Urban Sasquatch

This figure was painted for round 4 of the Iron Painter Season Two challenge in late November 2006, hosted by Wyrd Games. In Iron Painter, entrants are paired off against a single opponent, and their piece must showcase a theme effect or mood. For this round the theme was anger/rage. The judges made it clear they were expecting to see more than just an angry sculpt, so I tried to find a sculpt that inspired me to place the emotion in a larger context. I had noticed this guy when he came out, as he reminded me of the cover of a comic book out around the same time, so I decided to paint him as a more modern character. I mostly paint fantasy figures, so it was a fun change of pace to do a more urban scene. Since the scene I had in mind would make it hard for a viewer to see the figure's face, I created the wall as an L shaped piece the base rests on, so the figure can be removed for a closer look. For some reason, the skin on this figure is really hard to photograph. I did a ton of shading and highlighting, and I don't think all of it comes across in the photo. I painted the base to look like a grungy back alley with stains and pools of dubious liquids. The garbage cans are from an O scale model train scenery pack. They came painted, but with mould lines, so I repainted them. The pieces of trash are pieces of tissue paper that I crumpled and frayed, dipped in muddy looking paint and smudged with pastel dust. The brick wall was actually the most challenging part of the piece. Its a textured piece of styrene/plasticard, but I did a lot of weathering and scratching on it before I even primed. Each brick had to be painted individually, and that took forever. I think it took me six hours just to base coat the wall. Then I used darker and lighter glazes to give some variety to the bricks, and highlighted them. The final step was to grind a black pastel into dust and brush that on to areas of the bricks. The picture I used as a reference had some bricks stained this way. The fallen bricks are made from a papier mache clay. The mortar dust is the same clay, I took leftover bricks I didn't need and ground them down for the dust.

Posted: 12 Jan 2007

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Gildor
Great idea. I like color on this wall and that bins.
17 Aug 2008
kowlown
nice little diorama. And good idea you had making wall and base separate parts! Maybe you could tell me by MP where you found those garbage cans (URL). -cheers- Michael
19 Jan 2007
lchc13
This is really good. I really like the color scheme for the Sasquatch, the skin tones and hair color mixes well. The actual compositions is great, lots of movement.
16 Jan 2007 • Vote: 10
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