Box Hero Commission Just About Done

For everyone that I owe toys to I apologize as almost everything else had to be put on hold as this really large project came to a head. I was commissioned to make a set of Box Hero heads for the entire staff at the Orthodontist office my wife works at for a convention/costume contest at the end of the week. There are a total of 21 heads and a matching shirt was purchased for each of the characters aside from 3 who weren't popular enough to have a pre made shirt available, and an entire Mark III Iron Man suit for the Dr. The other 3 shirts I designed myself and screen printed, and I am actually going on the trip with the staff as technical support, photographer, documenter..and whatever else is needed of me. Almost the entire staff is women so there are a 2 Bat Girls, 2 Wonder Woman, and several female versions of popular characters who may or may not actually exist in the DC or Marvel universe. When I finish everything I am going to take individual pictures of all the heads but for now here is a little taste... and if you don't already follow me on Instagram I have been posting on there about the heads for the last 6–8 weeks.

The characters are:

1 - Iron man
2 - Batman
3 - Super Man
4 - Captain America
5 - Super Woman
6 - Super Girl
7 - Female Green Lantern
8 - Female Flash
9 - Batgirl A
10 - Batgirl B
11 - Huntress
12 - Black Widow
13 - Miss Marvel
14 - Female Captain America
15 - Cat Woman
16 - Rogue
17 - Spider Girl
18 - She Hulk
19 - Wonder Woman A
20 - Wonder Woman B
21 - Female Robin
22 - And I am the only Villain - Ultron


Toys will be back on the agenda by Sun, as will March Madness.

Go Cards and Cats.

Super, Crazy, Unbelievably Busy

Obviosuly I haven't posted here in a while and the last one before that had been a while as well but fear not, the only problem in the world of Nikejerk is that there is still just not enough time in the day. Not only am a slammed with commissions, but I have some freelance working going on at the moment and my day job is busier than ever. I am having an ever increasingly difficult time balancing all the things I have going on and really don't see any other options than what I'm already doing and that's just working as much as I can. For example, right now on my desk — which is both a physical desk but also a metaphor for all the work I am currently working on right now — there are 3 Coarse Paws, 2- 6 Dunny sets, 2 KR mascots, 1 mini munny, a 4-7" munny and 1 mini Munny set, at least 5 solo 3" Dunny's, a Jaws that I have been working on FOREVER and I HAVE to find a way to finish, some 3A bots, 18 box heads, 1 full box suit, a book cover illustration, design and ideas for our SDCC cosplay group, prototype modeling for my heavy duty poster tube suitcase, some original sculpting to do, resin stuff... my god, how can I possibly get it all done???

I need an apprentice. Any takers??? You will be paid with knowledge and friendship.

We have our SDCC passes though half of us do not have preview night which stinks, but we will figure it out. My wife Amanda is coming to comic con this year too. I imagine it will consist of her sleeping in and meeting us at the con around noon to check things out, eating and drinking and her laying out at the poor...crossing my fingers we have a pool!

I am participating in the Artists Without Borders show again that benefits Doctors Without Borders. Last year I did the Doctor Who  9 –11 mini Munny and this year I will only be doing 1 piece but it is truly close to my heart — Dr. Van Nostrand, also known as Kramer from Seinfeld. It is Kramers alter ego and is hilarious.

I'm going to be in Dallas in March for this event for my wife and her job. That's what I'm making the 18 Box Hero Heads for and so far I have 5 of them done and they look awesome.  I'm also doing a full Iron Man Suit based on the Mark 3 suit from the first movie. So far almost all the suits have been based on the classic comics so I really think this one is going to look amazing.

Been a While

Sorry I've been MIA for over a month, it's that time of year when people are traveling and dealing with the holidays and I am no different. Been working steadily on commissions it just seems like I never finish anything anymore. Just so much to do. Fear not folks I am working on your stuff. Having to go to work every day and having to start and stop working on projects every day makes gaining any momentum difficult not to mention that my aforementioned day job has been busier than ever. I can't complain about that though as I do not have to rely on making toys to pay the bills but after working 8 hours a day when I get home I want to eat dinner and relax with Amanda and next thing I know it's midnight and we'd fallen asleep on the couch. And I know I always say it but hang in there with me folks. You know I'm not going anywhere, and big things are bound to come my way especially with all of your support.

The most recent piece that I have finished was a 7" Marilyn Monroe Munny commission that I posted on IG. I think she turned out great. I really love the way her dress came out. It flows really nicely especially for being sculpted. He hair looks really nice as well so I'm very pleased with the results.

I have ALOT of commissions in queue so if you haven't heard from me in a while drop me a line and remind me what we're working on.

Jared

Resin Horseman Heads

All the Headless Horseman orders have been shipped unless I have spoken to you otherwise. I think they came out great and typical for me it took much longer than anticipated because basically every one was different and unique and I insisted on making different packaging from the un-numbered heads I was giving away at Comic Con…but I think you all will like what you get. Quite a spectrum here:

I will have a few things to put in the store soon including a body or 2 and perhaps a complete figure with painted head like the original scheme. Whenever I finish those I will put em up in the store and just leave em tip someone grabs it and will be ready to ship asap. And the problem with the heads right now is unless Kidrobot produces the figure most of you who don't already have a body won't ever get one because I'm not ever gonna make enough to go around. 

Appreciate everyone being patient with me…working hard here, it just takes time

Lots of commissions in the works as usual. Hit me up if you have questions or concerns.

J

Kaws Box Suit

Halloween has come and gone and you do not have your Horseman Heads yet and I apologize. I got into painting them and I decided I didn't want to do the same ol thing with each one so it's taking me longer to finish them then I hoped. I very much want to get them in the mail this weekend, but maybe Monday at the latest.

On a side note, I did finish and post the picture of my Kaws Dissected Companion Box Heroes suit to Kawsstudio instagram and he just reposted my pic last night. It's up to just over 5000 likes now and he's supposed to choose a winner today so I have fingers crossed that he likes my costume. Here are some pics that Amanda and I took in front of The High Museum of Art here in Atlanta where Kaws had his exhibition last year.

And if you haven't already go and like my picture on @kawsstudio. There is a half naked chick and a baby that have way more likes. :) Tits and toddlers will beat you every time.


I posted most of these same pics on either my IG or Flicker but here they are again. Overall I am very happy with how he came out. I didn't have to cut any corners in terms of design, and at the last minute I figured out a way to have a red undershirt for the left side, and a dark undershirt for the right side. I actually have a dark long sleeve shirt on, with a red short sleeve over it. I rolled up the short sleeve up to my shoulder on the right side, and then put a red long soccer sock over my hand up past my elbow on the left side, so that's what you see peeking through at the gap at my elbow. He's pretty hard to walk in so I don't know if I'll be wearing him in any parades any time soon, but I'm gonna mess with the feet and leg mechanics and see if I can't get it a little more mobile.

 The finger in the background here is the live painting installation that Kaws did for his exhibition. This was the first time I'd been back to The High in over a year and I was very happy to see that it was still there. The High was smart to keep it and I hope it remains as a permanent fixture at the museum. When he was scheduled to be painting it I was planning on going to watch for a while but he ended up painting it early and doing it off hours so people like me wouldn't be bothering him.

 This is almost the exact location of where Passing Through sat in the courtyard in front of the Museum. There really isn't much to look at out there now but these trees. Although you can see the scoops at the top of the picture, the very top of the building, which are directional skylights that capture the sunlight for the gallery at certain times of day…a trademark of architect Frank Gehry. They are beautiful from the inside looking up.

 When I was standing at the top of the stairs some guy waiting at the bus stop was yelling "Whose in that Box?" at me from behind Amanda as she was shooting. Neither of us responded, but it was pretty funny.

At the end of the shoot a man and his 2 young kids came up to us and asked us some questions about the box suit. They were curious but they were also scared to say anything so the dad approached us first. Amanda showed them pics of the Dissected Companion on her phone as a reference and the young boy told me he was an artist too. Maybe I inspired him to keep doing it as I told him as an adult I still play with toys and get to make cool things like this suit so keep drawing and painting and do whatever you like to do.

It's already November and I'm gonna get back to busting my ass on commissions. Got a bunch of boxes to make, portraits to draw for Dunny's, and things to ship. Thanks for being patient and continuing to be so…I'm still here and I did not forget about you.

Halloween and on

I finished the 2 Mega Munny's and they were shipped and arrived at their destination mostly unharmed so a fairly big success with these 2 pieces. This is the only picture that I have received from the client and I think they look pretty awesome:

Finished these guys from design to completion in 5 weeks. It was a sprint from the very beginning.

Working on my Kaws Dissected Companion Box Heroes suit and he will be done soon enough. He's gonna be freakin awesome. I making him for the Kaws Instagram costume competition, but I will likely bring it to Comic Con next year because he's just too cool to not show off else where. 

I intend to get all of your Headless Horseman resin heads out and delivered before Halloween. I finished printing the cloth bags they will all come in and I just want to photograph them all together and  get them in their bags, signed and numbered, and in the mail. 

I'll have a couple other goodies up for sale on the site, random colored Horseman heads you might be interested in, maybe a body or 2, we'll see. :) Just be on the look out if you're interested.

All other commissions are still in queue and underway, I'm just plodding along trying to get them done as awesome as possible...and as quickly as that allows.

Thanks for looking guys.

2 Days to go

The big project is about to come to a close, thankfully. I have been working on these 2 Mega Munny's non-stop for the last 2 weeks and I have to have them finished and shipped by Wed afternoon. I still have a ton of work to do but I have alot done as well. I have all the sculpting done, I have both jackets completely sewn together and finished, I have the glasses cut and ready for paint, I have the base colors down on both heads and about to start the faces, I have both bases just about finished with paint, I have the plexi glass lenses cut for her glasses and I'm going to be molding and casting the lenses for his goggles so I have the masters sculpted and fitted and my silicon is arriving today. It was a pain in the ass too because sculpey shrinks slightly when you bake it so it kept jusssstttt not fitting. I have to screen print the logos on the back of the jackets, make their name tags and sculpt their accessories...and I guess that's it :) Their accessories are a biopette, which is a high tech pipette, and something called a sequencing chip, which I have no idea what that is but I know what it looks like. I'm going to cut the  sequencing chips out of 1/8 plywood and pant them, and the biopette frame will be cut from the same material but then will be sculpted out from that as if it were the central axis and then I will mold and cast that as well since i need 2 of them. I have the faces all mapped out already so I just need to transfer the line art onto the face and paint in the varying shades which I have mixed already as well. I went to bed at 5 last night and I'm sure I will be up as long as I have to be tonight and tomorrow. If I have to I will push the biopette and sequencing chips to Wed night and overnight them to Boston On Thursday.

Like I said, still alot of work to do, but I think the end is in sight.