Battlecat zBrush Progress

I’ve been busy with work since I got back from SDCC. We are getting ready to go online with our class so there is much to be done. I am still working on my own stuff too though, just haven’t had the time to get a post together.

My current project is a pair of zBrush sculpts featuring He-Man and Battlecat. Here is some progress of Battlecat. He is still pretty rough, but I am moving a lot faster with it than my last zBrush sculpt. I had a big fight with zSpheres on this one. I probably redid the zSphere configuration 6 times! But I learned a lot about zSpheres so it’s all good I am excited for zBrush 3.5 to come out this month. zSpheres2 looks amazing and I am looking forward to playing with it.

I have also have a sculpture I am doing for work for an online tutorial. It is a mad scientist character created by one of my coworkers. I should have photos of that pretty soon. He’s totally out of my style, super cartoony. I really love working off of someone else’s artwork!

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been doing work with Joy & Tom Studios, learning cool new stuff about molding, casting, and production. I have an opportunity to help out with some pretty big projects so that’s really exciting! The artists Joy and Tom are a pair of awesome people, very talented and helpful. I am really happy to be working with them.

Finally, my book is coming back to life again slowly. I am really hoping to have it done for SDCC next year.

Thanks for watching, people. I’ll be around

Ummmmm…..

….creepy! But Dexter is happy because he has shoulders now! By the way, I put my sculptures in the freezer sometimes when the clay gets soft and I am trying to do fine detailing. It’s in the 90’s in Florida right now, so I had to pop Dexter in the freezer a few times this weekend as I was working on him. I’ve done more tweaking on him since this photo. The changes keep getting smaller and smaller. I will upload some real progress photos tomorrow. I didn’t get around to working on Wolvie this weekend afterall. I need to get cracking on him soon here!

My husband and I finally got around to getting a new printer. It arrived on Friday. So far, it seems great. I need to try some high quality printing on it and see what happens. I will be printing all my portfolios with this guy so hopefully it prints decently. We went with this Canon MP620. Wireless printing is awesome

More Progress on Dexter

This has been my first real attempt at creating a likeness. It’s very tedious, making lots of small adjustments, stepping back, correcting them, realizing I took a smidge too much clay off, etc….This is slowly starting to look more like Dexter but still has a ways to go. I must say, taking the photos helps a lot to see what needs work in specific. I might try overlaying the main photo I am working from on one of the sculpture photos.

I’ll be working on him some more tomorrow at work. I ended up making this piece a touch bigger than I planned. I will be raising him up some so he can have shoulders and not just a creepy floating head haha!

Hooray for weekends!

Welcome!

I am Emily Coleman of rainbowdusk.com.  I am a sculptor, and I’ve created this blog to show the process of my art, up coming projects, finished works, and more.  While my website shows all of my completed works, I want to give my viewers more of an insight of how I work.

I currently work at Full Sail University in the Computer Animation Department.  I am the Lead Lab Instructor for Objective Perspective, which is the traditional art basics class all the students get before even touching Maya.  I am in the process of writing my own book on how to sculpt, working towards getting myself out into the movie/game/entertainment industry, teaching myself zBrush, and preparing for several upcoming gallery showings.

I am looking forward to becoming a more interactive artist.  Hope to talk to you soon!