BATMAN BEGINS STATUE (JiM SWEET) CHRISTIAN BALE SCULPTURE ART

[RockstahRolln]

WOW!! this is SURREAL!! How long did it take you to make this!?

[mbeat28]

That is absolutely immense. I can barely wrap my head around how you would even start something like this. Unbelievable! Well done sir A++++++++!

[factthanolder]

Color?

[Keirnan8523]

cool

[gamaro74]

Maravilha! What a crazy work!!! The face it's amazing!

[JimSweet]

@ollymcguirk Yeah I'd like to make a bronze statue. I haven't learned how to do that yet.

[JimSweet]

@MKsearchlight  Haha. Thanks. I like statues better though. The action figures needing joints to make them move make the figure look funny to me, especially the head. The action figures I see the heads look good, but the necks usually look a little skinny because you’re trying to work in the movement.

[JimSweet]

@TheLJSStudio Thank you.

[JimSweet]

@hellofloyd Thanks. I tried my best to get the likeness. I think it's off a little but not too bad. I did it as a request from someone. My Hulk and Terminator were personal projects though if you haven't seen those you can check them out on my channel. 

[JimSweet]

@ar15death Exactly. Thanks for looking.

[JimSweet]

@Kimoraman1 OH GOOD FOR YOUUUU!!!. Thanks. I actually sculpted it for someone else, so it wasn't really a personal project that I was going to paint and display.

[genechee]

Fantastic work

[JimSweet]

@genechee I'm glad you think so, thank you.

[ingeewung]

im amazed at how you've capture the faces of your subjects so accurately,

[JimSweet]

@ingeewung Thank you, but I think this one good have been better. I'm still learning there are so many subtle any details in faces.

[SleepyFox79]

really nice, reminds me of the terra cotta soldiers!

[JimSweet]

@SleepyFox79 Thanks.

[AdamBeaneSculptor]

Pretty sweet, Jim! Nice clean work!

[JimSweet]

@AdamBeaneSculptor Thanks Adam. I admire your work as well. I’d like to try some of that material you work with. I’m the next state over from you, maybe I can stop by and pick some up.

[gorilla4SOLD]

What was this piece sculpted in?

[JimSweet]

@gorilla4SOLD Body: head, torso, legs are made out of Polymere clay. Arms and base are made out of toy wax.

[sxephlI]

what detail!! amazing. great work. hope i can be as good as you one day haha

[JimSweet]

@sxephlI Thanks for the nice words, taking the time to comment and thanks for looking, but sorry you can never be as good as me because I won't allow it. Just kidding. You could surpass me easy because I'm lazy.

[youliveyoudie]

wow man thats looks sick

[JimSweet]

@youliveyoudie Thanks.

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

real likeness!!! how do you make this perfect  joints?

[JimSweet]

@MIGUEL2005LIMA Thanks. I make perfect joints using zig zag papers, just kidding. I'm not sure what you mean by perfect joints, this figure doesn't have moving parts if that's what you mean.

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

@JimSweet joints for assemble the whole figure. in this vid, the arm-torso joint.

[JimSweet]

@MIGUEL2005LIMA The joints were the arms meet the torso weren't to hard to make since he has shoulder pads to kind of hide the seem.

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

@JimSweet ok.

[Rolfe2009]

Wow, thumbs up, saved & faved!

Turned out awesome! Bale even looks good bald,

great details...FANTASTIC! Loved it!

Bravo, Lady E --[--@

[JimSweet]

@Rolfe2009 Thanks a lot lady.

[HOLIMOUNTV]

my respects bro too much hahahah i wish i could sculpt but rigth now i just draw 8)

[JimSweet]

@HOLIMOUNTV Thanks man. I wish I could sculpt faster though. I draw too if you want to check out my stuff.

[sinnersaint007]

how on earth did you make the fine lines and stitching of the cross hatch? i been trying to teach myself , and hittin a dead end.

[JimSweet]

@sinnersaint007 I rolled out thin lines of clay for the stitching on the skirt part. Then I laid them into position on the skirt and pushed on the space between the stitches with a sculpting tool. Hope that helps and you get what I mean.

[manueld12]

that is so brilliant!! inspiring...im starting a similar project with Lost figures and characters

[JimSweet]

@manueld12 Thanks. I hope you find your Lost figures. Just kidding I know you mean the TV show. Good luck with it.

[MrRedPajamas]

Don't hate me because I have cool things to look at on my website.

Batman statue.

[JimSweet]

@MrRedPajamas I don't hate anyone. haha. Thanks for lookin.

[ladieshunk217]

are you god?

[JimSweet]

@ladieshunk217 I hope not, because I haven't got to answering any prayers ever and I'm sure they are backing up. Plus I think earth took less time to make if you go by the bible. I'm lazy and slow.

[teceyS3]

Fabulous !

[JimSweet]

@teceyS3 I'm glad you think so, thanks.

[queiroz991]

demais!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JimSweet]

@queiroz991 Demasiado é uma boa coisa? Haha. Obrigado por olhar.

[mushymcsquishy]

oohhh wooow...

freakin awesome.

[JimSweet]

@mushymcsquishy Thanks Mush.

[radicalevolutions]

you sir are a MASTER.

[JimSweet]

@radicalevolutions Haha. I don't know about that. I try my best and it always seems to take me longer to make something then I'd like it to take. I usually think masters of a craft have an easier time whipping things up.

[WormyT]

Beautiful,

Really well done.

[JimSweet]

@WormyT Thank you very much.

[TheArtdolls]

Fantastic! Perfect!!!!

[JimSweet]

@TheArtdolls Thanks. I'm glad you think so but I think I could have got the likeness a little better.

[ColourofFame]

hey can you help me? I've started a clay sculpture of a person sitting on a rock (for art class) but I've never done specifically a human before. I've made the base of the rock but I'm not sure how to start working on my person. Do you start with the body and add the arms and legs and finally the head using slabs or coils? if slabs how do I keep it from forming air bubbles? Id appreciate it sooooo much if you help me :)

[JimSweet]

@ColourofFame I know it's a late reply and I have a feeling your project is finished now, but I'll still answer your question. If you already have the rock as the base for the figure, I would have made a wire skeleton, I suppose, for the body and pose it the way you like. There are many websites that can show you how to make a good wire armature they call it. Then you add the clay to it to form all the human features. Using polymer clay you don’t have to worry about air bubbles.

[JimSweet]

@ColourofFame Continues reply...It doesn’t explode like the clay you cook in a kiln. You might be using different clay then I know how to use. I never used the clay you had to worry about bubbles. How did your project come out?

[ColourofFame]

@JimSweet yes I did find out it was a different kind of clay, but thanks!

[MUNKVIDEO]

Damn I guess I should read the info, lol sorry.

[JimSweet]

@MUNKVIDEO No need to apologize. I try to give enough info though so people don’t have to wonder things. It does annoy me when there’s a video of something specific, technical or complicated and there’s no info about what you’re seeing.

[MUNKVIDEO]

I'm curious, and I know you might get these questions alot, but what mediums are you working with? What kind of clay?

[comeasyouare1989]

that looks exactly like c bale, amazing

[JimSweet]

@comeasyouare1989 Thanks. I'm glad you think so. I tried me best but I still think he's a little off. 

[Chillidan24]

really inspiring work..

[JimSweet]

@Chillidan24 Thanks a lot. I hope it doesn't inspire anyone too much though. I would feel bad to have influenced someone to do something so time consuming and kind of boring haha.

[spideyfanatic]

Wow this is amazing I assume you do this for a living.

[JimSweet]

@spideyfanatic Thanks. I don't do it for a living though. I don't know if I have it in me to sit down and make other people's ideas or other people's requests on a full time basis. At least for me I liked Christian Bale and this Batman so this wasn’t too bad, but I did procrastinate a whole lot on it. Although, if I had to sculpt baseball players of something I wasn't interested in it might drive me crazy.

[JimSweet]

@spideyfanatic Continued reply..Actually my paying job has nothing to do with art at all and I’m not sure if I like it that way or not. I feel I’d like to save my creative energy for my own creative ideas. If I had a job doing something creative I think it would be just that, a job. I wouldn’t like a job that would take so much of my energy. On the other hand I would like to make a living making my own things and being able to sell them, but I wouldn’t call that a job because I’d like it more.

[JimSweet]

@spideyfanatic More continued reply ...It would be more like a paying hobby. A job to me is work and I think no one really likes to work because it takes effort to work and people use the word work when it’s something they don’t like to do. “I can’t go out tonight, I have to work.” It’s something you have to do instead of something you want to do.

[JimSweet]

@spideyfanatic End reply.... I look at it as no one really likes their job, but if you do like your job then it’s not really work to me, it’s still takes effort but it’s more of a pleasurable effort, so I refer to it as a paying hobby. The only problem with that is I don’t really want to be a salesman I only want to make things.

[safiretfadela]

chek out my home made statue my friend

[JimSweet]

@safiretfadela I checked it out. Good work.

[geminigold617]

unbelievable talent. you are gifted! and picking Christian as your model, good taste!

[JimSweet]

@geminigold617 Thanks. He's a good actor. I should do a version of him from the movie Equilibrium just because I thought that was a greta movie.

[bluezen7]

Christian Bale is so hot

[JimSweet]

@bluezen7 Haha. He's a handsome man. You might not think so in The Machinist though.

[scottholloway]

great work!

[JimSweet]

@scottholloway Thanks Scott. Just getting around to replying to some comments and I recognized your name. I know it's late but thanks for looking.

[tiojoio]

Did you send your work to Disney or Pixar? I think they can be -have to be if they are not blind- interested on your skills as a modeller. Absolutelly great.

[JimSweet]

@tiojoio Thanks. I never really thought of doing that. I don't know if I want to do that or do this work full time or do work for someone else like this full time. I think it's more for my own projects. I have a feeling I wouldn't be right there or if they even just have modellers.

[jerryflack4eva]

PAINT IT!

[JimSweet]

@jerryflack4eva I probably won't be painting this one. I can't paint the wax but the cast I have of it isn't really too good either. I made it for someone else and I wasn't planning on painting one myself.

[Galeforce469]

Masterpieces!!

Youre work and beautiful christian both!

[JimSweet]

@Galeforce469 Thank you and Christian says thanks too haha.

[lizlovesbatsy]

that's pretty badass!

amazing.

[JimSweet]

@lizlovesbatsy Thanks.

[knightslade2007]

dude !! that was fantastic.

I bet when its all painted it will look amazing !!

[JimSweet]

@knightslade2007 Thanks. I probably won't be painting this one. I can't paint the wax but the cast I have of it isn't really too good either. I made it for someone else and I wasn't planning on painting one myself. I don't know if the guy I made it for ever painted it either. I haven't seen anything.

[GingerRedGirl2]

WOW this is amazing! Great job!

[JimSweet]

@GingerRedGirl2 I'm glad you think so thanks a lot.

[foctop]

you have godlike sculpting skills

i am in awe

[JimSweet]

@foctop Haha. Thanks. I'm glad you think so. I try my best. 

[xxtheoraclexx]

Life size please =) Amazing work!!

[JimSweet]

I'll see what I can do. haha. I'll be making some other sized bust of him. Maybe a full size and a half size bust since I already have a lot of reference. I got his face a little off here so I want to make some better likenesses.

[ComicsLegend]

SWEET!!!

[JimSweet]

@ComicsLegend ...Jim Sweet. Like Bond.. James Bond.

[GenesisKnights]

face = spot on :p

Excellent as always

[JimSweet]

@GenesisKnights Thanks a lot. Not totally spot on. It could be better.

[GenesisKnights]

@JimSweet You should sell your sculptures. Become famous :)

[JimSweet]

@GenesisKnights I'd rather my work be famous then me be famous, but I'll take the money then I can afford to hide away somewhere. Haha. 

[sathomaso]

fucking badass looking!!! :-O

[JimSweet]

@sathomaso Thanks.

[balehead28]

lindoooooo

[JimSweet]

@balehead28 Não posso compreender o que isto significou no tradutor. Obrigado pelo olhar e avisado mim o que você pensou se você pode.