This was the first piece I made when I got back to sculpting, just a simple little test piece, but I think he turned out pretty well, and was fun to do.

If you can't tell already (which means it didn't turn out so well, I suppose), these buggers are Shadow Heartless from the uber-popular Kingdom Hearts series, which I absolutely love, and has been the proverbial spurs in the butt to start up a Disney DVD collection.

I went the "Balls of Fury" route by using multiple angles, inverting some, and plopping 'em here and there. And yes, I did anguish a bit over whether to photoshop glow the eyes, or leave them as they were. Well, it still looked neat, but not as effective as an image. If you want to picture it undoctored, use your imagination. They're painted yellow. Otherwise, if anyone REALLY needs to see it, I could always put up a plain shot later.

The nice, moody background is free stock provided by: ...thanks for letting it be used.

Here's a link to the excellent original shot: [link] ...I just did a little filter job on it to give the picture a slightly more cartoonish look, and mesh better with the cartoony critters.

Enjoy, if you so choose

Super Sculpey and acrylic paints (74th out of 78)

Shadow Heartless & Kingdom Hearts is (c) Square-Enix