--- title: Tumblr: Artist Creates Pop Culture Sculptures From Crayola Crayons description: He does pop culture icons along with custom-made special requests, and they're all impressively precise canonical: https://time.com/91593/crayola-crayon-sculptures/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-12T11:00:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:40.912Z og:title: Tumblr: Artist Creates Pop Culture Sculptures From Crayola Crayons og:description: He does pop culture icons along with custom-made special requests, and they're all impressively precise og:url: https://time.com/91593/crayola-crayon-sculptures/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8caf681a4efd16a9/69868edcf983e7d70a04dc06/tumblr_mzs7fffrnp1sek3eko1_1280.jpg?branch=production&width=700&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 700 og:image:height: 394 og:image:alt: tumblr_mzs7ffFRnp1sek3eko1_1280 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tumblr: Artist Creates Pop Culture Sculptures From Crayola Crayons twitter:description: He does pop culture icons along with custom-made special requests, and they're all impressively precise twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8caf681a4efd16a9/69868edcf983e7d70a04dc06/tumblr_mzs7fffrnp1sek3eko1_1280.jpg?branch=production&width=700&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Artist Creates Crayola Crayon Sculptures of Everyone From Darth Vader to Daria > Sponsored content. 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Behold [Wax Nostalgic](http://hqtran.tumblr.com/), a project which features the work of artist Hoang Tran, who creates incredibly detailed sculptures made from nothing other than good old Crayola crayons. Tran mainly takes inspiration from pop culture — he’s recreated characters from shows like _Game of Thrones_ and _Breaking Bad_ along with those from movies like _Star Wars_ and _Beauty and the Beast. H_e also takes custom orders, which means he could totally create a sculpture of your dog (He sells his work [on Etsy](https://www.etsy.com/shop/CarvedCrayons)). Tran emphasizes that the sculptures — even the multicolored ones — are made entirely from crayons. “Painting would probably be a lot easier but I’m a purist and want the entire carving to be made of crayon wax,” Tran [told _Lost At E Minor_](http://www.lostateminor.com/2014/02/27/interview-crayon-sculptor-hoang-tran/) in a recent interview. “I don’t want to reveal the exact technique but I basically melt wax from one crayon and carefully apply it drop by drop to the main crayon I’m working on.” Here are some of our favorites:  Hoang Tran  Hoang Tran  Hoang Tran  Hoang Tran  Hoang Tran ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/91593/crayola-crayon-sculptures/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/91593/crayola-crayon-sculptures/"},"headline":"Artist Creates Crayola Crayon Sculptures of Everyone From Darth Vader to Daria","datePublished":"2014-05-12T11:00:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:40.912Z","description":"He does pop culture icons along with custom-made special requests, and they're all impressively precise","url":"https://time.com/91593/crayola-crayon-sculptures/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Art","Arts","Tumblr","Artists"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8caf681a4efd16a9/69868edcf983e7d70a04dc06/tumblr_mzs7fffrnp1sek3eko1_1280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8caf681a4efd16a9/69868edcf983e7d70a04dc06/tumblr_mzs7fffrnp1sek3eko1_1280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"tumblr_mzs7ffFRnp1sek3eko1_1280","caption":"","creditText":"Hoang Tran","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/91593/crayola-crayon-sculptures/","name":"Artist Creates Crayola Crayon Sculptures of Everyone From Darth Vader to Daria"}}]}] ```