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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?...

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

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.

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.

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!

Pin up girl.

Wanted to get a traditional painted look on a picture of a pin up girl because might doing a photoshoot in the near future.

got this pic of Mary Elizabeth Winstead and messed with it in photoshop. I think it looks alright.

Photoshop Boredom

Been playing around on photoshop and after effects a lot lately. I'm off five days a week so been getting very bored. here's some things that I made and thought were actually alright.

Well...

I went off and did an illustration like I said. It's not the most interesting or original thing in the world but it's not bad. I just wanted to prove to myself I was still able to use illustrator because it'd been so long. I'm very happy with how those tares on her shorts look because that was a bit of an experiment. The pockets look flat and lame but I don't care.

New tee!

I liked that little bit of art so much that I made it into a t-shirt. And a jumper!

look!

vote for it! cheers!

Little Red

had an idea for like a kids book that was sort of red riding hood except slightly different . I'm half way through writing it and I've just done this little bit of concept art from a sketch I did t'other day.

me likey!

finished work. kinda.

I would have put this up ages ago but been having problems with blogger being a bit weird.

Anywho. this is my finished poster, montage and short film that I made for college.

RAD!!!

messing about

just a test for an idea I had

End of year show.

One of my current projects at college is to make a poster for the end of year show. This is my first idea. It's inspired by Hitchcock movie posters from the 60s and also the title sequence from "catch me if you can" by Kuntzel + Deygas which is actually also inspired by Saul Bass' titles for various Hitchcock films.