The day is here for the full reveal! This  project has been a wild ride for me personally. When it comes to painting something like this, I really tend to want to go all out & go crazy.  What I love about this figure, is it really gives you every avenue to explore, paint and lend your own creativity to. Instinctively, it's hard to keep an airbrush away from this figure, so I literally had to be careful when I first got gun in hand, because the true beauty of this sculpt is in the details. So I wanted to highlight the inherent details in the figure, in a new way, but without smothering the figure! Coming from a background in aerosol and then acrylic, I am used to being an American artist who slathers color on everything. It was a good exercise for me to try and take what I have learned over the last few years from what I'd call the "traditional" kaiju style painters in both Japan and those in the US who have seemed to master the perfect balance of paint & vinyl base color. It's definitely hard as a "newer" painter to pay tribute to those styles, but create your own signature as well, and I'm really happy at how this got turned out. Traditional kaiju loose spray combined with a neo-American wild style is the finished product I'd say. I highlighted the amazing details, and let the base color shine through. I think I did this guy justice, and I hope you all do too!

So without further ado, I present to you, the Shub Zeroth Permafrost version.  (photos by Justin Jewitt)

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This is not cold. This is not frozen. This is not ice.
The first standalone Shub Zeroth release of 2014 is upon you. Behold: PERMAFROST, on light gray vinyl, painted by the venerable and courageous DSKI ONE. He has stood upon the edge of madness and returned unscathed. Or has he?

Release.5 [Pentatype] {PERMAFROST}  
Light Gray vinyl w/ Multi metallic & pearl - | $130 Figure stands approximately 9" and comes packaged in a bag w/ header. Shipped from Lulubell direct. Made in Japan, painted in the good old US of A.

Available on Thursday, May 1st, at 11am PST
Visit lulubelltoys.com to order.

Extremely limited quantities.

Here's some more progress shots of the Permafrost Shub Zeroth run! I sincerely LOVE this figure, and put about 30 hours of love, sweat and joy into this run! I'm really stoked on it & am excited that the time for full reveal is upon us! Hope you guys like what I did.  Let me know what you think! Sincerest gratitude goes out to the amazing designer behind the Shub, Brian Ewing, and his partner in crime on this project, Hateball, for trusting your baby to me. It's an honor & a privilege to work on this project with you guys!   (I'll post the final shots & release deets next!)

So, it's been so hard to keep this one quiet, because I'm suuuupeeerrrrr stoked to be doing a run of one of my favorite sculpts by an amazing artist I admire, Brian Ewing, and his partner in crime and all around awesome dude Hateball!  We'll be sneaking out pics online each day or so up until the May 1st release, and I'll be posting some of my progress shots on my blog!  So without further ado, here's the first details!!!!

The Permafrost Shub version is cast on light grey vinyl, and then I gave it the Dski treatment by adding pinks & teals, silver & gold, and an amazing color change paint on the back to highlight the Octopus!  Can't wait for you all to see it, I'm really stoked on how it turned out and am grateful to Brian & Justin for entrusting their baby to me! Release is set for May 1st at 11am Pacific Time, and will be for sale exclusively via Lulubell Toys.  Until the full reveal, here's a couple progress shots from day 1 of painting!  The first couple days I laid down base colors.  Not that exciting, but a part of the process. Wait tip you see the overlay colors!!! I'll post day 2 shots in a day or so, so please check back & watch the progress of these beauties!

Had a little bit of time with my airbrush today, and wanted to blast out something colorful & fun! Been watching a lot of bad horror movies lately, since our Netflix well of good ones is long dry, and I think all the b-flicks were in my mind for this guy. Here's my crazy Funhouse Skull custom, which is available now for only $40 bones here. (Sculpt by Maruyama Gangu of Japan)  

I have a few more blanks - so if you want specific colors, hit me up and I'll do one special for you for the same price. 

Everything is blooming in our garden this week, so what better inspiration for colors than Lady Nature herself?  I just love this flower Monster by Yamomark - so many rad details in the flowers and the insect combo is just insane!  Also, it's a glow base vinyl - and the glow shines through heavily through the sprays! Had a blast with this guy, hope you enjoy! Up for grabs now at Lulubell Toys here! 

Ack....I've been working way too many long hours lately & haven't had much time to paint outside of commissions, and I miss it.  Don't get me wrong - it's a good problem to have, I'm not complaining! It just makes me even more stoked when I do have a few spare hours to unload an airbrush.  I absolutely love this dude by Yamazakura, and haven't seen them around in a bit, so I had fun blasting this guy into brightly colored submission!  The Niohone sculpt is so fun to work with, I've always love this guy! I worked some low lights into the vein and skeletal aspects, which really define the great anatomy in this sculpt!

To see close-up shots of this guy, or to purchase, check him out on the Lulubell Toys site here!  Only $60 bones!