hours till the release of PANDARA Anniversary Edition! whose taking it home? hehe…
Denise at TOMOPOP has post up my W.I.P photos, if you are curious about how these babies were born, check it out! Alright…see you all on 27 August, 1pm PT! (i’m setting my alarm clock… :P)
I’m going to participate in the upcoming custom toy event “For The Love of Vinyl“, curated by Denise, gathering artists & friends whose dedicated to toy art, together we each customize a Symbiote……
the arrival of love for vinyl!
blank symbiote packaging, kinda plain :P
symbiote toy & accessories, quality is impressive! matt finishing, feels like it’d be easy to paint on! ….oh and a letter from the curator!
stickers, badge buttons & guidelines…. well organized Denise!! :)
I’M PUMPED! TIME TO KILL THIS THE HOLLOW THREAT WAY!
Now the rope is done, I also add his ears, and starting on the bottom curving part…
To make the curves even, I measure the circumference and do my math, mark the spaces, and sculpt the little patels….
Finalize the curves…
Make template for the little cross on his chest…
There we have LIL’ DEATH master completed!
Prepare to make first part of silicon mold from the master, BTW that metal pipe is for air vent…
Close up look, I love the colorful wall of legos hehe….
Pour the silicon into it…
Part one silicon mold complete!
Preparing for part 2 mold, applying vaseline on surface…
All set for part 2 mold!
Pouring silicon again…
TA DAAAAA~ 2 part mold complete! ready to clone my army, i’ll be working like nutz in next few weeks, and we shall see the final product very soon :-)
FINGER CROSSED!
LIL’ DEATH is gonna be my next resin toy, due out in march, a friendly skull faced witch, appeared on Hollow Threat poster! Here’s a little walk through of my process of making this toy…enjoy! ;-)
Did a real size sketch of Lil’ Death, i’ve spiked side view and back view drawings, it’s all in my head in 3D hehe, and I make a base shape with foil paper, that saved heaps of super sculpey….
Super sculpey outside the foil base & prepare the face template…
Once the face area is traced, i make the face pop out a little, also rounded…
Trace and refine some face detail using the template…
follow the lines, start sculpting the face…
Skull mouth is done!
Create eyes and nose template from previous template…
Align and drop down the eyes, nose lines…
Now he can see…
And then mouth, freehand sketch the nose and mouth details, they are too small to build a template…
I use a lino cutter to sculpt the mouth, this is probably the trickiest and most time consuming stage for me…
Nose added after mouth shaped properly, and his face is done!
Start adding clay around the face, make it taller than the face, so it looks like hes inside the rope…
TO BE CONTINUED…
yay! my hollow threat skullbox is done, on its way to japan now…. here’s the 2nd half of the custom process!
paints the pants, oh yeah, it’s a tight black leather pants! :P
back of skullbox, where original face are, now going black…. (don’t kill me artdenka!)
inked up the accessories….
blood splat on his hand & feet (photo of bloody hand is missing ><)
adding reinforcements to the accessory, yup thats little chunk of toothpick….
last minute decision, the thunder show up very well with shadow, but the black paints elsewhere just overwhelms the details, so i decide to paint the thunder black on cap….
putting all parts back together & some super glues to fix the accessory, finishing with layers of matt varnish coat to protect the paint, “Six Tons Death” Skullbox is DONE! it’s gonna be in SKULL-O-RAMA show, i’ll have more info about the show soon…. :-)