Post #267655 by tikiracer on Sun, Nov 19, 2006 6:32 AM

I've really enjoyed the "how I made this" posts, so thought it only fair to share my first mug sculpt.

The guys at Cheekytiki spotted my zombie mug print design and asked if I'd like to come up with a real mug. Well I thought about it for about 1.2 milliseconds and said "oh yeah".

This is the plaster blank that Jamie sent over.

Then I got to work in turning it into a mug of the living dead. Started out sketching the design onto the blank.

Then had to be careful about where the cuts fell. I had to make sure the thing would come out of the molds. Plus had to plan how many segments the mold would need to make of. I went for 3 as I wanted the eyes to be rounded.

This shows my target lines.

Then I started of with the dremel but after awhile I decided I was being too gentle and got stuck in proper.

Once the general face was coming to life [unlife??], I then made sure I didn't get too carried away and end up with a zombie tiki tumbler, I wanted to fit in a don style, zombie cocktail, plenty of zombie eatting booze.

Here's the finished carve before going to Cheekytiki to start production.

The final mug will be in an pale, grey green glaze with a limited edition run set for the New Year. The cool news is this mug will be used in the Mahiki, London's newest Tiki Night Spot.

The mug will be for sale from Cheekytiki and my tikiracer website, I'll post on the marketplace once they're ready.

More soon.

Thanks to Jamie and Anjy for the guidance and chance to do this.

[ Edited by: tikiracer 2009-04-14 02:10 ]