guitar skull

got this request after some one saw my converse chucks skull.

redneck character dump

here's some old characters that i drew up some time ago... probably 2 or 3 years ago. one of these just recently resurfaced in a t-shirt design for wal-mart.

rock-n-roll

stencil looks

stencil work process

i'll be posting more from this series of graphics in the near future... but first here's the process.

1. initial sketch- pencil on paper.

2. inking- scanned sketch as grayscale. changed to blue in photoshop and printed out. inked directly on top of the printout and rescanned as rgb.

3. dropped blue channel & adjusted contrast using curves leaving only my cleaned up ink lines. manipulated lines to look like spraypaint- involving dissolve layers, smudge tool, filters- including spatter, gaussian blur, unsharp mask, clouds, ect., quick masks, brush tool... pretty normal photoshop tricks.

4. the inevitable revise. repositioned and resized the halo (and the branding... which i've removed for this post-- but i gotta give another shout out to house industries for their flyer fonts collection)

this was my welcome-back-to-the-midwest project

i don't think this design could get any brighter or bigger. -- just what the customer wanted.

front:


back:



ps. that's also some hand-drawn script... not a font. on a redneck-pleasing level, i'm pretty proud of the way it turned out.

long time. no post

... been busy/crazy with work, going to weddings, & moving from california to st. louis. its good to be back. feels like home again. i'll try to post more regularly. below is yet another skull for ya.



i love doing art for converse.