November 15 - Infinity Gauntlet

"Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."

~ Vincent van Gogh

Wicked awesome and wicked smaht.

Today I'm thankful for Dan Staples.

Dan has made some really weird stuff.  I mean that as the highest compliment possible - game recognizes game!  

Dan is a great guy on top of being an incredible artist.  I feel like if we grew up in the same area, he'd be in my D&D campaign as a high level druid with some sort of "far-too-dangerous-to-be-tamed-but-the-rules-allow-for-it" pet.

I've been meaning to make this gauntlet for a while.  I imagine before they made the Infinity Gauntlet they made the 9999999 Repeating Gauntlet and someone asked the question, "what if we added 1 more?"

(view other Marvel things)

---

Other balloons by and inspired by Dan Staples:

November 21 - Chibicoro Superheroes

... But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.

~ Ra's al Ghul Batman Begins (2005)

I was chatting with someone today who expressed a bit of disappointment that I was embracing such a seemingly simple concept as balloon art when I just finished making some amazing Nao balloon art.  Paraphrasing my reply here:

Chibi's are simpler balloons conceptually, but more challenging than building some bigger structures.  Small balloons are unforgivable, like Picos - slight variations in size and pressure are obvious, you have very little room to work with to realize your creation and in order to keep things in scale, and very few balloon options to use.

Here is a perfect example, I had visions of building a bunch of heroes, but tried and tried again playing around trying to get a form I liked.  I started with an idea to add a head on top by pinch twisting a very soft bubble, thinking I had to have feet color underneath the pants.  I was feeling lukewarm on the first attempts so I built the two cleaner versions to the right below which gave me an extra attempt at drawing the faces, but those didn't feel right either - more like a chubby Pico than Chibicoro.  Finally I tried a couple that closely followed the Chibicoro form and they ended up being my favorite.

Excelsior!

---

Other Chibicoro balloon designs:

Show All

June 14 - Rumble Heroes

"It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of how you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster."

~ Iron Man

Rumble Heroes are another design using the Rumble Truck design concept by David Brenion.

A while ago I spoke about how creative I think Jeffrey Hayes is, and how when I'm trying to come up with some way to explore a design one of the questions I ask myself is "What would Jeffrey do?"  Well he really sparked my imagination Sunday when he posted a number of his Rumble Truck designs.  I hadn't considered how easily you could incorporate a printed round - his Hulkmobile is awesome, and it gives the added effect of a front windshield.

I originally planned on copying the Hulkmobile design, but in my bag of extra I had some other superhero heads.  So here are those Spiderman, Captain America and Iron Man-mobiles.

---

Other Rumble Truck designs:

Show all