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“Tiger Fury” Elite Division Warrior #2 – NYCC 2010 Custom Collaboration Mad*L
Here’s a peek at the second of three customs for New York Comic Con 2010 – “Tiger Fury” Elite Division Warrior #2! This is a custom 5″ Mad*L collaboration between Kevin Gosselin and myself. Kevin is an excellent sculptor/artist and I was really happy to have been able to work with him on this figure. Kevin did all the sculpting to resemble an ancient Chinese (terra cotta) warrior, while I did all the artwork. Kevin sculpted it to fit my art style and allowed much surface area for me to do my thing while still maintaining the look of a warrior.
Background story and more details/pics/pricing to come. This will be on display/for sale at the Tenacious Toys booth at NYCC 2010, with a signing/sketch session by me on Saturday, October 9 at 1pm EST.
More pics up on my Flickr: AW177 Flickr
Check out Kevin’s work at: Kevin Gosselin
“Koi Blossom” Jouwe – SOLD! YAY!
Yay! Thanks to Spankystokes.com for the pic, my “Koi Blossom” Jouwe figure sold at the opening night of the Toy Art Gallery custom Jouwe show! Yay!
Elite Division Warriors – NYCC 2010 Custom Terra Cotta Warriors Collabo Mad*Ls
I posted a pic of what one of my collaboration Mad*L customs w/ Kevin Gosselin looked like yesterday and today I posted some pics of the blank sculpt that Kevin came up with. Go to my Flickr account for some great pics! Thanks and more to come!
AW177 Flickr – Kevin Gosselin Terra Cotta Warrior Sculpts:
“Dragon Power” custom Mad*L painted:
“Dragon Power” Elite Division Warrior #1 – NYCC 2010 Custom Collaboration Mad*L
Here’s a peek at one of my customs for New York Comic Con 2010 – “Dragon Power” Elite Division Warrior #1! This is a custom 5″ Mad*L collaboration between Kevin Gosselin and myself. Kevin is an excellent sculptor/artist and I was really happy to have been able to work with him on this figure. Kevin did all the sculpting to resemble an ancient Chinese (terra cotta) warrior, while I did all the artwork. Kevin sculpted it to fit my art style and allowed much surface area for me to do my thing while still maintaining the look of a warrior.
Background story and more details/pics/pricing to come. This will be on display/for sale at the Tenacious Toys booth at NYCC 2010, with a signing/sketch session by me on Saturday, October 9 at 1pm EST.
Check out Kevin’s work at: http://kgosselinart.blogspot.com/
Toy Art Gallery – Jouwe Group Custom Show October 2nd!
Excerpt taken from the Toy Art Gallery:
“Toy Art Gallery is proud to present the Jouwe Group Custom Show, opening October 2 2010. We’ve invited over 50 of the best custom artists around to work their magic on the 10″ Jouwe figure and we’re extremely excited by what we’ve seen so far.
Participating artists include: AW177, Babyvtec, Blamo Toys, Bob Conge/Plaseebo, Brendon Flynn, Cameron Tiede, Cris Rose, Dlux, Daniel Goffin, David Lanham, Downtimer, Dylan Sisson, Emilio Garcia, Freshcharacters, Jaime “Germs” Zacarias, Jan Calleja, Jason D’Aquino, Jay222, Jeff McMillan, J*RYU, Jim Koch, Jimmy Foo (Vinyl Toy Freaks), Jimmy Pickering, Jure Gavran, Kat Brunnegraff, Kevin Gosselin, Kii Arens, Leecifer, LYSOL, Manuel Heischel, Mark Nagata, Martin Hsu, Matt Walker, Megan Smithyman, Mike Slobot, Nebulon5, Nerviswr3k, Nico Deacosta, OrisisOrion, Peter Morris (Pocket Wookie), Phu, Recycle Experience, Ritzy Periwinkle, Spankystokes, Spencer Ong Rotobox, Steve Talkowski, Tanki, TASKone, Troy Stith, and Victor Castillo
Check out the show page and preview and come out to the opening reception on October 2 from 7-11 PM to see them in person!”
AW177 “Koi Blossom” Jouwe!
Ok finally got a chance to snap a few pics of my custom “Koi Blossom” Jouwe figure for the Jouwe group custom show at Toy Art Gallery (TAG) located at 737 Seward St. #1, Los Angeles, CA 90038 (www.toyartgallery.com).
Opening reception: October 1, 7-10pm, runs from October 1 – 29, 2010.
The Jouwe figure is great and I didn’t want to modify the form of it; I wanted to enhance it and give it a more traditional Asian pattern. The Jouwe form looks like a tough yet cute little rhino guy, so wanted to give it a more ‘love’ feel to it – hence why I chose the Koi.
“Dragon vs. Phoenix” Custom Artoyz Elements Earth Completed!
If you’ve been following along w/ my WIP pics for the past week or so, then you know that I was working on a custom Artoyz Elements Earth figure. My design, “Dragon vs. Phoenix” was complex and detailed, but so worth it after it was all finished! Props to my very patient client for waiting!!! Hope you like it! Go to my Flickr account for larger pics!
Work in Progress (WIP) Pics – Artoyz Elements Earth Part 6!
Part 6 already? Lol, sorry for the late (again) post, but finally have a chance to post up part 6 of my WIP pics of Dragon vs. Phoenix. I hope you enjoyed this so far, and this custom is pretty much almost done!
Last time I left off w/ dragon side being somewhat done. There are a few more steps from this point, as I want the entire figure to be yellow colored. To do that, I have to color in parts that are white to yellow. Sounds simple, but tough since you have to be careful not to overlap the lines and if you do, go back over them w/ color again.
Work in Progress (WIP) Pics – Artoyz Elements Earth Part 5!
Friday afternoon update – most people are probably waiting till 5pm to run out the door for the weekend, and here I am updating my blog w/ my latest WIP pics! Sorry for the late update, but better late than never. Here we go…