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Catfight design process

Click on the image above to see a gallery of the design stages for a t-shirt project we abandoned. It's again a play on words: the literal interpretation of a catfight. Since so much time went into this we want to at least present it here. Enjoy!

Flyerdesign for Brian Spray Band

Reused parts of our "Dia de los Muertos" t-shirt design for promoting our friends' (local punk band Brian Spray Band) upcoming concert.

Unused Moth-Invasion Designs

Here are some alternative designs for our "Invasion of the Moths" T-Shirt. I still like the version with the old movie theater. We didn't use it because the single posters would have been too small on the T.

The process behind the Strawberry Heart illustration

Although I am the type of person that faints by the mere sight of blood, injection needles or any surgical instruments, I have been obsessed with anatomical and medical illustrations for a long time. Two of my favorite books are the ones shown here, "Medical and Anatomical Illustrations" (Dover Pictorial Archives) and "Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery" (Taschen). The first one has over two thousand black-and-white illustrations from the field of medicine and anatomy, from clip-art-style to very detailed renderings, from the late Victorian era through the early 20th century, whereas the latter is probably THE most beautiful anatomical atlas ever published with beautiful hand-colored plates (the original dates back to the middle of the 19th century, it was two decades in the making). I am so glad Taschen released this in an affordable regular version (it is still huge and heavy!).

So I used these two books as reference for my drawing. First I drew just hearts which was nice to practice drawing but it got boring. I realized that the shape of a heart and a strawberry are quite similar, so here I was...

The drafts from the early stages were pretty crappy, as you can see. Somewhere in the process it dawned on me to use a real-life strawberry as model (it is really embarrassing not to have thought of this earlier!). When I was satisfied with the final piece Mario helped me digitalize the image and use a filter to make it look like a drawing from my books.

And.....finally printed on a shirt.

New Design "Dart Vader" - Making of

I like bad plays on words, so after "Dart Agnan", this is the next entry in my Dart related designs (more to come - fear the worst ;-)). The first draft was rejected (by my better half) because the legs didn't look right and the birds eye viewpoint didn't provide a menacing pose. I liked the next draft better, but wasn't happy with the weight of the lines, so I started over again and finalized the 3rd version. Separating the colors for the laser-effect was a bit tricky, but it turned out quite good.

At first I wanted to print everything that's white with a special glow-in-the-dark ink, but applying it only to the "lightdart" made more sense in the end.

Rio Lobo Screen damaged

Seems like I ruined the screen by applying to much dishwashing liquid while cleaning. It should have only removed rests of the color, instead it attacked the emulsion. From now on I'll only use this if its absolutely necessary. Although the effect of the damaged emulsion turned out interesting:

Rio Lobo(tomy) eingereicht bei Threadless

Hier kann bald gevotet werden!

Brainwalker

Zeichnung mit Grafiktablett nach Tonskulptur-Vorlage.