[JohnC]

Hi. I am working on a new sculpture and thought I would share with you some early pictures. This is a Roswell Alien. The body will be changing. I will make it shorter and much thinner. The arms will kind of be bent and the alien will have long hands and fingers.

Any comments are appreciated. Thanks!

[Icannon]

coool. nice pose. i dont know the first thing about sculpting, but it's looking neat. why did you paint the head before finishing the body?

[Xeo]

wow thats cool I am not good at sculpting, what material is that and what tools did you use?

[Mime]

yes yes yes i like it very much

is it some sort of resin/plastic material ?

[JohnC]

Thanks everyone! Glad you like it.

Actually, its not painted. You are seeing two differnt colored clays. I use Super Sculpey clay. The body is standard flesh color and the top is flesh mixed with blue.

I just ran out of blue colored sculpey and thats why only the head is blue.

By using colored sculpey it allows you to see detail a whole lot easier.

I have some other sculpts I'll post soon.

I actually have a cool future cyborg soldier that is cast in resin as a model. I will post it later.

[Gix]

I always wondered why people make there aliens look very human. I'm not sure if your specific alien has a set roswell design to it. But every alien I see has two eyes, two arms, two legs. Usually 3 or 4 fingers though To get back on topic, I love the detail in the face, what kind of tools are used to achieve the detail?

[JohnC]

Well this Roswell alien is just my interpretation of it.

I use a few tools actually. I use various shaped dental tools, a toothpick, a small piece of wood with a curve on it and a few other tools. Also after I sculpt I use some oil paint turpentine and a small brush to smooth out the sculpey.. Basically whatever does the job.

This sculpt is about 8 inches tall. Thanks for looking at it!