I’m not usually one for meme / internet news and/or historical based illustrations, but this story on Boing Boing of a cat + an airship + a technological milestone was too much for me to ignore! Still a “work in progress” and I’m not sure if I’ll do anything with the image, it was mostly just for fun.
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Hello everyone! I’ve been a little busy lately on things like the Android toy, but other fun things are still getting done! Here’s a quick teaser from a certain kind of book, due out later this year…
Hello everyone! While it may look a little slow on the front page, things have been plenty busy over here! I finished up a big custom project and now I’m finishing up a few small pieces for the New Moon show at myplasticheart in two weeks. On top of that I’m moving into a new studio this month, so things are pretty crazy!
Green O-No Sushi hitting stores starting this week, and another little green surprise coming your way in a few days.
While you can pretty much get the idea of it here, I’ll be posting the final images and info in a few hours…
Checking the transparency film over a partial print to make sure things are all there and positioned correctly.
The final burnt black-line screen.
Shiny shiny black enamel drying on the rack.
Blue edition racked.
This was one of several quick notebook sketches of the concept.
Two weeks ago I took a trip down to the print shop to check in on a new print edition I’ve been working on. Here are a few shots of the work in progress, more photos and edition information tomorrow!
These guys are actually finely-tuned printing robots, there is no other explanation for their speed and accuracy.
Mmm…goopy. The last step in the printing process is laying down the black enamel linework, this is where the image all finally comes together.
Through test prints, screen clears and alignment checks the shop ends up with quite a few “unintentional collaborations” between artists. Some of these are really interesting.
This multi-tonne WWII era beast of a machine would not hesitate to cut your hand off, except that it fortunately requires two hands to operate.
Hmm what’s this? An alternate color for print club members? Shh, don’t tell them, they may not have opened their mail yet.
(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.
(Part 1 can be found here)
Work continued on the heart accessory as eyes and valves were sculpted out of resin directly onto the piece. Once set up and sanded down it was hit with a coat of primer, followed by a base coat of red. A darker red was lightly sprayed below the “mouth”.
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 20″ MUNNY figure that Kidrobot was nice enough to send months in advance. I, of course, did not get around to working on it until a few days before deadline. Woops.
This is part 3 of the work in progress of Milo and Ditch, part 1 is here and part 2 is here!
Ditch’s solid airbrushed base coat gets a clear coat to seal it up. This protects the base blue from my inevitable clumsy handling and paint splattering, mistakes can be wiped up without ruining the blue.
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.
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 piece is finally done, and will be joining many fine pieces in the tour in San Diego at the International Comic Con next week!
I figured this was a good opportunity to give you a quick behind the scenes look at my piece, “Milo and Ditch”.
First we start off with a nice piece of clean white rotocast vinyl direct from MINDStyle. Stitch is about about 11″ tall (with ears!).
I’m finally finishing up work on the last print of the first “season” of Print Club+. Judging from feedback and demand, it has been a rather successful run so far!
If you’ve been thinking about joining for potential future seasons please send me your name, e-mail address and shipping destination country. There is already a waiting list and very few spots available. Information will be going out in early July!
