My “Dawn of the Doughnuts” design will be just $10 on teefury Nov. 2 for 24 hours. Go get your Undead Doughnuts on!

I’m also running a contest to win a free “Minnie Undead Doughnut” on my Facebook fan page
~ Sumrow

This is a limited edition of two dozen, hand painted, cast resin sculptures. Each figure is meticulously hand-painted, signed and numbered by me.
Title: Minnie the Undead Doughnut
Medium: Acrylic paint on cast resin. 5″ H, 4″ W, x 4″ D.
Edition: 24 signed & numbered, plus 6 Artist Proofs (AP)
Shipping: Undead Doughnut orders will ship Decmeber 1st.

Now go grab yours before they BITE BACK! The Sumrow Shop

Thanks for supporting the arts!
~ Sumrow

Today i’m blogging a bit about the process of painting my cast Undead Doughnuts. This will be a 3 part series, and I hope you like it. In case you missed it there is an earlier post about the sculpting process, from clay (super sculpey) to final resin castings. Today I want to dive into paint. Lets go!

Mini Undead Doughnut Painting Process:

1. For a little behind the scenes on this new Mini-Doughnut, we have an early pic from the sculpting stage. This shows the size compared to a life size doughnut. Notice that this doughnut is already baked before I apply a layer of sculpey frosting. This helps to let the fake frosting look more natural as I drape it over the hard doughnut.
2. This is the final sculpey sculpture before I hand it over to the casting studio. This is fully baked. Note: A happy accident happened. I WAAAAY overbaked this little guy and the sculpey blistered. Rather than ruin the sculpt… it made it look AWESOME!

3. This is the first cast from the mold in un-tinted white resin. Here is where the fun paint starts.
4. I take a digital pic of the plain white casts and colorize them in photoshop. This allows me to play with and pre-visualize the colors before I ever open a tube of paint. I upload this photo-shopped image to Facebook and ask friends and fans what color combos they like best. It’s fun, and I also add custom names.

1. A. Chocolate Cadaver
2. B. Lifeless Lavender
3. C. Putrid Pumpkin
4. D. Gooey Green

5. Paint mixing: I use acrylic paints thinned down to a buttery consistency. Each color gets it’s own small paint container. These small containers can be bought at a craft store for a few bucks per dozen. They are very handy! You can never have too many of these. I keep a small spray bottle close by and spritz a little water in each as I go to keep the paints moist. If I know I am not going to paint for a day or two, I’ll add a little more water to each container, this keeps the colors fresh for days.

Using the digitally colored image from step 4, I keep it on my iphone as reference, and lok at it constantly while I mix the real paint. Once I have all the colors mixed, it’s time for the real paint tests…

6. Airbrush time! Here we have the first four resin sculpts. These are the test-subjects. They may or may not survive! They will be sacrificed to arrive at the final mixed colors for the entire run of Mini Doughnuts. What I am doing here is looking at each one and seeing how all four look together as a set. I will tweak and remix a color if it doesn’t quiet “fit in” with the others.

I use airbrush to color the frosting. The flesh and doughnut itself will be painted by hand. Airbrush allows for a vary smooth paint layer, which works well for shiny frosting. Hand brushed work looks good for the more doughy / bread feel of the base doughnut and zombie flesh.

That’s it for Part one. Next time I will cover the hand painted zombie flesh and gooey washes.
Thanks for stopping by!

~ Sumrow

Happy Halloween everyone!
Now… head to the shop!

~ Sumrow

Defender of the Deep, 16 x 20, Pentel “pocket” brush pen & Sharpie on paper.

99.9% done with this new drawing I’m calling “Defender of the Deep” for now. Undecided on what I will use it for other than a portfolio piece. Could become a t-shirt or a print.

Here is a shot for scale. And two previous sketchbook pages that lead up to the final version. I’m glad I stuck with it and leveled it up.

The Doctor always hating, but he’ll never catch the Daleks (riding dirty). This design will be available for $10 for only 24hrs on Teefury.com! So go grab ‘em!

Enter to win the Original Artwork on Facebook!

Defender of the Deep, 8.5″ x 11″, Pentel Brush pen, watercolor pencils, and White UNI Posca marker, on Cachet “Earthbound” sketchbook.

Till next time. ~ John

The first Undead Doughnuts are now Available for Pre-Order!
The limited edition are in production as we speak! Casting and painting… living and dying. Due to high demand “Mr. Jimmies the Undead Doughnut’s” are available for Pre-Order. All pre-orders will ship the first week in June.

This is a VERY limited edition of 25, plus five Artist Proofs (AP).
Go secure your Undead Doughnut today!

Update: What are collectors saying…
“He looked amazing watching you create him , but it does not compare how damn cool he is in person and up close.” – Windy S.,  NC.
“I came home and he was escaping! Thank You for this piece of Awesomeness!” – Katie C., MO.

A small sample of the color options I’m considering for the Zoughnuts.

I did some photoshopin’ for a bit to pre-visualize the color schemes I’ll offer for my new “Zoughnuts” limited edition sculpt. I’m getting excited about these. Will load up on paints this weekend and start assembling the first batch.
Pop Quiz! Which color combo do like best?
Let me hear it…
~ John