Monday, March 28, 2011

KEEP KOOL AND "OH YEAH!"






My version of the KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON meme inspired by the British war poster featuring my “Glass Bast’rd” Not-Kool Aid Man design.

BOUNTY-HUNTER finished pencils



Done with the final refined pencils for my BOUNTY-HUNTER design rework of my older SLAVE I RACER design.
WIll be inking this and adding logo soon.

Friday, March 18, 2011

BOUNTY-HUNTER revised rough pencils


Decided to rework my recent SLAVE I RACER design. I originally attempted to keep the linework even and uniform and the detail to a minimum to better line up with the animation style, but it ended up looking so much unlike MY style that I just wasn't happy with it. This is the rough pencil drawing so far.

ROUGH BREAKDOWNS


OLD VERSION

Help me choose my BRAND-NAME, please!

I need more help from my BeastPop Pals. You gave excellent feedback on the shirt designs to launch with, now I need to choose a brand name. Here's some results of my brainstorm sessions. If you don't like any of these, feel free to submit your own. If I prefer yours, you'll win free shirts & stuff!

AstroTrap
BeastWreck
PulpRacket
BunglePop
BeastRacket
DangerCreep
BeastPanic
AstroRacket
RattleTrap
AstroBrute

Friday, March 11, 2011

BARREL-CHUCKER colors!






Finally finished coloring my DONKEY KONG tribute design. It took me a while, not only because I had to squeeze this in between several other projects (plus the interruption of the local Freemasons causing trouble again, for which I had to reach out to the local League of Hobos for assistance), but also because I struggled with the colors for a while as a result of what I concluded was a too-busy background. It just wasn't coming together as a solid and powerful image, so I tried simplifying the background shapes and unifying the direction of the movement, as well. I tried scanning in different types of brush strokes and ink splatter techniques and finally settled on a combination of a fairly simple fluid background shape with some scattered ink spray effects that would give the design a bit more punch.

I'm including several different color scheme options out of which I will narrow it down to just one. Which one would you like to see printed on a shirt? Cast your vote!

Original inks with initial background treatment


Revised inks with new background treatment

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

HELLRAISER colors


I recently was contacted by super-awesome horror shirt company CREEPY-TEES to do some work for them. I'm working on some sketches for some t-shirt designs entirely created by me, but in the meanwhile, they wanted me to help out with some coloring of already existing designs, and I was happy to contribute.
This first design is a take on the HELLRAISER movie poster by talented artist Chris Eisert. He provided the black and white artwork and I colored it up purty. It will be available for sale from Creepy-Tees very soon.

Up next, I'll be coloring a FRIDAY THE 13th PART 2 design.

VOTE FOR BEASTPOP's LAUNCH DESIGNS (please)!

Howdy, folks!
BEASTPOP! is getting ready to launch a world-dominating brand of clothing and other fun stuff (buttons, prints, stickers, toys, etc.). We are going to be starting small (we're not THAT crazy) with a launch of maybe two shirt designs, and we'd like to solicit some feedback as to which two shirt designs we should launch with.
I was considering going with the ZOMBAMA design, as it still seems pretty popular and I don't know how much more mileage I'm going to be able to get out of it. Then again, it might not have much mileage left in it at all after two printings at TeeFury, one at Qwertee and two printings of my own, everybody who wants one by now probably already has it.
Anyway, I'm providing some images of designs I have ready to go. All I need is your votes as to which two you would want to see and buy right away. Thanks for your help.

ZOMBAMA




POP-ZOMBIE!




PAKKU-MAN




NOT KOOL!




GRRRILLA




BARREL-CHUCKER