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No-Sign-of-Sanity — Human Skull - 1:8th scale
Published: 2006-11-21 07:58:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 17367; Favourites: 234; Downloads: 337
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Lately I've been really cranking hard on a sculpture commission, and while most of it is still in various states of "what the fuck is that supposed to be?"-ness, this human skull portion of it is totally finished so I thought I'd share it.The pictures really don't do it much justice because I really busted my ass to try and add as much detail as I could, but still leave the thing in a state where it could be easily molded and cast in resin. It was a quite interesting process of editing and reworking the anatomy to make it still look accurate, but at the same time eliminate all of the undercuts and openings that would make casting it a total bitch. Also this was really my first try at working in 1/8th scale (I'm used to 1/6th) and I was rather surprised that it wasn't too much of an ordeal to make the transition to the smaller size, and I really didn't have to sacrifice any detail. Hell I even got the cranial sutures in there!
I’ll share more of the full sculpture, which this skull is just a small part of, as the entire piece gets closer to being done… which should be quite soon.
Thanks for looking guys!
1/8th scale made with Super Sculpey. © Walter O’Neal 2006
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I'd be happy with it most certainly!
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That's quite the skull! Beautiful! You make me want to dive back into the sculpting pool!
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Thanks Creepy! I'd love to see some sculpture work from you if you have any you'd like to share. I'm sure it fucking rocks just like your drawings and paintings!
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I gotta get back into it.
You never saw my sculpture "The Band-Aid"? [link]
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You absolutely need to get back into it because that piece is killer! I don't know how I missed it before...
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SWeet !! killer work bro, im still playing with my skulpty , but it never looks as good as yours hehehehe, awsome work !!!
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Thanks man! But believe me, I'm still very much learning myself!
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very cool You did a great job 
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Thank you! A lot of the current comic book themed sculptures are done in 1/8th scale, so I figured that I needed to get my feet wet in that pool as well. I'm spreading like a virus, and soon no art genre will be safe from me!!!
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*wiggle* how fun !
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holy crap! So small and yet so finely detailed. Very impressive.
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holy crap! So mall and yet so finely detailed. Very impressive.
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Oh GOD!! If must be so freaking hard to make it that small.
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Well it's not easy I can tell you that! It would be a lot easier if I knew anything about working with wax (it's much easier to do small detail work in wax), but I don't, so it ain't.
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Wow, that's..that's really...uh...tiny. Eency even. Looking good though, can't wait to see what else you got going on.
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This is just a really small piece of a much larger sculpture that I can't fucking wait to finish so I don't have to fucking look at it anymore!!! It' turning out well, but I'm just hitting that point of burnout/fatigue with it.
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I know what you mean, man. I just finished my twelfth tiki and I'm cooked. Time to move onto something else for a while!
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Must been working with a freaking spyglass on that one 
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Thanks man! It's just the tip of the iceberg though... just wait for the finished piece...
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wow the detail in that is amazing
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Thanks! I love skulls too.
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this is really good! i'd love to have it in my hand and stare at it for a looong time =o (would be a good reference for drawing ^^)
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I think the guy I'm doing it for might actually release the entire piece as a garage kit so maybe you actually can own one later down the road. I'll keep you posted.
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well thanks for the info... the sucky part is that i live down here in argentina, and things from abroad are more expensive to me, and... at the moment... i'm not even working >.>
anyway, great job
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*burns with envy at your crazy skills!*
Hey... how about a tut on building the wire frame bneath your sculptures? *nudge nudge*
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Okay, I'll see what I can put together.
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that is, of course, the SHIT.
Wicked man. Just wicked.
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Thank you! I'm always trying to bring the wicked shit to dA!
Maybe that can be my tagline - "no-sign-of-sanity: bringer of wicked shit"
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Gee that is small I can only imagine the frustration in doing this...excellent detail in your skulpting...and I see he still has his teeth....
Looking forward to seeing some more of this commision Walt...
Though at times I do wonder about you... 
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Ha, that's so cool! It's so cool that it needs a new word to describe it.
Skull-tastic!
Ahem, anywho...The details are nice, I can see some of the cracks in the skull (those are the sutures you spoke of, right?) and it looks very realistic for such a tiny little skull.
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You wouldn't mind taking off your hair and scalp for me too would you? I could use some more reference.
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Ha ha! I've just come back from New York and whilst I was there, I had the good fortune to go and see 'Evil Dead - The Musical!' It's hilarious and I highly recommend it.....but at one point, one of the 'zombies' has her head scalped to reveal the brain below! Blood spurts everywhere!(That's why the first 4 rows of seats get plastic macs to wear!
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About 2 days or so. I hard baked it a few times in between so there was plenty of downtime waiting for the thing to cool in the oven.
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That's a pretty amazing liliputina skul you have there, my friend.
Well done!!
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Thank you so much!!!
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Erm... I meant liliputian skull, but my keyboard conspired against me
You're welcome.
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thats freekin amazing! its so0o detailed and so0o small!!! wooow, great work
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thats freekin amazing! its so0o detailed and so0o small!!! wooow, great work
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that's really awesome, and so damn small.
can't wait to see the whole sculpture when its finished!
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The whole sculpture is really turning out rather nicely so I can't wait for it to be done myself!
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wow.. that's awesome.. and little!! O.o..!
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