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Constructing Reconstructing Misfortune (Part 3/3)
The making-of concludes! Part one is here.
With all the painting done, the final parts were readied for assembly. Then it was time to break out the needle nose pliers and superglue!
The eye were painted from behind to give them a more realistic cat-like dome eye effect. The blood effect on the sword was created by … Continue reading
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Constructing Reconstructing Misfortune (Part 2/3)
The making-of continues in Part two! Part one is here.
Time for some bling! A few small holes were drilled into the figure around the ankles and wrist to allow chain, wire and accessories to connect securely and seamlessly. At this point I assembled all of my metal pieces for placement and fitting. This was all … Continue reading
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Constructing Reconstructing Misfortune (Part 1/3)
I often get requests to do some behind the scenes ‘making-of’ posts like I did for Milo & Ditch or the Android figures. They’re fun to do, and I managed to document the process of this particular project pretty well, so here we go again for my custom of Ferg’s Misfortune Cat for the recent … Continue reading
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Sketchbot custom show (teaser)
A few teaser images for my custom Sketchbot figure!
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Three Strikes (Mega Munny)
See the Work In Progress over here…
Here we come to the end of the Three Strikes project! I had hoped to make it a little fancier, but deadlines are deadlines and plans had to be adjusted accordingly. It turned out to be pretty simple and sweet, hopefully you enjoy it!
Come see it in person, … Continue reading
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Three Strikes (Part 3/3)
(Part 2 can be found here)
Masking time! Here I’ve cut a small heart shape into an adhesive vinyl frisket. I protected the surrounding area and sprayed a few light coats.
Removing the mask is always a harrowing experience because some paints do not play nicely together and your paint job can be ruined. Luckily this … Continue reading
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Three Strikes (Part 1/3)
People told me that they enjoyed my behind-the-scenes of Milo And Ditch earlier this year, so I thought I’d do a little one for my Munnyworld figure. This isn’t quite as involved, but still fun to share the work. Munnyworld opens this Thursday and runs through the 15th.
We start out with a big ole blank … Continue reading
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Milo And Ditch (final pictures!)
Here are some final pictures of Milo and Ditch, click through for more/larger pics up on Flickr.
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Milo and Ditch (part 2/3)
This is part 2 of the work in progress of Milo and Ditch, part 1 is here!
I moved over to Illustrator to mock up some of the more detailed areas. I did some research on incredibly colorful poison dart frogs to help inspire a back design for Ditch.
Getting to actual work, a “mouth” was … Continue reading
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Milo and Ditch (part 1/3)
A few months back, MINDstyle and Disney teamed up to launch Experiment 626, an international tour of customized Stitch vinyl figures from a wide variety of artists. Due to my schedule I was only able to recently crack open the big box of Stitch that had been sitting in my studio for months. Fortunately my … Continue reading
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Road Trip! Print
“Road Trip” was the Print Club+ print for April, 2009. It’s a 13″x19″ print featuring a photo of my recent custom Filth wagon / sculpture for Kidrobot. Signed and numbered edition of 50 in the shop.
This was the runner-up image with a great Feed Store in the background. I felt the first one worked better … Continue reading
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Road Trip!
Kidrobot rolls out it’s Filth wagons today with a custom show and appearance in their LA store 6-8pm. My wagon will be on display for a while.
More pics and info on the product page, or head to flickr for bigger versions.
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I’d rather be alone…
