Portrait midterm underway!

Fire photon torpedoes!

Wow what a lot of work the full size version of my bat sculpture has turned out to be (and expensive!).

So far I have spent one day hunting for parts and then building my armature (mostly 1/2" PVC and styrofoam, which didn't go exactly as planned but it *should* work), and then most of yesterday blocking in the core form around it. I can't believe how much my hands hurt from working all this clay. =/

More pics tonight.