Wednesday, October 17, 2012

PANDROID

UPDATE!

My Pandroid APs go on sale from my shop www.kdenato.bigcartel.com TOMORROW! Thursday October 18th 3pm EST/12pm Pacific.  Remember, I only have 10 so get on it!

(Previous post:)

Because of the amount of info and images I'm about to post about the Pandroid AP's, I've decided to make it a separate blog entry from the NYCC entry.  For information regarding NYCC please visit the previous post. Basic information - 15-20 these will be available at the My Plastic Heart booth at NYCC. The rest will be available online in my soon-to-be bigcartel shop. Prices and details soon. There are ONLY 30 total so.. yeah. These will be blind box! Don't know what yer gonna get and not tellin' :P There are 15 with Jugs of Wine & Grapes, 8 with Pink Wabbits, and 7 with Purple Wabbits - Good luck!

PANDROIDS!
My Pearly Pandroid Army!!! Armed with Pink and Purple Wabbits with Flocked Tails and Jugs of Wine with Handmade Glass Grapes - Look out world...

Pearly Pandroid! I've coated each of the AP's with a nice opalescent shimmer - he is a magical beast afterall


Everybodyalltogether

Everybodyalltogether - jugs up front!


Bunnies will be available in two variations - White & Pink or White & Purple (pictured here)

Pearly Pandroid AP with White & Pink Bunny

Pearly Pandroid AP with White & Purple Bunny

Pearly Pandroid with Jug of Wine & Bunch of Grapes! Yum...

The White & Pink Bunny has a lil' hand flocked pink tail

The White & Pink Bunny has a lil' hand flocked purple tail

This is the flower on each bunnies little island of sod

Jug of Wine & Bunch of Grapes! I hand-painted and glazed the jugs to look like stonewear and hand made each teeny tiny bunch of grapes! Painstaking process but I really like the results.  I believe these glass microbeads (also known as "glass caviar - ooo) will be appearing in my work again in the near future....


Nice shot to give you an idea of scale - tiny!

Making of - GRAPES!






Monday, October 15, 2012

Shop is Open! www.kdenato.bigcartel.com

Check it out guys! Nothing fancy but still - pretty exciting :) Currently available are my Super Hero inspired prints created for NYCC 2012.  They are 8x10 Giclee's on lovely archival velvet paper. Get ya some :P Also coming soon a limited selection of my "Pandroid" Android Series 3 Artist Proofs! Feel free to hit me up about anything you might like to see up there.

 
www.kdenato.bigcartel.com


One of my favs in the print set and in all of comic bookdom - Hellboy! http://kdenato.bigcartel.com/product/hellboy-at-home

Sunday, October 14, 2012

NYCC 2012 Oct 11-14th

Hey guys! NYCC is over and DONE!! What an awesome and exhausting weekend :P I met so many great people - artists and fans alike and had such an incredible time.  During my time at the Art Whino booth I was live painting - I didn't finish before the end of the con but I feel like I made some good progress and can't wait to see this thing through to completion! (WIP shots below - hooray! Apologies in advance for the terrible quality of the images)  I'm also posting some shots from the booth itself and general NYCC 2012 happyfungoodtimes :)

A little detail of my NoseferBATu/Batgirl work in progress from the live painting at Art Whino

WIP full shot - this is really early to be showing this.  It's gonna go through tons of changes before it's done!


Tea anyone? >chomp<


Trimming Hellboy prints for NYCC! Now for sale on my site www.kdenato.bigcartel.com

Check out this line-up! Way to go Art Whino

Nice shot of the booth - Woes had finished all those paintings before I even got there on the first day.  The man's a machine!

Shane of Art Whino and Woes at the booth - the calm before the storm...
WORK (At the booth with Lou Pimentel & Jryu Jess)
WORK (Photo by Aaron Woes)

PLAY!!!!! (photo by Annie Tao)

My Pandroid at My Plastic Heart's booth!  He's in some seriously good Shawnimals company :)

Yes. This happened.  It's tough to tell from a pic but we had a huge impromptu Gangnam style dance party erupt in front of the booth late Friday - it was UHmazeballz!~ See the video Lou Pimentel took here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53mnfv5NEY I am STILL not over it haha

Also these are just a few pics of the breakdance battles that randomly started in front of the booth.  Props to our DJs for really bringing the party!

LIVE PAINTING! With Kano, Jeremiah Ketner, and Aaron Woes - all of these sold! Congrats to the Artists and to Art Whino


NYCC is closing in! I've been so busy preparing I haven't had much of a chance to update lately! First - DETAILS! I'll be at the Art Whino booth #3212 (i am pretty sure...) most of the time doing live painting with an awesome group of folks! And also doing a signing there on Saturday at 1pm.  If you miss that dont fret! I'll be at booth My Plastic Heart  #3313 doing signings there as well! (@2pm Saturday during Andrew Bell's singing hour) My Plastic Heart will have a LIMITED number of my Android Series 3 - Pandroid APs with an exclusive print and companion mini sculpt! The work in progress shots and print image are below.  You'll be able to choose a wine jug or a bunny (15 of each total) :)

Meet the Pandroid! Android Series 3 from DYZPlastic and designed by moi :) Look at his cute lil flute



Master sculpts for the Pandroids companions - the finals will vary slightly

Close up of a bunny sans ears

bunny and jug army! look out!
The Pandroid Print! Printed on lovely velvet finish paper - 8 x 10 format


NYCC 2012 is just around the corner folks - October 11-14th! I'll be participating in Art Whino's booth for the entire weekend with a lil visit to My Plastic Heart's  booth - it's exciting!

My Plastic Heart's booth will be host to tons of great designer toys and artists signings.  I'll be there with some of my Android Vinyl Toys Series 3s & exclusive companion prints (I can show you all this after the public release September 24th so be on the lookout)

Art Whino booth includes: Adrian Viajero Roman, Angry Woebots, Ekundayo, J★RYU, Jeremiah Ketner, Josh Taylor, Lamour Supreme, kaNO, and Lou Pimentel - the dudes I know are some seriously fantastic dudes :) And the ones I don't know I'm sure are pretty special too. One thing for sure is they are all supremely talented! We will all be LIVE PAINTING (I'm terrified) at the booth and doing signings throughout the weekend.  Booth #'s and signing times I'll post as soon as I get them.

I've posted some of these sketches on instagram/twitter but here they are san's ig filters and pre-color.  Most are painted and ready to go but I haven't decided which will be made into prints for the con.  Maybe all of them?? How to decide...

Hellboy at Home - knitwit

Mary Jane's Little Ankle Biter

Ivy ala Ozzy

Wonder Woman - "My Work Here is Done"



Tuesday, September 25, 2012

MOO! Teaming up with MOO.com for a Giveaway!

My moo.com cards arrived and they are lovely! I'm very pleased.  The gloss coating on the postcards is like a rich candy lacquer - mmmm... I'm considering keeping a set of one image each for myself! Maybe putting them in an album to create a portfolio of sorts?! Below are some images of my order - It's a shame the gloss can't translate in a photo but just look at that packaging - good stuff ;)










Hey Guys! I just placed my order with Moo.com for a bunch of postcards and minicards to hand out at NYCC. I'm super excited because Moo allows you to have as many different designs as you want per order! So I get to show of tons of my stuff on my Moo cards instead of having to choose just one image - which is great for me and my epic indecisiveness ;)

But wait - it gets better! The great folks at Moo.com have allowed me to offer a giveaway of some awesome Moo products to you! Try Holiday Cards, Business Cards, or (my favorite) mini moo cards! I'll be updating on here, instagram, and twitter (@nopunchbacks) with more details.
Get ready to get your Moo on...

Empty Moo?! That just won't do!
 My new mini cards come soon - I'm pretty excited :)

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Wedding Commission

No silly, not a committee that oversees weddings, but a lovely bride-to-be that commissioned a painting as a grooms gift for her fiance! What an immeasurable honor.  They were married this past Sunday, September 9th and now that the gifts have been exchanged and I no longer risk spoiling the surprise, I'm going to show you the completed piece! (click it or scroll to the bottom to see it larger)

18 x 20 inches, Acrylic on Wood Panel
I was given no direction other than general scale and tone and so subject was completely open! Both an exciting and a daunting undertaking.  Though it was a wedding gift, I realized I didn't want to make the portrait too wedding-centric.  I didn't want to focus on that one day but on the lifetime the couple is planning together.  That's when the idea came to surround the embracing couple with animals that mate for life! My research on the subject brought into light all sorts of creatures in the animal kingdom that are fiercely loyal and monogamous - termites, albatross, wolves - who knew!? But to avoid other connotations some of those animals carry (destruction, doom, general naughtiness) I decided on animals that have a visual elegance and/or a ingrained history of being symbols of love everlasting - swans, turtle doves, and french angel fish! Below is the original sketch and some details of the painting and animals.

A close up of the flower bouquet - I had a little fun here painting thick & loose which I don't often find opportunity to do in my style.

The final sketch

Detail of the Swans at her feet

Detail of the French Angel Fish

Detail of the Two Turtle Doves
(I put this here so you could see it larger - in case you didn't click the first one ;P )