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Published: 2012-12-31 15:21:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 15363; Favourites: 824; Downloads: 105
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It's finally finished! My half of an art trade with and the most epic sculpture I have made so far. They normally take me about two days to finish but this bad girl took about a week of solid working to get done. Phew.Made from Super Sculpey and Sculpey Firm, painted with acrylics.
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Haha reminds me of my Cayo (coral reef) Dragons serie. Even the muzzle is a bit similar, tho in super different style. Amazing work!
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Oh ye there is a kind of similarity 
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Original Work here
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Hey thanks for the feature! I am flattered.
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I would love to know how you did the small scales on this piece! Beautiful piece!
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Hey, thanks so much!Β I used a little scale maker tool, I've been itching to try it out for ages. Here's tutorial on it if you likeΒ [link] . I just used an old plastic card instead of brass sheet though and it works fineΒ Β I made the basic figure out of regular Sculpey and then I baked the whole thing before putting a thin layer of Sculpey Firm where I wanted the scales and used the tool to create them and pressed them down afterwards so that they were nice and flat like fish scales.
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Thanks! This is so helpful!
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WOW!Β The details on this are amazing!
How did you create the scale textures?
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Thanks a lot! I made a special little scale shape tool, it works a treat!
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Signed on to Deviantart for the first time in ages and just wanted to thank you again for this incredible sculpture. I admire it every single day and I'll never stop appreciating the work you put into it
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Hey good to see you again! It is my pleasure, I loved doing that sculpture and I am so very happy with my kraken I got in return, it is amazing!
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Wow!! Did u make this by hand? With what clay?
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Yup I did
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Very nice work!!
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Thanks a lot
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Thank you so much!
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Thanks
Here is original: aomiarmster.deviantart.com/art⦠~
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The scales are very impressive throughout the work. On the top fin and it's horns because of the detailing in the clay itself the paint looks dirty. The different colors complement each other and blend very well. I think the head is very impressive but the antenna-like features were an unnecessary add on. The legs and tail were sculpted very well. On the fins of the tail you were sort of lazy, I know it took a long time but it takes away from the rest of the sculpture.
Overall this is a very nice piece of work that is very pleasing to the eye.
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Thanks for the critique. You pretty much called it, apart from the fin and horns looking dirty - I would have to disagree with but then I am just a bit biased. And lazy hmm, I was just tired and had been working on it for a very long time but you are quite right that I could have put more effort into those bits. Overall I am still very happy with it and it remains one of my favourites
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you are a such great artist! i love your art!!
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Thanks! That is very kind of you
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Beautiful sculpt and really nice, graceful color combination!
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Thank you so much, that is very kind of you to say.
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Those scales are so good! I saw that you did a similar technique on the Drogon sculpture. Do you lay each of those on by hand or do you have some sort of trick that makes it easier? I worked on a snake sculpture recently and the scales were ridiculously hard. I ended up with large roundish overlapping disks, which worked ok for the character I was referencing but aren't terribly realistic.
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Thanks a lot! The Drogon ones were all applied by hand, I didn't really feel the scale tool would be appropriate for him. So sadly no tricks to make it easier, it did take forever and was not fun! I think the scale tool would work very well for a snake though, their scales are pretty uniform. You would just need to shape the tool slightly differently to be more pointy I guess.
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This is incredible! The colors actually remind me of when I took a trip to the great barrier reef and got to take a tour on a glass bottom boat- lots of blues and greens.
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Wow that's really nice of you to say. I really wasn't sure about the colours when I was painting but they did come together well.
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This looks really fantastic! Great sense of movement, ice color scheme, and excellent detailing!Β
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Thank you so much, it was great fun to make and paint this guy!
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Amazing! I love sea-serpent type dragons!
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Thanks! Me too, and they're a lot of fun to make!
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Welcome! I want to make a needlefelted sea serpent <3
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That would be awesome!
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Just bought some felting wools today, some of them in different green tones- so I can start with it!
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Just wanted to tell you that I finished making the serpent some weeks ago, if youΒ΄re interested to see it, look here:
arcticicewolf.deviantart.com/aβ¦
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