Tiki Tiger Studios: Big long Egyptian trip report! - Other Crafts

T tigertail777 Member Oregon Joined: Nov 25, 2004 Posts: 679	T tigertail777 Posted posted on Mon, Aug 29, 2011 2:17 AM Good news and bad news... Good news is I have been invited to do some graphic design/art direction for a fledgling magazine and it may work into a full time job eventually. Bad news is this means that I am going to have to put off finishing the little lady for a little while (but hopefully not too long). Meanwhile I thought I would share some more sculpture stuff. These were pieces that originally were going to be used for a custom portfolio sampler of my work, it was going to be themed as a tiki bar drink menu. The tigers are flat relief in parts so I could move the arms and legs. I made little tiny props for them both: the male has a itty bitty coconut drink that I made by molding sculpey around an olive and he also has custom painted pineapple designs on his shirt because I could not find a fabric that looked good to scale. The female tigress has a hand made lei (as does the male, but it doesn't show up as well) that was created by stringing a few hundred tiny paper flowers together, and she also has a hand made hula skirt which was not easy to get the dried grass stuff (sorry its been too long I don't remember the name of what I used) to lay flat. I also took about one hundred photos of them both under different lighting conditions so I could get the exact lighting for combining the entire scene in photoshop. I even photographed the volcano under black lights to pick up the glow of the florescent paint I used for the lava. I ended up not using any of this because I ran out of time before graduation, but always thought I would go back and use it for something eventually. Raw baked, and just painted forms: Male tiger under different lighting schemes Female tigeress under different lighting schemes Tiki and palm tree props Tiki, palm tree, and volcano, with test photos of hand painted cloth Cover and back cover to the final piece, you might notice the tigers foot is turned around. I had to do that in photoshop because after the arduous photography session was finished I realized I had shot ALL the pics with the foot wrong...GRRRR! Well hope that tides you over till next time. Looks like I finally got to use the project for something! :wink:

Good news and bad news... Good news is I have been invited to do some graphic design/art direction for a fledgling magazine and it may work into a full time job eventually. Bad news is this means that I am going to have to put off finishing the little lady for a little while (but hopefully not too long). Meanwhile I thought I would share some more sculpture stuff. These were pieces that originally were going to be used for a custom portfolio sampler of my work, it was going to be themed as a tiki bar drink menu. The tigers are flat relief in parts so I could move the arms and legs. I made little tiny props for them both: the male has a itty bitty coconut drink that I made by molding sculpey around an olive and he also has custom painted pineapple designs on his shirt because I could not find a fabric that looked good to scale. The female tigress has a hand made lei (as does the male, but it doesn't show up as well) that was created by stringing a few hundred tiny paper flowers together, and she also has a hand made hula skirt which was not easy to get the dried grass stuff (sorry its been too long I don't remember the name of what I used) to lay flat. I also took about one hundred photos of them both under different lighting conditions so I could get the exact lighting for combining the entire scene in photoshop. I even photographed the volcano under black lights to pick up the glow of the florescent paint I used for the lava. I ended up not using any of this because I ran out of time before graduation, but always thought I would go back and use it for something eventually.

Raw baked, and just painted forms:

Male tiger under different lighting schemes

Female tigeress under different lighting schemes

Tiki and palm tree props

Tiki, palm tree, and volcano, with test photos of hand painted cloth

Cover and back cover to the final piece, you might notice the tigers foot is turned around. I had to do that in photoshop because after the arduous photography session was finished I realized I had shot ALL the pics with the foot wrong...GRRRR!

Well hope that tides you over till next time. Looks like I finally got to use the project for something! :wink:

Post #604556 by tigertail777 on Mon, Aug 29, 2011 2:17 AM