For anyone interested in see the work from the Munky King Omi Show, you can view it all here.
A lot of the work is available for purchase and what makes a better holiday gift than original art? Check out the up and coming talent as well as great customs from established folk like Steve Talkowski and Spanky Stokes.
Also available for purchase are my Om'phisto and HBr-1138 Omi customs (click the names to see the listings).
I'm involved in some exciting collab projects for next year and I'm really looking forward to seeing the end result and, of course, letting them loose on the world.
Happy Holidays everyone!
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Munky King Omi Show TONIGHT!
Tonight is the Omi show at Munky King's Melrose location from 7-10 pm. I submitted two pieces, both of which are available for purchase. It was an open call for artists to customize Munky King's own platform toy, the Omi. Its an ingenious contribution to the platform designer market. It was a lot of fun to work with and definitely gets you thinking in different terms.
Visit the Omi Project site to see previews of a couple of the Omi's popping up tonight. Its going to be a fun show.
For more info on Munky King, check out there site here.
Here are my submissions (along with the shapes they started as):
Om'phisto
which started as:
And the HBr-1138
Which started out as:
I was lucky enough to have teaser shots of both featured in their show promo art:
So come out to the show and support all the established and emerging artists at the show! Its going to be a lot of fun to see how this new platform is interpreted by so many artists.
MUNKY KNG
7308 Melrose Ave. (x Poinsettia)
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Visit the Omi Project site to see previews of a couple of the Omi's popping up tonight. Its going to be a fun show.
For more info on Munky King, check out there site here.
Here are my submissions (along with the shapes they started as):
Om'phisto
which started as:
And the HBr-1138
Which started out as:
I was lucky enough to have teaser shots of both featured in their show promo art:
So come out to the show and support all the established and emerging artists at the show! Its going to be a lot of fun to see how this new platform is interpreted by so many artists.
MUNKY KNG
7308 Melrose Ave. (x Poinsettia)
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Saturday, October 2, 2010
9th Circle Relase Update!
9th Circle Robotics received their first review this week HERE from Battlegrip.com. Battle Grip is a great review site run by a guy who actually creates his own designer toys, games and customs. As an artist, the best reviews always come from people who have actually participated in their industry (whichever "industry" that happens to be). Obviously there are other great reviewers who are EXTREMELY knowledgeable fans (like pituvision.com), but nothing beats feedback of the 'artist on artists' variety.
So I want to extend my thanks to Battle Grip for the review, the praise was welcomed and the criticism even more so. I also liked that he thought my bot prototypes were metal, that would have been fun, but no, not one piece.
The one criticism I did receive was on price. I went all over the place trying to figure out how to price them. That's the most difficult aspect of art for me honestly.
So giving his suggestions consideration and some re-examined math, the 9th Circle Robotics bots singles are now only $36 (free shipping). However, buying a set of 4 will be $125 (set of 4 = 1xAldiss, 1xGibson, 1xUnderhill and 1xRAY in any paint scheme. Please wait for personalized invoice before paying when buying 4).
I've also dropped the Mephisto series 1 Mephisto's (the 3D version of my logo in various incarnations) to $25 each.
Art is for sharing and spreading around, not living out its life in a studio. Hit em up now at the shop!
Related Aside:
The other great issue battlegrip brought up regarding resin "toys" in general, is the lack of articulation. I've always considered resin pieces more in the mass produced art piece/statue category, which I'd honestly prefer as a label for my bots. Engineering articulation in general is extremely difficult and not something my just starting out self was going to be able to pull off under current conditions. Aside from that, resin is not really a material that lends itself to lasting and smooth articulation like vinyl or the other soft plastics. Someday I would very much like to see more toys of my creations, but I'll be leaving that up to full on professionals.
Because writing and illustration are, and always have been, my main passions, after the remaining 9th Circle Bots are painted and posted, I'll be focusing entirely on web comics (the collab I'm writing and the one I'm writing/illustrating) Hopefully one of those professionals out there will produce real toys based on them. We shall see!
So I want to extend my thanks to Battle Grip for the review, the praise was welcomed and the criticism even more so. I also liked that he thought my bot prototypes were metal, that would have been fun, but no, not one piece.
The one criticism I did receive was on price. I went all over the place trying to figure out how to price them. That's the most difficult aspect of art for me honestly.
So giving his suggestions consideration and some re-examined math, the 9th Circle Robotics bots singles are now only $36 (free shipping). However, buying a set of 4 will be $125 (set of 4 = 1xAldiss, 1xGibson, 1xUnderhill and 1xRAY in any paint scheme. Please wait for personalized invoice before paying when buying 4).
I've also dropped the Mephisto series 1 Mephisto's (the 3D version of my logo in various incarnations) to $25 each.
Art is for sharing and spreading around, not living out its life in a studio. Hit em up now at the shop!
Related Aside:
The other great issue battlegrip brought up regarding resin "toys" in general, is the lack of articulation. I've always considered resin pieces more in the mass produced art piece/statue category, which I'd honestly prefer as a label for my bots. Engineering articulation in general is extremely difficult and not something my just starting out self was going to be able to pull off under current conditions. Aside from that, resin is not really a material that lends itself to lasting and smooth articulation like vinyl or the other soft plastics. Someday I would very much like to see more toys of my creations, but I'll be leaving that up to full on professionals.
Because writing and illustration are, and always have been, my main passions, after the remaining 9th Circle Bots are painted and posted, I'll be focusing entirely on web comics (the collab I'm writing and the one I'm writing/illustrating) Hopefully one of those professionals out there will produce real toys based on them. We shall see!
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