This helped me soooooo much 🙂 I had been going by only a few pretty low res images but this and the new wallpapers by Bioware have meant I was able to get my sculpt almost to the point of actually genuinely molding 🙂

i retextured the jaw and mandibles and made a lip for the.. well lips. Got the cheek bones more flared and the eye sockets cut out properly.

I overdid it today but that’s what codiene is for right? Right? Yes, still fighting the never ending sinus infecton. But I do now have a nasal drip and a sore throat so it may well be that they are draining. Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.

Reblog this if you started worrying about your weight before you were even 16

I found a letter I wote for a class exercise when I was 12. It went into detail about how I needed to go on a diet. Again. I found that letter several years ago and it stll makes me so mad to think that any child of that age was already talking about dieting as if it were a normal thing- I was clearly not afraid of my teacher reading.

I do know I was conscious of weight at the age of 10. But it was a bit of an eye opener to actually have physical evidence of it.

Stalled Nyreen

But not for long hopefully 🙂 GP visit in t minus 30 minutes to hopefully get all the sprays for up my nose (we’ve thrown three lots of antibiotics- giggle.. antibiotics…) steroids and all the NSAIDs. And nasal wash. You know the thing that feels like like swimming and breathing in water….

Anyway. I have ultracal! Yay! but I need to remember how I worked to make neat molds for Shaak Ti as I want these babies to look good.

Right, 20mins now.

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I am smiling and tearing at the same time. Bravo to the original artist. Freddie, you flamboyant incredibe artist whom I followed as a child and into my teens. 21 years but never will be forgotton.

 

Nyreen in pieces. Click the tag and you’ll see how she started as one piece and is now multiple. Ultracal should arrive tomorrow or the day after so we be molding! Tidying and making retaining walls as well 🙂

Oh yes, spoke to Garrus, kept clicking to hear “calibrations” and giggling inanely. So there are a few cuts to be made to the jaw area as well.

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All the pieces (except the mandibles, I need a funky angle for them 🙂 ). It was so hard cutting my sculpt apart and carefully transfering the pieces to work on individually.

Also my tools! I use only a few in reality. The paring knife and craft blade most. Then three of the silicon brushes. (I put them sort of in order with most used at the front). Mostly work with hands as that is what I tend towards- pulling shapes out and flattening them rather than carving. I tend to work as a builder of positive space than a remover of negative. That said I do like to train my brain and work with negative space on occasion. it’s just not natural for me 🙂

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So the worst thing is I am now waiting until I can mold her. There are a few areas to tidy and even up a bit more. But when you are at about 95% done that last 5% can make or break a project

The breaking is when you start to see that 5% as more important than the rest and overthink or over do any deatil work. In this case I could wind up scraping off too much to actually fit my head. I mean the pieces are already very much not human but if they are too small the risk is stretching and deforming over natural facial shapes.

That said there are a few burrs than need polishing and I still need to see all the parts in a mirror but I need to keep in mind all that I have done so far. So I’ll be leaving the pieces for a few days while I get enough distance to get better perspectve and then will start prepping her for molding. Using some of that work to fix the minor issues. Or I’ll look at it in the mirror and find something else to fix.

Either way, I cant start molding until I have my ultracal which means a courier as it will be the big 22.5kg bad in a bucket. Um. That’s a negatory for me being able to move that at all.

I’ve got insomnia and my wrists are part of why I am still awake. But so too is my sheer joy at having sculpted a nicely complex piece of art from nothing but squishy kiddie clay.

Think of what I chould do with real clay. Hmmmmmm, real clay.

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WordPress is conquered!

My site is pretty again! Finally figured out the combo of redirects and centering things where they needed.

I even got the search function to work, woot!

http://costumes.glittersweet.com

I also made my tumblr look more like my site, hopefully that will work. Also, with this whole blogging thing actually working over there I’ll be removing older parts of my site and transfering them to here or…… pinterest. Pinterest only because some museums seem to have gotten on board with the whole thing. But I have FF and SE already claimed here on Tumblr so I hope to be able to shift them over summer.

Excuse me while I go plotting to make costumes to make everyone else jealous or intimidated. Or get laid. Oh wait, that cunning plan has been totally seen through now! Darn.

Sigh. Those Turian mandibles, watch out boys, they’ll be waggling for you…..