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At 5/8/10 11:32 PM, CloudEater wrote: Yes I have, I look at your drawings all the time and imagine how cool it would be if I owned one of them. Some of of your drawings look like they're meant to be quite accurate.

Nah, I've only recently started to make a point to draw from reference. Most of the time I just make-up some shitty anatomy.

At 5/9/10 12:27 AM, Captain-Ben wrote: Nah, I've only recently started to make a point to draw from reference. Most of the time I just make-up some shitty anatomy.

Ah I see, well I look forward to seeing this finished.

At 5/9/10 02:40 AM, EJR wrote: hey i request a drawing from u can u please draw this guy for me black and white only except make his hair in color purple to be exact i'll give you 20 pesos if you do thanks!!!!

What did you do to Ben's face.... the more I look at that pic the more frightened I get.

At 5/9/10 02:40 AM, EJR wrote: hey i request a drawing from u can u please draw this guy for me black and white only except make his hair in color purple to be exact i'll give you 20 pesos if you do thanks!!!!

I love you

Small bump for this thread. This is a t-shirt design I just made for a contest over at 99designs for Sitepoint.com. Would be cool if I win, especially since the top rated designs from the contest host are all lame. Wish me luck!

Also for those of you who don't pay attention to the art portal and would like to see some real art from me I've recently submitted a new painting and a new t-shirt design for a band, both of which you can see on my userpage.

At 6/13/10 07:55 AM, Captain-Ben wrote: Small bump for this thread. This is a t-shirt design I just made for a contest over at 99designs for Sitepoint.com. Would be cool if I win, especially since the top rated designs from the contest host are all lame. Wish me luck!

Is this for that contest that gives $1000? That contest has a awesome prize. I hope you win.

At 6/13/10 10:57 AM, Fifty-50 wrote: Is this for that contest that gives $1000? That contest has a awesome prize. I hope you win.

No, it's for $500 dollars, which would still be nice to win. Would be tripling my bank account lol.

I like your t-shirt designs a lot...especially the one for the band in your art portal.
Do you screen print them yourself, or just do the art?

Your entire gallery is a behemoth of epic proportion...so I'll have more to say after I have been able to take it all in.

At 6/13/10 02:09 PM, antiandy wrote: I like your t-shirt designs a lot...especially the one for the band in your art portal.
Do you screen print them yourself, or just do the art?

I looked into how much it might cost to get it professionally printed for giggles, but costs way more than I can reasonably afford. I usually just print them myself, for the exact reason that it costs a lot of money otherwise.

Update on the design contest, the host eliminated my design without even really scoring it, lol. Guess he seems keen on having generic crappy t-shirts. Decided to give it one more shot, judging by his ratings so far they want some kind of tagline in the design, so I added one.

If you want a chuckle at the other designs here are all the submissions still in consideration.

Not sure why they'd be so found of the top 2 designs, if those graphics wrap around the shirt (I'd hope so or they'd look awful) they aren't going to be cheap to print.

At 6/13/10 02:59 PM, Captain-Ben wrote:

At 6/13/10 02:09 PM, antiandy wrote: I like your t-shirt designs a lot...especially the one for the band in your art portal.
Do you screen print them yourself, or just do the art?

I looked into how much it might cost to get it professionally printed for giggles, but costs way more than I can reasonably afford. I usually just print them myself, for the exact reason that it costs a lot of money otherwise.

I totally hear you.
I came to this exact same conclusion after the last time I paid over $500 for 100 shirts...one color....which was back in '02.
Then the band I manage and I bought our own 4 -color setup for just over $1000...and it has already paid for itself 10 times over since then.
Good to see the DIY vibe is still alive.

Update on the design contest, the host eliminated my design without even really scoring it, lol. Guess he seems keen on having generic crappy t-shirts. Decided to give it one more shot, judging by his ratings so far they want some kind of tagline in the design, so I added one.

If you want a chuckle at the other designs here are all the submissions still in consideration.

Not sure why they'd be so found of the top 2 designs, if those graphics wrap around the shirt (I'd hope so or they'd look awful) they aren't going to be cheap to print.

Ya know...I took a look at these...and you're right, first off.
Even though they probably have fancy, digital screen printers, the more colors and more area the design covers, the more expensive and time consuming it's going to be to produce...that's just a fact.
On top of that, assuming cost of printing is no option...the designs which have 4 stars are...well...lacking.
The only one that really jumped out at me was the diagonally oriented text on the dark blue shirt, but even that one is sort of plain.
Maybe the guys in charge of this just want something that mirrors whatever is hot at WalMart or something?
(shrug)
I like yours...it's crisp and bright and gets the point across.

At 6/13/10 03:13 PM, antiandy wrote: I like yours...it's crisp and bright and gets the point across.

Thanks, yeah most of the designs are pretty lame and generic. I think I figured out why mine got eliminated without score. In the brief about the contest it mentions that the design needs to have the site logo and name in it. Which if you ask me mine does, but all the top scoring ones have the literal site logo and name supplied in the brief on the shirt somewhere. So I just added their logo to the back of both shirts, hopefully that'll get them scored.

Hey guys, for shits and gigs I put my last shirt design up on Threadless. It's up for scoring right now, so do me a favor and go score it for me so i might be able to get money!

thanks a bunch guys

At 6/14/10 02:13 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: Hey guys, for shits and gigs I put my last shirt design up on Threadless. It's up for scoring right now, so do me a favor and go score it for me so i might be able to get money!

thanks a bunch guys

No problem, sir...you'll get as many votes as I can muster.

At 6/14/10 02:13 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: Hey guys, for shits and gigs I put my last shirt design up on Threadless. It's up for scoring right now, so do me a favor and go score it for me so i might be able to get money!

thanks a bunch guys

I love that T-shirt. But where should I go to give a score?

Post some stuff here I've done that I don't want to put in the portal.

Here's a quick drawing I just did for my fundamentals class, turned out not too bad.

And here's a skateboard I painted with my friend Matt Gondek. He's a great illustrator, he's been giving me a lot of insight on what it's like doing freelance and working with bands.

(spoiler alert: it sucks lol)

My sharks the one on bottom.

Neew desktop background, just doodlin.

Final sketch for my next printmaking process, going to drypoint it on plexiglass.

Updated sketch with crosshatching and different letters.

At 9/28/10 10:42 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: Updated sketch with crosshatching and different letters.

These letters are better; though im hoping you will crosshatch the fish as well?

At 9/28/10 10:50 PM, DemocracyFTW wrote:

At 9/28/10 10:42 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: Updated sketch with crosshatching and different letters.

These letters are better; though im hoping you will crosshatch the fish as well?

lol he's not really a fish or anything, just lumpy. I kind of wanted to do some crosshatching to add depth between him and the banner, but it just gets confusing and doesn't look particularly good. For now I'm not going to crosshatch him so he still stands out, but may add some on the bottom if i can get it to look good.

At 9/28/10 11:02 PM, Captain-Ben wrote:

At 9/28/10 10:50 PM, DemocracyFTW wrote:

At 9/28/10 10:42 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: Updated sketch with crosshatching and different letters.

These letters are better; though im hoping you will crosshatch the fish as well?

lol he's not really a fish or anything, just lumpy. I kind of wanted to do some crosshatching to add depth between him and the banner, but it just gets confusing and doesn't look particularly good. For now I'm not going to crosshatch him so he still stands out, but may add some on the bottom if i can get it to look good.

My bad, I just say lumps and eyes looking in different directions. Thats what a fish looks like to me. I understand, though, sometimes simplicity is better than overdoing something. Great work, man.

Drawing for fundamentals class. Not too crazy about it but not too bad for 2 hours of work.

Got all my drypoint's printed, should have a scan of one sometime this week.

Looks much better in person, and unfortunately still don't have a real camera. Camera phone will have to suffice for now.

18" x 21" Charcoal drawing, took about 6 hours to do.

Again, sorry about the shitty pic. Unfortunately a lot of the subtler tones are lost with the quality.

Intaglio print, acid etching on a copper plate.

About 3" x 4" and probably like 8-9 hours of work.

This is 1 print in an edition of 10.

At 11/8/10 09:00 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: About 3" x 4"

Correction, this is a complete lie. Plate was more like 6" x 8"

Man you are improveing leaps and bounds right now. Must feel great :)

Nice work I really liked that shirt design, 'not long now' it said, something like that. It reminded me a bit of Aardvark's style. He is one of my fave artists.

Love the school work.