There’s no mistaking Paul’s gorgeous drawing style
Over the years I’ve seen a lot of Paul’s concept work posted online either by himself or featured on various sites. He is a sculptor, fine artist, illustrator, resin kit designer and movie concept artist.
Anyway, I thought I’d post a selection of his concept designs here as I love the look of his illustrations, which very often almost have the feel of classic Leonardo da Vinci drawings.
Enjoy…
The Thing (2011)
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Unused flying creature design for Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Paul’s concepts for the flying creatures in KONG: SKULL ISLAND were pretty otherworldly. It’s a shame these didn’t find their way into the film as they’re very striking.
Another of Paul’s flying creature designs for Kong: Skull Island
I Am Legend (2007)
Below is a drawing Paul did for a resin model kit of Nyarlathotep: an Outer God in the Cthulhu Mythos…
Nyarlathotep resin model kit design
Daisuke Manno sculpted the Gecco garage kit that was based on Paul’s design…
The finished Nyarlathotep resin model kit
Here’s a glorious Cthulhu illustration Paul did for another Gecco model kit design…
Tentacle-tastic!
Some shots of Paul’s Cthulhu resin model kit…
Cthulhu resin model kit, sculpted by PaulSide view of the Cthulhu resin model kitHere’s a painted version of Paul’s awesome Cthulhu creation on display at a NY Comic Con
Paul designed this Great Race of Yith creature, which was then sculpted by RYO (nendoseizin) and painted by David Dill…
Great Race of Yith prepainted statue – side view
Great Race of Yith prepainted statue – front view
Here’s a great illustration Paul did for ACRO Co. Ltd, showing his design suggestion for Gan-Q (a Kaiju that first appeared in Ultraman Gaia)…
Design for Gan-Q model
Supermodel and television personality Heidi Klum loves to throw annual star-studded Halloween parties and she really likes to dress for the occasion! In 2011, for instance, she was a hairy ape and in 2014 she dressed as the werewolf from Michael Jackson’s THRILLER video. In 2022 Paul was hired by Mike Marino of Prosthetic Renaissance to design a wild, eye-popping worm costume for Heidi. Here are just some of Paul’s concept drawings for the wonderful worm suit…
These were the very first drawings Paul did of the Heidi Klum worm suit, just trying to nail down a directionIn this design version more of Heidi’s face was exposed (it would be a little while before the decision to go ‘Full Worm’ was decided upon!)Paul drew these from screenshots from a video he was sent of Heidi Klum demonstrating how she wanted to perform in the worm suitThis design variation was about as far out into alien glamor that the worm suit design was taken. (Paul had just been to the Alexander McQueen exhibit at LACMA and felt inspired to push the look into a kind of biomorphic couture which also took more inspiration from sea worms)Drawings of the final Heidi Klum worm suit design, neither of which have a face yet. The right design still retains the clitellum (the smooth band which earthworms use for reproductive purposes)This was the final approved design (more or less): Paul was still undecided whether the suit would have flipper-like arms or notPaul’s final drawing, which was a basic idea for how the face prosthetic would look……and here’s a close-up of Heidi’s face in the actual prosthetic!Here’s the gobsmacking costume, built by Prosthetic Renaissance Inc., seen on the night of the Halloween event!
Some miscellaneous work…
A commission Paul did in 2019, showing Ernest Borgnine melting in THE DEVIL’S RAINA cool GORGO-tastic sketchbook drawing Paul did, highlighting the creature’s wavy rows of teethA Yithian drawing from 2017Godzilla drawing done by Paul at the start of 2020Verokron from episode 1 of Ultraman Ace (on 11 x 8 1/2 multimedia paper )
Here’s a pic of Paul sculpting a Swamp Thing maquette…
…and here’s a sketch of Swamp Thing Paul did before he began sculpting the maquette…
Niiiiiiiiiice
The 1/1 scale/proportion drawing for the Sideshow Swamp Thing…
Devoted to every kind of movie and TV monster, from King Kong to Godzilla, from the Blob to Alien. Plus monsters from other media too, including books and comics.
Monster Zone 
Is there any concept art for Swamp Thing?
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Paul did a colour sketch of Swamp Thing for the Swamp Thing maquette he sculpted.
(I will add it to my post)
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