Yorick With the Bad Teeth

Yorick is named for the character from Sam and Friends, Jim Henson's first TV show from the 1950s, who was probably named for the dead guy in the garden from Hamlet.  The design is an interpretation of a Play-Doh toy called Dr. Drill N Fill.  It was a plastic head that opened wide so you could make teeth out of Play-Doh and pretend to drill cavities.

It's meant to be one of the toys on the shelf in the Angry Mophead story.

Undead Disney Objects

They don't really look undead.  They're more like distorted intellectual property violations with spooky eyes.

The Mouse.  He only really looks like the Mouse with the jaw intact.

Dumbo.  Not the octopus.

Pinocchio

Mickey's old nemesis Pete the brutish cat.

The Ducking Nephews

The Ducking Nephews with holes for hanging

Lips Cup 2

This is a slab mug with a molded mouth inspired by Patricia Quinn's mouth in the opening sequence of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Eduardo Sculpture

Eduardo the childlike biker minotaur from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

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Towelie Sculpture

Towelie sculpture from 2011.  Towelie is the cybernetic anthropomorphic stoner towel anti-hero from South Park.

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Bingo the Robotic Floating Clown Head

For my next Aqua Teen Hunger Force piece, this is Bingo the Robotic Floating Clown Head. I only wish I could give his rainbow clown hair better volume.















Bingo from the ATHF episode "The Clowning."

Mooninites 2

Another set of Mooninites, this time with sealer. I'm not sure glossy is a good look for superior moon aliens.

Mooninites

These are the Mooninites Ignignokt and Err, superior, amoral, bird-flipping moon aliens from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.



Ignigokt: Some would say that the Earth is our moon. But that would belittle the name of our moon, which is the moon.


Err: We smoke while we flip the bird.

Half Painted Towelie

I painted part of the Towelie object, but I was having my doubts about the shade of blue. I used a cheap acrylic paint of the color known as "denim," but I'm thinking that Towelie should be a lighter, more primary blue.

The Friendly, Nurturing, Female Presence of Chairy

Chairy was a furniture-character on Paul Reubens' Saturday morning TV show from the eighties, Pee-Wee's Playhouse. On the show, Chairy was a friendly, nurturing, female presence amidst the various screaming chaos nightmare creatures in the Playhouse household. Her antithesis was a dog-shaped chair named Dog Chair.

My interpretation of Chairy came out a little scarier than I was expecting. If I were Pee-Wee Herman, I don't think I would trust this Chairy to cradle my buttocks.






The real Chairy. Now there's a piece of sentient furniture you can trust your ass with.




This crude object is the Chairy Color Test Owl.

No Face

This is No Face from Spirited Away. This piece also cracked in the kiln, but it's hard to see the scars in the photo.

Eduardo

Eduardo is a character from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The title explains the concept well: a group home for entities dreamed into existence by children but later discarded when the child outgrows the need for imaginary friends, or for a variety of other reasons. Eduardo looks like a mutant biker minotaur, but the character is timid and childlike.



My aim was to copy the character model as closely as possible. I left off the tail and the little hairs on top of the head because I thought they wouldn't survive the kiln (and the perilous stage of being handled by various volunteer before being placed in the kiln). I thought the pinkish color of Eduardo's face could be described as lavender, but apparently lavender is more of a bluish color.

Daria Morgendorffer

I like this sculpture because it's true to its cartoonish, (2<x<3)-dimensional roots. I started off trying to imagine Daria in three dimensions, but was quickly reminded that I'm completely unable to render the human body in clay (although this one at least has patellas). So I cut off the back, leaving a reasonably faithful image of the disaffected nineties cartoon teenager in the front and a mass of writhing entrails and pulsating organs in the back (see below).




Note lack of writhing entrails and pulsating organs.




Practice Daria faces. The one on the left appears to have a monocle.

Radish Spirit

This is the Radish Spirit from Spirited Away. I based the color on the image below, but it doesn't really match the color of the Japanese daikon radish, which is closer to yellow.






Spirited Away takes place at a spa for spirits and I assume the Radish Spirit is meant to be wearing a g-string-like cover up for the time not spent soaking in hot water. The image shows a little flap to cover up whatever genital organs vegetable spirit entities may possess in the front, but I wasn't sure about the back. I gave him the modesty flap in the back because he didn't really have a waist and I didn't think the strap around the back side looked like it would hold.






This image shows the real color of the daikon radish.

Finished Version of the Flooer

Tanuki

Tanuki refers to the Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus). In Japanese folklore, it has a reputation as a mischievous if slightly silly animal with oversized testicles. The animal itself seems to be obscure outside of Japan, but the mythical version may have entered Western popular culture when a Tanuki ("Tanooki") suit appeared in Super Mario Bros. 3.







My interpretation looks suspiciously like a teddy bear, despite the prominent genitalia. I'm not comfortable coming this close to cute.