Keychained and Gun-damned on Birthday week

It was a real head-start of a good long holiday season...with lots of dreams and aspirations in our heads, we were almost close to doing the things we want to do.


Upon darting our eyes to focus on our calendar schedule hanging on the wall, a scribbled reminder can be seen. It reads, "Gabriel's B'day on 14th and Nigel's on 16th." 




Oh well, we're going to have to get our hands busy on planning to get gifts for our friends' birthday. But wait, there's two! In one week?! We'll just have to burn the midnight oil, I guess.

With that in mind, we set out to create our birthday gift for the '14th of Dec' boy first before the latter. The picture right at the top left is the present we made for our friend here. Since he loves Kingdom Hearts, my brother and I decided to whip up a clay model of the Kingdom Keyblade as a phone-strap. It only took up a few hours to shape it and several minutes to paint it. Chaining it to a strap is as easy as a counting ABC (not true on the doing part).

After giving it and having a great conversation on his birthday, we went on to proceed on making Nigel's gift.

"This one, in particular, was the much more hardcore-gritty one. It was one rough stuff to hand-make indeed."

  At first, when my brother proposed on making a Gundam-related things like gundam-engraved spatula(what?!),because my friend love to collect those models and he's a potential chef, it wasn't the brightest of all ideas. Then, he decided on making a clay model based off Gundam Exia, from Gundam 00.

  Sounded like a real potentially aesthetic gift, only, doing it wasn't as pleasing as it seemed. We went through what we called, our first most hand and eye-straining and toturing moments in our whole 17 years of life.(Not applicable to experienced modellers, it is only an exaggerated citation.) We spent almost 3 gruelling-days working on it, sleeping scarcely with a minimum of 2-3 hours and barely moving out of our place until we did one small part of the body, piece-by-piece.

To start off our modelling process, my brother prepared a few pieces of wooden sticks as skeletons to support the soft yet fragile clay. He made the legs first while I handled the head. It was rough start, considering we do not have much experience in making a such complex and detailed model of a robot!

We were without tools needed for sculpting clay, so we had to improvise by utilizing the wooden carving tools we have in our hands right then. Surely we have to make use of the stuff we have right now, isn't it what we call - gratefulness and satisfaction? Eventually, we were able to deal head-on with the head-spinning details plus the curves and corners of every obstacle on making this model. 

Although not as perfect as it seems, compared to its real plastic counterparts seen in toy stores, it was one of our best models we've ever created. Our friend liked it at      

        the end too :)

We've learned that modelling requires a whole lot of patience and being meticulous in your part in order to make a really neat and detailed piece.

In any way, we hope you enjoyed our pieces submitted in this blog, enjoy all our photos posted here and be sure to keep up to date with our latest artworks!

Regards,
Zach
(Satuday, 17 December 2011)