After I sketch it out in pencil, I do most of my painting digitally in Procreate. I think the card art and the sculpt inform each other.
I usually work on these two simultaniasly. I start painting the card art and sculpting. IĪlways use elements from vintage toys in my sculpts so if I don’t already own If it is a figure based on a person I find photo reference. This really helps me work through any problems as well asĬomponents. Some of them I make and others will never be made. I have a huge list of ideas on my phone that I add to when I think of something new. Please describe the process of producing your toys – from original idea, to preliminary design, sculpt, production, packaging and eventual release!? The McD-800 resin figure from Seth and ‘Relentless Assault.’ I think having a space just for making art is very important whether it It’s really propelled me forward quitĪ bit. … and any pivotal artistic moment(s) / influence(s)? When I am not working on art I am thinking about working on art. I do it because I love it and I get very anxious if I sit idle for too long. I honestly cannot remember a time when I wasn’t drawing, painting or making something. My mother was a big influence on me and always supported my art. When and why did you first start making art of any type!? I have always been into music and I played in a couple of bands but nothing to serious. Whilst we know you through your designer toy work – care to share with us the details of your other creative endeavors… if any?
“ Hard work and no excuses will get you farther than anything else.“ I made a lot of good friends that are still my friends. I had some great teachers that took us on trips to NYC to museums. I spent a lot of time drawing, painting and making animation. That year most of which I spent on collecting toys, records and horror movies.Īt age 19, I went to college at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania for Media Arts and Animation. That for the rest of my life so I applied to college. It was a lot of hard work and I knew I didn’t want to do After highschool I took a year off and installed garageĭoors with my dad. I took as many art classes as I could and those were really the onlyĬlasses I cared about. We made stuff we liked and just put it out into the world and other people liked it too. We made stickers and flyers and we did it all on our own. This was the first time I realized I didn’t need anyone else’s permission to make art. I saw a lot of really amazing bands that had a huge impact on my life.Įventually along with friends, I started my own punk band called “Doomsday”. We went to punk shows almost every weekend. I met my friend Jere in guitar class and he introduced me to new punk bands like NOFX, Propagandi, Operation Ivy and Pennywise. When I was 16, I moved to Salem, Oregon where fate dropped me into a group of friends that would be a huge influence on me and my entire life. That was the early nineties and The Punk Rock revival was just starting. I just thought it was cool fast alternative music. My first punk concert was The Offspring with The Vandals and the Lunachicks which at the time I didn’t really realize it was a “punk” show. My First concert was Pink Floyd when I was 14. I have an older sister who let me hang out with her, so I always had older friends with cars that would take me to parties and concerts. I never left rock n’ roll behind but it was cool to expand my influences. In Junior High I started getting into Gangsta rap like NWA, Geto Boys, Snoop Dog and Cypress Hill. I can remember being in the car with my dad and sister on the way to the mall and Smells like Teen Spirit came on the radio. I was super into Heavy Metal and Arena Rock like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Guns & Roses. I was around 10 years old that I got my first guitar. I grew up listening to rock influenced from my mom and old blues from my dad. We had cartoons in the morning and after school, and Saturday morning cartoons. I can still remember seeing the Beastie Boys “Fight for Your Right to Party” video for the first time. When I was 7, we moved to Memphis and that was the first time we had cable TV. I remember getting a Nintendo for Christmas and that was life changing. I had He-Man, Star Wars, Transformers, TMNT. From toys and comics to video games and music I took advantage of all of it. And being a kid at the beginning of the 80’s really put me in a position to be exposed to the best of everything. But at that time Walmart was all you needed. The only chain stores we had were a Pizza Hut and a Walmart. I was born in a very small town in The Ozarks. Please describe some memories from key stages of your life: concerts, art, toys, romance, hunting, school, politics, crime, religion… ANYTHING really! The Officer Large Burger soft toy from Seth and ‘Relentless Assault’.
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