Molding Project _Andrew Ward

My Initial Idea had been to create a squid playing in a pool with a toy boat. I modeled him out and then discovered that it would be best for me not to pursue this further, especially for first time mold making.

Too many gaps could cause complications.


So then I had to choose something else.











For my next project, I chose to do a bust of batman. My limited time stopped me from having enough time to come up with something altogether new so instead I chose to do a Study, unfortunately I found out after this again that it the professor was expecting something more original instead of a Study.



After this, the next step was to figure 3D print and create molds

Once I had my molds ready I had to decide how I wanted to color the new casts. I was thinking about how Batman is usually displayed in one of two ways...super serious nightmare batman, aka Dark Knight, or the more whimsical fun batman often labeled as the Caped Crusader. So for my two color choices for casting I wanted to do my own take, so for one set of castings I chose colors more akin to a dark nightmare while the other set is a bit more ridiculous and out there. Often times people like to create their own version of batman in some silly setting, so I did this for the whimsical bust, instead of having a full head mask, i made part of his outfit hood based and the hood actually contains the iconic ears instead of the actual suit.

In order to achieve the hood, i took some plumbing epoxy and shaped it onto the cast.


I sanded a bit, but my style is a bit more conceptual than ever fully refined. My paintings, drawings and many of my sculptures (outside of actual production work) are always left rough because the goal is to get my idea's across rather than spend excessive amounts of time refining and then refining further only to have ideas shot down, that is how you become bad at your job when your job is to create ideas.