Art thread: Ivar art

[Ivar_L]

Hi all,

I posted some of my pictures in Sculpey's Biatches thread. But as I may have some non-Hellboy sculpts or even pictures to show... I will start a new thread.

I will try to post something here now and then. And if not, then it's just fades away as one similar and older thread...
:)

Here is a blue pencil Hellboy sketch I colored last weekend:



Original's size is 1400x2200, line art is twice of this.

[Ivar_L]

...and as I have one Pinky-maniac at home, here as a quick HellPinky:



(Pinky Street is a series of little Japanese figures, one can swap hair, clothes etc)

[Rob H]

Very, very cool. Once upon a time in hell is fantastic.

[Ivar_L]

Hi,

if enyone is interested -
the very big jpg with the Wild West picture is (link removed, sorry), I just printed it out with ink jet printer for myself...
It will stay in the net for only ca 24 hours, so if there is someone who want's to see the details, only way is to download it right now...
:)

[fitzroy]

The first pic is absolutely gorgeous Ivar. Love it

[mithveaen]

Hi,

if enyone is interested -
the very big jpg with the Wid West picture is here, I just printed it out with ink jet printer for myself...
It will stay in the net for only ca 24 hours, so if there is someone who want's to see the details, only way is to download it right now...
:)

Wow!!! I'm definetly printing this and putting it in my room... as you can see in my signature I love westerns!!

Your work is pretty cool Ivar :)

[mithveaen]

Here is a blue pencil Hellboy sketch I colored last weekend:

Have you tried to replace the coat for a poncho??

Do you know ponchos??

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/00601...th_key=0060196

Hehe I'm just teasing of course, I love The Man with No Name look :)

[Ivar_L]

First -
the picture in the net is 6.9M. I colored it as 200dpi and 1400x2200 pixels. As the scanned line art was twice as big (2800x4400), I put to the final version the original line and resized color together. So, the picture (what I will remove from the net tomorrow) is 400dpi and 2800x4400 pixels. I printed out the smaller version with laser printer too, it fits to the A4 paper. If the picture is converted to 200 dpi without changing it's pixel dimensions, it will still be in pretty good quality and something like 14x22 inches big.
Almost like a poster...
:)

mithveaen wrote:
u tried to replace the coat for a poncho??
Do you know ponchos??

Yes, I know. I tried to draw something like this last year (without reference, I know it's not right but still like the picture):



I have 2 Leone region 1 DVD-s (Special Editions), but I need to find a 2x4 hours time to enjoy them...

And fitzroy:

Thanks! I think it was you who asked about Freehand in my first picture thread?... (this Bang-picture is full vector and drawn in Freehand) Sorry I didn't answer back then. I like Freehand, I used it when I was working in advertising agency. It's quite easy and intuitive to use. It has some minuses too, of course, for example I couldn't get decent export tiff files out of it - it somehow distorted the straight lines...

[Mikolaj]

Ivar, not only are you an amazing sculptor but, also you are capable of drawing some astonishing things!! Boy!! I am SO envious!! ;)

[Rob H]

Hehe... I love that Bang pic. Have you ever used Illustrator? I find it to be alot more user friendly when dealing with vector graphics.

[Ivar_L]

Learning Illustrator is on my to-do list... But I haven't used it enough to say I have used it. Whatever this means... :)

Here is one new picture:

Yesterday I finally took my Little Endless Sandman statue and re-sculpted it from the waist down. The reason - I planned to mix some silicone for my Hellboy and it was only practical to have one more small sculpture around if there was some spare silicone...

My history with polymer clays is quite short. Not in years but in sculpts... When I discovered it, I tried to sculpt Ghost in the Shell heroine. I almost finished it, but as it (she) got too muscular, I stopped. It was great for learning anatomy, though. Then I made 3 Little Endless sculpts, but every one of them had something I didn't like. I think Dream's new version looks ok. At last I have one finished sculpture...
:)

It's made from different Cernit clays, it's not colored. Base is wood - apple.



For a comparison - the link to the original version of Sandman is here.

[Ivar_L]

My Marv bust today, the same progress on sculpt in two different lightings:
(I don't know why but I like the second picture more... :))

[Rob H]

Those looks stunning. Marv rocks.

[Mikolaj]

Yeah!! He's alomst as good as the HB statue. As to the light i deffinitly agree that the second one makes him look more "sin city"- the figure is white and the background is much darker.

[Ivar_L]

Hi,

after a long time I worked a little on my Marv bust. I already posted a couple of pictures here, so here is only one older progress picture this time:



I started the bust and wireframe so that Marv looks stright ahead and the sculpt is symmetric, as was my first bust, Hellboy. But then I didn't like this look anymore... It was good for stone like Hellboy, but not dynamic enough for a killer Marv. At first I was thinking about tilting the head after it's baked, but the armature I made is quite hard. So I didn't even try this. There was another way - I just removed some clay from the body's dummy and tried to sculpt it in a more interesting position.

Here are two pictures from today. When neck and shirt are ready then I will add the overcoat.