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I hope when you finish Jo, you do Tinya as well.

I'm a huge fan of your pieces, Jesse. I'm so excited to see one of my favorites on deck; can't wait to see Jo fully painted.

Healex ... look at the pattern ... I'm doing them in couples, so guess who's next? After that I'm doing Jeckie and Karate Kid.


Exnihil ... Thank you so much.

Jesse I never noticed a pattern....go figure. But can't wait to see the pigtails!

I sound like a broken record, but fabulous work as USUAL!! Jo's headsculpt is spot-on, and I can'twait to see the finished piece.

P.S. -- somebody who's FB friends with Paul Levitz needs to share this thread with him!

Here he is finished.

LOL .. I'M friends with Paul Levitz and I'm actually meeting him at Tate's Comics next month.

Shades of Superboy #205.... This takes me back. Jesse, you have a great talent dude. You should be a professional.

Here's and early work in progress pic of Karate Kid

AWESOME.

Phantom Girl, still a work in progress ... but you get the idea.

Man, your work is just so amazing. I am always so astounded by how perfect the anatomy is on these. Is this something that you went to school for, or did you just "learn by doing"?

Every sculptor I know that's worth his salt has been self taught.

Karate Kid ... almost finished, in viewing the pictures, I just noticed something about his collar that was off that I have to fix.

Phantom Girl and Karate Kid are finished, will post pictures of them later tonight.

STUNNING... MESMERIZING... your collection is absolutely priceless!!

Here's Phantom Girl all finished

And here's Val

Next up ... Jeckie.

What about the colors... are you no longer doing that?

They have to be molded and cast before they're painted ... the materials used to sculpt them will deteriorate over time, so they have to be transferred to resin first.

White Witch

Lovely!
Looks like we're going to see Blok soon, too.
And Jeckie, of course.

So cool to see your work area.

I've got about a million and one questions about your process. But, to begin with... you mentioned above that final pieces are cast in resin... but what do you use for the initial sculpt?

For some reason, I always thought you were literally carving these busts out of a block of clay, but in the above pics it looks like you have some sort of plastic anatomical base. Do you use those for like the general shape then sculpt over that? If so, once you make the mold, do you dis-assemble the original for reuse?

This is just fascinating to me.

Here's what my new workshop looks like, I'm still in the process of setting everything up, since I just converted my garage, so I would have more room to work.