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Hello!

So it's been quite a while since my last post. It didn't quite work out with Aurora unfortunately which is quite sad. I've been doing bits and bobs for the last few months. I was planning on rebranding my Hive Clothing brand but when I was thinking about it I realised I just wanted to do a fifties inspired retro type thing instead. so Hive is no more too. My girlfriend Kate and I decided to join together and create a new brand called Raygun.

Raygun will be more than just t-shirts. It will have accessories, homeware and stationary too. All the designs will be somewhat retro inspired because as you can see by the design of my blog, its kinda what we're in to.

So there's not much on the site now but I thought I'd post this thing I've been working on today. If you're a fan of the flash or arrow then you'll get the reference.

Here's the 50s McDonalds ad this is based on...

Aurora Productions

I'm branching out!

Me and a few friends are joining together to form a small production company. I will continue to work on small projects under the Shoebox87 name but our little company will be focused on bigger projects and clients. I've decided to design the logo and branding for the company. Here is my initial concept.

Solita Pale Ale logo.

Not posted anything on here for a while. I did this logo today and entered it in a competition. I'm quite happy with it. I'd been looking at retro style label vectors and saw a couple tutorials. Saw this as a good opportunity to put what I'd learned into practice. Not much thought has gone into this logo. I came up with the basic design based on the retro labels I'd seen on google and then I played with the colours and fonts. I used the Italian flag colours because Solita is an abbreviation of south of little Italy. Then I used the blue because it's associated with Italy (the football and rugby teams wear blue). The baige tone is supposed to represent the pale ale. Let's see if it wins?...

New website and twitter and stuff.

So I tried to rebrand myself as.. well myself?

I made a website and twitter and stuff all under the name Andrew D. Ryan. thats me!
But after a couple weeks I decided to go back to being Shoebox87. Why fix something if it's not broken is the moral of this story.

Anywho! Here's a link to my new shoebox87 website/online portfolio.

http://shoebox87.wix.com/creative-media

And my twitter!

https://twitter.com/shoebox87

Hive clothing ads

I made these three adverts for Hive Clothing and released them in the week coming up to the launch.

I used a combination of Final Cut Pro, after effects and mocha (for the tracking). I'm pretty proud of them.

This is the Beginning from Hive Clothing on Vimeo.



This is the Beginning - Part 2 from Hive Clothing on Vimeo.



This is the Beginning - Part 3 from Hive Clothing on Vimeo.

Hive Clothing

Well it's been a busy few months but I've finally finished my degree and in the process launched a tshirt brand. I'm very proud of it. Go check it out and follow it etc.

www.hive-clothing.co.uk

Twitter/Instagram - @Hive_Clothing

www.facebook.com/hiveclothing.mcr

Manchester Fashion Week

I was filming a video for manchester fashion week yesterday. Its only the second professional video I've shot with my dslr and it looks pretty good so far.

I'm so glad I shot it all on a neutral picture style. It looks a bit dull when you're filming but with colour correction and whatnot added in post it looks awesome. here's an example:

and here's a guy explaining why this is a good thing to do:



Setting up your DSLR from Vimeo Video School on Vimeo.

Hive mood board

Creating this new brand and I made this mood board.

Old sketch

Found this old sketch that I always really liked and messed around with it in photoshop. I think I like it?

Supergirl

My girlfriend is very talented when it comes to drawing and she decided to draw this picture of super girl the other day. We were talking about comic artwork and how photoshop is sometimes used for colouring. She asked me if I'd colour it and I said yes. I'm quite happy with it. here's how it looked in its various stages.

My girlfriends blog.

Burnt Reynolds

Not posted for a while. Got a lot of college work at the moment. Just made this as a laugh.

Logo designs

I'm starting another t-shirt brand!
Well it's really just the original t-shirt brand idea I had until I decided to go all 50s.
Its going to be more focused on manchester both influence and imagery wise. Here's the logo I made for it.

I've also been asked by this guy to create a logo and animated title thing for his youtube channel. It's called My Sunday Best. go look it up.
Hers that logo.

I quite like it. He's not given me any feed back yet though.

Promo video

This is a promotional video I was asked to do by Stockport Sports FC. They wanted to show all the changes being made to their team before the new season starts.

Copyright is poop.

I really want to make this t-shirt a reality but unfortunately I was too lazy to draw the character Ronald Ray-Gun completely off the top of my head. I instead copied a picture from a book on how to draw retro cartoons. This book! I basically drew the body that was in the book and then made my own head up and added a ray gun. So now I've gotta try and make a body for this dude from scratch. It shouldn't be too hard but I just really like this one already!

I was thinking of continuing this theme and coming up with other retro cartoons based on famous people. So far i've got George Rush which is just George Bush if he was like The Flash and the other is Burnt Bacharach which would be Burt Bacharach mixed with Twoface.

This time I'm telling the truth!

So that last post was all about selling stuff online. Well that didn't go so well so here's my new store!

shoebox87.bigcartel.com

It's my own site and all that is on there is my t-shirts.
Going to be selling some other things in the future. Like badges and what not. Got some really good ideas but that's only if I start making enough money from this to do something really good with it.

Keep an eye out!

Drew.

Proper Online Shop!

I had some designs on mysoti.com that were inspired by the ten metropolitan boroughs of greater manchester. I only got round to doing four. When I decided to sell my designs properly online I revisited the idea. I added the missing six and adjusted a couple of the original designs.

all of them can be bought at www.muchlovefrom.goodsie.com.

T-shirts

Going to be getting some t-shirts printed soon to be sold on a new site rather than sold through mysoti.com. Costs a few pennies to get them printed so only doing a couple designs. Here's some candidates. Might get people to vote for their favourites on the Facebook group.

Not sure if I could actually get them printed on those long t-shirt/dress things. Probably could.

boredom

how come I can do this out of boredom but do nothing when I need to do work?

If you're impressed by this, don't be. I basically copied the character from a book called cartoon cool. Only the head and the gun are my own. Oh, and the Names Ronald Ray-Gun and George Rush. I came up with those. I wish I could draw characters like this from scratch.

painting again!

It'd be nice to have reason to do this. but I don't.

more pin up painty painty!

I think this might be the best thing I have ever done in photoshop... Ever!