Holy cow, the level of detail and your creative sculpting techniques are literally out of this world. Such a beautifully macabre piece you've created!

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks very much 😁

Some amazing out of the box thinking here. I love the organic shapes you got from pouring the clay into the water! The statue itself looks badass. 👍

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Chris, yeah it's a realy interesting technique. Cheers! 😁

Dudeeee so cool! The molten clay in water made some really cool shapes. That BBC turkey photo is horrifying LOL

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Cheers! Yeah who would've thought a turkey would be so terrifying! 🤣

That looks so much fun! :D It's amazing where inspiration comes from... the oddest places. :D

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, yep it's true!

Never thought of pouring monster clay into water, very interesting! I shall try it myself sometime in the future! Really interesting!

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Hey dude, hope you're well. Yeah it's a really interesting technique 😁

I did not see it was a turkey haha, it looks like entrails, especially on the bottom. Awesome sculpture.

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, yeah weird isn't it!

Really cool demonstration of techniques. Not something you see everywhere.

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! :)

I love you bro! The Turkey took me out, Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🦃. But in all seriousness, Your Talent and skill is impeccable, i'm always impressed with your work & dedication. I love to tune in!! Toodles!~

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks dude, very kind. Yeah it's mad isn't it, who'd've thought a turkey would've inspired all this!

Absolutely brilliant, I love anything lovecraftian , I play call of Cthulhu rpg every week and like to dabble with polymer clay/chavant/monster clay, looks very colour out of space 👀

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yeah I used to play call of cthulhu 😁

Fantastic! Wasn't expecting the Turkey influence, but I have been photographing a Casawary at Paignton zoo over the years also as similar texture references for sculpting and painting ideas. You beat me to it. Casawary have awesome colours too! I also use a flame for my wax sculptures and have got one of those wood burners that I've not tried sculpting with yet. Good to see it in use. Love your wax dripping in water technique! Brilliant! .. cool and familiar intro music too, is it from a Dracula film?

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yeah you know I actually saved a pic of a turkey ages ago, before I saw the demon one as I really liked the colours! I kinda wanna cast it just so I can paint it. The music's actually from youtube's royalty free library, but it actually reminds me of hellraiser!

@mickybetts7957

5 ай бұрын

@@thedarkpower oh wow, great music from KZread! Definitely worth casting it and painting! Those textures are too good not to! Some birds I see at my local zoo are great and ugly looking monster inspirations! Casawary, hornbills and some skeksie looking Marabou storks. Full of wottles, giblets and dangly blubbery bits.

Just starting out with working with clay. Plan on making the mudman form the Castlevania game. This vid is really helping, thank you.

@thedarkpower

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad it was useful.

I like this techniques!

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

A smaller version would be great,I need something to keep the pinhead skull company....just sayin 😊

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Haha, cheers dude, hope you're well. I'll see what I can do ;)

Always be open to inspiration, it can come from anything at any time. it is also good to experiment. During the creative process mistakes are not something to be afraid of, they are helpful lessons. As adults we sometimes lose that ‘joy’ of creativity and experimentation that children have. A child will not be too concerned with the end result, what may start off as a unicorn may end up being a tank with wings. Your videos are very informative and interesting. You take us through the whole process, the pros and cons etc. Perhaps if you have the time, a Q&A now and then would also be good to watch.

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! Yep 'happy accidents' are always welcome. They often look abit more natural as well. Yeah I've never done a Q&A before so maybe that's worth doing. Thanks!

I love it! I've been listening to a lot of Lovecrafts books! This is perfect as some Eldritch horror! Out of curiosity have you ever made or considered making a Cthulhu bust?

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yeah I've definitely thought about doing cthulhu before. Maybe this will morph into that 😁 Oh btw if you're into lovecraft check out the The Lovecraft Investigations, they're on Spotify. Absolutely superb.

@rangerofmirkwood746

5 ай бұрын

@@thedarkpower thanks for the recommendation. I'll definitely have to check that out! Keep up the fantastic work!

Dark power uploads, I click straight away. Nice work again man 🤘🏽 Turkies are actually pretty scary lookin birds 🤪

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Cheers dude, yeah they're kinda feaky looking!

Very masterfully done.

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers! 😁

OMG, where to start?! That is beautiful [whatever 'that' is] As a devotee of H.R.Giger I appreciate the grotesque/disquieting imagery that flows from the subconscious influence. Not worrying about the end product and having fun is SO important. I think inspiration was replaced by a lot of plagiarism after Giger appeared and AI seems to be channelling this too. However, I see new ground broken in your work here. You've gone beyond the tropes of this genre and yet stayed true to the core of the 'grotesque/disquieting' - I mean - this piece is as innovative as any of Giger's work 'etc'. The 'experimental' techniques are intriguing; I remember (back in the day) dribbling molten wax into water, creating wonderful shapes but due to fragility not being able to incorporate them into my work, hopeless to make molds of. You need to cast this thing merely as a test to see what can be achieved or have it 3D scanned first to prserve the original. Now I have a tip/trick you might consider; back in those wax dribbling days I also used to use good old [yucky] plasticine to make puppet heads [school days stuff] add papier-mache and scrape out the plasticine. But when I had the plasticine head finished instead of papier-mache I would wrap it in polythene/clingfilm/plastic bag etc and then 'subject it' to the flame of a gas cooker ring. It burnt, it smelt, it melted,blistered&popped, but OH what wonderful grotesque head remained. You could try that with the harder oil based clays (monster clay being a little too heat sensitive) be my guest. All the very best, I await your experiments, professor. . .

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! High praise ;) But yeah, I'm a big Giger fan too, I know what you mean though - there are a million imitators. I've never tried using wax but I can imagine it being pretty fragile. Haha, you know what I did think about putting a sculpture in the oven to see what sort of effect melting it on a high heat would have. I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to try though ;)

@negotiableaffections

5 ай бұрын

@@thedarkpower No no, not in the oven, just dipping in and out of the jets on the hob - like a blow torch but slightly cooler .

BG3 fans would probably go crazy for casts of this.

@thedarkpower

5 ай бұрын

I've not played that yet, I am thinking about making casts though.