Dragon Age Alchemy in a Box!

So I stumbled on this blog, and the promotion that Dragon Age sent out to people who would be reviewing the game. All I have to say is.....I'm so jealous. I want to be  Grey Warden!

Go take a look! It's like a little Orpheus Alchemy in a box....

Dragon Age Promotion Box

Monocles and Costumes and Dragon Age

Hello everyone!

See, I can't stay silent for that long.

Anyway, a few things I forgot to mention after Halloween, I did a lovely monocle for Darchala, an amazing artist and tiefling-enthusist, here's a picture of her costume that she wore it with, I absolutely love it. Her claws are a great idea and all of it came together fantastically. So go see!!

Pics!

And now on a note of related importance: 2010 comic con. Needless to say I've been playing Dragon Age like a fiend, and the costumes are going to be based off of that. I know I want to make Morrigan and the Ogre, but my friend may be Leliana and I'd love to have someone as Shale or a Grey Warden (just someone in a full set of armor). It's all already in the works, it just depends who I can get to go through with it, since I'll be making all the costumes. I wish I had an Alistair, but unfortunately people that look like him have too many important things to attend to even when I try to bribe them with costumes (grrrrrr).

So if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to throw them my way. I may also want someone to be a darkspawn so that they can have a removable head (great for the skit, having heads go flying).

Anyway, more about these things later, here are a few inspirational photos of the costumes I will probably be makings...

Morrigan and Ogre

The Ogre is going to be a full body suit on stilts, sculpted and cast. I'm thinking of making the head a puppet so it can be taller with more realistic movements.

The Morrigan costume, this is what I'll be wearing. The clothed part. Everything I make looks like this anyway so I thought it was a good place to start. Not to mention I love the character idea.

Darkspawn!

Leliana!

Concept art of Alistair, I might make the Grey Warden armor similar. Right now I have a borrowed mannequin in my garage that I'm going to try sculpting armor onto, and then making a mold. Wish me luck...

So that's that, I have what....until July to finish?

Keep watching, I *might* just make it!

Halloween!

Well, as you all know October for me is like being Santa Clause in December. I've been insanely busy! I've also made a costume and started working at a fabulous haunted house that some amazingly talented people from work put on. For now I'm going to post a few pictures of the costume I made and one of my co-workers/ fellow haunters in his super amazing sculpted demon costume....

Anyway, more updates soon, I'm working at the haunted house every weekend AND doing the usual Etsy stuff (Octobor is my most busy month by far, hmmm I wonder why....) so keep watching!

"9" Contest FInished!

Hey everyone, go take a look at the final entry of the "9" contest on Deviant Art!

Click me!

Also if you want to see some more pictures of the sculpture in detail, go to my flickr feed HERE.

Familiar 9

He's almost done! I just need to add a few more things like a small description above his head...and then I'll enter him in the contest!

Busy Busy

Ugh, I'm so busy now! Its a good sort of busy though. I'm helping a friend with a project and working on the "9" sculpture. Here are some concept drawings I did for him:

They're his design, just rendered by and drawn by me. Anyway! I got this amazing chunk of carving foam from the dumpster at work (yes, I will shamelessly admit that, dumpsters are amazing). And it is SO cool. The stuff carves insanely well, and you can sand it! So I made the neck of what I'm now calling "Familiar 9" out of this foam. Here's a sneak peak of the general shape he's going to be, tomorrow I'll glue him all together and start laying on the cloth and latex and all of that. Then after that it's making the hands....

9 Sculpture part 2, and a job!

Well after months of agony, I'm finally employed! And ironically it's only 15 minutes from where I live right now. I'm working at a company that makes sculptures, monsters, and pretty much anything for theme park rides, costumes, movies, museums, what have you. They're very awesome, their most recent project is the massive new 40 foot tall dragon for the Fantasmic show at Disneyland. Super cool! I'm working on character finishing (which is like, adding clothes, fur, horns, hair, etc to finish animations and sculptures) and in mold making and tooling. So! I'm busy, but not busy enough to stop working on my various projects....so here's the new pictures of the 9 sculpture:


I just threw some of his pieces on him with hot glue to see how they'll look, and I was pleased with the overall idea. I'm going to "sew" that leather on, like a piece of skin, and maybe add a bit more. The eye is a taxidermy eye covered in epoxy to look wet and the skill has been dyed twice and painted with black paint.Another view....anyway, this is a very early stage, he's going to get a big neck, a wooden mount, coats of latex, super scary clock parts, maybe a pair of duck wings....we'll see. Anyway, keep watching for more updates! I'll be posing again soon....

~Holly