It’s been a long time forever, but I finally found some time and inspiration for a creative project last month.

My boyfriend and his brother both play League of Legends together and last year I tried my hand at glass etching to make a pair of glasses, which I posted about then. There’s a great community full of people creating things based on the concepts and artwork from the game and Etsy is full of amazing creations that I wouldn’t even begin to compare myself with. Of course, the less mainstream-popular a champion is, the less unique items are available when it comes to gift options; this is what initially prompted this project.

Meet Quinn: a progressive (and not under-dressed) female champion-of-choice for my proxy-brother.

I wanted to make him a chibi sculpture, so I found this great drawing by I-see-no-Bottle on DeviantArt to get the right proportions and a general guide for the chibi-stylised details of the model.

When I was a kid, I used to love making all kinds of things with Sculpey and I’ve always felt more comfortable working with flexible, malleable media than with pencil and paper, so I bought myself a 1.75lb block of white Sculpey and started shaping. I don’t think I can express the excitement of having that block of pristine modelling clay with all of the potential to create absolutely anything with it.

I never take enough pictures of the ‘In Progress’ stages of my projects because I’m always so impatient to see what it all looks like if I ‘just do this bit’, so let’s imagine some scrolling text across the plain block of Sculpey that says something like, “3 Hours Later…”

I used acrylics to paint details and made the fabric parts of her outfit from some old shirts that were on the way out with wire sewn into hems to keep their shape.

I made Valor and mounted her on a wooden disk to keep her stable and upright and then, of course, took a photo of the final result with crappy lighting and screen glare behind.