Sunday, 12 June 2011

Recycling ... I'm so green

The great thing about photoshop and zazzle combined is that you can effectively "recycle" designs and hopefully maximise earnings on the amount of time you spend creating products.
In this case I have taken a portion of the Halloween invitation that I liked and used it on a t-shirt

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Hurrah! Zazzle awards me Best of the Day on 6th June

Ironically I hadn't logged in to see either the email or the item displayed in all it's glory on the zazzle main pages. Anyway here it is

Monday, 6 June 2011

Chill pill variations

This is a popular variation (ie I have actually sold one!)
Dude, take a chill pill shirt

On a light coloured tshirt - difficult with zazzle you have to use grey instead of white
Take a Chill Pill Dude Vintage shirt

Sunday, 5 June 2011

Dude, take a Chill Pill

Yes, it's time to stop my zombie and horror obsession and go for a little humour - eighties based humour. I broke out the pencils and the old faithful dip pen and knocked out a drawing of one of those blister packets peeking out of a box. The chill pill as designed by pharmaceutical companies.
This time instead of tracing the scan using the pen tool in PS I kept it as a pure scan to keep it's organic feel. I did a little bit of altering to give it some more overall symmetry.

Here's how it looks on a zazzle product

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Zombie Santa ... That's some Bad Christmas Presence ...

Geddit? It's a play on bad Christmas presents ... yes? Getddit? Oh well, never mind. Anyway the whole thing was done in photoshop 7 using my trust Wacom Bamboo. Not many custom brushes used, mainly around the woman's skin and hair. I normally find the standard brushes enough to be going on with. Zombie Santa in da hizzouse ...

Zombie Santa


It's not that I don't like Christmas, I just get a bit tired of all the relentless commercialisation, jolly Santa Claus and Christmas cards sent by rote without even the slightest amount of thought as to whom they are sending it too.
So here we have an undead Santa with some a bad play on words

Here's the link to the finished product Zombie Santa Christmas Card

Monday, 25 October 2010

Frankenstein and Dracula Halloween Invitation finished

So, having spent far more time than I planned on creating endless layers of shapes I kept the colour scheme fairly simple. I tried halftoning all the areas but this just looked messy so I stuck to the background, the faces and the hand.