Etsy Love - Monstrous Toys

Happy New Year everybody! I hope everyone has had a great holidays. Lets start the year with a little Etsy Love. Here's some awesome, fun and monstrous art toys that I wish I could buy.

1. Lonely Puddings / 2. Bryan Collins / 3. Whimsical Funk / 4. Bryan Collins / 5. Chep / 6. Cyclopean Genome / 

7. Brendan 345 / 8. Robot Soda / 9. Double Parlour

Robots, Cupcakes, Lobsters & Ninjas

It's always entertaining when I get asked to do several different ideas in one set of Matryoshka, so this set was really fun to put together.

You can see more of my Matryoshka here.

Remake & Remodel - The final 3D prototype

You can find my previous Remake & Remodel project posts here.

Once I finished my bacteria inspired designs I then had to create a 3D prototype of part of my final design. I chose to create the bubble platform. This was a big challenge for me as I'm so used to working in 2D or just applying paint to a 3D surface. The final prototype is made of carved industrial foam, putty, foam spheres and spray paint. I now have a new appreciation for just how time consuming and hard work it would be to develop a professional three dimensional heel. I can't wait to learn new techniques to make objects like this though, hopefully I'll get to use the 3D printer next term!

I feel like I've learned a lot through this project, much of it is thanks to some amazing feedback sessions with my tutors and lots of bouncing ideas off my course mates. The areas I feel I could improve particularly are research and design development. After working for myself and blogging about my illustrations I'm so used to showing the final product and am too much of a perfectionist when developing initial designs. I realize I now need to use quick sketches to develop ideas and make my sketchbook research seem less rigid and for it to flow better and make sense.

You can see more of my uni work here, and more of my illustrations here.

Adventure Time Converse - The land of Ooo

Happy Boxing day everyone! I hope you're all having a great holidays and getting lots of Adventure Time presents.

Here are the finished Land of Ooo Converse. You can see pictures of these in progress here. You can see more of my Adventure Time shoes here, and my other shoes here.

 

Merry Christmas Everybody!

Merry Christmas guys! I hope you're having a great day and eating lots of yummy Christmas things.

Here's some amazing Adventure Time Christmas fanart I found on Deviantart (1. gicouy 2. silent--haze 3. jackie-lyn)

Rupaul's Drag Race Matryoshka

This was a really fun custom order for someone who loves Rupaul's Drag Race. I based these particular dolls on Rupaul, Bebe Zahara Benet, Tammie Brown, Nina Flowers and Jujubee.

Tokidoki Fan Art Shoes

I painted these shoes for a friend who is Tokidoki obsessed. She particularly loves the Donutella characters so I went for a Donutella theme.

These characters are copyright of Tokidoki, this is just fan art for a friend. You can see more of my shoes here.

And here's my friend Lu styling them with some adorable kitty socks: