Has Our Hero Gone Bad?

 

You See What I Just Did There?

 

ClayFace and Female Hero

The B list Batman villain ClayFace seemed an obvious subject for a silly clay sketch.  Here he confronts a Wonder Woman like figure, although I would like to think that their interaction is ambiguous.

This one proved to be a real struggle to hold together without an armature and had to be partially dried halfway through, thus blowing my sculpture a day plan, probably not for the last time.

ManBat, Painted

Bear Head with Bat Cape, Painted

Mysterio-ish Guy

The comics and cinematic adventure worlds are full of guys wearing helmets they cannot possibly see out of- the "bucket heads."  There is something so compelling and impowering, at least to our small boys, about covering up your whole head.  No matter that the actors playing those Power Rangers and Clone Troopers can't see a damn thing and are drowning in their own sweat.  Sure, the "real" guys would have a helmet full of high tech electronics and air conditioning...but it's still a bucket.  Or in the case of one of Spider-Man's more implausible foes, Mysterio, it looks more like a fishbowl.  And of course he's got a cape.  And plenty of muscles.

Flying Hero

The flying superhero, often leading with his fists in the foreground remains an ever so compelling convention in comic books.  (Invincible, for example)

The sculptural equivalent is of course patently silly looking.  Suspension of disbelief, as well as suspension of material, does not work so well in the physical world.

I thought I would just put a clunky support pedestal under the poor guy's pelvis.  He does suffer from some foreshortening- his fist and head are oversized.  

Crouching ManBat

More unadulterated pop culture cheese:  My sons love ManBats... although they prefer the LEGO variety.  Mostly I was looking to do something other than the series of standing figures.  And Man Bats (or is it ManBats?) suffer from the overly muscled torso disorder, so I thought it was a reasonable followup to the werewolf.  This looks more like a ManBunny, however....Perhaps that should come next?

Boy in Cape and Mask

My older son appeared in my studio more or less in this get-up.  He often says that he is no longer interested in superheroes, but a good cape, mask and utility belt never gets old.

Caped Hero with Bear Head