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:

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:

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triple fin, or designs for a MACRODON toaster?

337, drawing over

giant slug or MACRODON

BOTH!

?

what the hell?!

okay, this MACRODON (slug), sort of subconsciously spawned from thoughts of an awesome toy I just saw at the new Kidrobot store in Dallas. Frank Kozik's "Ride 'em Bob" a smorking labbit, on a smorking slug. Perfectly ridiculous. I LOVE IT.

this last section of MACRODON #327 (below) didn't really have anything to offer -aside from slug-inspiring subconscious Kidrobot memories.

336, drawing over

I flipped the drawing on it's side, because I don't really see too many MACRODONS flying, and one with this shape seems to need to be grounded by gravity, below it appears quite odd 'flying'.

I was having a very hard time resolving this drawing, at one point it seemed to want to go in two completely different directions, or are they 2 MACRODONS conjoined at the head?

see below for the direction the drawing didn't take, but I felt the need to attempt to resolve it via Photoshop by clocking out it's conjoined sibling.

it would appear that the last few drawings didn't really retain any significant signs of the underdrawing: MACRODON #327, just some dots...

333, drawing over

this MACRODON felt like a nebula, or galaxy, or some kind of spacial entity, so I inverted the colors in Photoshop, and I think it looks pretty bad ass!

not a lot changed between these two 'before' and 'after' drawing scans.

just about the only things to remain from the previous MACRODON #327 drawing, are the dots and stippling that went on to become stars.

326.10 ½ (Photoshop-IFICATION)

In Photoshop, I, VERY roughly sketched out a shape somewhat better than the last post ...

324.06 + 324.07 -via Photoshop

and here are a couple of changes via Photoshop that I wanted to work out... most of the MACRODONS that came out of this re-working are quite rad.

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this MACRODON evolved out of a sketch of a taco...
into something a little more descriptive than #039
& below is a Photoshop-ed version of an early scan of the drawing.
I can't tell which one I like best...

291 *POWER OUT*

crazy strom tonite, the power was out a long time, I did quite a bit of drawing by candle light, and then here is some Photoshoppery I just finished:

159 CLAY SCULPT

Here is the plastiline sculpture (mentioned here: #202) for "design #159" (which illustration #193 closely resembles), and below is some Photoshopping to figure out a base color for the final product.

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study of MACRODON's musculature?

202 ! !

The past 45 entries are part of a process to come up with designs for some new MACRODON figures. Many illustrations are very similar, and the textures I have been trying out recently are quite different from the previous look most MACRODONS have had. I figured out some new things I liked, as well as several poor designs that simply don't work for the time being. Today I posted 10 illustration studies for a MACRODON I recently finished sculpting in plastiline, #193 closely resembles the final result, that began from an idea for #157, which I then developed into another idea: #159... This last entry for today represents an idea for #159 / #193 that I am trying to figure out, the image above is simply a very rough sketch of it's shape, and below, a little Photoshop doodling of these ideas... more on that later, once I have actually figured it out...

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A Photoshop sketch-up taken from the mess I made last post.

181 ANIMATED PREVIEW

157 (texture studies pt.5)

hah! I am not going to attempt to sculpt this texture,
although awesome... too time consuming for now...

157 (texture studies pt.4) +158

from these studies for "#157", I was going for the texture of #158 here, above,
and failed with this:

this just looks like a bad sketch for the bark textures seen a few posts ago...





So, I sketched out some lines in Photoshop with my drawing tablet from this scan/composite:




(here I took #158, and distorted it into the shape of #157,
using the exact same texture, and I think it turned out o.k.)

157 (texture studies pt.3)

This design looks like I just phoned it in... but really, I got stuck on a few other designs I could not work out, so this is all for now...

157 (texture studies pt.2)

tree bark was my inspiration here.

157 (texture studies pt.1)

Here is the first in several designs for the texture of this MACRODON.