Summer sketchbook work 2016

SO a bit slow getting started posting my continuous sketchbook work tough out the summer break. I had a few weeks where i drew alot i just dint produce loads of work.  here is some of the work iv been playing around with and new ideas i'm starting.


One of the first things i did was go to the World super bike and this made me want to see if i could mock up graphics for superbikes. After spending some time on photoshop placing one of my skull drawing over a image of a MV Augustus (very good looking race bike, my favourite) and trimming and erasing bits here and there i realised the shape of the fearints and all the in dents and concurves was a nightmare. So I am looking at trying to create a blank flat template of the fearing to see if that would work.

Also a design for my brand i'm hopefully going to start up again very soon just waiting to here if i have some investment to help me out.

And random doodles and photoshop practise.

Bands and they merchandise

While She Sleeps
whileshesleeps.com

 This band has done something that i have not seen a band do before and that's to come up with a logo for the band that is so successful it its own right. I have in the past seen people in the merch and gone to talk to them about the band and to my surprise they guy had no idea who the band was he just thought it was a brand of clothing, the band have been accused of been a brand over a band but thats just jealous nonsense.

Parkway Drive
http://uk.kingsroadmerch.com/parkway-drive/?id=1111





Cancer Bats
http://www.cancerbats.com/

I am the proud owner of these two t shirts.



Gallows

Again here these are all the products i purchased from this band. To say the original line up was my all time favorite shows iv ever attended (I have been to hundred and hundreds of concert), i traveled up and down the country to see this band perform.





Slayer

I love this band and they merchandise they use images that are very close to offending people of faith.,the use a image that could be very easily be understood to be a character of a belief. The use of satanic symbols to provoke a reaction  and it seems to work and sells.. I do only have a embroidered patch of this band i use to have a t shirt but it grow legs  and left me. It is the patches that this band sell that really interest me. No matter what event you go to where metal heads will be in attendance you are pretty much 100% guaranteed to see oa slayer patch on someones denim waist coat.

A Day To Remember 

I first found this band through the artwork that Dan Mumford designed for them for  their second album Homesick.

They also seemed to take over the band merch market at one  point with their fans buying so much or their tshirts down to the bight vibrant design and colours used. It was audience mainly of their younger fans who wore the merchandise but their had so many designs out and most of them where really well done and very very eye catching.

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