In Progress » Riddle Me This… » Initial Sculpting

I think I might be hooked on this Sculpey stuff. I love it… I can work as fast or as slow as I want and don’t have to wait for things to dry or cure. Just keep working it until satisfied… very fun and suits my short attention span for sure!

My next Sculpture project is another of Bat-Man’s nemesis’s (nemesi?), The Riddler. I’ve always liked this baddie. Maybe it’s the green and purple suit, the excessive use of question marks, or perhaps the Derby hat. Whatever it is, I’ve always found his look to be kinda cool. I also figured he’d be another good practice piece as my last two sculpts were misproportioned monsters. A clean and slightly more realistic figure would be quite the departure.

I had a picture in my head of him standing and contemplating his next move or devious scheme. One hand would be on his question mark cane, while the other holding his chin and in deep thought. So I made a quick sketch and armature and went to work. I also wanted him to be somewhat thinly proportioned. Long face and skinny body. Almost cartoonish.

I started out by sculpting the head seperately. At first I made it without the hat and with a normal hairline as I wanted to wait till later to make the hat, but have something proportioned correctly to work with. A half head would had threw me off there! Once mostly satisfied I mounted the head to the armature and becan sculpting a naked body just to get the proportions right. After that I started bulking it out with clothing.  Here he is so far. Next is some clean-up and smoothing and after that I’ll start the hands. I think I might bake it first before making the hands just so that I can work with them easier in place without messing everything else up.