Conan contest.. and more!

First, I will post some pictures later tonight of the new painting I just recently finished for my soon-to-be born baby girl....

in the meantime....
Recently, late night talk-show host, Conan O'Brien, held a contest for artists to portray his super-hero alter-ego "The Flaming C". (Here's the link.)

I figured I would give it a go, considering I am a huge fan!

Here's my submission:

New website..

Started a new website and facebook page...

links:

Site.

Facebook Page.

My Munny

So I was invited to do a "Munny" for a local art show here in Akron, OH.

(find it here)

I had a blast working on this and am really thinking about getting into these more..

I figured I would post some pictures of my process..

(as always, click images for larger versions)

I first applied SuperSculpey to the extra ears I got with my Munny then added details. I eventually wanted it to look like weathered metal... I then boiled the ear in water (yes, I know that SuperSculpey need to get to 275 and that boiling only gets about 215.. but it set up just the same..)

Now I was ready to paint..

Not bad, but I then noticed how neatly the S.S. picked up EVERY detail of my fingerprints when painted... I forged ahead, finishing the other ear and base then weathering to create this test piece...

So now I knew how to go about getting what I wanted out of the material. Vinyl is a pretty easy to work with substance, and pretty durable as well..

Following the same steps; I sculpted, boiled and then coated the full Munny in silver paint before distressing it with sandpaper...

Quite happy with the results, I finished him off with heavy weathering and some detailing...

Winding up with "Nexus 0.5"

sketches

Just some sketches ...

rejected "Covered" image

Rejected re-imagining of Daredevil #268 submitted to the blog "Covered". They've got too many submissions.

Some commisions have been taking up my time,
working on more illustratings,
Another show on Saturday, more robots, of course. :)

Also, finally have my Etsy store up here.
Stop in, take a look ... buy something. :)

More soon!

new bots

shows are coming up... wrapping up my series of robots for now... couple more lil 5x7s to finish then I'm done.. .


I will post entire series on my site (and put some prints up there for sale as well), but here's a lil guy for now...

(click for larger size)