Scott Shaffer's Ludo

In response to my blog post last Sunday I got a text from my friend/ fellow artist Scott Shaffer.  He sent me a picture he had sculpted of Ludo from Labyrinth a month before I had done that digital painting.  Here are the pics of his Ludo Sculpture:

Ludo

Remember 1986?  Your favorite film Labyrinth just hit theaters and it did awful.  You prided yourself on being a hipster(yeah they were around back then too) and you claimed that Jim Henson was a genius ahead of his time.  But then...
WTF?!?!  When the crap did everyone else start liking the Labyrinth?  No!  I heard of them first!  You're just a poser!
...good times
I wasn't born then....
Anyway, Ludo is probably the best character that Henson ever created.  I don't know why.  Maybe it's the fact that he's this giant monster, but you're never afraid of him.  Not like those dancing bird monkeys that throw their heads at you.(They're called Firey -googled)

Ludo drawing on toned paper

Early digital painting

Finished with the drawing still obviously underneith

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