Camille Young

04-28-12

Camille — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:11 +0000

6×8″ polymer and cel-vinyl on canvas.

egret and sea monster

Camille — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:33:42 +0000

Two quick paintings with cel-vinyls on black paper.

Song of Storms

Camille — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:04:01 +0000

6×8″ polymer, cel-vinyl, and ribbon.

EarthBound Figurines

Camille — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:39:49 +0000

Over the past 2 months or so, I’ve been sculpting 4 prizes for the annual EarthBound Fanfest. They are one of a kind, signed on the bottom, and made of Super Sculpey (the gray kind). I built them around compressed foil cores and wire armatures, and painted them with cel-vinyls. I tried to make them as close to the game sprites as I could. These were pretty challenging and a lot of fun to make!

Here are a few in-progress pictures:

Thunder and Storm were a particular challenge and I really enjoyed sculpting their faces.

Electro Specter required sanding and multiple bakes to get sharp angles and a smooth surface.

I think the Kraken is my favorite!

They all turned out a little larger and more complex than I had originally planned and I’ll be sad to see them go. I hope the winners like them!

polymer pictures

Camille — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:12:48 +0000

TinTin and Snowy, polymer, cel vinyl paints, 6 x 8″ Mordecai and Rigby, polymer, cel vinyl paints, 6 x 8″

Indulgence

Camille — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:53:45 +0000

Quina from FFIX. Polymer on canvas. 8×10″

Marlon Vando

Camille — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:34:11 +0000

Made for two of my friends who recently got married! Inside, there’s a compressed foil core wrapped in sculpey ultralight, and covered with a thin layer of premo.

Sine Wave

Camille — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:13:35 +0000

I was recently thinking back to my school days and art history in particular. I had the pleasure of being taught art history by two very knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and well-spoken teachers. This subject has always fascinated me because art is such a beautiful record of culture, knowledge, and everyday life. There’s a fairly predictable style trend in most art over a period of time. The trend begins with simplified representations of shapes, colors, and patterns, moves on to more naturalized forms, becomes idealized, and finally takes a turn toward realism before heading back toward simple stylization.

Here are some interesting examples of this trend in Ancient Greek art:
Geometric period
Archaic period
Classical period
Hellenistic period
Roman rule
Byzantine empire

This trend fits well with digital art, fashion, art in video games, etc. My thoughts on the current digital art trend are that idealism and realism have given way to a little more abstraction. Rough lines and textures seen in traditional art have made their way into digital art, adding more personality and depth in contrast to unaltered vectors with crisp digital perfection. The frequency of this stylistic shift has increased dramatically as everything is now so much more accessible and I’m curious what the next trend will be.

A little off topic, but here’s a preview of what I’m working on currently:

wedding cake topper

Camille — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:50:12 +0000

Stephen and Mallory asked me to make a topper for their wedding cake. I was honored but also a little terrified. They met on starmen.net, an EarthBound fan site, which is also where I met my husband 10 years ago. This was my first attempt at sculpting realistic people. I tried to plan as carefully as I could, so I started with an armature and built up layers between bakes.

The sculpting took 12 days. Here are some progress pictures:

Without paint these faces look a little scary. These are also the most difficult things I’ve sculpted so far. I used a large sewing needle and a colour shaper tool for the details. Later, I mixed a little oil paint with some Kato liquid polyclay and baked on the color to make them more lifelike.

Here are some pictures of the finished sculpture.

Calli

Camille — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:02:05 +0000

8″x10″ oils and acrylic. I rarely get the chance to do a painting, but I really enjoy it.

Here’s a look at my progress. I started out with a sketch and ink wash.

I tried something a little different and used acrylics as a base.

Once I had the shadows and highlights where I wanted them, I went over it with oils. It’s so much easier to blend with oils, so the fur started to look softer and the eyes looked more realistic.

Using an acrylic base really saved me time and kept the painting from getting too muddy in the beginning. I’ll definitely try this again.