If you’re a fan of Little Big Planet, then you’ll love these custom crocheted Sackboy dolls that Maggie Wang designs and creates. On her site she displays her Sackboy versions of Hellboy, Spock, Daft Wullie, and Classic Sackboy, of which my favorite is definitely the Hellboy. Little Big Planet needs to make a Hellboy costume to use in the game!
On the popular video gaming site, Kotaku, there is a post showing Maggie’s version of a Prince of Persia Sackboy. VERY cool, and although I love the Hellboy version I must say that this one takes the cake. He’s got a sword and claws, for cryin’ out loud!
I thought these were so cool that a few months ago I actually tried to order one for my wife’s birthday, but after a few attempts at contacting Maggie, I’ve given up. I’m sure she’s overwhelmed with orders and emails, so I’ll have to hold off for a future date. I originally held off on posting about this because I didn’t want to ruin the surprise, but now that I know I won’t get one in time for my wife’s birthday, I can’t hold it any longer. These are just way too cool.
If you actually have luck contacting Maggie and are able to get your own Custom Sackboy ordered, please share by posting links to photos of your Sackboy in the Comments area. I’d love to see what she does next!
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This was done for a company that licenses various types of artwork. It needed to be fun, friendly, and colorful.
Happy Halloween everyone! Just finished coloring this illustration that I did a while back (I’m not even going to mention how long this has been in the ‘To Do’ pile), and I wanted to wish everyone out there a Happy Halloween.
Hope you enjoy the illustration, I’ve included a few monsters and one gigantic pumpkin for your viewing pleasure.
Available as a print in my DeviantART Print Shop as well as my RedBubble Print Shop. Enjoy!
I was forwarded a link to a site with some really amazing Jack O’ Lantern sculpts. Sculpts? Well, technically he’s carving these pumpkins, but as the carving isn’t going all the way through the shell of the pumpkin the end result looks more like a relief than a carving. See for yourself, click here to view the entire gallery at Villafane Studios.
My personal favorite is the Predator pumpkin. How awesome is that?!
Announcing On Consecrated Ground: Volume 2, a collaborative horror book featuring short stories and art from a variety of talented individuals. I’m honored to be a part of this book, it’s been really fun to work on a group project such as this.
I played a few roles in the development of this book, designing the cover art and submitting some of my recent work to be included. The following works are featured in the book (in no particular order):
Midnight Stumbler
Family Portrait
Scarlet the Destroyer
Mortar of Apocalypse
Behind the Mask
There are two versions of the book, one in full color and the other in black and white. The full color version retails at $41.95 and comes with the black cover (shown), while the black and white version retails at $13.95 comes with the white cover.
I hope you like this book, I think it will be a great book to enjoy during this year’s Halloween season.
Purchase the full color version for $41.95
Purchase the black and white version for $13.95
On Consecrated Ground Volume 2
After gaining print permission from the gracious Amminopurr, my new wallpaper The Moment is now available as a print.
You can purchase a print one of two ways, through my DeviantART Print Shop or through my Print Shop on RedBubble. I’m looking forward to making more designs like this in the future as I’m really happy with the way this one turned out. I’ll keep you posted on upcoming and new art as always, so stay tuned and spread the word.
Desktop Preview
I’ve been really, really busy lately working on a slew of great new projects but I thought I’d take the time to put together a new wallpaper for you to enjoy over Memorial Day Weekend.
This new wallpaper is called The Moment, and it centers around the idea of letting yourself go in the moment wherever you are in life. Too often it’s easy to get caught up in the dramas of work and every day life (as I know all too well), and this visual representation is my way of smoothing out the ruffles to get ready to let go of everything and relax over this nice upcoming holiday weekend.
I used some stock imagery for this wallpaper, so I want to give credit to Amminopurr for this great shot of the girl with the headphones. The rest came out of my fingertips.
You can download the full wallpaper package here. If you need help getting your wallpaper set up on your desktop, follow the instructions below.
Directions for Mac users or Directions for Windows users
After some serious thought, I’ve updated the layout of this blog a little and added in some new features as well. Since I joined the art community over at RedBubble about a month ago, I’ve really grown to love the layout and community of the site. I’ve made some friends and gotten some great reviews on my work, and that’s good because positive feedback and expression really does help an artist maintain and continue to work on new things. Without that positive feedback, it’s hard to find motivation sometimes and really work to get new art out there. That said, thanks a ton to RedBubble for your great community site.
With the addition of RedBubble in my life, I’ve found a great tool to display my art and allow people to easily purchase works so I added that to the sidebar of this blog. Not too sure how that will affect traffic, but hopefully people will see my work and enjoy it.
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You’ll also notice affiliate links for sites such as FlashDen, StickerJunkie, and to the book How to be a Rockstar Freelancer. These are sites and products that have influenced my work and they really are great tools for anyone working in the design industry. There will be more to come as I’m finding that I enjoy promoting these tools that help me, hopefully I can pass on this information I’ve found and eventually help other designers out.
I’ve been working on a bunch of new projects recently that have kept me very, very busy. A few websites will be launching soon, so I’m excited about that. I also have a few personal projects that I need to keep secretive at this point but will hopefully become fruitful upon their exposure to the outside world. Keep checking back, I’ll be posting more and more in the months to come.
My first Zombie-related illustration (hard to believe I know), but definitely not my last. You can view it on my DeviantART account or my RedBubble account.
My illustration The Back was featured in the art community RedBubble’s main gallery this weekend. Thanks!
You can visit my artwork area and see what I have to show, they also have a Print Shop setup as well.
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