Ben's Miniature Gallery

Alice Contest Entries added Sep 23, 2005
A while back I submitted these sculpts for the Frothers Unite! UK Alice in Wonderland sculpting contest. Amazingly enough, my Mad Hatter managed to tie for third place in the "Tea Party" category. The "Wyatt Rabbit" sculpt (on the right) was certainly the best of the ones I submitted, but the competition was quite stiff in the "Other Characters" category. A few notes on each of these: The Queen of Hearts was done back before I had learned to make recognizable faces, and it shows. I also was attempting to do some patterns on her skirt with a stampingtool carved out of milliput. It didn't really work as well as I would have liked. I was pretty happy with the basic execution of the dress, though the details left much to be desired. I built the skirt over a crazy spiral armature, which I ended up filling with milliput. The hardest part of the Hatter was trying to visualize what I was doing when everything was upside down. The arms caused me a lot of traouble, as each one was built over a separate wire stuck in a hole drilled in the torso. They were very hard to get positioned right. I should have gone back after the putty had cured and done a better job of finishing the details there, but I think I had just gotten too frustrated with it to do any more work on it. The rabbit was based on a photograph of Wyatt Earp, which made it much easier to figure out the details of the clothing. I forgot, however, to put any fur on him before sending off the pictures.
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