Author: Kevin Gosselin

Cannibal Dunny for Most Wanted


By now, a lot of you by have seen this, but for those that don\’t have the inside track or happen to be on the Most Wanted Mailing list then here is the full reveal of my design.

This concept didn\’t take but a few minutes to think of. Since the inception of my Dunny Eater for Munny world, I\’ve tried to make all my custom pieces fall into the realm of this fantastic world. So when thinking how a 3\” Dunny would actually fit into that would, I thought naturally he would have to be a cannibal. And once I thought about making a shrunken head, well, it was set in stone.
Now, come release time I\’m gonna hate this design and the difficulties it\’s set forth for me, but hey, if you\’re gonna do something, put your all into it and make it your best.
And for those who might be interested, I announced a couple days ago on the KidRobot forums that I was going to be making a few 8\” Dunnys out of this design. Each one will have a slight different color variation and be a one of a kind. Well, since then two have been snagged up already and there\’s just one spot left. If you want that guy, contact me. There will be artists proofs but I guarantee you, for the price I\’m selling these 8\” Dunnys, you\’d rather go big.

Illustration Wednesday


OK, so here\’s another installment of illustration Wednesday. I\’ve been doing a bit more drawing lately. Really brushing up on my skills and playing around with some ideas. Here\’s my latest one.

If any of you have been watching the new series on starz called Spartacus and you\’re like me, then you probably have quickly become a fan. I love this show and a big part of that is due to the acting of John Hannah. The writers make him so likable even though he\’s quite the unlikable type. He\’s just terribly ambitious and will do anything to get what he wants.
What\’s funny is how he reacts when something doesn\’t go his way. I mean, he\’s apparently a believer in the gods, but he kills and cheats and when something bad happens he doesn\’t make any connection to it possibly being something like, um, Karma? well, I suppose that\’s a different faith. Anyways, he\’s used this line that is kinda offensive and it inspired me to draw him. Eventually, with a little discussion from my family, I decided it was a little too offensive for my final piece. 

Most Wanted Teaser Pic

So I\’ve been working hard on my design for the upcoming Most Wanted Series 2. It\’s been tough not showing everyone what I\’ve been up to because I\’m super happy with how this little guy turned out. It actually makes me think that doing 3\” dunnys might not be a bad idea. Maybe in the near future I\’ll do a small series of my own 3\”. hmmm

Well, Manny with the MW series posted a teaser pic up on the KR forums of my prototype piece.
It\’s a real crappy pic that does it no justice but here it is anyways. Maybe they\’ll do a full reveal of it sometime soon. I honestly have no idea.

Illustration Wednesday

Yeah, I missed last week. I had a busy week and even though I started a drawing I never got around to finish it. Still working on it and below is the unfinished work.
But first this weeks illustration. Years ago I painted an illustration for a friend back in Florida. The concept was just about the same but I never felt like I finished the piece properly. Below is a revised version that I hope to make some t-shirts with. Eventually I\’d also like to go back and repaint this.

Before pursuing art I spent all my free time out running the trails of western Washington. If you\’re not a runner you\’d have called me a bit obsessive about it. It got to a point a couple summers ago when I ran a 50 mile race. I love running because it pushes my threshold of mental fatigue and in turn I believe that makes me a stronger individual capable of handling anything that comes my way. I love trail running specifically because it gets me \”away from the things of man\” as George would say. Anyways, I could go on forever about running but instead, here\’s my unfinished drawing which I\’ll hopefully finish over the next few weeks.

Illustration Wednesday


OK, so today being my birthday I decided to start a new ongoing project that would help me work on my drawing skills. I also feel it\’s in my best interest to explore the concept of making prints so that I can create some residual income. Yeah, it\’s a pipe dream but I have to start somewhere no?

SO, with that in mind I\’ve decided that Wednesday\’s are going to be for illustration from now on. You know, that thing I got a degree in about 14 years ago and decided not to use. I feel if I do a illustration every week for the next year something good while come from it. So here\’s my first stab at it. I figured I\’d start with something I love. And I love me some Wolverine. I just did a basic sketch of Logan to get his character down. I always hated the way his hair was done. I mean how does hair grow in up into points? And his forearms, well, I like me some big ape arms, that\’s just me. Which help\’s because they allow for room for the claws. Anyways, here\’s my Logan. Oh, and for the record, I like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. He\’s great. Just a touch too tall.

initial sketch on lined notebook paper.
one day I\’ll be able to actually buy a real sketch book

Bacon from the Dunny Eater Series


Say Hello to Bacon. This little guy tries as hard as he can to be mean. He\’s even borrowed a bloody halberd and shield from his father but try as he might, deep down inside he\’s just a sweetie. Bacon is part gorilla, part boar and all around nice guy.

Bacon was made from a 7\” Munny, wire, plumber epoxy, screws, polymer clay and leather. This was my first attempt at this size and I loved it. It\’s perfect. Large enough to allow for all the detail I want and small enough to be practical. Want to see how I made this? A lot of you probably saw a lot of images I posted over the last couple weeks. I wasn\’t just showing off. Nope, I was amassing as many pictures as I could to assemble a tutorial. Plan on seeing a tutorial from me within the next couple weeks.
Let me know what you think of this guys. Feel free to comment on what you like, and dislike so I can improve with the next one.
Oh, and did I mention, this fella will be for sale soon 🙂

Munnyworld DunnyEater WIP Pics

So it was suggested of me last night that I might want to make a video of me sculpting. Now there are a lot of great videos out there already of artists far, far superior to myself but never-the-less I do believe that I would have something to offer if I made a video. Each artist has their own insight to common techniques and even the worst artist may be the best of teachers. My mother was a teacher for her entire career and now that she\’s officially retired she still subs. I guess what I\’m trying to say that I think that the teaching bug is in me and eventually I would like to go down that path. I even taught at a high school in Sarasota FL back in my college days.
So a video will eventually come I think. But for now I\’ll start to chronicle my process a little better. I have always tried to do this but lately I\’ve been doing a lot of commissions and in order to respect the clients right to first viewing I haven\’t been posting my WIP pics.
However, I have taken lots of pics of most of my work so while the current sculpt is baking and cooling I\’ve decided to post WIP of the Mega I did for Munnyworld last November.
I\’ll just have some brief notes here, nothing too instructive. But I will make notes in the future and expect for a detail tutorial be be done.

k, so here we have the first go of it, in just about a hour I threw on a rough sketch of the right arm and chest, took longer, much longer to mix the sculpey, think I used one package of blue scupley 3 and a box of super sculpey with my pasta maker

in this pic you can see a box of firm sculpey, I\’ve used this a few times and like it a lot but it\’s not a soft to work in as super sculpey, it\’s plus is it\’s durability after it\’s been baked

I\’ve now quickly sketched in the other side along with the abs and side flanks
I\’m just trying to keep it loose and figure how I want things to look, I frequently have no idea what I\’m going to create when I get started, just a basic concept in my head and I let myself discover it as I go along, this is a really poor way to work and causes a lot of additional work backtracking, I do not recommend it and hopefully one day I\’ll remedy that bad habit
MAKE THUMBNAILS, ROUGH SKETCHES, COLOR STUDIES


starting to smooth things up a bit here

now working on my back
at this point I\’ve got my anatomy book out cause it\’s been years since I\’ve done anything like this and although I have a general idea of where things belong I want to make this a real a possible
notice also the rake marks in the clay, I like to get the clay on there in basic shapes first and then use a raking tool to remove and refine the shape

the back of this guy was a bit annoying, no offense to the great people at KidRobot but the Munnys and Dunnys are anything but symmetrical which made it tricky for me to say the least

I\’ve now roughed out the feet, I\’ve decided to go with elephant-like feet
oh, yeah, and on these bigs pieces I like to use the lazy suzan so I can work in the round, constantly turning and viewing the piece from many angles trying to see the correct shape

see that line at the bottom of the stomach? a good friend was kind to ridicule me for making it look like a pouch, eventually I would remove it
I show my work to friends and family frequently as they\’re going to be your best critics
fresh eyes are a god send

here you\’ll see the pouch is gone and some strange blue rash has appeared
I ran out of my premixed clay and had to make more, unfortunately the art store did not have the same color and I had to use a different blue

oh, and this is Penny, my 55 lb lap dog, she will occasionally join me while I work

UP THE IRONS!!

so at this point I realized that the arms were just too static, and I also decided it would be really cool if my Troll was actually in the process of eating a dunny
so I used plumber putty and armature wire to hold the arm in place
Plumber putty is a great 2 part epoxy that comes in a roll, you slice off what you need, mix it to a consistent color and within 5 minutes its hard as a rock

I\’m now about ready to move on to the face, again I used plumbers putty along with a screw
I did this so that the clay would have something to grab onto. I also sand the entire munny with a course grit sand paper. really want to be sure that the clay adheres to the vinyl.

forgot to mention the dunny,
yes I ripped a head off a dunny, sketched in a spine and put him in place

ah, there he is, mr good-looking

woah! what happen, apparently I got forgetful with the camera
so I finished the face and added a nose and ear ring and then I took alcohol with a brush to the entire piece, smoothing out the roughness and adding the fine detail

primed this guy

there\’s the war hammer

I\’ve now butchered three dunnys and created the necklace, there\’s the hammer again, I used floss to measure how much vine wire I would need

first coat of acrylic paint, looks like an army man, lol

2nd coat of paint too bring out the highlights, now he\’s looking super glossy, like some gross sweaty troll

added color to the lips and toes

sorry, took no pictures of me painting the hammer

I\’ve added the vine wire and leather