A year in the making

Its been awhile since I have done a RxH custom, well with the customs embargo and all its been tough :)

I have been planning a custom set for a fan in Japan for well over a year now. But every time we get started we booth have some ideas that get thrown in and plans start all over again.

Originally we decided to do a entire homage set, but in black and white. After trying to execute with my style , well it didn't come out so well. After we hit the drawing board again we decided to do the set in original colors not homage related.

Here was the test figure I did to show him, the chaos.



He really loved it, but after some talk a homage was what we really wanted to do. So this chaos became a nice stand alone custom.

what we decided on doing homage wise was this, and I'm VERY excited ...

Street Fighter II !

A Mutant Head Ryu :)



And and Evil ken !



I think the Mutant Evil with blond hair is going to interesting !


As well a definite is a Darth Vader Gatchigon !



Fun times ahead !

If you ever think I took long on your custom, just remember it could have been over a year ! :)

Some new customs

I have been back to the business of custom work and it feeeeeels great !

I had this Ojo siting around for a little bit now and have the idea to paint it this way. I was just waiting on all new paint to accomplish it.

The new pigments I bought are super strong with just a little bit of paint. So the layer can be ever so thin and produce a brilliant metallic.

Check him out :










The hair and boots are metallic red ^_^ !

The body is a mix of metallic blue, purple, and green with black details.

He came out awesome and looks pretty sinister in hand. Something I cant capture in a studio shot. In the case he looks like he is about to do something terrible to the RxH guys ^_^

He is for sale for $200.00 shipped in the US, just shoot me a email if your interested.

Next up ....

The Ryusei match up with Joe arms was a paint test. I was playing with him and the new paint. I think he came out great.




He is also for sale, but not as a custom, just pay for the cost of the base figure which was $60.00

Thanks for looking !

Real Head Star Fighters

A lot of my customs are based on this vision I have. It has no real color or shape just a feel. I don't know how to explain it, its like that look that so many 80's fantasy movies had. Everything had tons of lens flares and I think that stuck in the back of my head.

For this set I wanted to go full force with this sci fi 80's feel. The color scheme is influenced by a few movies and scenes.

The title and feel of this set had a lot to do with this image, hence the name of the set :



The colors , the wrapping around of light, the star burst, etc...

Not to mention the movie was awesome , if you haven't seen it and like geeky 80's sci fi check it out. I still remember seeing this in the movies ^_^




My cousin (god rest his soul) used to make me watch sci fi movies like this ( this wasn't a movie I know), and headbangers ball. I don't think it really made an impact until he died. Now a days so many of these cheesy movies and music have came back to help inspire me.

As well it goes without mention the Star Wars had a HUGE impact visually on me. The move, the toys, the toys packaging etc.. I could post pics but I would never get anything done ^_^

Now after the inspiration I wanted them original not homages. I wanted to make them feel like they where based off their own original movie.

This is what I came up with :









Tha colors came out wild !

I have a ryusie in the works in similar colors. I LOVE the birght orange and hope to make a few othes with this base color.

My first solo show at Super7

Its been over a month since the show and I'm still in awe. I've been in a bunch of group shows all over but this was my fist solo show as an artist so I really wanted step up to the plate. Super7 has been a major influence since I first stepped foot into kaiju, and to be invited to have a solo show was a dream come true I know being that I had no prior experience and no recorded of shows the guys put their neck out on the line for me and for that I will always be in debt.
Knowing this I really wanted to take the opportunity to show a variety of items to show what I can do as a toy painter, illustrator and design skill. In the end I spent every living second I could preparing for the show and I believe this elevated me to what I thought I couldn't. I learned so many things about my self and what I could do that it set a new standard for me.

This is the first time that I have had a chance to clean up all the images of the customs in the show and I'm very proud to show you.

Without further adieu here we go !

Super7 brand figures :







Sadly when I went to look for a studio shot of this last squirm after gloss I realized I didn't have one, YIKES !!!

Lucky for me my girl snapped this nice shot during the show, whew

Its not studio but it shows off the gloss and colors perfectly.



The champ and custom I chose to go on the flyer's for the show. This mummy boy was one of the first figures I finished and set me in the mood and color palette I stayed with for the show.









Next up, Gargamel !

Gargamel is probably one of the best Japanese toy companies to date. They are truly a trendsetter and set benchmarks for all eastern toy companies. I fully respect them and painting these figures was refreshing.



This Gamepa was my favorite figure of the show. I hopped for it not to sell so i could get him back. I'm sure he went to a good home though, whom ever scored him just know you have my pic of the show in your hands !




The Gamepa and Bullmask are meant to be the fight promoters with the cumberlains as the fighters. Cumberslains are usually the promoter so its about time they stepped into the ring to get a taste of their own medicine !















Next up Secret Base

Obake was and probably one of my favorite SB figures. I only wish that that took advantage of all the space the figure provides.

For me though I couldn't pass up all the room to pant on.







Rumble monsters toys are always so chunky, for me its either a hit or miss when I paint them. Thankfully they came out great.

The first I painted was the damedron. I decided to reference myself with this one.

I titled him melting death 2008. Its a full circle as exactly 1 year ago I was in the first Super7 "Monster Mash" group show with a melting death obake.

Here is the obake from a year ago :



Now the Damedron to match :







Sunguts :



Cronic :

I wish I had more to paint, I LOVE cronic figures.



Now I also did a few RxH figures but they where not for sale. Mori has no problem with people painting he toys, just not selling them.

Not a problem Mori San !

I ended up working out some sweet trades for them though so all's well that ends well !

check em out :

This evil was one of my favorites and 1 of the 2 I kept for my personal collection.

Belly detail :





This head is simple as i planned on having Matt of Dead President Designs pin stripe him. And when I get a few extra bucks it will get done.







The others in show where the marvel homages and the shinto I did for Datadub. The shinto you will see soon.

ARTWORK

The artwork I did I wanted to be simple. I love portrait style pictures and decided to go in that route.

Check em out :









Next up the T-Shirts. I always wanted to have my logo large on a T and took the opportunity to do so. And to commemorate the show I dated the back.

Check it :





And last but not least, an official run with Super 7 to seal the deal.

I wanted to do a small toy that anyone could afford. But I didn't want it to end there, I wanted to also include some sort of artwork.

I knew I wanted to do the blow fish but sat on the figure for months before it hit me. After some test colors I saw that when i added green it looked like slimer from "The Ghost busters".

So that was it, a slimer homage was born. And to seal the deal I came up with an illustartion design that fit with Josh Herbolsheimer's style. I wanted the store mascot which is the mummy boy to take the place of the ghost that is in the red circle slash. He agreed to do the artwork and all was good.

For $20.00 bucks you had a nice little package.

Take a look !

Smiler :



Here is a picture that I based him off of :



Now the artwork that I designed and Josh so beautifully painted. It came out better than I could have imagined. I own the original artwork and I'm stoked to not only have a Josh original but something that times in with my own world of art.

Check it out :



PERFECTION !!!

Now some random shots of the evening

I was surprised when skullbrain member REdYOdA showed up with this awesome shot I feel in love with. He is any awesome customizer in is own right and his photography is amazing !

I'm so stoked



Here we go !















I just want to give an extra special thanks to Joe, Kirk, and Bert for showing me the town and hanging out. It was like I was home and being that this was the first time we ever really hung out in person. It truley is amazing that we can form these bonds over the internet.

Thanks again to all my fans and to all of my supporters. This show hopefully is the begining to a bautiful toy story.