Wreck-It Ralph Logo Treatment

Michael Doret posted on his site the logo treatment for the new Disney Pixar movie "Wreck-It Ralph". I love seeing the process of a design and it was really cool to see what the preliminary sketches were to the final design. Look at one of the prelim sketches below

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To check out the whole post click here.

Friks84 "Cali Seal" Video process

Here's a video process by Friks84, who's a designer that has designed for companies like Fatal Clothing, the Freshnes, and my friend's brand Bluu Dreams. I liked the outcome for this particular piece and it's interesting to see where he got his patterns from.

Miles to Go Clothing - House of Leaves T-shirt Design

T-shirt design for http://store.milestogoclothing.com/product/house-of-leaves-discharge-inks-unisex speed run designed by Rhys Wootton - watch how the design progresses through from the early drawing and sketching, to the inking and digital colouring. The design took many hours of work to get it to the finished standard. This design is available to buy and is a limited edition - once its gone... its gone, so be quick.

To buy the T-shirt visit milestogoclothing.com and for more artwork visit rhywootton.com

Jay Wise Shoelace Design Process

It's been awhile since I posted a design of mine, so here is the latest creation. Hip Hop artist Jay Wise is a "sneakerhead", he literally has two closet full of sneakers and he wanted his name created in shoelaces. I originally took a pair of shoelaces and tried creating his name with them. I wanted to get the shapes, take a picture, and work on it on the computer. Well, the shoelaces did not go as planned and were quite difficult to form a letter, although I was able to create a mean "O", but there's no "O" in Jay Wise. I decided that sketching would obviously work best, so I sketched it out and finally came up with one I liked.

*Serious inquiries only if you are interested in having me design a sneaker shoelace design 

The design was only going to work in script, but I wanted it to be fun and wavy.  I felt I was able to achieve that when I worked on it in Illustrator. I like the text by itself, but felt it needed an outline, which I feel is better. Lucky for me, Jay loved them both, so they'll be used in designs for him.

 

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Mushyhead video process by Ray Masaki

Here's a video process of Ray Masaki going from sketch to vector in Illustrator. He has a very whacky cool style. The eyes reminds me of artist KAWS 's work, but that's about it. Ray chooses an interesting color palette, but watch how someone else designs their work.

Inspiration: Florian Nicolle w/ Step By Step Process

I was browsing on Behance and came across some of the illustrations by Florian Nicolle. I must say there is  pretty cool stuff. The blending of traditional media and digital media is always fun, but the majority of the legwork is traditional. Nicolle adds some texture in Photoshop of course to help make an amazing illustration shine even more. This is the artist statement on these illustrations:

I try to create an image that retains its freshness of the first paint stroke, the expressions of the line have to be very free and spontaneous. While keeping a rigorous drawing. So i use fast techniques like a bic, large brush, watercolor and chines ink then I add texture and details on Ps.

i use much texture of text, because it adds a presence of hand. I draw a picture as if I wrote a text, with the same tool, the same freedom, with erasures, lines, scribbles etc

You can view more work from this French Graphic Designer here: http://www.behance.net/neo_innov  or http://www.neo-innov.fr/

Here is the step by step process:

1. Background

2. White Splash

3. Pencil

4. Black stroke with chinese ink

5. Water Color ink

6. Details in Photoshop

7. Integration of "Billie Jean" lyrics on forehead in Photoshop

Branded Baron's Sugar Skull Shirt

If you recall, I was working an illustration for a sugar skull theme.(Click here to view) Here is the final product that has been printed by Branded Baron. The black on white is a classic colorway that makes the art stand out. The Latin phrase that is above the head is, "Respice post te, mortalem te esse memento" translates to "Look around you, remember that you are mortal." I was inspired by the Day of the Dead and all sugar skull art, so I decided to work on my own design. It is great to see this t-shirt printed.


If you want to buy one for yourself go here: http://www.brandedbaron.com/product/sugar-skull

This is the sketched stage:

Here is the final stage:

Closeup:

Design Process by Derek Deal

Derek Deal is a designer from the firm The Black Axe   Here is a video of him breaking down his design process. I feel it's important to learn from other designers and seeing how they work can help you whether it is to apply something they do or not even use what they have done at all. It's a learning experience and a chance to gather some inspiration, but remember to plagiarize. If you want to read his process you can go here: Design Process by Derek Deal


Design Process Time Lapse - by Derek Deal from The Black Axe on Vimeo.

Stunningly Fresh Shirt Design process for Branded Baron Apparel

Here is a quick process of the "Stunningly Fresh" design for Branded Baron that is available in a unisex longsleeve and men's t-shirt. I started with a sketch and once I liked what I had I scanned it. From there I brought it into Adobe Illustrator and started tracing it and using the pathfinder to merge or subtract images. I added would copy and place the image on top of one another and arrange it to my liking. The color is not an important factor until the design is complete. Once, the whole phrase is complete I started deciding whether or not the whole word should be filled in with color or have the background(shirt) peeking through. I decided it would be a cool look if there was a gradient. So, I had to bring the image into photoshop and play with the gradient tool and change it into a bitmap, before I brought it back into illustrator to finalize it. After that, I brought the phrase back into illustrator and live traced it, so it becomes a vector image. I arranged it and played with the colors. I thought Gray on a Navy blue shirt would be a nice color combo. Branded Baron ended up using that for the t-shirts and Gray and Black for the long sleeves. That's a quick little insight of the process of "Stunningly Fresh."
-Joe
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