Mangalore Mask- The Fifth Element

I decided to make  mask of the Mangalores from The Fifth Element, a group of characters that I had always liked growing up, even though they were completely ridiculous.

I got myself some good screencaps from the blu ray and set about sculpting the mask in water based clay on top of a generic human form. I decided to sculpt a random Mangalore, instead of aiming for one specific one. Looking at the movie it seems that there were at least 4 headsculpts for the background characters, and then the lead character Aknot. I decided to go with a closed mouth pose for this first mask as it would be easier.

 Photos of the finished clay sculpt



 I didnt have time to fully document the moulding process, but here is a picture of the mould wall, half way through moulding

Raw latex cast straight from the mould on the left, and on the right is the same mask all trimmed and cleaned up.

after a few evenings of painting, here is the final mask, with the eyeholes now cut out

Now i need to sculpt some hands to go with the head!

Alien Mask color variants

some better color photos of my mask from the previous post, with an additional new color variant.

Avengers of Roarsville!

Its official!! season 2 of Henry Hugglemonster has been announced! 

and on that note I thought it would be a good time to share a Hugglemonster mash-up that was done earlier in the year (But had not been able to post it due to an unreleased character) 

So here it is, a Monstery version of Marvel's Avengers.

each character was done with Pen and Watercolor on brown card before being slapped together in a New York scene.

First, Henry as Cap' Merica!

 

Cobby the inventor as Iron Man!

Summer as Black Widow

 

Denzel as the God of Thunder- THOR!

 

The mighty Estelle as Hulk

 

and finally the bad-guy, Roddy as Loki

More Kaiju

Some more Kaiju doodles, more watercolors. I think this could become a new epidemic on this blog, much like aliens, robots and dinosaurs already infect the place.

Lunchtime Kaiju

Saw Pacific Rim on the weekend,blown away by everything, particularly the creature design, so when i was out at lunch yesterday I decided to have a go at some of my own Kaiju designs. A bit rough and ready, but tonnes of fun. (about 26,000 tonnes to be exact)

Iron Cobby (Hugglemonsters)

Saw Iron Man 3 yesterday, completely blown away.. so I couldn't resist a sneak peak at part of a larger Huggle-mashup that I have yet to reveal.  Cobby as Iron man. I figure he is the inventor of the show, he must have made one of these suits for himself at some point. (anyone who doesn't know Cobby, check out Disney Brown Bags 'Henry Hugglemonster'- its awesome!)

watercolor and acrylic on brown card paper

Digital Painting Practice

Been a while since I updated, was working on another Hugglemonsters Mashup that will be uploaded in a few weeks (certain characters in it are not released on TV yet so it will have to wait), in the meantime here are some painting sketchey things I've been doing.

 found some cool photos and tried to roughly capture the color etc freehand.

 posted a sketch a few weeks back and revisited it in my free time to practice some new techniques I've learned from the Wizards of BBF. also made a cool new cover image, killing 2 birds with one stone!

'Game of Roars'

Another Hugglemonsters mashup, this time- Game of Thrones!

began sketching Daddo in the iconic 'Eddard Stark' pose.

final sketch, watercolor + acrylic, with some final touching up in Photoshop.

Breaking Bad: Roarsville

Been watching lots of Breaking Bad lately and had to do a Hugglemonster version, with Daddo as 'Walt' and Denzel as 'Jesse'. I figured  Daddo wouldnt be cooking 'Huggle-phetamines' with his son, and Denzel seems the perfect fit for the duo.

This is the initial doodle..

 

Then cleaned up with fine pen (sorry about photo quality-no scanner)

Acrylic + Watercolor overlay

some extra shadows added in Photoshop

 

Alien Oil Paintings

 Still practicing the oil painting technique, decided to do 2 ridiculous looking alien Generals covered in medals, might do a few more of these types of paintings. (must finish the HuggleStitch soon too...)

HuggleMonster Stitch Crossover (WIP) Oil on Canvas

While working on BrownBagFilms 'Hugglemonsters' i started doodling crossovers with other characters and shows. this one is 'Stitch Hugglemonster' basically Disneys Stitch wearing a Henry costume. below is a WIP oil on canvas of him, still some more to do,some highlights and shading, and then a backround of course.

 (legal note- this is based on designs by Disney and BrownBagFilms/Niamh Sharkey- Please dont sue me guys!)

 

Watercolour Doodles

playing around with some watercolours, Ive never really used them properly on watercolour paper before, think i need a little more practice