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gryphonworks — Ball Python Sculpture
Published: 2008-07-14 17:40:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 6367; Favourites: 89; Downloads: 132
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blargh blargh confusing DA categorization system ><Oh gasp it's a non-fanart submission-- look outside the sky must be falling! x.x
Anyway, this was a fun piece. I originally sculpted it so that it would adorn the rearview mirror of my car, but once I stuck it there it looked really awkward, so I guess I'll just hang it somewhere in the house. xP
I used those cosmetic sponges to make a gradient of brown to a slight goldish tint on the sides and it was pretty fun to paint the markings. Tried to base it off my BP Sarin but gave up after like, 10 seconds.
I wanted slit pupil eyes but I kind of regret using these ones, they're too light and from what I know most normal colored BP eyes are close to black. But oh well, I can't change it now. xP Maybe I'll make another one some day.Sculpture is six inches long and I think the actual roll of clay is about 1 foot long. Scales were individually 'stamped' using a cut drinking straw. Taxidermy glass eyes were added and then the sculpt was painted with cheapo acrylics and sprayed with polyethylene.
<3 snakes x3
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Love this. Would you ever consider making one for me as a commission? How much would you charge?
I want one for my rear-view mirror, or just a decoration somewhere.
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Oh, thanks for the interest! But I'm sad to say I'm not taking any commissions of the sort as of now... my motivation to draw and sculpt has been haywire to completely nonexistent for some time and I don't think I'd be able to hold up my end of the transaction within any reasonable amount of time. 
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I ♥ Snakes! at first i thought it was real from thumbnail file Kudoz Its Beautiful! if the eye color was a little more hazel than red it would of been like totoaly real!
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Great job on the Ball Python. The only way I could tell it wasn't real was its eye color ( and reading the descriprion 
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Thanks for the comment! Yeah, I pretty much made up the pose. I wanted it to somewhat resemble a position you might actually see a BP in, but had to work around the constraints of how it'd hook over my mirror. 
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oh wow in that first pic i thought it was a real snake thats awsome
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Holycrapthatthinglooksreal.
I thought it was until I read the title. XD Great job on that~!
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Seriously, from the small view I thought this was a real snake you were taking pictures of, and was wondering how this qualified as a gallery submission. XD Fantastic work!
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Oh, wow, that's a gorgeous sculpture! If I were Miss Sarin, I'd feel honored! That little clay snake looks like she'd wrap beautifully over a coat rack or something...
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WOW!!!;noes: It looks just like my ball python!(only smaller)XD
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Wow, this looks wonderful! I like the pose that it's in, and the scaling texture looks perfect. Nice work!
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I thought this was an actual photo of a snake and was very confused by the title...
*WOW*!!
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Wow, put it next to a real snake and watch it just freak out!
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This...is really cool. srsly. The scales are amaaaaaaazing.
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You really make me want to get into sculpting..XD
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Heeeyyy... it's a fun medium! If you feel up to it I'd say go for it. 
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Hah, just as I read that first sentence of your description, it began to rain. That's awesome.
Actually, this little guy is really awesome too. Had you not put "sculpture" in the title, I wouldn't have known he wasn't real! How cool! I really like the contours of his body, and how you sculpted him so he could hook around stuff. He would look cool hanging from a book case or something
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Man I thought this was real DDD8 Geezzz thats a lifelike sculpt x_x The sclaes musta taken forever to do with a straw D : Excellent work, you got a lot of patience!
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omg..that isnt real!? I thought it was...Oo....wow...You're really good at that!
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I lurv snakies :3 I have a pet snake and he's the cutest :3
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isn't it funny how people who like snakes find them addorable and people who don't tend to run from the room screeming?
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I just lurv their beady little eyes :3
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i like the fact that they can swollow things twice the size fo their own heads >BD
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Actually, you shouldn't feed them something bigger than the size of their head. They can choke on it. I have a pet snake and used to work at a pet store. A lot of people that own snakes also have the misconception that you should see the out line of what they ate. You really shouldn't. If you can see the outline of it it means that your snake might not digest it fast enough and it could rot inside of them and then kill them.
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8| ...... well ..... shit .... i just started feeding David adult mice. i think i'll be scaling it back to , what was it, hoppers? the adollecent mice.
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what kind of snake is it? Corn snakes never really get above small fuzzies as adults and eat pinkies as youngins. Ball pythons should never get above small mice and occasionally medium mice. It shouldn't be any larger than the widest point of their body. I have an anery corn and can eat small fuzzies but larger fuzzies stick out on his belly so I usually stick with pinkies. Some can eat larger mice but you really don't want to overfeed them. Just measure the widest part on his body
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everglade rat snake. he's orange and likes to hide in his box. >|D
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Awww :3 cute! Yea just measure his largest girth and make sure those mices aren't sticking out when he swallows them ;D and you'll be good.
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i will make sure to do that, thanks
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no problem :3 I lurv snakes which probably really looks odd to people when a girl who looks like a barbie says she loves them
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unusual more because of the sterio types assossiated with people of your demographic than anything to do with you personaly
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as you can see i've found a few others >|D
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there are so many of these things! it reat!! >XD
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Woah! It looks real, haha, I thought it was at first glance.
I've always loved your sculptures. D: You have a real talent for it.
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Awesome! At first I thought you were holding your actual python and were taking pictures xP And then I read the title/desc. whoops 
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That's incredible! It looked real from a distance. Fantastic! How on earth did you bake that without losing the detail? Didn't it have to rest on something while it hardened?
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I just lay it on its side, and it didn't smush down or anything thankfully. I guess it's light enough? xD Thankies for the comment ^.^
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Have you been able to freak anyone out with it yet?
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