Pollo Loco sculpt

[Dblood]

Alright, its not really a chicken, but that\'s what my family was calling it. This little bugger (54mm tall) was done in Fimo classic, with the wings and tail sculpted separately for casting. This was one sculpt that I was finally happy with and I though it had a nice flow to the body and head.

The concept art is here. some things do not translate well, like the really long head feathers, since casting tends to make them brittle. They just ended up a lot thicker, but at least they will not break when cast.

Super Pollo \"Skullcracker Bird\" concept art

the voting link is here

skullcracker vote

 

[freakinacage]

he\'s cool. captures the artwork well too

 

[hubbabubba]

kentuckytastic. great work

 

[jarhead]

Wow... i could see a Tzeentch Herold riding this chicken... if my brain wants to think in gaming conversion directions... if not, this is still pretty cool...

Wow!

Regards
jar

 

[jahminis]

nice work, eric...

i love the foot on the snake...
reminds me of the mexican flag...

kudos for takin\' the time to sculpt all those feathers...
are you cross-eyed yet???

keep it up...
your line of minis has some great pieces...
now if someone would hire me to paint one, i\'d be stoked...
as it is i have all your ladies just layin\' around naked, waitin\' for some colourlol...
unfortunately all my commissions seem to be for GW and PP minis, no small companies gettin\' the love:evil:...

cheers
jah

 

[Dblood]

Hey, thanks guys! Jah, you\'re the only one so far (the figure has been out for a month already) who has mentioned the Mexican flag. That was a bit of the idea behind the base actually, as many of the figures I am making now have some sort of Mesoamerican theme.

If you really want to paint something, send me a PM. I really have too much to do and not enough time. Usually I paint everything for Dragonblood myself, but I can\'t when doing the sculpting too (along with shipping, web design, accounting, etc).

Eric

 

[jahminis]

that\'s why i fell for your feathered priestess with flaming phoenix the first time i saw her...
it reminded me of the old velvet aztec painting i used to drool over as a kid, down at la panita (unfortunately long since out of business, probablt thanks to the health departmentlol)...
i still love to see those paintings in the mercado, in tijuana...

cheers
jah

 

[Dblood]

Originally posted by jahminis

i still love to see those paintings in the mercado, in tijuana...

Ha, I once got a velvet painting of a tiger in Tijuana. There were hundreds of them among all the velvet elvises.


I liked it though, and it was cool to look at how some simple brushstokes on black got such a good contrast. It must have taken about 10 minutes to do.

 

[Dblood]

I finished up the painted version after finding a bit of free time. I think my painting style has really gone full circle over the last few years, from glazes and washes, to blendy, and back to washes and glazes. I used to paint watercolors and silks with inks when I was young and I think I\'m just gravitating back to that.

This one was done almost entirely with golden fluid acrylics, paints with color and consistency more like old GW inks than paint. They are thicker, of course, but are still very liquid. Great for glazing, but terrible for handling strength. Still, mixing them with a touch of matte medium makes up for that. After doing all the glazes, I just go over highlights with opaque paints. One trick for feathers is to do washes of dark color to get the texture, then go over them again with opaque colors to bring back the overall shape and reduce the contrast. The contrast shows through the thin opaque glaze but it looks like everything has been blended.

Anyways, here is the main shot

The link for the coolmini version is below.

skullcracker painted

 

[A Luna]

:O
how is it possible you are ranked last on CMON?

 

[tooshy]

Oh! Big Bird! I love this guy - and I soooo want one I was really hoping that he was going into production, then I scrolled down and saw that you painted him. Boo hoo for me....but yay! for you as he\'s lovely.

Grats on an awesome sculpt and paintjob

 

[jahminis]

@a luna:dblood is eric\'s new account, and doesn\'t have enough pics for a rankin\' yet...
two more, and he\'ll jump to the head of the class...

@tooshy: i\'m pretty sure that this is a painted version of the sculpt that will be available...

@eric: nice job bro...
i will have to copy that beak on the priestess\'s phoenix...
i should have pics for ya tomorrow...

cheers
jah

 

[tooshy]

Thanks Jah......I\'ve ordered an \"egg\" from Dragonblood & if I\'m lucky, a big bird will shortly arrive at it\'s new home here in England where he will be well looked after!

Woot....so happy right now :bouncy::flip: