Post #446369 by Clarita on Sat, Apr 11, 2009 12:43 PM

Thanks little lost tiki! :)

Thanks seeksurf! I don't know what we would do with out Benzart as guide

Thank you very much congatiki, next, two more bamboo guys that complete the band, congrats on your first double post, TC was lazy that day I couldn't see anything for some hours :)

Thanks big daddy!

Merci benella glad It looks good from there!!

Merci laojia! I agree this one it's much more complex. My fingers and arms think so too, ouch! :)

Thanks Benzart! Oh i've been messing up this one.... I broke one of his eyes, then glue it back together... it doesn't show. and I've found bubbles inside the bamboo on one of the legs, so the texture I was making suddenly had a big hole in it. So I filled it with wood chips and glue trying to imitate the texture... It ended up looking fine... and finally I had some accidents on the parts I wanted to leave untouched , so i had to peal parts i didn't wanted to... so I tought it was ruined a couple of times on the way, but now I think he is looking good :)
Stone? of course I would LOVE to! but for that you need some serious tools so, I don't know....

Thanks Sam, Very glad you like!

Thank surfintiki!! Where do I come up with this stuff? well, everything has to do with everything in my case, I mean my "Tikis" are very me, a mix of all the stuff I like (I grew up watching cartoons, then studied hand made animation, so I like simple strong colorful characters a lot. and i like music a lot too so those are my two biggest influences I think) and the way I am (weird, rebel, honest....) to me the tiki culture has music in it, if you get what I mean. and the other thing is that I don't like designing first and then carving or using anything as reference, I like to go with the flow of the material and surprising myself with the result...

But in this case I'm drawing the general lines and then carving and changing it on the way, I already draw the other two guys but who knows how they are going to end up looking like :)
Thanks again everybody, your support means a lot to me, really!