Here's a sculpting update. LOL ok I swear I'm gonna have a decent post coming up. I have a bunch of new work to show. Just gotta find the time to organize all this nonsense!

Skateboard Sculptures

For those of you who are looking for my skateboarding sculptures, please visit Sculpt or Die.
http://skatesculpt.blogspot.com/

Drawing...Painting??? No way!

Obviously haven't updated for a while. Recently been doodling around in Photoshop. I used to be really in to painting. I love the work of the 19th century French traditional painters. If you've never heard of Theodule Augustin Ribot, go check him out. Anyway here's me playing around and doing something other than sculpting... although I will have sculpting updates very soon!

Digital Sculpting

Without going in to all the positives and negatives of sculpting digitally (as they have been hashed out over and over at this point) I will say that I found it advantageous to learn the process. There are certain things that can be done digitally now that have made hands on fabricating obsolete. Especially when it comes to hard edge symmetrical modeling and weapon fabrication. There is no point even trying to do that stuff by hand anymore when it can be done so easily and cost effectively in 3d programs. Anyway this monster I'm showing here is completely of my own creation and was the first 'complete' digital project that I tackled. I had it printed by Ownage. It was definitely a learning experience and I can already see things that will approach differently next time. But overall I would call the experiment a success. I finished this model after studying ZBrush and Maya intensely over a 3 week time period. I then modeled this over the span of a week, learning as I went. At times I was so frustrated I nearly gave up on digital modeling all together but in the end I think it was worth it. I see myself doing this a lot more in the future. To be honest I will always prefer the old wax and dental tool methods but for commercial work, no one can deny that digital modelling is the future of the collectibles industry.

Mark Gonzales Sculpture

For the most part I'm pleased with how this turned out. I may come back and tweak the portrait when I find better reference. And yes the pants were very difficult to lay the decals on. If anyone has any ideas on how to make a sculpture levitate... let me know. Thanks for stopping by.

Casca finally finished

Here are better pics of the Casca sculpt form Berserk. I'm selling a very limited quantity of these. Please e-mail if you're interested. Thanks

New York Comic Con - October 8-10, 2010!!

Hey all. Come visit the Brain Theft booth at the NY Comic Con. Just a week away! I'm going to have several of my sculptures there and it should be a good time. Hopefully I won't be falling asleep at my desk from all these looooong days I'm putting in trying to finish everything. I've never even been to a convention before so this is gonna be really interesting. Anyway make sure you drop by.

Here is my latest sculpture. The man, the legend Mark Gonzales. One of the most creative and influential skaters of all time. Possibly the only skater that is so cool, he can just ride his board down the street and it's an art form. Yeah he still needs a few extremities but he'll be finished soon and he'll be with me at Comic Con! Thanks for stopping by!