Fun with Mr. Beard/Hr. Skæg!

Fun project alert! Ever since my daughter was introduced to Hr. Skæg (Mr. Beard/Fun), his show has made an appearance in my house on a daily basis. So for Christmas I decided to make her a soft doll of him.

This is Mr. Beard / Hr. Skæg. Ok I'm not gonna lie, I love his show too, and this is my favorite song.

I began with this sketch

Then I just dove right in at the fabric store. I found the perfect shade of red felt. I also bought (a ridiculous amount) of faux fur to use as his beard. I had some batting just laying around to stuff him with. The rest was just scraps of leather and and old tie of my husband's that I up-cycled.

At this point I was really just winging it. I decided to create a little pattern out of thick bristol paper before I started cutting the felt. I traced the shapes and then had at it!

Sådan! Here's the final product- I present to you Hr. Skæg- in doll form!

             

Used Car Salesman

Hey everyone, this is a sketch of my newest sculpture. Not sure what his story is yet but I know that it might involve used car sales. 


A little while later and he's coming along nicely....

Just a few more adjustments and then he's gonna get cooked!

 This is my guy post baking...he's all set to be painted and dressed.

Here he is after his first coat of oil paint, and all I've done now is wrapped some batting around him to create a sense of body (and to help the draping of the fabric) and I've held it together with rubber bands.

         

Now my final steps are to prep my fabric and bust out my trusty sewing needle, string and glue gun. 

After a couple of hours, he's looking kind of dapper with his button down shirt and tie.

And Voila! He's finished!

 

I also doodled a few possible expressions he could make. Now to just figure out how to make a setting for him.....Stay tuned!

Elegant lady being all judgmental at laundry mat

I drew this little sketch one night, with no particular inspiration or intention. 

Then it laid dormant for about a year before I discovered it again and thought, you know, I'll bet this would be fun to turn 3D! 

So the journey began.

I loaded my scanned pencil sketch into photoshop

 for some digital painting before I began sculpting with super sculpey clay, tin foil and craft metal.

After a few (!!!) hours of sculpting with super sculpy clay,

 I popped this ol' gal into the oven to solidify her delicate features.

 I began oil painting her head and later created her arms.

Girlfriend got her "hair did" and a makeover, then I gave her some meat on her bones with some quilt batting. Afterwards I washed, ironed and draped some fabric around her bust and used hot glue to secure it.

My little workspace with materials and tools

Creating the necklace, cooking the super scupley clay

Letting her dry out before the final touches

and....voila! My Fat Lady has come to life!

These are some "in progress" photos from this recent sculpture. 

You can see how I've built up this figure from the original hand sketch on paper, all for the final product of dimensional illustration.

Louie Louie Louieeeeee.....Louie Louie Lou-ahhhh

watercolor pencil on paper, digital

If you've never seen this man's show, check out the trailer here.

This is a preliminary character sketch for a possible sculpture series I'm developing of my favorite comedians.

watercolor pencil on paper, digital

Here's a more realistic portrait, a work in progress.

Forbrydelsen (The Killing) Obsessed

watercolor pencil on paper 

The one and only, Sarah Lund. 

Am I becoming Danish? Wait, what? No, I just like this hound dog of a detective. Her character on this danish "who done it?" quickly became famous for not just her obsessive, borderline insane police work but also for her non-communication.

And the sweater. Oh yes, those sweaters. 

Learn all about Forbrydelsen

here.

watercolor pencil on paper

 I thought this character from the show was just too interesting not to sketch! The actor's name is Nicolas Bro.