Robert Burden's Battle Cat

Robert Burden's Battle Cat

Dear ComicBookMovie.com,
My name is Robert Burden. I'm an artist living in San Francisco. For the past few years I've been making very large oil paintings of my childhood action figures. I wanted to send you a link to a time-lapse video of the creation of my newest piece "Battle Cat Statant" from He-Man.

Scoop
By CBMcontributor - Sep 30, 2009 11:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Fan Fic

The painting is roughly 6ftx8ft and took about 420 hours to complete. If you think it's worthy of being anywhere on your website, that would be amazing, but if not, no worries. I hope you like the vid regardless.
Best,
Rob



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Simonsonrules
Simonsonrules - 9/30/2009, 11:12 AM
This is fantastic. Post some more!
JasonTodd
JasonTodd - 9/30/2009, 11:18 AM
AMAZING! tht looks exactly like my old toy!
WheelJack
WheelJack - 9/30/2009, 11:24 AM
wow
ThoroughbredSteele0
ThoroughbredSteele0 - 9/30/2009, 11:24 AM
hell yeah, that was great man! cant wait for the tauntaun rebellion.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 9/30/2009, 11:28 AM
Thats class, love the colors. I still have that toy somewhere! No armor though:(
Phinehas
Phinehas - 9/30/2009, 11:40 AM
Wow! That is great! I love it. If anyone comes on here, make sure you watch that video. It is really good!
georgia49th
georgia49th - 9/30/2009, 11:43 AM
cool
sadmamba
sadmamba - 9/30/2009, 11:52 AM
woow
WulfComicFan
WulfComicFan - 9/30/2009, 12:00 PM
Holy oil canvas Batman! That is freekin amazing! That's some major talent!
WulfComicFan
WulfComicFan - 9/30/2009, 12:04 PM
I just checked out his other stuff, it's really great! This guy has super talent! I am sooo jelous, I like to draw, but if I could only be THAT good, I'd do it professionally!
Shaman
Shaman - 9/30/2009, 12:35 PM
Very freakin' nice!!! I remember i used to prefer playing with Skeletor's panther. It felt like real suede... mmmmmmmm :P
Shaman
Shaman - 9/30/2009, 1:07 PM
Super suede!!! LOL :P Fore some reason, there seems to be spots of dried up glue of somethin' on my panther...
theFACE
theFACE - 9/30/2009, 1:33 PM
that is truly amazing dude, you have some talent! i've stil got my original battle cat with armor, it's totally badass, much like your painting dude. You need to get some scaled art prints of that painting dude, cos i'd buy one, and i'm sure i'm not the only one.
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 9/30/2009, 1:49 PM
I dont think i ever watched He-Man when I was a kid but thats some quality art! :)
WelcomeMat
WelcomeMat - 9/30/2009, 2:15 PM
Wow. Very impressive. The time-laplse and the piece itself!
Ryden
Ryden - 9/30/2009, 2:20 PM
wow that is awesome, you have a lot of talent dude
DDD
DDD - 9/30/2009, 2:39 PM
Wonderful! I love the colors you used here! I would sure buy a print of that, too, if it were available! Looking forward to the Tauntaun Rebellion!

Shaman isn't that Panther abuse??? LMAO
savedrockstar
savedrockstar - 9/30/2009, 2:59 PM
that was freaking sick! I esp love Battle Cat's little cameo on the bottom left @ 1:15....good stuff
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/30/2009, 3:03 PM
Good work @ Robert! Thumbs up man!! ; )
Duhdaduh
Duhdaduh - 9/30/2009, 4:53 PM
that is seriously beautiful
flames809
flames809 - 9/30/2009, 4:58 PM
looks cool
ComradeX
ComradeX - 9/30/2009, 6:01 PM
Post your Captain America Rob
thegreek
thegreek - 9/30/2009, 6:47 PM
That is an awesome pic/ vid ...

@ Rosch01 - LOL ... Dude i still have battle cat too but without the armor as well... lol
StrangerX
StrangerX - 9/30/2009, 6:48 PM
Great Video
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 9/30/2009, 6:58 PM
great pic! one question though, why did he start off using red for battle cat?
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 10/1/2009, 1:47 AM
WOW!, NEW DIRECTION IN CBM!NOW WE HAVE ARTWORK....HEY..CAN YOU PAINT CELEBRITIES BUT IN HERO COSTUMES?...
Shaman
Shaman - 10/1/2009, 8:02 AM
Hey it's not my fault they made Skeletor's panther so suedey smooth!!!

Josh- I watched a bit of he-man as a kid but i watched a hell of a lot of She-Ra!!! LOL And Jem too ;)
JohnnyKrypton
JohnnyKrypton - 10/1/2009, 9:22 AM
Awesome! Just watching that brought back waves of innocence and wonder...
ReikoLJ
ReikoLJ - 10/1/2009, 11:03 AM
This guy seriously rocks :D
Coats
Coats - 10/1/2009, 4:19 PM
That was great. Thanks for posting and for showing that process. Really impressive. I love the design. That went up on my facebook stat. :)

I've got my childhood Battle Cat sitting on my art desk staring me down. Like Ror's it's sans armour, but still a treasure nonetheless.

@thwhtknight - He's just laying down the underpainting. It's just part of the oil process. Good oils are tough as $#!% and require a lot of color layering to get the great effects the medium can bring when done right.

Kudos to the great work and the fresh subject matter, Robert! Bringing art to saturday mornings one toy at a time. :)
TaffetaDarling
TaffetaDarling - 10/1/2009, 10:19 PM
that is amazing! I'd put that over the couch or bed any day!

I checked out his site. He has some really off the wall stuff. The foot solider with daisies behind him is AWESOME.
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