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[BackgroundGuy]

After a wait, I have a few more pictures!

The Zergling
Messy solutions abound in this one, not too happy with it finesse wise :/.  Enjoyed making it though, one of my most complex yet, if not the most complex.

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A sculpture I made at the beginning of this school year, idea donated by my roommate.

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This thread inspired me to a thought, I've decided to share: aluminum foil sculptures like this would probably make a very good base for paper mache, which could then be sanded and painted. Much easier than using balloons.

My art teacher last year had an idea similar to this, here's one of the finished products.

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[Heron TSG]

That is a fabulous zergling.

[Nivim]

The Zergling
Messy solutions abound in this one, not too happy with it finesse wise :/.  Enjoyed making it though, one of my most complex yet, if not the most complex.

Huzzah! So, out of the sculptures you've made so far, which one would be best next covered in paper maché and painted? I, too, can see the swordsantman with its own fiercsome carapace-paint and its shield emblazoned with the city-hive's symbol; Psieye's "sun under mountain", mentioned in the DF:Playstyles thread, sounds like it would fit here as well.

 If, by some insanity, you were to create a stop-animation, would it be easier if you made the parts with that in mind beforehand? Like creating joints reinforced with an adhesive tape so they bend cleanly?

[LordBucket]

aluminum foil sculptures like this would probably make a very good base for paper mache

Followup: this did not work as well as anticipated. Had some difficulty getting the paper mache to stay in place when applied to the irregular surface of the aluminum foil. Playdough would be much easier to work with.

[Rose]

better yet: use both.

cover the aluminum foil with play-dough.

[Bdthemag]

I secretly hope you can somehow manage to build an alumicthulhu...

[BackgroundGuy]

A foil miniature rose

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A foil rose

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A foil dna strand section

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A dancer/ballerina (free standing, that was a real pain)

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A foil key, fingers included for scale.

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A foil $

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A foil stickman(?)

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A foil guy-with-a-cape

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A foil chimera of sorts (I don't really know what I was doing?)

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I secretly hope you can somehow manage to build an alumicthulhu...

Do you mean a humanoid with a sort of octopus head?  I could do that, I think.

aluminum foil sculptures like this would probably make a very good base for paper mache

Followup: this did not work as well as anticipated. Had some difficulty getting the paper mache to stay in place when applied to the irregular surface of the aluminum foil. Playdough would be much easier to work with.

Did you try sticking the paper mache to itself?  As in, did you wrap it around whatever the object was and then stick other paper mache bits to that loop?

@Nivm: I don't think I would need to or want to use tape, foil bends easily, and tape doesn't adhere well to the surface of a sculpture.

[LordBucket]

Did you try sticking the paper mache to itself?  As in, did you wrap it around
whatever the object was and then stick other paper mache bits to that loop?

Yes. And it did work...just not as well as I'd hoped. Since the paper mache sticks to itself, but not so much the aluminum foil, even while it didn't simply fall off, it had a tendency to slide and rotate on the foil form.

If anyone wants to try it, I'd suggest planning to do it in multiple stages: Apply a solid base of paper mache to the larger, easier sections to work with, then let it dry. Then follow up with the benefit of that stationary section of paper mache to hold the thing by, and to attach the more finely detailed strips to.

[BackgroundGuy]

That moment when you realize the world is beautiful and awesome and just all around spectacular.  In a word?

MAGNETS.

[BackgroundGuy]

Home for thanksgiving, discovered this old sculpture

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Fanart for the spectacular fan adventure, Art of Domination

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[Levi]

Home for thanksgiving, discovered this old sculpture

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I like that one!

[Nivim]

Alright.

A foil key, fingers included for scale.

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A foil $

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These two images are the same. There are no fingers here. :/

[BackgroundGuy]

A sweet catch

Fixed, thanks.  As a token of my appreciation,

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The above image in two different poses.

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I think it might be safe to say that in every medium, hands are hard .

More Fanart, this time for Be The Seadweller Lowblood

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[BackgroundGuy]

More sculptures, this time Holiday themed.

A christmas tree

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A swan.  It's been a while since I made one of these, took me about 2mins~ or so.

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Have you ever had that feeling where you create something that just feels really awesome, like the culmination of all of your skill for that moment?  I feel like that for this sculpture.  It's a shame that it's a turkey and not something more epic though >_>

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[BackgroundGuy]

Got 200 of these magnets today

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Used them in the joints of a few proof of concept sculptures.

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And a dog.

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Could someone post a few ideas maybe, so I don't have to keep multiposting?