Re-making a Gary Larson cartoon

Over the past few days I've been having a go at re-creating one of my favourite cartoons by Gary Larson out of plasticine. This is the original cartoon.

I started off by making the pig and snake, this was really difficult. As the top is so much heavier than the rest,  the entire thing kept collapsing. If you were to cut it apart now it would be full of bits of broken toothpicks (I didn't have any cocktail sticks). By the time I had finally finished, I had a go at editing the image into the original. It took me ages, and I'm not 100% happy with the result, but here is my attempt!

Unfortunately, the scale meant that I have missed off the bottom of the snake, and the head isn't anywhere near as big as the original, but I think on its own, it puts the point across.

How to 'quickly' make a plasticine penguin!

Today I made a very unhelpful 'how-to' guide on quickly sculpting a plasticine penguin. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Pib and Pog

I'm currently working on some new models which are proving a little tricky, in the meantime, here is my favourite piece by Aardman, the creators of Wallace and Gromit.
I have tried animating my pieces before, but it's much harder than it looks, I've never managed to get them to look anywhere near as good as this:
Enjoy!

YouTube - Aardman's Pib and Pog

The final fish!

Here is the final fish (for details on how it was made, see post 'the making of the fish'). I could smooth the fingerprints off a little more, but I quite like having them on there, I think plasticine suits a few flaws.
If you're wondering what is in his hand, it's supposed to be an octopus flavoured wrap. The fish was initially going to be holding a can of beer, but after a few attempts, I quickly realised that I couldn't make very successful beer cans out of plasticine.

The making of the fish

I spent the evening with a bag of plasticine last night. I didn't really know what I was making, so it just evolved as I went along. Here are the photos I took along the way to give an idea of how the fish was made. I'll post the end product in a new post afterwards.

Olly the Octopus

This is Olly the Octopus, something I made a short while ago on my kitchen table. He took roughly 2 and a half hours to finish. I apologise for the quality of the photo but it's the only one I took at the time, and after two house moves, the origial model is looking slightly worse for wear!

Testing, Testing, 1..2...3

Hello!
Welcome to the first post on my blog, I hope it works!

This blog is here as a place for me to share my plasticine creations. I've been playing with plasticine since I can remember, and it all started off making salt-dough in my Mum's kitchen.
The creations that I'll be sharing with you were all made with Newplast plasticine, a soft, easy to model plasticine, similar to the stuff used to make Wallace and Grommit. I have no special tools, just my hands, a knife and occassionaly a tooth-pick or two to hold up flimsy models. I'll post about how I make some of the models, but if there's anything else you want to know then please just comment below.