Give me God of War!! (Ares OOAK, Part 2)
Just a reminder that there was Part 1 of this madness.
OKAY
I wanted to wait until I finish sword and spider legs before making a post, but there are three days after finishing the whole armor and I can't wait, I am screaming about Ares's supremacy.
Now I can say, it was hard. And the most hard thing was finding a balance. There are differences between Ares's 3D models from the different years, even in color palette. And I wanted to be as much close to the first game design as it possible. Some features were fully recreated from GOW1, some others I found more good at latest model from GOW3 and reworked them according to it. So at the end we have a good symbiosis I think.
Now let's a take a bow and look a bit closer at the mess under the cut.
Preparatory process
Until eyes are frightened, you can't do anything. To be honest I had no idea from where to start, the plan sounded like a "How to draw an owl" tutorial. Complexity of his armor scared me as hell, and after spending some time with drawings, where I tried to figure out a hook and loop system, which should attach parts to each other, I gave up and started to make his scaly iron belt, it felt more easier. YEAH.
Iron belt
You can see it at the screenshot. Well, one of the versions. Seems, it has no purpose beside decorative, I mean, maybe it can protect the groin, but eh, not really, honestly. At GOW3 model of dead Ares it became more detailed with round flower-like pendants and a little green jewel drops, but also it became golden as all metallic elements. I decided to make everything silver, but anyway, belt is very beautiful and I headcanon it is the same belt, which Ares gifted to his daughter Hippolyte in the past.
I weaponised myself with the smallest crochet hook and red thread and started to knit. WHY KNIT YOU ASK?? I don't know, it is easier for me than sewing all these scales %) Maybe they represents some fishy motives? (His connection with Aphrodite). Or serpent? (One of Ares's children, who was killed by Kadmus). Maybe green jewels is a hint to his mother Hera, because she loves emeralds. Who knows.
Scales, flowers, suns, glass drops.. If I were Ares, I'd present it to my beloved warrior daughter too.
Pteruges
As an example of the true manliness, Ares wears a skirt of course. He is not a barbarian, who hides his beautiful freckled thighs in the pants! How dare we to judge..
The easy part was to make a leather stripes and pierce them with the rivets (little nails, which I cut after this to left a head only). The hard part (which I had a chance to feel over and over again) was to figure out how to attach it to the body and hide all of the fasteners, and how to let stripes flow on his thighs and how the hell it should cover his.. godlike butt, I can't believe I wrote this.. %)
ANYWAY, A MONTH LATER I decided to make it a single piece with the iron belt, by creating a two-part wide leather base, attach knitted waistband to it, then join the each stripe to the separate piece of cloth to make them movable, then attach this cloth to the leather and sew some hooks.
Aaaand the final result!
Cuirasse
I just say I literally hanged up myself with it. Here will be ranting...
Let's just think that it is not enough just to recreate appearence. In making 3D you can ignore some aspects like hidden straps and strings, which keeps armor conjoint on the human body. But how to make it wearable to the doll body, which is not soft and has a stable reliefs? How to make armor firm and shaped, but not completely firm, so it can be taken off from the body? Yes, my wish from the beginning was to make whole armor with a possibility to take it off and send nudes dress Ares in different outfit, which i will also make someday. How to make it light, so the doll can stand by itself? How to make it textured, to make it looks rough, to imitate metal or at least used condition? How to make metal parts without using a metal?
OKAY, WE NEED TO BE CANON - I thought and it was a day I decided to not invent armor, but use an experience of the hellenic people, who was smarter than me, I guesse. Because long time ago these people invented Linothorax - composite armor made of laminated linen fabric.
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First of all, I splited Ares's cuirass to the segments: chest+collar segment, belly segment, spine segment, which emphasizes Ares's love to hunching over a little, and a waist-and-lower segment. Plus cuirasse has chained shoulder straps and side straps.
Well, when you have all elements, it is easier to imagine a complete piece. After that you just buy fabric, glue, chains, 27 hours for your day, new eyes, paint and other stuff. You wrap the body with the film and tape to protect it and start to glue.
And here it is time for me to shut up, I know, you are here to watch a process, not to read an essay.
I started from the front pieces of course. You imagine a pattern, you cut it, you glue it to hold the natural body forms as close as possible.
Collar was formed right here. Gladly we can remove Ares's head when we want to do it...
Waist piece (eheh, spider butt (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ) and first attempt to assemble the cuirasse. Here I literally lost my last brain cells and bravery, stopped the process and didn't make straps until the last week.
Anyway A MONTH LATER!!11 after the first assemble I started to sculp a relief of the reinforced chest and the metallic collar. Also we can check how's our decapitated dogs doing. Here you can see a belly piece of the cuirasse, which needed it's own dog decor. I was that meme boy with a knife, yeah..
Seemed they doing great! I felt that and decided to finish arm armor.
Shoulder pads and bracers
Thankfully making them requires the same process: cut a pattern, glue it, repeat for each arm. Here is close ups of the leather "feathers" pierced by rievets, chained bracers (I am very proud that I recreated it fully like at the Ares model. Bracers has no other strings and stays at arm only because of the chains) and shoulder pads as a base and as a complete, fully Cerbered piece. Actually this part wasn't really difficult, I've just delayed the inevitable.
Boots
The first GOW novel says he weared sandals!!! Bloodstained SANDALS! But this novel was written much later, so we are making rocker boots. ᕕ(シ)ᕗ HEY!, we are laughing here, but Ares is smart, Ares don't want to break his toes by kicking someone's helmet! Maybe after having some experience %)))
Well, as I said in my previous posts, his boots was the most agressive part his armor. Heel and shoes toes should be firm, but sole should stay soft. Also the whole construction of the boots should looks monolite with the greavers which cover up the layers of the material above the ankles.
Don't forget about the chains and double emotional damage, because there is two legs!
A little more damage as a person you receive, when you understand that you need to process each edge of each piece, because all armor pieces has visible layers. And only after that you can paint everything, draw Ares's assymetrical ornaments and dress him up.
That's how we reach the end.
Here he is. O defence of Olympus, father of warlike Victory, ally of Themis, stern governor of the rebellious, leader of righteous men.
Kratos's yes-homo partner and his personal most vieceful enemy.
Ares! God of war!
Thank you everyone for your patience while reading this duvet cover.
See ya in Part 3, Skeletor will return soon with a sword, spider legs and normal photos. And stay tuned, I will post some portraits next time!
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My OOAK Frollo doll, start to finish...
Just thought I’d upload the entire process here; sorry if it seems repetitive of me, as I have posted pictures of this here before. It’s more so for my own record really, as it’s just super easy and convenient to put on multiple images onto one post here, or anyone who’s interested.
Please note this is for my newest version, I have made others in the past using different doll bodies, fabric and head sculpts- some turned out better, some not, but all part of the experimenting, construction process.
Body: A Monster High Deuce Gorgon doll. I chose this because of the good articulation, good hand sculpts and it is the right size body to fit my head sculpts. Had to just trim the head peg and stabilize it by wrapping some string coated in PVA glue around it, as the weight of the head makes it flop down otherwise. It doesn’t have as much head movement as it used to, but it does have a little.
In hindsight, one wonders if could be attached with magnets somehow, perhaps, but not sure. In the end it was attached with hot glue.
Head sculpts. I ended up using the one of the left. Made from super sculpey clay. The one on the right was originally on a different body, hence the different skin colour to match.
Purple trousers/Hose - made from purple stretch fabric- the same material used in swimwear.
I kept the top which came with the Monster High doll, as it has a nice brocade sort of pattern on it. I just dyed it purple, and made and attached the purple sleeves. Lets face it, no one knows wtf he wears under there,
Tricky part, the shoulder-piece.
Black velvet fabric with red braid /edging cord, and red ribbon stripes for the pauldron stripes. Back-piece of the purple stretch fabric. On the underside I made a pocket in which I inserted craft wire to hold the shape.
Finished with adding black cord around the edges to neaten it up, and glued on two red diamonds adhesive plastic craft jewels.
At this point I also made the white collar, the square shaped top sewn on. The circular base is so it stays in place. And also sort of resembles the collar and bib worn by nuns. Frollo Wasn’t a priest in the animated version that Disney did, but they sure sneaked in some clerical looking attire.
And Finally...
I has dagger too.
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So, my best friend (hi) and I have been talking a lot about Jax/Holt over the past few days ever since I got them also obsessed with Monster High. And we (by that I mean I) decided on who our "main cast" would be for our version of Monster High. And that cast is:
Jackson/Holt, Deuce Gorgon, Clawd Wolf, Clawdeen Wolf, and Draculaura!
So, I've decided to redesign all of them! Save Jax/Holt, because I redesign them too often anyways. So I'm going to start out with Clawdeen, since I had the most inspiration for her! And I've decided to share a bit of my creative process here as well, so if you're interested, continue reading!
Starting out with the first step I take in a redesign: the concept sketch.
This is usually a tiny, tiny sketch somewhere in my sketchbook mapping out the basic design. I took heavy inspiration from Moonlight Jewel's OOAK Clawdeen doll, Haunt Couture Clawdeen, and Wave 1 Clawdeen. I don't usually map in colours here, I keep those bouncing around in my brain.
The next step I take is: the headshot.
Pretty simple. I get a feel for how I want the character's face to look. Most of the time I use what I've coined the "Pinterest girl stare"; ie, no readable expression. I changed Clawdeen up a little bit in the final, but I still like this bust!
Next, I finally start on the full body ref!
I lumped the sketch and lineart together for simplicity's sake. The lineart is where I add most of the finer details, crosshatching, and decide what I do or don't want. Ex: I ended up cutting the ruffles off the end of her fishnets. You might also notice I didn't ink the chains on her belt- that's because I knew at this point that her pants would be black, so I wanted to ink the chains in white later. (Her hair was super fun to do here btw!! I love drawing undercuts and I love drawing braids, so it's a fun culmination of both!)
And once it's coloured, we have the final design!
Overall, I think she turned out great! I've always loved how freaky fab Clawdeen looks in green, and ofc neon green is my fave colour. I'd sell multiple of my organs to have this as a doll.
Hope you love this redesign, and stick around for the next part!! 🦇💕
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MOAR JEWELS!
While waiting for my custom printable for the 50/50 to arrive, I have been working on holiday exchange things. For dolls. Because. So, once again, walk into the land of camera skills that totally rock (*snorts, holding back laughter*).
BEHOLD! 1:6th scale shenanigans!
Click the pictures. They are much better when you can see them in true cinematic horror. Also, they are clearer. (Not really.)
Yes, yes, I am working on a custom doll. Ignore the sanding marks. It's a WiP... mah doll back and forth. Mah doll back and forth....
Okay, shakey hands struck again. You get the idea. Most close with S clasps, but some are just wraps. Because.
Okay. The glaze on that one is still drying. The light was fading! I needed picts!
Never mind. Into the 1:4 & 1:3 scale stuff!
Another. Another!
I swear it looks much better in person!
Sometimes I wonder why I try to photo silver against an aluminum foil base for my gown designs. Like a fool.
Answer: Hands.
This one is not so bad, I think. Also, that one above making me think of a Crown of Thorns sort of necklace... or head piece. The Inspiration!
Magical purkle orb like thing! Bingy blingy bling bling.
MWAHAHAHA. I really should get the rose gold and copper wire. I wonder if they make it in onyx finish..?
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