This one Piece 1/4 scale bust was sculpted by Chris Elizardo of Estudios, I love this bust, I am not sure of the Origins, of the Character, but he is one mean ugly litlle bugger, I definately wouldnt want to meet him on a dark night, Chris has handled the sculpt, perfectly, with crisp detailing through out, you can almost imagine the sack cloth clothing crawling with fleas, and the Crawling Maggots, in his rotting cheek are truly gross, I had very little to do clean up wise for this one, just a couple of small airbubbles, that wher no problems at all, I didnt have any painting references to work off so the colour scheme, is how I imagine this character would look, after Priming, I base coated with Tamya Matt flesh, I then gave all the open wounds and his open mouth a wash of Red mixed with a reddish brown, I used Various green pastels for shading, the flesh tones, to deaden him up a bit, then I went in with greys, around the hollows of his eyes, the wounds, where dry brushed with yellw ochre, his eyes are , Bleached bone, and Metallic green, the dead eye was given a wash with pearlescant white, finally I went over the whole head with fine blue pen for veigning, the Clothing is dark brown dry brushed with Coffee, A very unusual piece that I can reccomend to all horror and fantasy fans, if you would like to get hold of this bust, click here for Chris Website, check out his other sculpts while you are there, and tell him I sent you.
Mark Atherton
08 July 2003
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