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Candy Corn Monsters 2024
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behind the sculpt
These three little monsters were sculpted to kick off spooky season 2024! I started early (we’re starting earlier next year!) and started this project at the beginning of September. I was excited to begin this project partially because it would be a second iteration of one of my first creations when I found some polymer clay laying around and started sculpting again back in 2022. Back then I made several small little candy corn monsters, each with different expressions – none of which were anything remarkable but I had fun making them and I couldn’t wait to take another crack at it. This time around I wanted to scale them up and add more detail.
The Experience
This project was a lot of fun! It was of course completed live on Twitch and it was a joy bringing the one with the scary teeth (Eyecorn), the one with the scary soul (Dark Corn) and the one that’s just scared (Scaredy Corn) to life.
Even more of a treat, it was a pleasure to share this with the Twitch community! During the month of September, viewers were able to enter into a giveaway drawing to choose one of the Candy Corn Monsters as their own! This was especially exciting for me because this would make the first piece of my work to ever be owned outside of myself and my partner! A big deal indeed!
Early in October I drew the winners name from a “hat” and fellow artist/maker DesignedbyJoe claimed Scaredy Corn for his prize! Scaredy Corn has since bent sent on his journey to his new home! Enjoy Joe!
Lessons learned
As I previously noted, this was a second iteration and with it, I intended to scale the project up and add more detail. I’m content with my outcome on one of these. Scale left me wanting improvement. I realized early, but deep enough into the project that the only path forward was through. It wasn’t a big deal and sculpting them at this scale proved to provide a few added challenges but I enjoyed it and I’m glad I did this series in the end. In the future, I want to find a happy medium. These were simply too large and required too much material. Again, not a huge issue. Lesson learned and fun was had regardless. I’m 98% content with this project as a whole and the process and experience with the community made it one for the memories.