tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37796274314711782022024-03-14T00:29:43.991-07:00Art and Design of David. Edrowning out the screaming void, one post at a timeMabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-80784138300182782782020-08-13T12:33:00.003-07:002020-08-13T12:37:51.426-07:00The Prise of the Probots<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, it's been a while. I haven't stopped doing stuff, just I can't find the time these days to get it digitized in some way and put it up here (blame the 9 month old baby).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Still continuing just drawing at the moment. Liking the fact I can just scribble and it ends up becoming something. Thought I'd do a mechanical version of the goblin orchestra, thing is straight lines and machines aren't really my thing. I much prefer natural shapes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Can't say I'm all that happy with it, but here it is. Kinda wished I'd populated it with more robots. Thought that I had quite a crowd of them, but then the floor started to appear. No idea where they're heading or what the big one is pointing at.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think there was a video game called Rise of the Robots...never played it. About as clever as it gets I'm afraid.</div>
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-63231015344080627432019-07-07T08:55:00.000-07:002019-07-07T09:16:47.287-07:00The Goblin OrchestraA little bit of a scribble. Nothing planned, just sort of let it be what it ended up being.<br />
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So...a sort of musical recital for some kind of underground fish monster monarch held by a bunch of weird creatures.<br />
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He doesn't appear to be all that pleased to be hearing it...<br />
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-70030748298161558372019-06-23T08:57:00.001-07:002019-06-23T09:08:17.339-07:00Our Topper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's another bit of wedding creativity. I've done a couple of cake toppers for other people and, while I had save the dates, invites, a seating plan and various other bits to do I made a cake topper as well. It would've been strange to not make one for <strong>my</strong> wedding. The idea is basically a 3D version of the save the date, combining a bunch of things that we both like. The TARDIS is me, as is the dinosaur. The cat and the Pride and Prejudice book is my wife. The pint of beer is for both of us.<br />
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The Lord of the Rings ring around the cat's neck is both of us as well.<br />
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As I've said before in several of these 'model build' posts I tend to avoid objects with straight lines. I put the clay on in blobs and then have to spend ages smoothing it flat. The dinosaur's tail is also kinda long...but I wanted it to wrap around everything.<br />
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We've been to weddings before where the cake is so enormous most of it gets thrown away. We didn't exactly get the smallest cake...bit it seems quite small with the topper on it!<br />
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-49365237266874440632019-03-30T03:12:00.000-07:002019-03-30T04:25:36.710-07:00The goggle-eyed mushroom gatherer
It's been quite a while since I've posted on here. Been quite busy. Doing another alphabet at the moment.<br />
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In the quiet bit's I thought I'd get back into charcoal, do something traditional while the grim February weather raged on. It took me ages to actually finish him, but here he is. This guy doesn't really have a backstory, I just thought I'd take the Brian Froud route and go from the eyes outwards. It's not something that usually works.</div>
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Anyway, just a bit of fun. I have an idea that the mountain king is having some sort of celebration and this guy is the official mushroom gatherer.</div>
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Makes sense to put the finished seating plan at the top. Here it is in situ on the day.</div>
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We also made standees of the characters for the tables and put the characters on the placecards as well..to make it clear which table people should be sat at.</div>
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Anyway here are all of the original versions.</div>
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Toothless from How to Train you Dragon (my wife)</div>
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A 1964 Dalek from Doctor Who (me).<br />
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Legolas and Gimli from The Lord of the Rings (both of us).<br />
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Minions from Despicable Me (my wife).<br />
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Gypsy Danger from Pacific Rim (both of us).<br />
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Russell and Fredriksen from Up (my wife).<br />
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The Macawnivore from The Croods (my wife).<br />
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The Gorn from Star Trek (me).<br />
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The Pirate Captain from Pirates, an Adventure with Scientists (my wife).<br />
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Berk, Boney and Drut from Trapdoor (me).<br />
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Talos from Jason and the Argonauts (me)..<br />
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An ewok from Star Wars (both of us).<br />
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Gorbash from Flight of Dragons (me).<br />
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The Centurion from Altered Beast (me).<br />
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Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service (my wife).<br />
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The Niffler from Fantastic Beasts (my wife).<br />
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Well, it's been a while since I posted on here and I have a reason. I got married! Yep, and I had to do something creative for it. So this is the first of 3 posts about all the decorations and design stuff me (and my now wife) did.<br />
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First of all come the save the dates and invitations. I started these way back in summer 2017..feels like a lifetime ago.<br />
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I tried in the beginning to come up with an overall theme, but then decided that the theme should be us. So I did something (that I think at least) has shades of Graeme Base's <a href="https://wordery.com/animalia-graeme-base-9780780763876?currency=GBP&gtrck=cnRTN3VBcE9zcUV2V0hQdWE1VmFGWlNwV3Q0OUdWbFYxQXN1Q09zVXRDaUhoeVRXb1JTMzJnZ3ZtTS9GU3g3SFQwZUtnM3VqY2MweVNkK3I1SFh1TlE9PQ&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6fehg-7Z3gIVrjLTCh1SKAtnEAkYASABEgI8R_D_BwE" style="color: #ff66cc; font-weight: bold;">Animalia</a>, one of my favourite books growing up.<br />
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So my wife likes cats, stained glass windows and Jane Austen and I like Doctor Who, Dinosaurs and we both like Lord of the Rings and ale so I came up with this for the save the date.<br />
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Next onto the invite. I went with the same kinda theme, but a bit more detailed.<br />
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So that's a Farnsworth from Warehouse 13, a martian from Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, Sir Arthur from Ghouls 'n ghosts, a cooking spoon, a pencil, Calvin and Hobbes, tea (my wife loves tea!), Poirot TV series, Catan, David Attenborough, and Carradine's Cockey Singalong. Very, very us!<br />
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A very old and dear friend of ours helped with putting the words on. Thanks a million Emma!<br />
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Very nice to do some painting again. Like acrylics, they're very bright and you can just wash the brushes off with water, not smelly old white spirit.<br />
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-35477948430149018262018-08-30T06:01:00.000-07:002018-08-31T13:47:26.122-07:00Cake TopperingHad a commission! Don't get many of those. Another wedding cake topper this time, pretty unconventional, but also conventional as well. I usually avoid doing models of actual human beings like the plague, but was being paid to do it this time so I had to.<br />
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The dog had to be replaced halfway through. He ended up being twice the size and with a weird scary face.<br />
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-42957394785819012662018-06-03T09:57:00.000-07:002018-11-16T13:59:32.855-08:00MCM on the airwavesSo, I was at MCM London Comic Con this past weekend. I was worried that, under the new management, my stuff wouldn’t go down as well. So the organizers are a bit OTT with the applications process, but the event is the same as ever. I made a nice, tidy bit of money as well, always good (and the little iZettle was incredibly handy).<br />
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That's my friend Oniphoenix who's got the other half of the table there. Check out his work <a href="http://www.oniphoenix.co.uk/" style="color: #ff66cc; font-weight: bold;">here</a><br />
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Something quite out there happened on the Saturday. Two young gentlemen came up to our table (my lovely lady was helping me that day) and asked me if I could do an interview for them about my work. Turns out they were the creators of a podcast called Wisdom Teeth where they talk about all things popular culture. Give their MCM feature episode a listen <a href="https://soundcloud.com/wisdomteethcast/comiccon" style="color: #ff66cc; font-weight: bold;">here</a>. (The interview with us occurs 14 minutes and 22 seconds in if you want to fast forward).<br />
<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-83779971005071277592018-05-15T13:59:00.002-07:002018-05-15T13:59:52.290-07:00Posters, posters, posters!It's been a bit of a while since I last posted. I have been working on stuff, just nothing all that new. My lovely lady thought it would be a good idea to put my <a href="http://mablox.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/paleozoic-alphabet-1.html" style="color: #ff66cc; font-weight: bold;">Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian</a> creatures and <a href="http://mablox.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/paleozoic-alphabet-2.html" style="color: #ff66cc; font-weight: bold;">Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian</a> creatures into actual alphabet posters.<br />
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And, just in case you wondered, I'm not wasting any time putting them on my Etsy shop either.<br />
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So I've got quite a collection of posters now.<br />
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I've also invested in a little thingy called an iZettle. It's a sort of mini card reader for small traders and the like. I'm going to be at the London MCM Comic Con at the end of the month, going to try it out then.<br />
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Ceratosaurus, Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Therizinosaurus, Chasmosaurus, Liopleurodon, Henodus, Stegosaurus, Euoplocephalus, Caudipteryx, Scelidosaurus, Iguanodon and an Apatosaurus being attacked by Dromaeosaurus in the middle.</div>
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Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-66142482450987428402017-11-13T11:52:00.000-08:002017-11-13T11:52:54.908-08:00National Elf ServiceThought I'd posted this a while back. This was done in a massive whirlwind along with two other flyers last year. Seeing as I've put the others up here I suppose this should go up too.<br />
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Seems like you can't look in any direction without seeing something superhero-themed these days. Seems to remind me of the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer, they've got sort of superpowered elves in those as well.<br />
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-50976614114406854942017-10-31T14:35:00.000-07:002017-10-31T14:45:10.714-07:00Sharks and salesA couple of things to post here. I've finished my sharks project, another poster.<br />
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I took this and my other stuff to the MCM Comic Con last weekend. Weirdly the shark poster sold the best. Made a nice bit of money, not as much as before. Oh, and by the way, that massive banner behind me in the photo fell on me on the first day.</div>
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Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-33516959517825224182017-10-24T09:19:00.001-07:002017-10-24T09:19:25.435-07:00Herne BeginsBit of drawing going on here, kinda similar to <a href="http://mablox.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/rdwald.html" style="color: #ff51ab; font-weight: bold;">The Raedwald thing I did a while back</a> but a bit more fictional. It started with an idea to draw a centurion..then I think listening to the latest Mike Oldfield album got in there somewhere as well. The cover's got a guy with a stag on it. <span style="font-size: 11px;">(thought I'd better credit Rupert Lloyd at Diablo Pixels for it..should be good)</span><br />
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So yeah, it ended up not being a centurion, but a legionnaire and then it seemed a bit odd for this deer and this roman to be hanging around together so I had this idea that he'd gone native during some campaign. He sticks a couple of antlers on his helmet, fashions a weird staff and starts the Herne the hunter myth.<br />
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-79631842796327004922017-06-27T12:40:00.000-07:002017-06-27T12:40:07.272-07:00Sharks so farIt's been a while since I posted anything and I don't think it's a good idea to keep projects 'secret' until they're finished. It's not like there's some army of adoring fans waiting on my every post.<br />
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So, I've gone from prehistoric things to planets to..sharks (and other similar things).<br />
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From the top left: Whale Shark, Frilled Shark, Basking Shark, Thresher Shark, Manta Ray, Greenland Shark, Zebra Shark, Sawback Angelshark, Coral Catshark, Prickly Dogfish, Lemon Shark, Giant Freshwater Stingray, Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Goblin Shark, Great White Shark, Tasseled Wobbegong and Port Jackson Shark.<br />
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Then plan is to do as many as I can before the next MCM Comic Con and then put them all in a big poster. That's the plan at least...Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-3156648161149045402017-04-23T12:39:00.001-07:002017-04-26T12:25:40.476-07:00Roll up roll up!Well, here it is people. My Etsy shop is finally open. Click <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Mablox?ref=l2-shopheader-name" style="color: #ff66d5; font-weight: bold;">here</a> to go straight to it.<br />
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My trusty old dinosaur alphabet<br />
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-5348723564941221872017-04-18T14:01:00.000-07:002017-04-19T01:04:14.197-07:00"By the Solstar Order!"<br />
I've had a bit of a comic renaissance over the past couple of years. I started getting Howard the Duck primarily for the ridiculousness of it and also to sort of promote one of the weirdest Marvel characters. I also started reading a comic called Age of Reptiles by Ricardo Delgado which, of course, was about dinosaurs.<br />
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Turns out this is about a space-travelling crusader trying to stamp out these aliens called dire wraiths. It's not all that bad. Imagine a sort of extremely noble medievalish iron man fighting horde after horde of blobby Thing creatures that can masquerade as humans. He's got a pretty weird history and has teamed up with the X Men and Transformers over the years, <a href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/rom-spaceknight-might-be-the-best-science-fiction-comi-1708849468" style="color:#ff66d5; font-weight:bold;">io9 did quite a good article on him a while back</a>.</div>
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-74004056744010823762017-02-22T13:18:00.000-08:002017-02-22T13:29:32.091-08:00SickosaurusI wouldn't put something up here as small as this, but it's been a while since I posted anything on here. Gotta keep up with the posts!<br />
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My lovely lady has a 4 year old nephew and he's broken his arm, it's in a big cast and everything. She asked me to put a dino in his get well card, thought I'd get out the watercolours for it. Been a little while. I was hampered a bit by the fact that it was embossed on the other side with construction vehicles.<br />
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In 2012 me and my lovely lady went to the Sutton Hoo site. We were both interested in going (she did English at university, particularly old English) and found the place absolutely fascinating. It's essentially a hill (called a barrow) with an old king buried inside it including everything that was left to him. The ravages of time have rotted all of the organic material, but the metal pieces (like brooches and sword blades) have survived. All that's left now is educated guesses and a bit of imagination. </div>
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-62721942936502651002016-09-24T14:55:00.001-07:002016-09-24T14:55:17.303-07:00Demogorgon!Well, this was bound to happen! I don't watch a large amount of TV, lots of series tend to get bogged down in soap opera shenanigans...dull as dishwater.<br />
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-6406788512125360392016-08-21T14:46:00.000-07:002016-08-22T02:10:23.940-07:00Early to middle JurassicThought I'd do another one of these dino collections. I did all early ones last time, <a href="http://mablox.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/triassic-to-early-jurassic.html" style="color: #ff66cc; font-weight: bold;">Triassic to early Jurassic</a>. These ones are from the early to middle Jurassic. Things are still kinda similar except that the big meat eaters are starting to appear and the long-necked sauropods are losing their clawed feet and becoming bigger.<br />
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<b>1. Pisanosaurus:</b> A sort of dino gazelle, thought I'd do him leaping about. Some of the later ones have these big quills on the backs of their tails, thought I'd put some on this one.<br />
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<b>2. Abrosaurus:</b> Big and lumbering, though nowhere near as big as they were going to get. Thought I'd do a study of the face, get a look at their weird peg teeth.<br />
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<b>3. Eustreptospondylus:</b> An example of a large theropod dinosaur. Not quite up there with the biggest ones yet. For some reason I just love the name. It was also discovered in the UK, near Oxford.<br />
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<b>4. Dilophosaurus:</b> Ahh, the old classic! Been obsessed with this guy since I first heard about him from Jurassic Park. There's no evidence whatsoever that they had a big frill or spat venom. That weird crest is a mystery.<br />
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<b>5. Scutellosaurus:</b> A sort of companion study with scelidosaurus from the first one. Armoured and agile. Another one that might've evolved into stegosaurus.<br />
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Also thinking I might take these to MCM Comic Con in October so I've sort of standardized the info a bit. Also some line drawings for a bit more clarity.</div>
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<br />Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-34754753220013593792016-07-02T15:24:00.000-07:002016-07-02T15:37:30.712-07:00The Cake's cake topperA commission! Don't get many of those. Two friends of mine were getting hitched and they wanted a more-than-ordinary topper for the cake. One is a scout leader, the other has really got into martial arts..both like minions. I actually used a cake base for the base, really quite sturdy and I could cut the wire feet into it so I'll use them for anything going forward. The only issue I came up against was minion's bare feet...do we ever see their bare feet? They're always wearing boots. Went to the actual wedding as well so got to see it in action.<br />
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Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-47695232501136098632016-06-03T14:29:00.001-07:002016-06-22T02:13:23.540-07:00MerchQuite a milestone post, this one. I've posted my separate dinos and stuff, but never had what I would call a 'line of merchandise' until now. I've been going to the MCM Comic Con in London's Excel Centre for 4 years now twice a year (on and off) and I started going with some short comics that I used to do about some cavemen that didn't sell too well. Gradually the dinos and other prehistoric stuff took the place of those and other random artwork over the years until now. I've got 3 epochs of time of extinct animals and a whole new 'sciencey' thing, planets! The idea for that was mostly inspired by a soft toy line called Celestial Buddies which do the same thing. However I extended it to all the spherical bodies in the solar system as well and added a lot of influence from Gustav Holst's Planets Suite.<div>
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Mabloxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656938533343254793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779627431471178202.post-80300459936168227882016-04-10T09:25:00.001-07:002016-04-10T09:41:24.864-07:00Triassic to early JurassicA bunch of dino drawings, not much to say about that. I started with the massospondylus in the middle and it ended up being a page with equally earlier ones. It's quite interesting (to me I suppose) to note that they have a fairly basic body plan this early on. No big crests and horns and stuff.<br />
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<b>Heterodontosaurus:</b> A sort of ugly warthog-style one with weird tusks.<br />
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<b>Liliensternus:</b> I think some precursor to the dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park. Seems to have a similar double head crest like him.<br />
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<b>Eoraptor:</b> Not like an actual velociraptor style raptor, those guys won't turn up until the Cretaceous. They've named a lot of different things 'raptor'.<br />
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<b>Coelophysis:</b> A poster dino for the Triassic period. They've been found with their own young inside fossilized inside their stomachs...times must've got lean.<br />
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<b>Scelidosaurus:</b> A sort of dino pig-sheep thing. The palaeontologist from the <a href="http://www.mablox.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/frasersaurus.html" style="color: white; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">stegosaurus lecture</a> I went to said that stegosaurus probably evolved from this one.<br />
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<b>Lesothosaurus:</b> A sort of dino deer. I've thought for a while that most dinosaurs weren't all that pretty to look at, all spikes and scales. Maybe with some strange whisker/feathers as well.<br />
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<b>Massospondylus:</b> The one in the middle. A precursor to the big long-necked sauropods of the Jurassic. They didn't have the big elephant-like legs and long claws on their front feet.<br />
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