SHE-SPARTAN (in yellow)

I worked up a screen-print friendly version of my yellow SHE-SPARTAN design on a black shirt. It's up at EMPTEES.COM for comments and critiques, so stop by and give it some love.

SHE-SPARTAN (in green)

I worked up a screen-print friendly version of my green SHE-SPARTAN design on a black shirt. It's up at EMPTEES.COM for comments and critiques, so stop by and give it some love.

TATA GALA SHE-SPARTAN#2

And here's the second submission piece, colored, tweaked and adjusted from it's previous posting.

TATA GALA SHE-SPARTAN #1

Finally finished up the colors for my two submissions to the TATA GALA breast cancer fundraiser show happening in my old stomping grounds of Sarasota FL next month, and boy did I put some work into these babies!



There were a lot of details to be worked out with these: the illustrations are very detailed to begin with, I was trying some new things with halftone shading, and coming up with final color schemes I was happy with took longer than it should have (I finished coloring this one yesterday, took a break and came back to it only to realize the color scheme I had chosen made it look like a box of Franken-Berry cereal!). Compounding my woes is the fact that my computer was giving me a royal bloody fit with these files. Coloring them was a powerful headache as it brought the speed of my system grinding to a slow crawl. The files were tremendously large with lots of layers and my computer is just old and decrepit.



Anyway, I managed to get them done and submitted literally right at the stroke of midnight, which was the deadline, so hopefully I'll hear whether or not they were accepted soon. Can't wait to go down for the show -- hope to see you there.

TATA GALA SNEAK PEEK!

Work in progress. It's coming along nicely...

SHE-SPARTAN #2 INKS!!

Finished scanning and piecing together the second She-Spartan illustration for this month's TATA GALA show. I'm really proud of how these have turned out so far. If only I had a decent large-format scanner so I didn't have to scan these things in small chunks and piece them together in photoshop! What a headache! If anybody has a mac-compatible large-format scanner they're looking to get rid of, please let me know.

As with the previous piece, I took some progress shots just for fun. On to the colors!

She Spartan Skateboards by the Seashore!

Hey, I finally fulfilled another component of my master plan and got some skateboard designs done. GREEK skateboards, at that! These designs were completed and produced a while ago, but I'd been saving up posting about them until I could get my rebranding taken care of. Now that BeastPop has been launched, I can share these with you.

These were done for Goodbie Skateboards over in Greece, and being 1/4 Greek myself, I jumped at the opportunity. I had a lot of fun with these, and I wish I'd had more time to work on them. The job was a bit rushed and I had a lot going on at the time, but I am definitely up for doing more of these, and I hope to have more time to devote to it next time around.



As you can see, the final color choices are very different from my original designs and the placement was adjusted as well. That's one of those things that is just out of the artist's hands once he turns in the artwork, and I can't fault them for changing their mind (I just wish I'd been able to be the one to make the changes, as the end result seems to have a few awkward choices in the coloring).





I'm not sure how well the company is doing right now, as the economy over in Greece seems to be in very dire straits, but I hope these designs did well for them. I don't believe they are available over here in the states, but you can check out Color Skates for more Greek skate goodness.



Anyway, I'm all aboard doing more skate deck designs, so if anybody out there works for such a company, or knows someone who does, please point them in my direction.