I’m a big fan of the Alien films, most noticeably the original thrillerAlien, directed by Ridley Scott, and it’s more action-oriented sequel Aliens directed by James Cameron. Both films were visually and thematically different from each other, but both did a great job in establishing the mythos behind one of hollywood’s scariest creatures.  With plenty of source material at my disposal, I felt that this would be good sculpting practice.
These pictures were taken on the day I started sculpting the figure on 1/11/2004:
 
These were the only three pictures I took of my progress until picking up work again a week later:
Many of the details in the chest and legs were created by rolling small ropes of clay and then rolling those ropes underneath a comb. The teeth of the comb created fairly regular corrugation that enhanced the detail. Unfortunately, I neglected to take more pictures of my progress, so I guess we’ll just have to jump to the finished product.
Pictures of the final painted figure:
