MACRODONS @ aarting: CROM - design details

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MACRODONS @ aarting: BOGEY - design details

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MACRODONS @ aarting: XENON - design details

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Aarting's previous toy design is the 'Blankie' -designed for a competition to customize the figure, see the winning designs for series 1 & series 2 (soon to be released).

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380 (sketch for new toy design)

Next MACRODON figure to be sculpted!

379 (sketch for new toy design)

this drawing is really rough, but I really liked the half-way-there unfinished state it is in; the design is pretty clear, and just leaves a few things left to resolve. (i.e. is that a hole or an eye? Xenon?)

378 (sketch for new toy design)

This would make a good blank DIY toy, but it is almost too simple, it just about stops being a MACRODON.

377 (sketch for new toy design)

standard Moleskine paper is pretty lousy. The ink had bled through the last drawing so much I just sort of went with the smudgy shape already happening, and ended up with a melting squid-like MACRODON figure...

376 (sketch for new toy design)

another of my recent faves, after making a clay sculpt of "BOGEY", I really liked the idea of 3-legged MACRODONS, and in this case, I think it would be almost symmetrical.

375 (sketch for new toy design)

this MACRODON belongs in the last series of "Bean-Shaped" MACRODONS, and, again, maybe I did already draw it...

374 (sketch for new toy design)

This MACRODON is so big that other MACRODONS walk around on it's flat head and don't realize they are walking on a MACRODON (?)

this paper is really crappy...

373 (sketch for new toy design)

Return of the Crystal Castles Creatures!

372 (sketch for new toy design)

I feel like this design has potential for the third dimension as a future sculpture/toy..

371 (sketch for new toy design)

déjà vu, I really feel like I've made this exact drawing before... and maybe I have. I need to go through the last year of MACRODONS again and see how many drawings turned out to be repeats, known, or unknown to me (?)

370 (sketch for new toy design)

The next 11 posts are other ideas for toy designs I came up with that didn't quite make the cut for now (or at all).

Here, the strong-armed MACRODON makes a reappearance... a bit different than before...

MACRODON 'XENON' -toy design

MACRODON #369 -'XENON' -final version.

xenon
1) 1898, from Greek, "foreign, strange," coined by its discoverer, Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)
2) 'vacuum' -properly a loan/translation of Greek, 'xenon,' lit. "that which is empty." Meaning "a place emptied of air" is attested from 1652.

(as seen here, the circle in the sketch is actually a hole)

MACRODON 'BOGEY' -toy design

MACRODON #368 -'BOGEY' -final version.

as it can be seen, this MACRODON ended up with a more tubular variation on the skinny arm I started with, and I wanted to do something a bit different with his legs, so this will be the first MACRODON sculpt with 3 legs!)

MACRODON 'CROM' -toy design

MACRODON #367 -nicknamed 'CROM' -final version.
(I don't usually name each MACROODN, but I may start)

above is the unedited photo of the clay sculpt, the image at the top was edited to have a cool gray color, for a 'blank' uncolored neutral look. And below, I had a bit of fun testing some solid colors I liked:

upcoming projects - sneak peak #3

unlike the previous designs, MACRODON 369 started with this sketch
(whereas the others were 'sketched' first in clay)

upcoming projects - sneak peak #2

another work in progress, MACRODON 368, here I am trying to figure out the upper appendages / arms, below are the two versions I am thinking about...

upcoming projects - sneak peak #1

here is an early look at MACRODON 367 -a preliminary sculpt for a new toy design...



it was first conceived to stand on either end, below is the view of the figure, flipped over.

MACRODONS @ Long Beach Museum of Art

ART AUCTION XIII -Sun. 09.20, 4-9pm
EXHIBITION & PREVIEW : 09.04 - 09.19

MACRODONS ON EXHIBIT NOW! Visit the Long Beach Museum of Art and check out a group exhibition, including newly discovered MACRODONS. The exhibit was curated by John Geldbach, owner/director of DDR Projects, Art Gallery/Toy Store -so, it promises to be a good show.

All proceeds from the Auction support the Museum’s educational programming, serving over 15,000 children and hundreds of families throughout the greater Long Beach area, each year.

In conjunction with Art Auction 13, LBMA will host "Collector's Bootcamp," an educational seminar on how to create the art collection you have always wanted. Each session will cover topics essential in starting and maintaining a collection of art that meets your aesthetic and long-term investment ideals. Join museum professionals, gallerists, artists, as well as other art collectors for an insider view on the do’s and don’t of collection artworks in today’s society.

Long Beach Museum of Art - 2300 E. Ocean Boulevard - 562.439.2119
HOURS: Tuesday - Sunday: 11 - 5pm, closed Mondays [MAP]

DDR Projects - 3403 East Broadway Long Beach, CA 90803 - 562.434.8480
HOURS: Tuesday - Friday 3 - 9, Saturday 12 - 6, Sun & Mon. Closed [MAP]

1 YEAR OF DAILY MACRODON DRAWINGS!

Today marks the one-year anniversary for the MACRODON sketch-blog -which now includes way more than 365 MACRODON drawings, 425 posts, and many other random musings sometimes MACRODON related, sometimes not... whew!

+ "one to grow on" with MACRODON #366 and it's tentacled arms, above...

Time for a little break now, I think...

I ♥ TMNT

As made evident in the last few posts, I went off on my ♥ for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and specifically the disembodied brain, Krang, the villain from Dimension X.

In the newer cartoon, Krang has a weaker appearance
(and looks a lot like my recent herd of MACRODONS drawing)

But, let's not forget ♥ April O'Neil ♥ -who was probably pretty high up on the list in my 8 year-old brain, as a reason to watch TMNT (as if martial arts, weapon wielding, humanoid, wise-cracking turtles in battle with weird aliens and mutated monsters wasn't reason enough)

so... Halloween...? Yeah, you guessed it:

KRANG! in 3-D!

My recent obsession with TMNT's Krang led me to many amazing finds, first is Speedlee's custom Krang & Android toy -visit his site to see many more awesome customs, including several more custom Ninja Turtles toys.

it seems NECA announced several forthcoming Ninja Turtles toys. Here is a closeup of their version of Krang.

searching the web for "Krang" yielded this clever version of Krang + walker in LEGOS! by oneosendai2600



And lastly, paperfoldables.com has a fantastic downloadable PDF to make your very own foldable Krang + android, click! download! make! *and if anyone is clever enough to make a foldable MACRODON, that would be pretty freaking awesome!

365 = KRANG!

Krang, also has a large humanoid body to move around in, it looks like a beefy plasticized neanderthal from the future with 1980s shades, a forked antennae, and with a compartment in it's mid-section for Krang. I didn't want to be too literal, so this is my interpretation of that TMNT villain as a MACRODON.

from the cartoon:

from the comic:

the toy:

and Photoshop:

364 = KRANG!

Krang, from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon is just a brain (a brain with a face, and wierd tentacles) so, how does he get around? In adition to his mini legs (seen in last post), he also has a sort of walker, so again, in the spirit of MACRODON-izing Krang once again, I extended his body into the form of his walker device. *it looks like Krang want's to color MACRODONS with his purple crayon.

here is the Krang-walker in all it's plastic glory: