The Demon Yorick

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(Excerpted from Wiki)
Yorick was the deceased court jester whose skull is exhumed by the gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The sight of Yorick's skull evokes a monologue from Prince Hamlet on the vile effects of death:

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now?" (Hamlet, V.i)

I've done arguably better sculptures, but this is by far my favorite, even with all the flaws I see in it now. Hamlet is among my favorite tragedies of Shakespeare, and this was born from a dream I had shortly after reading it the first time. A jester dies, and his personal hell is to play Fool to the devil forevermore .. something like that.

I wish I'd spent more time on the finer details. Yorick's very heavy - there's a bit of a hollow underneath his lower jaw, but that's it. The cranium and those big horns in the back are completely solid. It's a miracle this guy came out of the kiln intact. His teeth look a bit too rounded, and a little too .. eh .. un-receded? [link] They should actually look like they're implanted into the jaw, not just stuck onto the front of it.
I like how the joint lines in the cranium turned out, and the white gunk I rubbed on the skull (but not teeth and horns) really helped to make it look old and grainy in the right places. I really wish I'd carved out the excess clay from the jaws, rather than just make a big indentation, but oh well.

Many thanks given to this awesome lady right here for helping me learn the dauntingly numerous handy things in Photoshop 7. WE NEED TO HOOK UP YOU ROCKIN' WOMAN YOU. Rrrrrr. <3
Reddish-yellow heavy-grain clay and .. I want to say white underglaze for what went onto the bone parts of this, but it was much thicker and heavier, and I don't remember what it was called. ¯\(º_o)/¯