These are the latest pictures. I've gotten some more work done on him since I took these, but they'll do for now. The pictures without scales are from before I baked him, which is why the coloring is so light.
He actually took a fall off the couter you see in the photo after I baked him; somehow, he managed to flip in midair and land on his base. The strangest part is that it cracked around the neck, moving said appendage farther back and I actually liked it better afterwards. o.O
The eyes were strange too. I used glass hemispheres, having read about another sculptor who uses them to give her sculptures more life-like eyes. It works. I painted the pupils, then covered them with glaze, then covered that with a coat of metallic gold, then covered that with another coat of glaze. As you can see in the pre-bake pictures, they looked very smooth. In the post-bake pictures, however, you can see that the heat from the oven bubbled the gold paint (thankfully, it left the pupils unharmed), which gave him even more dimension.
Also, I can't show this well with pictures, but he actually WATCHES YOU. Seriously. As you move around him, it looks as though he follows your movements with his eyes, which gives him many different expressions when viewed from different angles.
By far, this is the most interesting piece I've done to date.
