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Were there to be anything worth placing in the Featured section, this sculpture would merely be it's predecessor. Thank you for the thought, though, Metal-Otaku, but I simply don't feel that a work like this is sufficient.
I am unsure of what to say, aside from thanking you for your continued regard. It is only though luck that I managed to sculpt this as relatively successfully as I had. I recall jokingly scoffing that my thumbnail was bigger than the area of his face - moreover in that one wrong move would destroy many areas of detail on his figure. I'd learned much about how easily or uneasily plasticine takes to certain details, or even the simple pressure of being held.
Some day I'd hope to create a different structure, one with a proper armature and concept - something to rightly embody that respect I hold for Bartholomew Kuma. Time will tell.
For now, you have my thanks again, for both offering your thoughts and exclaiming your respect. Thank you very much - I look to do nothing more than express what thoughts and ideas I hold over Kuma - any works which extend from that will be as they may, and teach what they will. If any other individals give their thoughts, be they supportive or scathing, I can take those only as a blessing and learn from them.
Good luck.
Yes, the sculpture had ended up taking much longer than anticipated - but sculpting is entirely different from both painting and drawing, and the added time does not surprise me, especially in that working plasticine can often be rather tedious due to some of it's surface features... Especially with respect to Kuma's features and the density of details across the figure.
I do happen to have some gray plasticine, but the terra-cotta shaded material was all I had at hand as I was working on this. I did briefly consider making the image grayscale, but decided instead to leave it as it is.
Thanks again, Vhaanzeit. It is only a test sculpture, but hopefully at a later point I could sculpt a different figure for him, or otherwise take some better photographs of this one.
I do hope to eventually produce a sculpture which lends proper credit to Bartholomew, as I see him.