So my photo of her front on didn’t actually happen, yay camera phone for randomly not working!

You can see how I built up the back of the head a bit, once molded I’ll put a thin layer over that to create the ridges as a separate piece.

Pretty happy with this. You may be able to spot some other changes to proportions. Those wings have been removed entirely and I was pleasantly surprised by how well they matched just by eye. I do test for symmetry regularly but also as an organic form some asymmetry helps keep it looking real. But you need to find that balance between being real and being lazy 😉

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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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