All Teeth Shirt Designs: #1 AKA. Gloom Kids

So after responding to a message from hardcore punk band All Teeth 

http://www.facebook.com/AllTeethCalifornia

They asked me to do some shirt designs for them. 

Here we go then.

Teeth #1

 Teeth #2

Gloom

Teeth #3

Gloom Kids in Red 

Gloom Kids in Green

Beware The Wolf, For He Comes For You Tonight

Beware the wolf, for he comes for you tonight,

The sands of time in his teeth he bares,

A heathen, A harbinger,

Despair, Oh, Child despair,

The wolf, he comes for you tonight.

Trying out some new style ideas. I'm feeling the colour on black situation, the eyeball amulet, chain, hourglass, bones, bandages and the circle with the runes in are all working for me. The wolf head I don't think is quite as strong. The crosses and spikey bits I should of spent more time over. If it was just the amulet & hourglass with the bones, and then the runes around the eye I think it would work. Might draw that up.

Amur Leopard Boy

Another big cat for my collection. Went for a full situation rather than just the head. Think it works well. Was a bit lazy on the background, probably should have taken a little more time over it.

Sponsor an Amur Leopard like I do. They're all rare and stuff.

Wolf Woman Double Face Heart Padlock Gemini Drawing

Just for the fun of it. Colour pencils.

Professional Project: Front Cover Mock Up

One of the ideas that arose at the last crit was a front cover idea. Basically since I've used so many styles & techniques of illustration in the project, to reflect this in the cover design by illustrating my name using various methods/styles of typography. Sounded good. Here's my letters.

 

Here's the end result that took far too long. This would be printed onto brown paper/card/backing so it wouldn't seem quite as plain as it does here. I think I worked this one out quite well considering types not really my fortay. Got a mix of hand rendered and digital characters, bold and weaker, positive and negative, pencil and pen, simple and ellaborate. I might play around with it a bit more as at the moment the central 'E' is a little bit lost in between all the bolder letters, could sort this out by dropping some of the blacks to greys to give the type as a whole some more mid-tones. I'm also playing around with some photo work which I might substitute in at a later point for one of the letters. But for now, this is what I've got.

Smoking Girl

Letraset pens, fineliners, ink, brush, pencil, water. 

The hair could be better.

Sad Bear

I never just draw in pencil. I drew this while red nose day was on the TV. Probably where the sadness came from.

Professional Project: Illustration (set) Number 4 - Bushido

Bushido is the name for the code of conduct that Samurai warriors adhered to. It was comprised of seven main virtues. If a Samurai was to break the code and disgrace himself, the only way to regain his honor would be through ritual suicide. The seven virtues were:

 

Honesty

 

Rectitude

 

Courage

 

Benevolence

 

Loyalty

 

Respect

 

Honor

The process for coming to this subject matter was:

Date: 02/03/2011

Book: Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Page: 3

Word: (11th word) "Mortals"

Wikipedia: "Gods and Mortals"

Batman

Frank Miller

Ninja

Samurai

Bushido

The symbols on each illustration are the Japanese symbols for each of the virtues. I wanted to keep the colour scheme really simple to reflect old japanese art. The style is also picked to reflect this, although I decided to use less detail so as to leave block areas of colour. I looked at old Japanese drawings of Samurai and took the poses from these.