Mach Baron - vector art by NAK
10 years ago while I was in venice for a film festival, I bought myself a little metal/plastic robot. I had no idea who it was until recently when I saw some pictures in the new Famous Monsters magazine. There was an article specifically on this guy and his predessor the Red Baron who was from a Japanese animated kids show. This guy here is Mach Baron. Finding this out gave me some inspiration to create an illustration of him. I didn't want to do a static pose that would make it look like just a toy. I wanted it to have some movement and also showing some emotion. I also didn't want an action fighting image either. In reality within the show, he is a controlled (static) giant robot fighting no good, so I was exercising some creative license and bringing him down to our size as if there was a person in a robot shell.
I took some close up photos of my 2.5 inch Baron and was amazed at how just a slight angle change made such a dramatic emotional shift in the reading of the figure, which of course makes sense. It's all in the body language. So even though it was the same figure with no facial change, one looked like he could beat the crap out of you and another looked like he was bugged that you stopped him to ask for an autograph or something.
I was intending to do a background, which I started, but I was coming up with too many options to decide on a specific one. The white background also looked really nice so just as a default this is how it is for now.
General Crystal's Last Stand
After the design I did in the previous post which I turned into a MEME poster, I took the design into another direction which I also quite like. This could easily end up as a cover for one of my Acid Man books.
