PERSEPHONE - stained glass, Luci's legacy.
I had to. Wouldn't you have?
Also that was way too many pieces - 56 for the tentacles (?) alone! And yes, those bracelet beads are individual pieces of glass too, all 11 of them. I finished soldering her at 2am on a Friday so I could display her at #SVCC the next day. The shadows are airbrushed, the details painted on with fusible paint and the best part is that HER EYES GLOW IN THE DARK YOU GUYS
On the Persephone detail you can see bubbles in the lips - it looks like glitter gloss! The effect was utterly unintentional - the fusible paint is rather viscous, so it traps air bubbles if you mix it without thinner - which I had to do for color matching. Was sad at first but then I saw how cool it looked so I decided to leave it the way it was. The eyes are clear gloss mixed with blue/white glow in the dark powder (and there's a bit of it in the nose ring as well).
LUCI - I've been wanting to make it for so long you guys it's finally happened I'm so excited. To me Luci is a strangely romantic character (in a literary sense, not in the kissy-kissy sense - although that too because come *on*), so I wanted her to have an halo of bruised roses the color of decay. Which I think I achieved.
She is mostly made of a really expensive frosted clear glass that scatters the light and appears white. She's got some airbrushed shadows and a painted face, which was very hard to make look acceptable - and even then she looks like she's just about done with everyone's nonsense. Also, I now now how to draw roses? Which is *really* hard, by the way.
On other news I have no idea where to put it and Luci - right now they're just lying on my floor. They are matched in size, about 36 inches tall - I told the FedEx guy to “print is as big as you can”. I will eventually put them up for sale on etsy, once I get my website going.
From the comic book The Wicked and the Divine, by @kierongillen and art by @mckelvie.
