Re: "Gee Lois, that's swell!" - Christopher Reeve CLARK KENT heads incoming!
i dont know this answer but dude this is a custom site. everyone here paints, adds sculpey, modifies, improves. good luck on here in having any cool customs or fun! if thats your stand lol
Thanks Doc. I agree, I would have never been able to solve any of this without the base I was sent to work from. And months of research and feedback that helped me to do it. I am not by trade a sculptor, but I learned a lot from this project, and it has been a most successful, albeit VERY reserved and hard to get sculpt, in my portfolio. Only recently have I even allowed it to be sold as a head, and that in limited amounts.
I think anyone that has ever wanted it, can attest to that. I have not made it an easy head to get.
And there have been MANY opportunities to sell it, believe me. I only sell these Clarks now, because I promised to make them available when he was done.
Ok, here again is the history of my Superman head.
Sometime in 2004 or 05, I received an already BADLY altered and reworked Jim Mattox bust sculpt, that the owner/commisioning person purchased on Ebay, about three years ago and sent to me.
He asked if there was anything I could to to fix it. That purchaser worked with me, over the internet, using photo references, to completely alter the already badly reworked sculpt.
When I got it, it was a mess. You could kinda see Jim's work in there, but it was badly altered. Whoever had tried to fix it, had only added width to the head, with putty, and more hair. It was less than acceptable, and was no longer even Jim's work anymore. It had lost that also.
I spent about two months reworking that mess, into what you see.
All that is left of Jim's sculpt really, is the placement of the nose (which was reworked) and eye placement (which was also). I totally resculpted the rest. Totally sculpted the hair. I claim that without reservation. Totally (and eternally it seemed) sculpted the chin. I claim that. The mouth was toughest. That I had to totally resculpt from scratch.
The eyes were tweaked. The original's placement was ok, but way too thin. It needed widening, which resulted in a total redo.
I did NOT use or refer to an original Mattox headcast, nor have I ever altered one. I only altered the copycat recast that was sent to me.
I claim this sculpt as mine, since I did at the very least 95% of it. Jim's, if shown next to it, is a very different animal. You can see some base for where I started, but it is not the same head. End of that.
As for the Clark Kent, he is a further reworking of the Superman.
I told Jim of this "alteration of an alteration project" back when it was going on, and his words were, "have at it". I promised him I would not, and do not ever, recast his work as my own. He knows that, and this is not his work.
All this is documented, and has been
all this time, years now, at my own website, and at ETERNAL COLLECTOR.com, in the customs section, on this head and my subsequent figure.
It is not news. Go here to see more about the Superman and the first Clark I did:
ETERNAL COLLECTOR article on FML Superman
Again, I only have four painted Clarks left. After that, no more.
