A Passion Project

 

I'll have to take some better pictures from my light box, but for now (due to unforseen and unfortunate circumstances) this will have to do for now.

I tried to paint the bird parts like that of a red tailed hawk, and the back half as a cheetah. Two animals that are very dear to my heart. The red tailed hawk because when I interned at a wildlife rehabilitation facility I was an absolute treat to be able to care for this critter, and the Cheetah because I would like nothing more than to go to Namibia and work for the Cheetah Project, a non-profit dedicated to ensuring the survival of the Cheetah species.

Much of the Cheetah fur colour was created using Zandri Dust layer paint from Citadel paint, and then adding white slowly layering up to the colour you see in the top pictures there. I feel like I need to perhaps try to get more depth into the model somehow but in all honesty I'm uncertain how to do that on such a flat surface right now. 

I made all of the stone structures on the base myself. I sculpted them using an oven bake clay and shaping them to look like ornate pillars had fallen in a baren land. For the cylindrical part of the pillar I simply rolled it out with a long piece of plasticard lengthwise in order to get the length I needed. I then cut off the ends on both sides and then smashed it up a bit after baking to get the effects you see.

The stone spheres there were just balls of oven bake clay that were cut (very carefully I might add) so that I could stick them on the base and have them look ruined and broken.

That's all for today. Hopefully you enjoyed this post. Let me know in the comments what you think, comments l, questions and concerns are always welcome.