Blueprint Mugshot Edition
430 piecesPortraits shot against the same board, front and profile. The largest series, and the one closest to how a toy line gets documented before it ships.
Six characters, 669 pieces
Original digital art built around six action figures from 1994, taking on 2026 with absolute confidence and no idea what any of it is.
Travel #0078
The Velvet Python
Travel the World Series, 2026
Original digital art. Combat Issue.
The only one of itself.
What this is
Stiff Competition is six characters and their stories: Major Wood, The Rear Admiral, Hammerin' Hanky, The Grip, Slick Willy and The Velvet Python. 669 original pieces, and the characters come first — everything else exists to serve them.
Three used action figures started it. No packaging, a pound for the lot, bought on a Wednesday afternoon on the way to the pub. The photos were phone snaps taken in the pub, and the figures had ended up in poses so lifelike the idea arrived fully formed. The originals were copyrighted, so six new characters were built instead. Nothing here is borrowed.
The work is organised into four series. Every piece is original digital art, registered to whoever buys it, permanently and publicly. Once a piece is gone, it's gone.
The four series
Each series puts the same six through a different set of conditions. Pieces are numbered continuously within a series.
Championship Handlers Series
96 piecesThe six out of uniform and into sport — golf, football, and a long ride through the mountains. Three sub-series sharing one sequence.
Travel the World Series
92 piecesThe premise is a package holiday. What comes back is closer to postcards, sent from somewhere that does not entirely exist.
The Sovereign Assets Series
40 piecesThe smallest and most formal of the four. Full-length studio portraits at the top grade, one character to a piece, nothing else in the frame.
The six
Every piece in the archive is one of these six. Shown here as they appear in the Sovereign Assets Series.
How it gets made
No team, no studio, no investors
The artwork, the shop, the blockchain side, the code — months of learning every bit of it from nothing. It is one person, working alone, and the build is documented as it goes.
Every piece is made deliberately, one at a time, then graded, numbered and registered on the blockchain. Nothing is generated on demand and nothing is randomised at the point of sale. The grade describes work already done.
Press and enquiries
High-resolution files, bios and image credits are available on request.
Press kit
Exhibition and interviews
The backstory
See everything in The Grid
Stiff Competition · 1994 / 2026