In the last few days since my last update I’ve started painting the Nightgamers and I thought I’d let you in on the progress.

1. (Above) I primed the faces/heads with gesso. Some parts are simply layed in with a brush while the fade is a combination of rubbing and dry brushing.

2. The pink here is a light rub. There is also some pearlescent paint but it’s hard to tell in this picture.

3. I added a golden rub in some areas.

4. Here I used a orange brush pen to lay in the paint. The colors of the Pentel brush pens have a wonderfully bright hue. It is quite fluid and the application is very even.

5. I added some more orange to the lips and gums

Today a very short update: I stitched all the zippers into the teddy bear suits. The one shown here fits pretty well. Some of the other suits are a little smaller and do not close completely with a toy inside. Painting the toys is the only step that remains until the finished custom run.

1. The incision on the head: I usually don’t plan that much when making a unique custom but here it is different. I try to plan ahead and mark the places where incisions need to made so that the whole run is as similar as possible.

2. The opened heads with a vertical brainy-toothy grin: I must admit, I enjoy making these small custom runs. It gives the whole process a different sense of legitimacy.

3. Previz: Temporarily holding everything together gives me sense of where the custom is heading. For me this is much more helpful than trying to imagine everything.

4. Same story here: I thought I’d pick up some of Bob’s original Nightgamer story and here is a first test. It looks weird but that’s nothing bad, right?

More updates soon. Stay tuned.

I have the incredible honor of working on a small custom run of Bob Conge’s (website) Nightgamer figure.

Here is the beginning. I washed the toys in hot soapy water as the instructions recommended and then quickly proceeded to cutting away some of the parts that I tend to change…

More updates soon.

I’ve been very bad at updating this blog in the last few months. I have been working steadily on my graduation project which will consist of my own line of resin cast art toys. Here is a first sneak peak.

The toy will be released in the second week of November with the opening of the “Russians” exhibitions at rotopol.

You can pre-order the toy and/or support this project by donating via fundable.com

Anyone donating the minimum amount will receive a limited edition signed and numbered print which will be only available for this purpose. It won’t be available anywhere else.

Anyone donating more than 140$ will receive the print and the actual toy.

If somebody donates 300$ all at once I will create a customized version of the toy just for you.

Oh, and if you don’t get the story (some details are still hard to make out, unfortunately): It is about the unpredictability of love. The little robot thinks he has found his love by tearing the petals of a flower and decides to send a letter of love to his new girl but through an accident he has to find out that his heart has decided otherwise…