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I know nobody really cares (or reads this), but here's a link to my Tumblr page:

http://teo-hoble.tumblr.com

Enjoy, all you wonderful non-existent people, you! :)

Cheshire sculpt

Skin-tone FIMO paste, a lot of patience, horrible proportion intuition, an oven that works but not really, and a pressing idea for a kitbash => this thing. Enjoy :)

Can't wait - inspiration hits when you need it the least

I can't wait until I get this garage kit, so that I can kitbash it:







It's only on pre-order now, so it'll prolly take a few more months 'till I actually get her. But I have a VERY clear image of what I want from it. Hint: it's gonna be a butcher-knife wielding character, traditionally dressed in blue (and blood-spattered white), and is as mad as a hatter :D

Right. Back to school crap now.

Old sketches and never-finished drawings

Today I took the time to really look through my older files and found a selection of discarded sketches - things that I might never showcase outside of the blog. Some I'd like to go ahead and finish or redo; others (most) I will prolly never touch again. I'm the type of person to get an idea, become really excited about it... and after a short time working on said project I get so bored or disappointed with the thing that I just leave it be. Some are newer, some are pretty old. None are exceptional. But anyway, here they are. Clicking the images makes them larger. Enjoy



1) Tattoo outline for a friend of a friend. In the end, the friend of a friend never got a tattoo

2) Jestress chick in shy-looking pose

3) One of my many tries at "Tangled" fanart. No idea why I never finished this.

4) Cartoony looking Princess Serenity sketch.

5) Random naked chick. I liked her anatomy but didn't wanna showcase her all naked, so I threw some rag-looking transparent nightgown over the form. Not naked anymore :D

6) Vampire girl sketch. I think I was trying to draw Jessica again.

7) Wanted to draw Rexu being cute. Gave up fast.

8) Dunno who he is, but he sure is shocked about something.



9) The outlines for a Meg drawing I submitted to dA before making the account I have now

10) Drunk people disgust me. Can you tell?

11) I had read something about "rusalkas" and wanted to draw one. But I never finished her 'cause I wasn't happy about it.

12) Fanart.

13) A friend had to think up a toy design, and she asked me to sketch out her idea. I hope I'm not messing up her project by uploading this on here. And yes, the baby looks like an old man. As all babies do.

14) Another Avatar The Last Airbender fanart poster that never made it out of sketch phase. No Aang.

15) I like those colorful marbles. Thought it would be pretty if they grew on trees. Yes, I'm mad. Prolly why I left it unfinished.



I started this in 11th grade, I think, and for the longest time I really did intend to finish it. I still kinda hope to finalize it someday. I hid a few layers of sketches and corrections when saving this PNG, but... well, the problem was, I stuffed too many complicated things in one picture. Plus I have no idea what I wanted to say through it.



This one was inspired by The Brothers Karamazov. Namely Ivan Karamazov. Their poses and his face made me quit halfway through - and no, they weren't supposed to represent any specific characters. Just the idea.



Also Ivan Karamazov. This time it was supposed to actually be the character in question. Not finished because... I dunno why.



A friend had sent me a song called "Vois Sur Ton Chemin" from "Les Choristes" when I was in high school. I drew this while listening to the song. Sketch-only because I didn't like where the coloring/lighting was going.

Serenity GK - WIP - Base

When I decided to give Serenity her manga, silver hair I looked for images of her (in that palette) online. Didn't find anything helpful as far as the dress or the coloring were concerned but I did find Daekazu's Serenity and thought it might be nice to try something similar to those pillars, on the base. Later on I gave up on the idea of adding moon phases on the pillars for the simple reason that they would've taken up a lot of space and would've looked fake, since creating those shapes sculpturally would've been so much harder than drawing them... I thought a bit about how I wanted to make those flowery designs on, well, the sticks. Painting them on would've given me a lot more liberty and the resulting designs would've been prettier, but since they wouldn't've stood out from the rest of the surface I feared they would come out looking like a print (rather than something sculptural). So I used Tamiya putty to add them to the sticks and then silver paint over the putty. Here are some in-process photos of the base. Enjoy! :)

Serenity GK - WIP - Dress

The dress came out okay in the end... I didn't like how it looked with the first closing method, so I took that section apart and instead attached long ribbons and a couple of shoulder straps. I did think of sewing on some of that white-beige fabric onto the straps to create the same effect of Serenity's round spiraly sleeves, but to be frank ,I never understood the role of those things or how they would ever be properly attached to her shoulders in real life (other than them being made of plastic and stuck to her shoulders with like, super-glue or smth)... I still have to properly sew certain parts of it... but for now it's working just fine, won't be coming apart anytime soon and looks okay (well, best I can do, in any case). A few photos of the dress:

Serenity GK - WIP

Back in fall 2010 I was surfing the net, minding my own business... and then suddenly I come across this pretty pretty figurine of Princess Serenity from Sailor Moon. As most of those who know me have already found out, I am somewhat of a "SailorMoon-fan-in-denial" - so just looking at it and saying "she's pretty" and moving on wasn't going to be the easiest thing I've ever done. Searching for some more info about her, I found out that she's a "garage kit" released in 1994 and long out of stock everywhere... And that even if she were in stock, these things cost WAY too much for me to able to afford an original garage kit... But I also found a nice Chinese site called E2046. The people there do "recasts" of original kits (many of which are either sold out or never even released as unassembled kits). I've noticed that people are against recasts (to be frank, I'd be pretty pissed off if someone made money off of MY sculpture, too) but I'm happy I found these guys, cause otherwise I would never have afforded to have her.

Assembling Serenity was unexpectedly fun: I got to sand her 'till she was smooth and nice, and then I drilled holes into the resin and used metallic wire and Poxipol to pin her up... and when that was done I used Tamiya putty (which I got from a Romanian website and which, paradoxically, arrived with many more complications than the parcel from freaking Hong Kong!) to cover up all the uneven spots and make it look like she had always been made from one piece. I missed a spot on her back, where one of her hands meets the torso, and unfortunately I didn't notice 'till after I was done with applying the paint and the shadings. But it's not that much of a defect, so it's not worth trying to fix it and causing more damage (which I'm pretty sure is what I'd end up doing).

I used a mixture of acrylic paints for her skin - one that I was very amused was identical to the color of the foundation I use. And for the hair I decided I wanted to give her a silver-ish manga color (white just looked odd to me). The dress she came with was pretty horrible, so I decided I would try my hand at making a better one - and in the meantime I managed to LOSE the original dress, as well. I'm not done with the dress yet (not with the base that I just HAD to start building, either), but here are some "work in progress" pics for you guys...

I didn't take any photos while I was sanding, priming, assembling, puttying and so on. The idea came to me only after I'd painted the skin tone and started doing the shading (for which, by the way, I used pastel chalk - worked like a charm).

Enjoy!



















The picture above is not the final look of the figure. I modified a few things and added some small stuff... But I'll post some more when I have the dress ready.

See you guys later :)