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Long Lost Friend Studio is my self-publishing imprint, the studio space where we work, and a YouTube channel featuring videos about art and creativity. This blog covers everything happening with me and Long Lost Friend Studio.
When The Apes Take Over, My Loyalty Will Be Rewarded
Anyone who’s watched The Planet of the Apes saga unfold (either the original franchise or the reboot) knows that one day, in all likelihood, the earth will be ruled by hyper-intelligent primates while increasingly less-capable humans fall from their position at the top of the food chain. In preparation for this, I’ve begun honoring our future ape overlords by respectfully illustrating a portrait of their leader, Proximus Caesar. Here’s a breakdown of my process.
King Kong Plays Ping Pong With A Ping Pong Paddle
King Kong plays ping pong with a ping pong paddle. Of course he does. What else would he use? Anyway, we washed some giant monkeys with ink in our latest video. With any luck, we learned a little more about the medium and improved our skills. Baseline, we have a companion piece to January’s Godzilla.
Clowning Around With Scooby Doo
Scary clowns have been around for a long time. Grimaldi. The Joker. Pennywise. So it would’ve been odd if Scooby-Doo, a cartoon that prided itself on introducing monsters to impressionable young minds, didn’t include that particular ghoul in its rogues gallery. And it did. In the tenth episode of season one they introduced a ghost clown that’s been creeping kids out for the last 55 years. This week, in a misguided effort to fix what was never broken, I decided to redesign that monster.
The Immortal Elephant in the Room
As a member of the Long Lost Friend Studio Patreon, after a year at the BFF tier, a supporter can request either an illustration from me, or a felted sculpture from Michelle. This time, my ticket got punched and I was tasked to draw Manmoth, an elephantine immortal in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe.
Making A Monkey Out Of Me
This week on our YouTube channel, we made Ben Cooper-style Planet of the Apes masks (and accompanying window boxes). We don’t have a vacuum forming machine, so we sculpted them out of papier mache and foam clay.
Making An Eight-Limbed Villain With My Own Two Hands
Recording stuff in our studio for our YouTube channel means someone’s always hovering over your shoulder with a camera, capturing everything you work on, warts and all. But sometimes it works out. Like when it caught most of my Doctor Octopus sculpting process and gave me some relatively-wart-free content to post this step-by-step this week!
Process: Kermit the Frog Thank You Note
I ran across some snapshots I took while working on a thank you card for a client. I haven’t posted in a few weeks, so I figured I could turn these pics into a quick, informal, process post.