Curio: Paul Harding's Collectible Heroes

by Nathaniel R

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As someone who studied illustration but couldn't wrap my hands around three-dimensional work, I've always been fascinated and envious of sculptors. In fact, whenever I'm in a museum I'm much more likely to drift towards sculptures than stare at paintings. In fan culture sculptors have a special if uncelebrated place. Someone has to sculpt those action figures and collectibles you can buy and CG animation involves lots of 3 dimensional rendering. Paul Harding recently caught our eye for a jaw-dropping rendering of the principal characters of our current favourite comedy series What We Do in the Shadows (pictured above). It's brilliant caricature and the details in the expressions are joy-making -- look at Nadja's eye roll! 

More examples of his work after the jump...

He also has a thing for anime classic Akira obviously. This Kanedy Kandy Jar is too funny.

Here are two 3d printable head sculptures he did of young Wolverine and old man Logan. Exquisite really.

Naturally he gets hired to make action figures, sculptures, and busts, of course, for all of the most stanned universes: DC, Marvel, Star Wars. 

Here is the artist himself, Paul Harding (pictured left with his wife).

He's currently raising funds for his comic book horror adventure Beasts of the Black Hand. You can see more of his impressive work at his Instagram. 

Comments

[par]

after all those intricately rendered male physiques i did not see the end coming

["pictured left with his wife"]

twist!