clockwork doggo
My mother is a big porcelain fan, she knows the difference between a Wedgwood and a Moustiers. What I do know instead is that ceramics are great insulators(!) it's funny that something so supposedly fragile is found on electric poles and space shuttles.
So this was an experiment at balancing a sturdy frame with a delicate engineering, like a string puppet that comes to life.
The elements that touch the ground are cast iron, while brass is reserved for the human interactions, like a vintage car that needs to be cleaned once in a while..
The idea went pretty quickly from a more robust hound to a more skeletal one
it's not real, but I wanted the articulations to move realistically so I spent way too much time thinking at mechanisms. At least for the legs
as I slowly developed a hyperfixation for old cars, I went "shopping" for interesting pieces that had a lot of character on their own
using a very soft brush and the smudge tool, I drew the patterns on a blank layer, then added a color map to add subtle variation in the hues of blue, blurred it a bit and multiplied onto my porcelain shader to replicate the look of glazed paint.