Here is my latest paper toy. As I was rather busy preparing for my exhibition the papercraft took a back seat last month. However I hope that I can make up for not producing a toy for September, with the fact that this new piece is my first attempt at a mini diorama using 2 sheets of paper.
Some of you may recognize this creature from an illustration I did last year called “Retro Demons“.
I was very pleased again to find that due to it’s flat nature the illustration made a smooth transition into 3D form.
Click on the images below to download the toy for yourself.
The Art of Gravity group exhibition finished last Sunday.
We had a pretty good week with roughly the same amount of visitors as last time.
As an artist it is always interesting to see what kind of things catch people’s attention.
This time I had more detailed and perhaps more horror themed pieces on display, but as always it was the “cuter”, simpler characters (like my “Meat Bear“) that seemed to be more popular. Hardly a surprise I suppose, and the reason why I always try to produce a range of work as I know that skulls are not to everyone’s liking. It was also the first time that I had displayed my papercraft, which gave people something a little different to look at.
I am currently playing with some ideas for different kinds of exhibitions, but if possible I would like to keep the Gravity project going and have at least one group show a year.
Thanks to all the members and also to our visitors of course.
Matt Hawkins kindly sent me a link to a short video that will be featured on the DVD to be released with his book “Urban Paper: 25 Designer Toys to Cut Out and Build” next Spring.
It introduces all of the featured artists’ papercraft, and if you watch carefully a few of my designs are featured about halfway through.
On a similar note, I will be dropping my (delayed) papercraft for October very shortly.
I thought it was about time that I updated with a few pieces of Horrorwood news.
Firstly as I am sure most of you will have noticed I am slowly bringing a few different touches to the site and started with a new header logo.
This also brings me to my second piece of news. I have just completed my third t-shirt design. The front bears the above new logo in shocking pink, with “The Beast of Horrorwood” curled up on the back. I personally feel that this is the best shirt so far. More details can be found on the t-shirts page.
Thirdly, as I may have mentioned before, my papercraft “Go Bananas” is to feature in a bona fide published book. It is called “Urban Paper: 25 Designer Toys to Cut Out and Build“, and was put together by web aquaintance Matt Hawkins, who kindly asked me to join the project a few months ago. The book will be out next Spring but is available for pre-order on Amazon now. It will include a DVD of all the papercraft designs for readers to put together themselves.
Lastly, today was the opening day of The Art of Gravity Part 3 show. It was a national holiday here in Japan today and this was reflected in the number of visitors we had (over 100 at the midway point when I left). We were also interviewed live on local radio. I feel that I have upped the ante both with the quality of my artwork and display this year. The show will be running all week if anyone is in the area.
There is nothing I find more satisfying than getting a piece of original artwork from a friend or acquaintance.
A while back an internet acquaintance of mine, the highly talented comic book artist Eric Talbot, expressed an interest in my skullboy t-shirts.
A few months ago I found that I had one of the shirts hidden away in a cupboard and so I decided to send it to Eric. In return Eric was kind enough to send me the illustration pictured here. Needless to say I was over the moon.
It is great to hold traditional artwork of this quality in one’s own hands, especially as someone who does everything digitally.
Eric has several excellent blogs on which he regularly introduces his artwork. Please take a look: BLARGH! SKULL FINK BLOG SOGOTH