King Negora – By Mark Nagata, acrylics on canvas 8×10 inches – March 2012
Well no sooner had I knocked out the last set of header cards and blogged about them .. I of course get an email that we needed artwork for the next soft vinyl toy we are making .. called King Negora ! This one is in standard size, so he will stand about 10 inches tall … so here is my process .. this time i decided to paint on canvas, but my process is similar to other projects I’ve posted here .. so away we go !
I penciled in the scene using HB-2B pencils on the canvas. I used the provided pics ( see below ) of the actual sculpt, but I always like to make the header not just a replica of the toy itself but rather what if this figure was “real” …
I sprayed the finished pencil drawing with fixative and started by toning the whole piece with a Golden Yellow Green paint thinned with matte medium…
After getting color over the whole piece I laid some Frisket Film over the canvas and cut out the shape around Negora with an Exacto blade …
The picture above you can see I’ve removed the film that was covering the Negora … however for the next step I had removed the outer mask and covered the Negora … this way I get a cleaner background …
Lifting up the mask you can see how it has blocked the Red / Orange paint …
From this point it’s really a matter of painting in the darks on Negora ..
using purples, dark greens … and washes of medium greens mixed with matte medium … also sprayed in the road and started to work out the buildings outlines … light posts …
adding more depth to the road and the cars on it, same with buildings …
now Negora’s starting to look good 
adding more depth to the fur …
still workin the fur, but adding reflective light, blues and reds … to round out the forms …
and just about done … finished image is at top of the post .. the last thing that was done was to give it a nice glossy varnish, which in person give it more depth and the colors pop better.
Above is the sculpt for King Negora by Yoshihiko Makino of TTToys , based on the Kaiju Negora design by artist, Konatsu. And below, the final wax pieces that where sent to the iron Molds factory.
The final figure will make it’s debut at the KONATSUNAGATA , art show on March 31, 2012 – Design Festa Gallery, Harajuku, Japan. More details about this show posted soon
