat but with a human face. 

This had to be brightened a lot to see what was gong on. 

 Now I knew what I wanted to do. While I'm not good at likenesses (and prolly never will be) how badly could I mess this up?  So I got to work and ended up with my version of Vlad Cat. I was thinking about casting a few before painting so he's still Sculpy gray.  Thanks for looking. 

 

Rebel Finale

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For the glaze for the face, I used a Thinner Medium by Vallejo. It's basically the paint "carrier" without any pigment. With water you get dilute it down to where the pigments separate out. With this medium, you can go a lot thinner than with water. I thought I had a pic of it but no. 

Moving on I added a number of red highlights for the jacket. One the back I decided to use a b&W blend for the lettering on top of a black background.  Early on I added some Rustoleum Chrome for the switch blade. It was now when I added black to the handle, dotting it with silver. I also added silver to the jackets zipper.  With that I was done. Thanks for looking. 

 

Rebel part 2

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Whew, still a struggle to get up into the studio. On top of that, the new AC isn't as effect as my old one. Despite it being on nearly all the time, some days it's just too hot to stay up there.  My next place will be better suited for year round model building.

Anyway, the first thing was to get to James' face and I filled in the basics. Having filled the face in an adding a little shading. I didn't like it.  

 I remember back to watching all those Rafael Robledo Jr. videos  where he speckled a number of colors on his faces before hitting it with the flesh. Now he used a Filbert brush to throw the speckles. He was able to get really tiny ones. I couldn't get them small enough. I realized that if I dropped the air pressure of the a/b to nearly zero, I could get speckles. So I speckled away, with a little Silly Putty to preserve the dark hair. 

 The with a little flesh color I got the uneven skin look I was after. I've also been watching a ton of videos where glazes is used instead of washes, but that'll be for next time.  

 Thanks for looking.