3d printed Dr. Phibes

Portrait practice: Ellie Bamber

SHE Ursula Andress Portrait statue

The most difficult digital to solid project I have done. The feathers were a nightmare. I was most concerned about getting the eyes to show a resemblance. That's the hardest part and I have found it most difficult to do with women for some reason--there is a fine line between it appearing doll-like or anonymous. You have to really focus on the subtle qualities of the eyes to get something that makes it look like the person.

3d printed Vincent Price Roderick Usher head painted test

I am really happy with this. It is so clean and smooth.

Debra Paget portrait

Will use these for something down the road related to Vicnent Price. Now I am just playing around with the portrait.

3d printed heads

The first successful 3d prnted heads cast in hydrostone from molds I made of the prints. Vincent Price on the left.

Monica Bellucci portrait

Using Dracula 92 as theme.

Celebrity heads

I also finally got to completing the first stages of some new sculpture heads. A few of these have been sitting under my computer table for well over a year. I decided to branch into a larger scale in an effort to get a likeness better, then reduce the scale of the sculpture to my regular size of around 1/6th. I wont say who the heads are supposed to be yet since I need to mold, cast and paint them. I'll wait until I can be sure the likeness works when I add the realistic eye and hair effects to it. I have seen some excellent portrait heads get ruined by bad painting. The top two heads are of a pair of horror movie actors who frequently worked together. The other male head on the second row is an oscar winner--I did the head ten years ago but the likeness wasnt quite right. You can find the completed original sculpture somewhere back in the archives---I used the head on a sword and sorcery inspired sculpture. A couple of years ago I came across a truly outstanding portrait sculptor who did a perfect likeness of the same actor--he had access to screen captures which I did not have at the time--but I vowed to come close to matching that sculpture when I refashioned my own, using the same clay head form ten years ago(since they often survive the molding process). The final two heads are actually of the same person--an actress I have never seen in a movie but turned up in online photo sites. She is one of those people who tends to look different in different photos and i had a terrible time locking down her likeness. Women are generally harder to do than men I think, but I did the best I could and am glad to have it in the mold stage. I have another few heads that I need to re-work(one of the downsides of being self-taught is not having the right amount of discipline when starting a sculpture--my heads tended to have slightly misaligned features because I never approached them like one would a drawing--when in fact it is very useful to mark a sculpture like you would a 2d image--getting the nose and eye and mouth placement so you dont need to go back and make corrections(which I have had to do way too often). These heads will mark the new generation of my figure sculptures--assuming I dont get distracted. They have been the lowest priority of all my art pursuits.