My Stats on http://michaelloh.deviantart.com

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My stats on Deviant Art:

MichaelLoh has 356 pageviews total and his 35 deviations were viewed 2,233 times. He watches 23 people, while 11 people watch him.

Overall, his deviations received 56 comments and were added to deviants' favourites 46 times, while he commented 64 times, making about 1.67 comments per day since he joined DA. This means that he gave 11 comments for every 10 that he received.

His deviation with the most comments is ')">Sea Hunter Profile shots with 9 comments, while his most favourited one is ')">Bone-Hunter Predator Helmet, with 6 favourites. His most viewed deviation is ')">Bone-Hunter Predator Helmet with 1,257 views.

8 favourites were given for every 10 comments.

Every 1 days he uploads a new deviation, and it's usually on a Tuesday, with 22 (63%) of his deviations.

His busiest month was February 2009 with 35 (100%) of his deviations.

The majority of his deviations are uploaded to the traditional gallery (20), while his favourite category was sculpture>fantasy with 20 deviations.

Comments per deviation: 1.6
Favourites per deviation: 1.31
Views per deviation: 63.8
Comments per day: 1.46
Favourites per day: 1.2
Views per day: 58.4
Pageviews per day: 9.31

Easier than it looks

I know it looks easy but there's a lot that goes into this little mask. Actually I spent 1 week molding this - preparing all the steps, making the wall, sealing the mold building the mother mold etc. The sad part is the purchase price actually don't reflect the amount of quality back breaking labor that goes into this. The casting, constantly pouring the small batches of resin and soaking it into the fiberglass and pushing into the mold with the brush is a pain in the butt's neck.

So don't let looks deceive you. I didn't even talk about airbrushing and color scheme. I need to go into photoshop and do concept paint ups. So also take huge amounts of time and creativity.

I was filmed for ICS - International Channel Shanghai for the entire week doing what I do best: breaking my back and raising my blood pressure and losing 1 kg of weight while they film me making the molds etc. Luckily it was just little bits, but the rest of the hard work they didn't even capture on camera. But trust me: anyone dumb enough to think they can copy what I do will find out why there isn't too many people willing to sculpt, mold and cast everything by themselves in their tiny apartment. Oh did I mention most of the resin and plaster alone are cancer causing and lung damaging substances?

So beware don't be fooled. Its not as easy as it looks. And for those who constantly think: "oh he must be making tons of money otherwise he wouldn't be making it" I have to let you in on a secret. I make shit money. I am almost break even but in reality if I was a company I'd be bankrupt and asking Uncle Sam to bail me out. The supplies I've bought, excluding the labor as if I were to be paid by hourly wages, alone cost a lot more. The oil clay most of the time gets dirty in the demolding process and gets thrown out or left for other uses- but most of the time its a pain in the ass to clean so it gets "stored."

It's a tiring job alright - very little glory and Fame? Well we will see how I fare after the Show on ICS. But for now thanks for watching and listening. Humble Lohly artist here signing out.

Peace
Mike

Scuba Bio done Painting!

If you can afford an Iphone You have afford this baby! Email me: Uratz@hotmail.com
Comes with Mirror Lenses plus Tri-Led's

Sea-Hunter Scuba Done!

Well still got some refining then off to the Molding stage. Pray for me.

Update on Scuba a.k.a. Sea Hunter

Dedicate this to a Lair Member Sea-Hunter.