Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 7:16PM I'm back from my trip to Washington and finally have a chance to share some photos of the finished 8.28 Heligoats prints. They turned out great and we managed to move all of them at the show. Here's several photos I took of the prints.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 11:59PM I've finished the poster design for our August 28th show, and thought I'd share some of my process on this one, since the Beakman character took on quite a transformation from the original form. I posted images of the actual illustration process in a previous blog post, but wanted to show how I got to that point.
The basis of my new stylized Beakman character (not the one in the image below) was an illustration I did for a Heligoats poster quite some time ago, which was based off illustrations & Clay-models done by Heligoats front man, Chris Otepka. That illustration looked like this:
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It's fun and simple - essentially following the design of Otepka's original Beakman Character. So Based on the original design, I created a sketch as the basis for the NEW Stylized Beakman. With the original design as a loose framework, and several bird images as reference, I quickly sketched out this:
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After scanning in the sketch, I dropped it into Illustrator and went vector crazy. As stated before, some process pics of my actual illustration & poster design can be found a few blog posts ago - I also post many process pictures to my Tumblr and Twitter pages.
After many hours of work and revisions, I ended up with this. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.
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Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:39PM I attended Lollapalooza this weekend for the first time in several years, and had an absolute blast. I got to see tons of great music and hang with some friends I haven't seen in quite a while. It's Hard to say what my favorite set of the weekend was, but it's probably a toss up between Ween & Death From Above 1979. We managed to get some solid spots for several bands, which allowed me to capture several fairly decent photos. Here's a small collection of them.
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The Perry's Stage Sign...
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Death From Above 1979.
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Ween.
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My Morning Jacket, with a guest appearance from MegaMan.
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The approaching storm on Sunday evening.
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Mountain Goats.
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More Mountain Goats.
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 8:19PM I've wanted to get some self-promo stickers printed up for quite some time now, and finally put in an order with the VinylHeavies™ over at StickeRobot. The design is based off an illustration for a poster I did earlier this year. I plan on distributing them at various upcoming shows / locations. Here's the design... Can't wait for the real thing!
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 12:29AM I've been working on a poster for an upcoming Heligoats show, and chose to do a very stylized Illustration of the Heligoats adopted mascot, Carl Beakman for the central piece of the poster. I plan on doing a very small run of prints for this poster that will most likely be for sale at said show - Which will take place on the 28th of August at the Hideout in Chicago. I will also have prints available at my society6 shop. Here are some process & detail photos of the poster design thus far.
Monday, July 18, 2011 at 1:43PM I started messing around with a Buckethead design the other week and this is what I came up with. I'm pretty happy with the results. I've Been trying to work some of that victorian style into my work lately & I think this turned out well. Originally the idea was to do a small run of hand-pulled screen prints for this one - But some other projects have jumped up, so for now prints available through my Society6 shop. I may have some screen printed versions available in the future...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 4:56PM My friends over at KickStand Productions recently booked a Snoop Dogg show & asked me to design / print some posters for the show. I was truly honored and jumped on the job, as I've been a huge Snoop fan since the Doggy Style days. He's a true icon in the hip hop world and quite an innovator as well. This has been a very fun project. Here's a few 'mock-up' & process photos...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 3:15PM I got the Get Up Kids / Saves The Day prints all done & decided to take some phtos. Check 'em out! Click a photo for larger version...
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Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 11:09PM I put this 2 minute video together documenting my most recent poster design from concept to print. Take a look & get a snapshot of my process...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 11:59PM I put together this sxsw playist. The music is based on bands we saw at the festival, or music that you might have heard while traveling in our vehicles on the ride to Austin. Some may fall into both categories, but all are great songs. So take a trip with us to Austin TX... Musically.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 1:07AM The Heligoats spring break prints are now in production. A limited run of 40 will be for sale starting at the 3.12 show in Batavia.
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Monday, February 14, 2011 at 9:28PM We've put together a short run of shows to go along with our invitations to SXSW, and here is the poster I've designed to promote this 'Spring Break' as it were. I'll be screen-printing these, 12 x 24 and they will become available at the 3.12.11 show in Batavia.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 11:30PM Over the past few weeks, I've been working a job for Kickstand Productions. Nothing Major - Just a couple posters that I'm designing / screen-printing for upcoming 'Murder By Death' and 'StreetLight Manifesto' shows. At any rate though, I thought the designs were worthy of sharing.
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