Mayan Tea Light Holder - Chiseling Away!

Here's part two of my Mayan/Aztec inspired tea light candle holder. Well, not exactly chiseling, but carving away with a rotary tool. Two of the four faces have now taken shape, though they will both be tweaked a little later on. Once the forms are all carved in I'll be adding in stone-like surface textures like cracks, cleaving surfaces, and scratches (I had already begun some the surface work, though it's far from complete).

Here's a view from the untouched side. Here you can see the surface marked with the general design to tool in later.

Next update, the completed sculpt...

Mayan Inspired Tea Light Candle Holder W.I.P.

Movin' on to starting on some new projects, a while back I worked out some original design concepts for some Mayan/Aztec inspired projects. First up is the tea light candle holder:

Here's the initial sculpt. I'm starting out with the basic shape. Once dry, all the final detailing will be tooled into the hard surface.

The faces are, well, faceless... for now. 

Test fitting a tea light. It fits!

"Seahorse" Humanoid Sculpt

Just for fun as a personal project,  I'm experimenting on re-visiting some old sketches of mine of various original creature designs and reproducing them in three dimensions. I figured I could use some practice with some sculpting tools I haven't had the chance to use yet (in fact, I forgot I even had them). This one is what I call "Seahorse" for lack of a better name. I never know exactly what it is I'm drawing, it just all kind of automatically creates itself and forms into any nonsensical form it wants. So if you'd ask me what any of these creatures are, where they live, how they're supposed to move in a real environment, what they eat, if they're aliens or beings from another dimension... I have no clue. So for this "Seahorse" I can't say that I had an aquatic creature in mind, nor does it imply this thing could actually swim (because it doesn't look like it has any efficient means of locomotion). All it is is what it is, just something weird and cool looking.

I'm revising and refining certain aspects of the original design as I go so the final sculpt won't match the sketch 100%. Here's the work in progress.

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"Teardrop"

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