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What are birds?

Posted on August 23, 2015 Leave a Comment

Today’s sketches cover some birdy ideas for designs that could be turned into brooches or pendants, similarly to how I painted the Callie and Marie charms. Most of these were painted with a brush pen without any pencil sketch underneath – considering that I’m pretty pleased with a couple of them.

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I’m playing around with a few birds and animals, I should probably pick a design to finalise before moving onto the next animal but if you have a creature that you’d like me to sketch up let me know and I’ll see what I come up with.

 

Posted in: Line Drawings, Sketches | Tagged: bird, blaugust, kookaburra, made by me, owl, peacock

Sushi Go! Score cards

Posted on August 19, 2015 2 Comments

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We recently acquired a set of Sushi Go. It’s an excellent game that caught my eye when I was on a print-and-play kick. It appeared in many PnP lists due to a trial version of the cards being made available while they were trying to raise funding for the game.

One difference between the PnP game and published one is a lack of scoring mechanism included with the game. The PnP game tried to use a pair of cards to represent the player’s food tray moving along the score track. I understand why it wasn’t included in the final game – it was a somewhat clunky way to keep track of points. But Sushi Go is a game that needs to have points kept track of between rounds, so I decided to make scorecards so that we don’t always have to scramble for pen and paper whenever we play a game!

These are inspired by a similar set of score cards that I saw on Board Game Geek. The art is grabbed from this player aid card. The important part is the scoring wheels that can be rotated to reflect the player’s current score. The rules and scoring details are all just window dressing really.

If you would like to make your own, you can download my file here.

Print out two copies of the first page and one copy of the second page onto stiffish paper.

Cut the scoring wheel page between the second and third row of circles. Fold the paper along the lines and glue together to create the double-sided scoring wheels.

The paper folds into a sturdy card once folded over itself. I used watercolour paper so I didn’t even need to glue them. If you’re using lighter paper you may want to apply glue across all faces (watch out for the ‘glue-free zones’, my nod to the Midnight Quiz) so that everything holds together.

You can get small split pins (brads) from the scrapbooking section of an art supplies store.

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Okay, I think I’m now up to date for Blaugust! Just need to work out what I’ll be posting about tomorrow…

Posted in: Crafts | Tagged: blaugust, board games, made by me, player aid, score card, sushi go

Katamari Crossing Coasters

Posted on August 19, 2015 1 Comment

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I have had this design complete for… *checks files* FOUR YEARS and somehow I never uploaded it online in any form.

I’ve played with it for a couple of product ideas, first as printed posters on yellow paper and then I toyed with making it as a shirt design.

I think these coasters are the perfect incarnation however. The black design on the yellow acrylic really evokes a street sign feel.

I make these by etching the design on my laser engraving machine. I leave the paper on the acrylic while the design is etched. After the etching is complete, I use black acrylic paint to fill in the etched areas, then lift the paper masking.

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Pre-orders available in my store now!

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Posted in: Lasering | Tagged: blaugust, coaster, katamari, katamari damacy, made by me

Pokémon Badges: Johto

Posted on August 17, 2015 Leave a Comment

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I’ve made a few badges from Pokémon before. My Hoenn badges were 3D printed on Shapeways out of full-colour sandstone.

My Unova badges were also printed on Shapeways, but that was only the bases. The colouring and finishing touches were done by hand. I used acrylic and watercolour paints as well as liquid sculpey to create the glassy look in those badges.

Now that I have a laser cutter I can make the flat badges (Johto, Sinnoh and Unova) from laser-etched wood. I paint them and fill them with a gloss varnish to create the glossy effect. The watercolour paint bleeds into the varnish slightly, which can add to that enameled look in some cases and can be a hindrance in others. In addition to the paints bleeding, I also found that the burnt wood residues seep colour into the varnish! Compare the top set of badges with the set below. The varnish has done an excellent job of deepening the colours and making them stand out… but you can also see a yellowing that comes from the MDF. It’s most noticable in the Zephyr badge but the blue badges also suffer pretty badly.

I’ll be working to fix these issues but I think that overall these badges are working out nicely. One day I’ll finish the 3D models I’ve made of the Kalos badges…

 

P.S. you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been playing around with the look of the Hive badge. While the rest of the Johto badges had that uniform look, Bugsy for some reason decided to have a black-rimmed badge. Perhaps in a limited palette the concept of the ladybird didn’t translate well with a silver rim. Regardless, I decided I’d have no such inconsistency in my set. The Rising badge gets a little bit of red in its borders but I guess that’s the privileges you get when you train dragons. No way am I letting a kid bug trainer get away with nonsense like a differently coloured badge!

Posted in: Lasering | Tagged: badges, blaugust, gym leaders, hand made, johto, lasercut, made by me, pokemon

Prototype Aerodactyl Model Kit

Posted on August 16, 2015 Leave a Comment

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Remember those awesome dinosaur model kits from when you were a kid? I’m working on a Viridian Pewter City Museum collection – Pokémon model dinosaur kits! This is the first, Aerodactyl.

I model the design in Blender first.

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After making the 3D model out of flat planes, I mark out areas where the parts intersect. The model is then exported into a 2D file, using this excellent Paper Model Export script which allows me to set the scale of the complete model. After export, a number of things must be done to make each piece ready for cutting. The tail piece is shown as an example below.

Each point of interconnect initially gets exported as a normal “cut” line. This must be expanded into a 3mm wide line, and then the length of the line must be extended past the outline of the piece. Then the width of these lines is removed from the area of the piece.

 

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Each piece is laser cut and the whole model can be assembled by slotting the correct parts together!

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I need to make a lot of fixes to the design still but the overall concept works. Unfortunately the other Kanto fossils don’t really suit being made into model kits, but there are some good candidates throughout the series!

Posted in: Lasering | Tagged: aerodactyl, blaugust, lasercut, made by me, pokemon

Sandshrew, Breloom and Goodra

Posted on August 15, 2015 Leave a Comment

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I drew these guys while attending Adelaide’s Pokémon VGC event! Sandshrew was drawn as part of a Reddit collab where each artist would draw one Pokémon. You can check out the full album of art here!

 

 

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Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: blaugust, breloom, goodra, made by me, pokemon, sandshrew, watercolour

Watercolour Wiimote Cover – Lucina

Posted on August 14, 2015 Leave a Comment

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This custom Wii Remote cover features Lucina. The technique I used to paint it was the same as the Splatoon covers I shared last week. In my pictures today I show the considerations I make about the inclusion of the sloped sides of the cover. I try to keep detail out of the sides and all of the main features to the middle.

I also painted a cover featuring the Kanto Starters, but it looks like I sold it without taking a photo first! So I’m down one post for the upcoming Pokemon Week. It’ll probably be a mix of Pokemon and miscellany 🙂

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Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: blaugust, fire emblem, lucina, made by me, smash bros, watercolour

Sparring Partners

Posted on August 13, 2015 Leave a Comment

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Lucario and Little Mac! I think this was meant to be a prep sketch for a larger piece, but I abandoned it for some reason. The file has many layers with Little Mac in a few different punching poses. This is one of the more energetic ones.

Posted in: Line Drawings | Tagged: blaugust, little mac, lucario, made by me, nintendo, pokemon, punch out, smash bros

“I brought you this lit bob-omb!”

Posted on August 12, 2015 Leave a Comment

I drew this one after some early gameplay footage of Smash Bros for WiiU was seen. In it, people observed Olimar’s Pikmin bringing him items. Someone observed it would be somewhat humorous if the helpful little guys brought dangerous items to Olimar!

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I have no idea how I forgot to draw in the bob-omb’s limbs and face. I had them pencilled in but when it came time to ink I just went into “it’s just a bomb” mode I guess.

Posted in: Line Drawings | Tagged: blaugust, bombs, made by me, olimar, pikmin, smash bros

Ness and Lucas

Posted on August 11, 2015 Leave a Comment

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A pair of Psi-kids!

The background for this one ended up as a happy accident with the green gradient turning into purple by the bottom of the piece.

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Also, I had a phone case with the design printed on it, I think it works quite well for the size and shape of the piece.

 

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: blaugust, earthbound, lucas, made by me, mother, ness, pk flash, smash bros, watercolour
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