Friday, April 27, 2012

Death to Yoshi

On my last post and on my twitter, which I like to use to post silly things about my days, I have been hinting about my latest art project. As I said before, I bought a vinyl figure from work on a whim and decided to spice it up a little. I bought this sweet 9" yoshi figure for about 9 dollars after employee discount. I had bought a pink one the day before but didn't quite love the blue one as much.

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Once I decided on a theme, I painted him solid white so that I could do anything I please with him.

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It took about three coats of white acrylic paint, with no color showing through when I was done.

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 Next I turned him a dark green, to look much more like real Yoshi.

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Next I gave him bruises, dark patches, and other skin discolorations. 

And then the fun began.

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I added some over all creepy and zombie-ness.

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And here is my finished result. I have to say this is the most fun I've had on an art project in so long. I'm almost sad for it to be done.

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If anyone, or anyone you know, is interested in purchasing a vinyl figure like this one, I will be making another soon. Please email me at diamondinthedark-smacko *at* hotmail *dot* com.

Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline

2 comments:

  1. woahohoh, I LOVE how this turned out - so so so cool! What other characters do they have?

    xo
    http://kittysnooks.blogspot.ca/

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  2. That is absolutely amazing! I really love it, great job.

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