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Mon, Nov 10, 2008
Misc, custoMONDAYs, custom, resin, vinyl
******UPDATE 11/17/08 10AM PST:******
AND THE WINNER IS…Krakit!
After two weeks of giving you hand-cast resin toys, custoMONDAY presents its first vinyl customization, as realized by visceral visualizer, OsirisOrion. The artist, born Robert Ingellis, should be no stranger to ToyCyte readers who have seen his copious customs and original HemoGoblins series profiled herein. You can keep tabs on OsirisOrion here (of course), but also on his blog and deviantART page. And from now until the end of the month, you can get 25% off the art in his shop by entering the discount code “MonsterLover” at checkout. So without further ado, if you love monsters, here’s our…
You’re playing for this unique one-off custom 8-inch Dunny by OsirisOrion. All you need to do is NAME THIS DUNNY. Leave a comment with a name for this nameless fellow. All entries must be received by Sunday, November 16th at 12AM PST.
Q: What’s your background and day job?
A: I’ve been drawing ever since I was a kid. I was always fascinated with drawing monsters. I grew up on anime, comic books, horror, sci-fi and godzilla movies. I never really had a knack for drawing cars, women or buildings so it kind of discouraged me from trying to get into comics! I tried to draw everything I could when I was younger, but it all came back to monsters. It wasn’t until I saw Sam Kieth’s The Maxx comic and H.R. Giger’s work that I realized art can be anything you want it to be, so I decided to sway from the norm and hone my style. I decided to go to college for art when I got out of highschool, but I didn’t get much for financial aid, so working 60 hrs plus a week and going to school full time took it’s toll, and after a year I dropped out. When I was in my 20’s I decided to get into tattooing, which I did for 2 years but that ended miserably, so I put my art career on hold and stumbled into security as a career. It wasn’t until last year when I picked up a diy mini munny that I started to seriously think about getting back into this again but using vinyl toys as a canvas.
Q: How did you go beyond the canvas from flat to 3D and onto toys?
A: It was definitely not an easy thing for me to do. I was heavily into bio mechanics and I was primarily a pen and ink artist. I loved working in black & grey, I very rarely used color in my work. I wish I had a lot of my old bio mechanics drawings but I lost quite a few pieces. It was a lot of trial and error, and it still is only now I’ve become a lot better at not trashing a piece because I think It looks horrible.
Q: Tell us a little about your process and the materials you use?
A: It’s kinda hard to describe, but there is a fair amount of insanity in my process. I use everything from acrylic paints, markers, ink, sculpey, airbrush and spraypaint. My sculpts and hand painted customs are 2 somewhat different styles. My sculpts are more kaiju influenced, where as my hand paints are more horror / abstract influenced. With a vinyl toy I lay down a base color with either spray paint or airbrush. My 8″ custom cave dweller dunny is a great example: I used a pink spray paint for the base, then all the blue was laid down with paint marker, after that I did all the line work with ink, and all the shadowing and detail work with transparent airbrush paint. I used the airbrush paint with a brush and apply it as a wash. I do my canvas work in a similar way: a few things changed here and there. Some custom pieces I just totally airbrush, but those ones usually are my sculpted pieces. My newer “paintings” are all done digitally in Corel painter, but generally follow the same process.
Q: Your pieces have a very visceral quality–and by “visceral,” I’m referring to the meaning of the word that pertains to the organs and cavities of the body. Is that a fair description?
A: I think that’s a fair description! I just didn’t want to slap a generic monster design on a vinyl toy and call it a day. Since I liked drawing a lot of bio mechanic stuff, I experimented with taking all the metal type objects out of that and just used a very fleshy organic type of line work. The first 2 pieces I really tried this style out with were the ones I did for the House of Liu custom show at APW Gallery in NYC. Sometimes these designs I do have no real meaning to me, I just like the way they look. But someone can see one of my pieces and make up their own story or meaning to it and I think that’s really awesome. I always like when people come up with their own views on my work.
Q: Some of your creatures manage to seem simultaneously scary but also scared. I’m thinking in particular of The Keeper of Time and The Terror Before My Eyes. Are these rabbits monsters or mutations? What’s going on?
A: They are definitely rabbits, but rabbits of an unfortunate fate! The Keeper of Time piece is a cartoon tragedy in a way. This poor rabbit is just hopping along and stumbles upon an old pocket watch. The rabbit is fascinated by the watch, because he’s never seen anything like it before. What he doesn’t realize is that the watch is possessed and by carrying it around with him he has sealed his fate. “The rabbit cannot die, if the watch still keeps time” and the watch will always keep time because it’s possessed. Have you ever seen something so horrible but you couldn’t look away? That basically sums up The Terror Before My Eyes piece, only the rabbit is pulling his eyes open and the terror is quickly wasting him away. A lot of my work has animals, monsters or both together, in pretty messed up situations.
Q: I read in your interview at SpankyStokes that your toy collection encroaches on your living arrangements. I think this is an ongoing struggle for readers with roommates, partners and spouses. Care to give any tips for peaceful coexisting?
A: My Fiancee and I are best friends and I think that helps a lot. She has a huge beanie baby and Hello Kitty plush collection, plus she loves dunnys and some of the vinyl stuff I collect. We both love anime and have a lot of anime collectibles in our place–mainly pvc anime figures on top of all of the other stuff we got. So we keep a good balance by displaying all of our stuff in the apartment. I guess if you have someone that doesn’t like those things it could be hard, but I don’t know anyone that doesn’t collect some type of collectible. So if you find a balance like displaying both of your things maybe be a good thing, it works for us…well I did try to sweet talk her into moving her beanie babies out of one the detolf cabinets we have, to make room for my kaiju stuff and that didn’t go over so well. I guess I will just have to buy another detolf cabinet [laughs]
Jeremy Brautman - who has written 1965 posts on ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected.
Jeremy Brautman joined ToyCyte in 2008 and has been writing about toy culture ever since. You can currently find him contributing to a variety of blogs, artkiving doodles at Doodlesplatter.com and cataloging artistic ephemera at ARTkivers.com.
November 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hey! I own that Hemogoblin on the right!
November 10th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
PS : I know I’m not eligible, but I’d totally call that guy ‘Captain Voracious Brainulor IX’
November 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
custoMONDAYS are going to make Collin quit his job…
November 10th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Angra mainyu
November 10th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I have two of his hemogoblins haha.
I’d name it ‘The Creature from the Black Lagoon’
November 10th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
i say keep it simple, call it Smyles Virus.
November 10th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
ooo looks awesome! I would name it Gargul
November 10th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
WOW…Robert your customs are getting better and better!!!! Great work man, and great interview!
I think he should be named “The Great Muck Goblin”
November 10th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Well done, good sir.
I think it should be named Thud – like the sound of my jaw hitting my floor after seeing the detail on this.
November 10th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
It’s so great seeing OsirisOrion is getting this recognition. I would name this dunny “AnubisAres” as a nod to the mythology background that the creator’s name has tied to it.
November 10th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Mr.Crezil
(Pronounced Mister Cree-zil)
Or Just Crezil.
:]
November 10th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Gorebrood The Mouldering
November 10th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
His name should be: Schreckgespenst
(nightmare in German)
November 10th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Yet another awesome custom! I’d name this guy “The Lurker”. Looks like he waits for you to walk past him in the dark so he can bite off your ankle >.<
November 10th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Rabid Varicose Vein – OsirisOrion does excellent work. I can’t wait for Hemogoblin Series 2.
November 10th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Name: BluNasty
November 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
looks great “The Forgiver”
November 10th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Dunny Darko
November 10th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
viles mingus le bleu
November 10th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
the Grim Creeper
November 10th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I’d call him “Darkly Dreaming Dunny as a nod to Dexter’s “Dark Passenger” from the novels and series.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Nice work again, OO
Looks like a “Baron Von Eatemhup” to me.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
should be named “Joe, That Big Blue Creepy Thing From Your Nightmares”. Kinda long name, but so worth it.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
hmmmm….thats a sweet figure….and his name is henceforth “Jack-Rabid”.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
This dunny is amazing. The image is so twisted, and it looks like it came right out of a sick horror film. The name needs to be:
“THE TOXICOLOGICAL TERROR”
November 10th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
BlueFlesh
November 10th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Nice dunny….how bout OMEGA X !!!
November 10th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
All that curdles within is… Peenoscrosemose Haloosafurturdis “Peeno-scrose-mose-haloosa-fa-turdis”
November 10th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Prim
November 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
WOW!! this is awesome! i LOVE your work!! I think it is amazing.. I have so many ideas in my head except i suck at art and you nail them!! your work is truly one of a kind..
my entry is: “gidig”
it is an Old English word that means “mad, possessed by an evil spirit”
and thats exactly what it looks like and i think it is amazing!
awesome work
November 10th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
i ll name it cwazy so he could be mine.
November 10th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
The Blue Abyss
November 10th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
i would have to go with decayed dreamer,
November 10th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I would call him “Ted”. Ted the Ghoul.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
So visually delicious with all that blue brain cabbage. Mmmmmmm good!
This is the rabbit that stayed in Mr. McGregor’s garden
after Peter Rabbit escaped. Little did this rabbit know
that Mr. McGregor was watering his garden with water from
a stream full of experimental fluids from the genetics
lab just upstream. Peter Rabbit ate from the garden and
later became the Easter Bunny, but this rabbit stayed in
the garden for weeks eating his fill every day until one
day the cat scared him. The fear-filled event activated
some strange chemicals within his body that caused him
to transform into an 8 inch polyvinylchloride rabbit
capable of eating whatever he wants. The sound that comes
from this creature’s chewing mouth full of fangs is as
follows, !KRONCH! !KRONCH! !KRONCH! !KRONCH! !KRONCH!
So whenever the young animals of the forest hear the
creature eating they tell each other as they’re running
home, “Let’s get out of here before the KRONCH gets us!”
And so he has become known as “the KRONCH”
November 10th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
blue organic
November 11th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Slow Angel.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:53 am
And his name is: Shadow dreamer
“From the shadows i watch,
from the shadows i keep an eye on you
watching you, dreaming of you
makes me blue.”
November 11th, 2008 at 4:50 am
“yahoo serious”
But that name is taken by another monster…
November 11th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Pretty nice custom.
Name it ASWANG.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:29 am
His name is: Dim November
November 11th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Rock’n Troll.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:18 am
FreshMeat
November 11th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Awesome, I have one of the Hemogoblins and would love this one!! How about this name
THE FORSAKEN
November 11th, 2008 at 8:59 am
hi, I think the name should be:
B.A.M.F.!!!!! aka “Bad A&* M(**** F(**&^!!!”
November 11th, 2008 at 9:23 am
NAME HIM -abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
November 11th, 2008 at 9:26 am
blushious creep
November 11th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
It kinda looks like the unholy union of Inside-Out Boy and Freddy Krueger.
I’m just go with “Flesh Nightmare” and be done with it.
November 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I’d call it NATAS
November 11th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
the Gormandizer
RaaAAAAAHR!
November 11th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Devourer
November 11th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
do we get more then one name? how about Daily infected screaming secret, or breathless escape.. ug I hope make more then one doesn’t Disqualify me.. hey thats a better name disqualifyed fragments yahh :-p
November 11th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
It should be called NG Bunnies which stands for Not Generic Bunnies
November 11th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Name: Transcending flesh
November 11th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Should be called “80 Pounds of Luscious Flesh”
November 11th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
name: Elwood ate Jake
November 11th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Disturbed Clouds
November 11th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
to give props to your significant other’s collection, how about this name!
‘Here KITTY KITTY’
*he looks like he is ready to devour whatever gets in his way, hide your fiances collection!*
November 11th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Juicy Fruit Face, because he looks like if you were to bit into him, he would ooze juiciness
November 11th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
I would call him M.E.A.T –> Monster Enraged And Terrific
November 12th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Sorry, I can’t edit my last post:
M.E.A.T -> Monster Enraged Amazingly Terrific
November 12th, 2008 at 3:03 am
I would call him “Noir”, because I associate this dunny with Mr.Hyde, from the gothic novel “Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde”. The french name for the gothic novel is roman noir
November 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
WOW! so many great entries for the contest, this going to be hard to pick from and it’s only day 3…keep em coming everyone and thanks for all the compliments and praise ^_^
November 13th, 2008 at 12:00 am
FLESHIES!
November 13th, 2008 at 12:03 am
I’d name it “HALO OF FLIES”
November 13th, 2008 at 6:36 am
I think this is my favorite of yours so far.
I’m calling him Firestorm.
November 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Sinister Akuma Blue
November 13th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I would name him DAX
November 14th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Murphy.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:57 am
The 8″ Azure Monger
November 14th, 2008 at 10:02 am
The Cole Train
November 15th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I would name it Blueberry Devil
November 16th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Tinkywinkles.
I have to confess my daughter helped
November 16th, 2008 at 10:05 am
“k’lau n koko’s ” should be its name,. but dont ask me why.
November 16th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
congrats on ur interview buddy, love the work kid!
November 17th, 2008 at 9:59 am
OsirisOrion has chosen the winner! Scroll up to see the winning name, complete with custom header card. Thanks to everyone who entered. Next custoMONDAY begins in 2 hours…