Vinylmore 4

Hey all! Vinylmore 4 opens this Friday, April 1st, and I'm participating once again! Join me on my latest toy-making journey.

So I started with some sketches related to the boombox I posted a while back, ultimately settling on this:

I did a ton of painting but was totally unhappy with how it was coming out and ultimately ended up scrapping that plan entirely. (It also didn't feel like "me," but rather a kind of generic popular aesthetic thing).
So here's the next sketch I ended up at:

Variations on this dark haired, bespectacled, stripey-shirted gal have been appearing in my work a lot recently, and I decided she was ready to move into the 3D world.
A sketch of the mystery girl for this comic:

She's popped up in varying forms in other pieces like this as well.

So the final result? I present to you "Dream Girl":



A far nicer photo by Rachel Whang can be seen here!

Again, the opening for Vinylmore 4 is this Friday, April 1st, from 7pm–10pm! Check out the Facebook event page here.

Vinylmore III

Don't forget, the opening for Vinylmore 3 is tonight! Things kick off at 7PM at Atomic Books.

Featuring pieces by Assassin, Holly Morgan Barnard, Nate Bear, Stephen Blickenstaff, Danielle Blue, Michael Bracco, Rebecca Bradley, Peter Chang, Ben Claassen III, Michael Clayton, Donald Edwards, Taylor Fischer, Meg Freeburn, Kate Haberer, Lucas Hanyok, Brandon Hill, Jordan Jeffries, Jereminus, Greg Johnson, Mike Konold, Bonnie Crawford Kotula, Hawk Krall, Jim Lasher, Max Lewis, Sarah Mires, Steve Morris, Ryan Onorato, Rakka, Cathleen Sachse, Michael Sachse, Kevin Sherry, Mary Smith, Wolfie, Erin Womack, Ayumi Yasuda, Jeremy Zombie.

Previous Vinylmore 3 posts here and here.

Hope to see you there!

Pizza Party

Hey! Here it is, as promised, my second Munny for Vinylmore 3: "Pizza Party."

Mmm! I promise this is only loosely based on a real-life person or persons.

Here's the base on its own. I put in footholes so the figure can go on the base sturdily but still be removed- nothing was worse as a kid than discovering your new toy figure didn't come off its base- so I knew this guy had to detach.

Here's the pile of pizza boxes, pre-arrangement & painting.

Remember, Vinylmore 3 opens on April 2nd, 7PM at Atomic Books. Be there! I will!

Awesome poster designed by Exit 10. More info on Vinylmore here and on Facebook.

Gabba Gabba Hey

Hey! Atomic Books' annual toy show Vinylmore is nearly upon us again. This year the show is Munnyland, and I'm going to have two Munnys in the show. The first to be completed is this guy, a (temporarily) unnamed lil' punk pretty openly based on this painting I did a few months back.


He's a mini Munny, so with his 'hawk he measures around 5 or so inches high.

Vinylmore 3: Munnyland opens April 2nd at 8PM. Info at Atomic Books or ol' Facebook.

Pizza Jazz

Wow! Say what you will of this whole "massive amounts of snow" situation, at least it's given me plenty of free time to draw while snowed in- the majority of my waking hours this week have either gone to drawing or shoveling.

I have a lot of in-process things going right now that I'm hoping to roll out on the blog as they come to fruition. One thing in the planning stages right now is a new painted Munny related to the morbidly obese, pizza-crazed degenerate character I posted a bit ago. I'm going to want to make a ton of pizza box props to go with him, so this is a mock-up I did tonight.

It's 1.5" by 1.5" by .25", if you're wonderin'.

A bad man who has done bad things

Here's the second munny I made for this year's Vinylmore at Atomic Books. It's opening on April 3 at 8PM. I will be there, and so will this guy, my little Bloody Buddy.

Touch of Evan

This

became this

and then this.

Munnys are underway

In need of some touch-ups and plenty more work, but, this guy (and another) are officially happening!

MUNNY'D

I took a crack at my first custom vinyl toy for the upcoming Vinylmore show at Atomic Pop. I'm excited, It came out better than I expected (because I expected very little of myself!). I was readily convinced by several friends to pursue my chunky pale clownish characters for it, and while the Munny will never be as fat as I like my characters, I'm still pretty happy with the results.