I was very excited the last time I was in Japan, when at the Kaiju Comrades art and toy show, Yajima-san of Dream Rockets came up to me and showed me a nearly completed figure he just sculpted of his take on my Kaiju Eyezon figure. Wow, my jaw dropped, he’s kept most of what makes Eyezon, Eyezon, but obviously has tweaked and added his taste to it.. he dubbed it Neo Eyezon ! Neo or new Eyezon indeed !, what a thrill and of course I totally gave my blessings .. so here we are weeks away from San Diego Comic Con and Wonderfest in Japan, and Neo Eyezon will make it’s Global debut at both events ! Each event will get it’s own colorway, Yajima-san will paint the Japan one, and I will ( fingers crossed I get them in time ) paint the one for SDCC 😉 Talk about fun .. this is what I live for in the toy world .. mixing and matching ideas, making toys and best of all having a great time in the process. Don’t forget you can meet Yajima-san in person as well as Ichimiya-san ( Sun Guts ) and Matt Walker for our group show at Double Punch called Kaiju Invade San Francisco – Beikokuten ! in December 12th, 2009.
so besides the thrill of seeing other artists interpret my characters of course my other love is doing art.. so below is the process I went thru on this header card.
I actually made a mistake and used a board that was not the one I usually do, same maker but this inferior board was awful to use, and actually tore the paper in a few places that i had to repair (!) .. well it’s times like this that my years as a illustrator pay off, I’ve got so many tricks in my bag from those years .. painting with one day deadlines or making last minute changes on the fly really help when stuff like this happens.. oh ya for the young folks out there this was BEFORE Photoshop 😉
While I do use Photoshop now to make the final header cards I never use the computer to make the painting .. for me there’s only one original piece of art, that has my DNA and creativity in it and thats the original painting.. yes, Old School for sure …
the finished piece, ready for final varnish.
almost done, just working on the edges of all the elements, softening, adding highlights…mostly brush work at this point …can you see the torn parts of the board ? ugh …
add some spray to the figure and eyeballs…
hand painted in darks and med tones with paynes grey acrylic paints to figure…
so I forgot to take pics of the eyeballs and back ground.. oh well, used airbush and hand painted work.. mostly hand painted, glazed acrylic colors over the penciled base.
the start,I fully pencil all my work and lightly seal with spray fixative. Than mask off areas as i go along spraying in major colors or small details.. I will go back as seen above to tighten up areas or fade areas in our out as needed. Since this is a small piece, about 8×10 inches, and will be used as a header card for one of my toys, the design is simple and straight forward, nothing too complex since that would be covered by logos and text in the final piece anyways… I thought the idea of Eyezon flying was a no brainer, the floating eyeballs I’ve wanted to do for some time.. but was stumped about the back ground .. hmm, black , or dark blue with space stars etc .. hmm, no I’ve done those and didn’t really make sense.. of course the wife takes one look and says, do a Twlight Zone swirl thingy … Eureka ! of course … anyone who’s married out there, you know the wifes always right ;-P
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