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Zerostreet's Tiki Art! Chimp Mug sculpt is done |
zerostreet
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Posts: 1685 |  Posted: 2010-04-19 11:35 am Permalink
Something from the sketchbook today. A sort of Frankentiki carved out of a beach post:
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zerostreet
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Posts: 1685 | Posted: 2010-04-21 3:39 pm Permalink
Update on the chimp in a tiki glade thing I'm working on:
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zerostreet
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Posts: 1685 | Posted: 2010-04-25 7:27 pm Permalink
just a little bit of progress but I am quite happy with it so far!
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MarvinTheMonkey
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Posts: 214 | Posted: 2010-04-25 8:10 pm Permalink
Looks fantastic so far - can't wait to see where it goes next!
(I have to admit, I have a fondness for monkeys in fezzes!)
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zerostreet
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Posts: 1685 | Posted: 2010-04-26 07:00 am Permalink
Hey thanks Marv! I am trying to finish up tikitower.com so it's slow going on this one!
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zerostreet
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Posts: 1685 | Posted: 2010-04-28 7:19 pm Permalink
Please be sure to enter to win some cool prizes from my new site www.tikitower.com
Details here:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=36308&forum=1&4
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zerostreet
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Posts: 1685 | Posted: 2010-05-01 7:40 pm Permalink
Sloooow progress on this one. Also been quite busy with the site and the contest. By the way, tomorrow is the last day of the contest so reply to the thread!:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=36308&forum=1&46
Here's the latest...adding a bit of "life" behind the chimp:
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MadDogMike
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From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2010-05-01 8:20 pm Permalink
What a cosmopolitan chimpanzee! Looks awesome Robert
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zerostreet
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Posts: 1685 | Posted: 2010-05-06 12:06 pm Permalink
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On 2010-05-01 20:20, MadDogMike wrote:
What a cosmopolitan chimpanzee! Looks awesome Robert
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Yeah, he is a bit cosmopolitan isn't he? 
Here is a detail of the illustration. Got to work on the chimp's right hand a bit and changed the tiki's behind the chimp. Making them a bit more serious I guess...not so cartoony.
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TikiG
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From: Palmdale, California
| Posted: 2010-05-06 1:19 pm Permalink
Zero - this is my first comment on your thread.
Having lurked for a few months I just couldn't stay silent anymore, I just love the latest artwork posted. There's something sinister about the monkey's eye peeping thru those glasses, but in a good drug-dealer way, dig? For me you captured the spirit of a prankster, like he's taking a dump off of the tiki, over the fence onto the lawn of the background A-frame tiki bar...I know I'm warped but I tend to do that with art imagery - you know, what was he doing just before and just after the scene as shown?
Great stuff here. If you're making the Hukilau scene this year I hope to meet up with you and talk art over a tropi-cocktail. Thanks for posting. G
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zerostreet
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Posts: 1685 | Posted: 2010-05-06 2:31 pm Permalink
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On 2010-05-06 13:19, TikiG wrote:
Zero - this is my first comment on your thread.
Having lurked for a few months I just couldn't stay silent anymore, I just love the latest artwork posted. There's something sinister about the monkey's eye peeping thru those glasses, but in a good drug-dealer way, dig? For me you captured the spirit of a prankster, like he's taking a dump off of the tiki, over the fence onto the lawn of the background A-frame tiki bar...I know I'm warped but I tend to do that with art imagery - you know, what was he doing just before and just after the scene as shown?
Great stuff here. If you're making the Hukilau scene this year I hope to meet up with you and talk art over a tropi-cocktail. Thanks for posting. G
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Hey TikiG,
Thanks for the comments and compliment. You may have read in a previous post that altho' for the most part the expression I achieved on the chimp was accidental, I feel there is definitely something sly about him. And I guess what I mainly feel he is saying is "You have no idea what's going on behind me" or something to that effect.
As for the Hukilau, I was hoping to attend as a vendor but was denied as there were already too many artists booked. I really hope I can book for next year.
I may show up at some point, primarily to visit the bazaar and maybe catch the Neanderthals! Hopefully I can meet a few TCers!
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WestADad
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From: Tornado Alley
| Posted: 2010-05-06 4:15 pm Permalink
Robert, I can not wait to buy a wood framed "Cosmo" from you (hope you don't mind my nickname for him).
He is so cool!
Chris
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zerostreet
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Posts: 1685 | Posted: 2010-05-06 5:37 pm Permalink
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On 2010-05-06 16:15, WestADad wrote:
Robert, I can not wait to buy a wood framed "Cosmo" from you (hope you don't mind my nickname for him).
He is so cool!
Chris
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Thanks Chris! Don't mind that name at all...it might stick actually!
You know I have plans for 3 chimp brothers...the 1st being the one in the red suit from my illustration LAST CALL AT TIKILANDIA which is a few pages back (or in the gallery section) and there's this one in white and a third, who looks to be a real loose cannon and only exists right now in sketch form. I'll introduce him now:
I then may do a family portrait!
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WestADad
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From: Tornado Alley
| Posted: 2010-05-06 5:45 pm Permalink
Oh yeah! "Loose Cannon" looks like he's had one too many Zombies! Love his expression.
Chris
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zerostreet
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Posts: 1685 | Posted: 2010-05-08 8:33 pm Permalink
Past the halfway mark on this one (I think!) Added in a some texture to the background tiki's and have begun to add details; a zombie for the chimp, some hibiscus, a moon sign on the hut...
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