Wyverary book sculpture
My artistic strengths tend towards writing and music, but with the fairly short deadline, and being somewhat adventurous (see also: foolish) I decided to try something I've never done before. I was inspired by the book-cut sculptures of Su Blackwell, but veered in a different direction by depending more on the book cover than the paper. The Wyverary is one of the most charming characters I've read about, so I knew I wanted to do something with him. I found an almost perfect book to create A-Through-L at the used bookstore.
Quite a few pics, as it was difficult just to take a couple shots of him, being that he is sort of straddling the line between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional.
The chain being around the book is somewhat symbolic, but mainly I did not want to damage his delicate wings!
Here's a closeup of his head. Funny how book spines and reptiles have similar textures, no? ;)
As you can see, his wings DO have something about balloons written on them...
I wish I would have had time to do more paper details, but there it is!
Quite a few pics, as it was difficult just to take a couple shots of him, being that he is sort of straddling the line between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional.
The chain being around the book is somewhat symbolic, but mainly I did not want to damage his delicate wings!
Here's a closeup of his head. Funny how book spines and reptiles have similar textures, no? ;)
As you can see, his wings DO have something about balloons written on them...
I wish I would have had time to do more paper details, but there it is!