Decisions, decisions

I realized yesterday that, since Baba Yaga sold at Showcase, if I want a new sculpture for Clay Fest this fall, I'm gonna have to make one. I've got a couple of ideas bouncing around in my head, but I'm not sure yet which is going to win out. One of them is inspired by another Ursula Vernon story, Castle Hangnail; the other, an odd image stuck in my head of a velociraptor reading a book. Yeah, I know, very odd.

As it happens, though, both of them could benefit from the same texture-roulette technology I used on Baba Yaga, so it may come down to which set of tools make the better texture.

Castle walls:

One with fieldstone, one with random blocks and bricks. I like the fieldstone all right, but the bricks? Not a success. I threw that one in the recycle bucket.

Dinosaur or dragon skin:

I'd also be using the chicken-leg texture from Baba, but also wanted a tool for creases and crinkles, and one that's just a generalized knobbly texture.

Right now it looks like the dino's have it. Stay tuned.