Alberto is the studio cat. Officially, his job is quality control. Unofficially, he sleeps on the sculpting desk, sits on whatever is drying, and accepts tributes in the form of snacks.
Somewhere along the way, he also became more famous than everything else I’ve made. After fifteen years of sculpting dwarves, elves and assorted troublemakers, I am now known in the hobby simply as “Alberto’s guy”. I have made my peace with this.
His fame reached its peak with Alberto the Contest, an online painting competition dedicated entirely to him, where painters from all over the world dressed him up, armed him, and reimagined him in every possible way. He ruled it, naturally, as its undisputed king. Nobody voted. Nobody needed to.
Chubby, chonky or megachonker: Alberto is always the right size for your shelf. He just doesn’t know it yet.