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Shoom'lah
Member
Joined: Sep 02, 2008
Posts: 8
From: Los Angeles, currently in Redmond, WA
|  Posted: 2008-09-04 11:55 pm Permalink
Hey, everyone- I've been following these forums for a while, and only now realized that I've yet to post anything of my own! I've been working on a retro tiki theme for my living room over the past few weeks, something I'm sure you can all relate to, and into about my third coating of wood stain I realized I could post it here, along with some of my character design and illustration work. So, yes- enjoy!
First off, some first draft designs for Pele and Poliahu; Pele's going to be changed a lot, but I'm posting her anyway:
 
Next a Papua New Guinea-inspired character, definitely drawing from some tiki proportions and aesthetics:
Finally, for my living room, some cardboard and harpie tikis made from furniture boxes:
...and a swithplate for my lights which I woodburned and stained myself:
I want to do tons more tiki work in the future, so here's hoping this is the first of many art dumps! 
Here's my site if you want to see more of my work, though not entirely tiki: http://www.shoomlah.com
-Claire/Shumi
[ This Message was edited by: Shoom'lah 2008-09-18 00:26 ]
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Shoom'lah
Member
Joined: Sep 02, 2008
Posts: 8
From: Los Angeles, currently in Redmond, WA
| Posted: 2008-09-05 12:06 am Permalink
Crud, forgot this one:
...and this one:
Gads, I've done more than I thought.
-C
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GROG
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Jun 21, 2006
Posts: 6195
From: Tujunga
| Posted: 2008-09-05 12:23 am Permalink
Checked out your website. Very nice stuff. Mad skills. GROG like.
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TiKiMaN77
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 30, 2004
Posts: 161
From: Burbank
| Posted: 2008-09-05 01:51 am Permalink
I agree with Grog here. Not that I couldn't. Your stuff is amazing. Sure beats the hell out of mine. I rely too much on rendering and Tons of details in my own work, and yours seems to Suggest the details...something I can't do.
Awesome, can't wait to see more.
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VampiressRN
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: Nov 23, 2006
Posts: 5089
From: Sin City Lincoln Hills (NorCal)
| Posted: 2008-09-05 05:10 am Permalink
Ditto...you really have a diverse body of work....very talented!!!
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AlohaStation
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2004
Posts: 2004
From: So FL
| Posted: 2008-09-05 07:52 am Permalink
Glad to see you post some work here. I have fav'ed several of your illos at deviantart. Love the Trio.
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Blowfish
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Feb 09, 2006
Posts: 158
From: Hula-ifornia
| Posted: 2008-09-05 09:23 am Permalink
Aloha and wow! I really like your Pele! the way you made the hair (at least to me) look like it could be a volcano (that or I am hungover) is really fantastic! The tattoos are great too!
Big aloha!
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MadDogMike
Grand Member (3 years) 
Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6412
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2008-09-05 10:11 am Permalink
Welcome to TC Shoom'lah. Great work - I went snorkling in Hawaii and I didn't see nutin' like this!
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tikithomas08
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 10, 2007
Posts: 528
From: San Diego CA
| Posted: 2008-09-05 12:11 pm Permalink
very very VERY rad stuff, man!
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Tiki Trav
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 25, 2006
Posts: 631
From: NSW Central Coast, Australia
| Posted: 2008-09-05 6:04 pm Permalink
Very nice work, I see a definate Lilo & Stitch style
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Badd Tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 28, 2008
Posts: 269 | Posted: 2008-09-05 9:37 pm Permalink
I love it all but I think I like the cardboard Tikis best.
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Kahu
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 03, 2007
Posts: 267 | Posted: 2008-09-06 12:53 am Permalink
It is all great!
Keep coming back with more please.
By the way. Any thought to doing prints?
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Shoom'lah
Member
Joined: Sep 02, 2008
Posts: 8
From: Los Angeles, currently in Redmond, WA
| Posted: 2008-09-06 09:08 am Permalink
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On 2008-09-06 00:53, Kahu wrote:
It is all great!
Keep coming back with more please.
By the way. Any thought to doing prints?
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All of these are available as prints!
-C
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Shoom'lah
Member
Joined: Sep 02, 2008
Posts: 8
From: Los Angeles, currently in Redmond, WA
| Posted: 2008-09-17 02:07 am Permalink
I've sold ceramic tile coasters on Cafepress before and have been extremely impressed with the quality of the final product, so I was thinking of extending my tiles into the tiki realm... Not to mention the fact that it means I'd have tiles to match my decor!
Anywho, here's the first of at least four designs- I wanted to gauge whether or not people would be interested in such things if reasonably priced. And, I do promise, at least one of them will have a pin-up girl.
-C
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Paipo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 22, 2006
Posts: 1886
From: Aotearoa / NZ
| Posted: 2008-09-17 02:46 am Permalink
Great stuff - I also loved the Mesoamerican characters and (I think?) Pacific Northwest inspired animals on your site too...and the tapirs!
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