Design This! 5: Avengers

Welcome everyone to this fortnight's Design This challenge :D
Last time the goal was to design something around The wicked sea witch Ursula. My pieces had me dreaming of the sea and the chance to cool off, that's for certain.

The heat and humidity are ramping up by me, and day dreaming about pieces that spoke of Ursula was a treat.  I ended up running with the idea of tentacles. It featured in several pieces, all primarily made of polymer clay. I tried testing out a mokume gane blend on the bottom, but it just did not work the way I had hoped it might. I guess I'll have to leave that work for on the bench.
I can also say that for the first time, I will have one of the pieces from my designs up in the shop, for those that are interested this Friday. It'll be the piece in the center, crafted from polymer clay and copper.
This fortnight's challege is.... the Avengers! Inspired by this lovely series by kelseymichele over on deviantart, I figured we could give this a shot as well. You can either design around one Avenger, do a group piece, or shoot for one for each team member. Personally, that last option is what I'm going for.

Black Widow



Thor

Hawkeye

Captain America

Ironman
The Hulk





Agent Phil Coulson
And Bonus!

Loki.
If you want to join in on this fortnight’s challenge, just post your work here, in the comments below, and I’ll show my designs in next fortnight’s challenge.  
 

Design This 4!

Hullo again everyone :D

Last fortnight's character was Smaug from Tolkien’s  Hobbit.

Starting with things about Smaug, things that I thought were implicit to his character. His hoard, his destructive power and his scales.

The hoard gave me the idea of different metals melded together, with gems all over. It's not part of the next piece, although it does look that way. The scales brought to mind a Japanese Lace pattern, embedded with different gems, much like his hide.

The last piece was another attempt at a fire gem, although I've tried it before, it's rather difficult to paint.

This fortnight's challenger is Ursula! Twisted and scary, she's a lady with an interesting past. Good luck and I'll see y'all in two weeks ^^

And Ursula in her human form.

Did you like last week's DesignThis challenge?
Have suggestions for a challenge in the future?

Comment below!

Design This! 3

Starting off, I need to apologize to ya'll. I had it pointed out to me that I wasn't very clear in what the goal for the last DesignThis was. That is totally my fault, and I'll try and keep it in mind in the future.
What I was thinking: I wanted all of us to be able to have 151 different options.  You'd pick one or two and design around them.
What I ended up with: You had to design 151 pieces.
Yeah... that is SO not what I was going for XD. So, again, my apologies for that.
I chose to focus on these 5 pokemon.  2 of them are in a 'family' together you could say, and the other 3 are just random ones I really like the design of.
So, here are the five pokemon I picked to work with.
       Meowth  & Persian
  Victreebel
Vulpix
Dodrio
And here are the designs I came up with.

For Victreebel, I really liked the leaf shape, and the roots. So I started thinking about how roots go all over the place and are unpredictable with no pattern.  Which is what led to the wrapping. The leaf would be enameled.
Dodrio, it should be sort of obvious, I was amused by the arrow type feathers on their heads, and came up with a sort of modern pin or pendant design.
For Vulpix, this was always a favorite of mine, it's just too cute! So that cuteness is what worked into the design, a very light, swirly silver pattern, with what's supposed to be an enamel center piece.
Our last two, are Meowth and Persian. Comparing it to the others, it's a rather simple design, but it's got a bit of a story behind it. In the show (when I was growing up at least) Meowth always wanted to grow up and be a Persian and get pampered by his boss. So the 'title' for that piece, were I ever to make it would be Meowth's Dream.
So for this fortnight's character, we've done Tv, and video games, how about a book? This fortnight's character is, drumroll please....



Smaug!
For extra info consider this page.
Good luck with your designs this fortnight, I can't wait to see what y'all come up with ^^.
** The art is NOT mine. I’m not claiming it. And if you’re the artist and you want me to take it down, please let me know, I’d be happy to.
***** Just because I laughed so hard when I found this, I’m sharing this snippet off tumblr regarding Smaug & Benedict Cumberbatch. Hope you laugh as much as I did!

Design This!

I don't know if that title will stick around, I might change it to something different, for these posts, if any of ya'll have suggestions, please feel free to suggest them below :D
So, our last challenge was Jafar, and while I can't say that anyone submitted anything, a lot of you did come and check out the post. Thank you :D.
This is what I came up with for jewelry regarding Jafar.

I admit, a good bit of it would be covered in the usual all covering garb that he has, but I can't imagine that he's /always/ wearing that. Surely there must  be times when he's going sleeveless or something. So I started thinking about things that would be Jafar like. Working with his love of snakes was easy. I also tried out something new and tried adding different metals in, because although he's the Sultan's Vizir (think chief advisor) I don't see him wearing much gold. I see him more in bronze or maybe a silver/copper alloy. He would have a signet ring of some sort, for official seals and the like. Most likely carved from turquoise, since it was supposed to be a protective stone.
I can also easily see him wearing an armlet. However the last piece that came to mind for me was a medallion. I did a little digging, and with the magic and concepts that Jafar used in the Disney movie, he probably would've had some sort of heavy medallion that he would identify himself with to other alchemists.
This next fortnight's challenge is, drumroll please, Pokemon! I wanted something with a little more color variation, and design option for this one, so for this challenge, you can use the first 151 pokemon. There's a ton of artwork all over the net, and way too many pokemon. So, in the event that you don't know a thing about them, I've got links and images to help out :D.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_Kanto_Pok%C3%A9dex_number < A listing of all the pokemon (with little images next to each one. This is one to go to if you want to really learn more about the specific pokemon.)
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/060/2/6/kanto_pokemon_roster_by_petsu_chan-d3aop1d.jpg  < This is a visual listing of all of them, with names in English & Japanese, and could be used if all you want is the name and what they look like.
And my last link, well. Not really a link. XD Just a tip. Once you've picked a pokemon you want to do a design/piece around, go to either Google(Google.com )  or Deviantart (http://www.deviantart.com/) .
Just make sure you have the maturity filter on, because some pieces of art people do are not going to be relevant XD.