MACRODONS+friends @Red's Pop Shop (weekend#1)

The first weekend of Red's Pop Shop has concluded -and it was amazing! If you missed it, you have one more chance -the exhibit is so sharp we'll be cutting faces all weekend (Saturday + Sunday, September 25+26, noon-6pm), so check us out!

Red's Pop Shop, photo by Fur Face Boy (t-shirts pictured, bottom left table)

So first off, a shout to the sharp skills of all the artists/designers/vendors at the show, EVERY ONE OF THEM does spectacular work-

Fur Face Boy did a great recap of the event so I'll simply point you in that direction → above photo by Fur Face Boy, and go to his blog for the breakdown, and below, in front of the Fur Face Boy booth on the right is Fur Face Boy in the new MACRODONS shirt, and yours truly on the left in the dope Fur Face Boy shirt.

MACRODONS display @ Red's Pop Shop -1st weekend

My darling Emily @ the MACRODONS booth during the 1st weekend of Red's Pop Shop

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...

upcoming projects - sneak peak #3

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

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...

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:

363 = KRANG!

Krang, the villain from Dimension X, nemesis to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (badass image by Tim Kelly)

and then MACRODON-ized:

362

I drew this black ink mark from a similar smudge I had on my hand,
then I added some detail with acrylic white paint.

361

MACRODON with a BEAK