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Feels like I get back from one trip and it's time to leave for another. And the reason it feels like that, is because that's exactly what I'm doing. I leave in the morning for a nine-day business trip to lovely Des Moines. Though we had a house full of sick people (including me), I managed to get a small amount of sculpting in this weekend, knowing I wouldn't be able to work on these for ten days.

Most of the time I spent was on the face of my naked guy. For reference, this head is about 3/4". I'm relatively happy with it, although it is obviously still rough and needs some finish. I'm about 90% happy with the expression and features - it's ALMOST what I wanted it to be.

The lips still need some work. I'm quite happy with the start I got on the ears, and yes, they're supposed to be big like that. I'm sorta picturing this guy as a devil, so while I'm trying to keep his proportions mostly human, I wanted to deviate a bit to show that he's something more than some guy holding a skull.

The body didn't receive as much attention, but I did spend some time on the musculature of the torso, and re-worked his right arm (our left) a little, but all four limbs still need a lot of attention, including some more lengthening of the legs.

I'm actually happy with what little I did, but obviously there's a long way left to go on this fellow.

Now, the Green Lantern chick didn't get a lot of loving this weekend, but I did do a little work on her. Mostly, I frustrated myself by working on her hands. They are relatively simple compare to doing realistic hands, but I'm having a heck of a time getting them the way I want them. I think I'm going to need to do the hands off the sculpture, as I need to be able to turn them around and see them from different angles, which is hard to do on the stand.

I do like the body, though, and think that I'll do a little more refinement, then bake it, sand it down, and start working on the details. The feet need some cleanup, but I think I'll do that after baking it - I can always sand them down and add clay if I need to, but it's darn hard to get to the back of the feet while she's on the stand. I've decided to throw away the first head I sculpted and start over completely from scratch, but I don't want to start that until the body's been baked once.

Man, was I happy to be sculpting again after several days traveling. Oh, well. I've packed along some epoxy putty and plan to do some sculpting in the evenings while I'm gone. I haven't been working on miniature sculpting in a while, but it's one thing I can do on the road, so I will be doing some this trip. I also have a couple of ideas for non-progress blog posts that I'll try to get to over the next week.