Have yourself illustrated as a minifig

 

  • Have yourself illustrated as a minifig

    Posted by Huw, 04 Mar 2013 05:52. Filed under Miscellaneous.

    Here's something rather cool: Will Wiggins is an illustrator/designer based out of NYC in the USA. He creates illustrations of people as minifigs. For $5, he'll create original artwork of a person or character as a minifig, and for an extra $10 will make a physical minifig to match.

    He contacted me a month or so ago and offered to do an illustration of me, and here is the result, which is based on  this picture of me at LEGOWorld. A pretty good match, I reckon!

    You can commission your own artwork on Fiverr (the world's largest marketplace
    for small services). I'm thinking of getting the forum admins one each for use as our avatars. What do you think, guys? :-)

     


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Posted by atkinsar in United Kingdom, 04 Mar 2013 06:22

That is classic, a great likeness :-)

I want one!

Posted by bricksan in United Kingdom, 04 Mar 2013 06:23

Very cool :-)

Posted by ChicoCheco in Norway, 04 Mar 2013 06:24

Excellent idea, especially as a birthday gift!

Posted by henry9112 in Germany, 04 Mar 2013 06:38

good match!

Posted by TheCahleySlash in United Kingdom, 04 Mar 2013 06:50

This is actually quite amazing! :O

Posted by CCC in United Kingdom, 04 Mar 2013 07:12

It's a shame that more fleshie heads are not released officially by lego. I'd love even 25% of the range of yellow heads to be released as fleshie ones.

Posted by richselby in United Kingdom, 04 Mar 2013 07:23

This is going to be hard to resist. One for all the family, please

Posted by Frederick B. in Norway, 04 Mar 2013 08:57

Looks a lot like jou.
Are you going too buy a physichal figure too?

Posted by figura in Germany, 04 Mar 2013 10:03

the physical ones are the actual great thing about it!

Posted by kempo81 in United Kingdom, 04 Mar 2013 10:40

WANT!! Lol!! That looks awesome and great likeness

Posted by princedraven in United Kingdom, 04 Mar 2013 11:22

This sounds similar to what fellow Bricksetter @MinifigsMe does at http://minifigs.me/
I have had a few of her figs made up of my son and they were first class, sounds around the same figure, about £10.
So Brit's may be better off getting from there.

Posted by skherbeck in United States, 04 Mar 2013 11:58

I would love to see a photo of an actual minifig created by Will!

Posted by CapnRex101 in United Kingdom, 04 Mar 2013 13:32

Love it, a very good rendition I would say Huw. I second skherbeck's request, a photo of the actual Minifigure would be brilliant!

Posted by MvdS in Netherlands, 04 Mar 2013 13:46

Cool, cool, cool....

Posted by willtwiggins in United States, 04 Mar 2013 13:59

Hi there, thanks for the great feedback everyone! you can check out a sample of my figures with the artwork here on flickr:

http://bit.ly/ZXhUlz

if you have any questions, feel free to get in touch through my fiverr page:

http://www.fiverr.com/willtwiggins

thanks!

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 04 Mar 2013 14:13

I don't have the minifig, just the artwork, which is a service MinifigsMe doesn't provide (yet).

Posted by klatu003 in United States, 04 Mar 2013 16:42

What a fun idea. Mine is on order!

Posted by yodaman5556 in New Zealand, 04 Mar 2013 20:39

AWESOME! This will be on my birthday list (the artwork and the figure)! ;) I've always wanted a minifig of myself...:P:P Thanks, Huw, for showing us this...it looks great! :)

Posted by yodaman5556 in New Zealand, 04 Mar 2013 20:40

One question: do you get to chose the background pattern/image for the artwork? :D

Posted by mkrey in United States, 04 Mar 2013 22:23

Two thumbs up.

Posted by Dragon_Master_48 in United States, 04 Mar 2013 22:54

Well that's a great idea... :D

Posted by SI Builder in Canada, 04 Mar 2013 23:07

Wow,that's cool!

Posted by jonbuddy in United States, 05 Mar 2013 13:57

What a deal! I'd get both the artwork and the physical fig, lol.

Posted by willtwiggins in United States, 05 Mar 2013 16:03

@yodaman5556 thanks for your comment, the circle pattern is my default one, but I can change it!

thanks!

Posted by graallll in United States, 06 Mar 2013 15:58

Beat me to the punch. I may just have to buy one.

Posted by yodaman5556 in New Zealand, 08 Mar 2013 14:38

willtwiggins: Thanks for replying! I'll bookmark this and put it at the top of my birthday list. What you're doing is great and fun. :-)

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