Sawdust Bear Makes Things

mother guumon

shing — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:34:58 +0000

Finally finished this! It’s my first custom toy, based on the Guumon figure by Brian Mahony. It’s a pretty awesome figure sculpted in the kaiju tradition.

It’s meant to be looked at from a bit of a top view, so I don’t really have any good pictures from any other view, but hopefully Brian will take some pictures of them! I made a very maternal monster.

I just mailed her off to Boston, where she’ll be in a Guumon group art show! More pictures and the show poster after the “more”…

tentacle beard is beardy

shing — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:09:32 +0000

and this is a tentacle beard.

(it’s meant to look more like this kind of crafty beard and worn like a mask, and not like a facial prosthetic.)

scary fish is scary.

shing — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:44:15 +0000

some progress on a scary angler fish costume i’m working on!

labyrinth of jareth

shing — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:19:07 +0000

working on my costume for labyrinth of jareth. by “working”, i actually mean “making something silly for my head and grabbing corsetey things out of my closet”.

here’s a preview.

i’ll be there friday!

jigglypuff is dead.

shing — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:42:55 +0000

I will write an Anime Expo blog post soon, but for now, here’s the only topical thing I created for the con, which is a dead Jigglypuff.

I actually really like Jigglypuff.

anime expo!

shing — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:23:14 +0000

i’m headed off to Anime Expo in a few!

if you read this blog, stop by and say hi(and how you know me) and i’ll give you free postcards and some wasabi peas from this bag i’m currently stuffing my face full of.

the wasabi peas probably won’t last that long. supplies limited.

brian mahony’s guumon

shing — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:48:24 +0000

I’m working on my first custom toy ever! Well, the first one I’ll actually finish. I have several Dunnys and Munnys lying around that I find completely uninspiring.

It’s Brian Mahony’s Guumon, which is a very kaiju-esque monster…thing. I love it. It’s messy and blobby and exactly the sort of thing I like.

I sculpted a face(the original figure doesn’t really have one) and the nest-pouch thing. It’s going to be a pretty maternal monster.

Here are some progress photos:

So much fun. It’ll be part of a custom toy show in Boston in August – that show poster is under the cut.

yeti hand puppet

shing — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:11:35 +0000

Also, my Spoonflower order is here! And it looks fantastic.

Look! Yeti hand puppet!

DIY kits will be on sale soon.

fanartey sketchcards

shing — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:41:00 +0000

Two things – first, I actually am drawing again. Second, I’m even drawing fan-art.

I drew and coloured and painted a bunch of sketchcards this weekend in anticipation for Anime Expo.

I keep on forgetting I don’t really like drawing people, but I really love drawing monsters.

I think these three are my favourites of the batch. From left to right – Totoro, PenPen from Evangelion and Mothra from Godzilla!. I’m pretty sure Mothra’s my favourite because of that derpy moth face.

There’s a picture of all of them over at my DeviantArt page!

By the way, I will be at table D28 as Sawdust Bear Makes Things at Anime Expo’s Artist Alley! Come visit me if you’ll be there!

happy marlowe

shing — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:42:40 +0000

Here’s a raw photo for the Marlowe-Fairy that I think a bunch of people liked!

I love how sparkly the background is, and also how happy Marlowe is. Heh.