In their own words : “We want to look like the Fader and walk like the Believer. We’re talking about the long format read on the creative minds behind blockbuster and indie game titles sided by personal essays about what games mean to our daily little lives.”
It is a beautiful magazine and I would highly recommend it. Their T-Shirt Club which is where they teamed up with a bunch of game designers to create one limited edition shirt each month. November is month two of this operation and features my design. You can purchase the shirt here, but get on it since it it is limited a limited run. I believe you can pre-order them now but they are available beginning 11/16/2010. They are definitely a day one perch. Don’t be caught at work, on a train, in a boat, nor during recess without one on your body.
Here is the image that made it onto the shirt.
A quick case study:
I was given the freedom to so just about anything as long as it felt like it came from The Odd Gentlemen and included the Kill Screen Logo. So ya know, Pipes and Tentacles how can you resist?
Actually according to the below scribbles the design was going to originally include some crows. At a point one would wear an aviator camp…I wasn’t really feeling it so that didn’t make it farther than these napkin drawings.
I then switched courses and started drawing tentacles. I only did this small scribble before moving onto the final. I imaged this cool dude sitting on the type and letting some of his limbs dangle off and on of the logo.
I got this far was satisfied with the idea and composition than said “F-it” and jumped into free handing the final drawing onto bristol paper. I am trying to work more this way now since it helps the final ink job feel more fresh and alive. I used to do drawing after drawing tightening and polishing an image before transferring it to paper be inked. But the result just ended up looking too stiff and too planned too many times. So now If i have a good idea and composition worked out I just get started on the final.
After the drawing was done I digitally colored the image
We actually went through a few different color choices before settling on this one. Here are a few other options:
That’s about that, it was a super fun project, it’s an awesome shirt and the kill Screen people are cool dudes.
Everything is right with the world apparently.
I have another little treat. You can buy the original line work drawing that was used on the shirt over at my Etsy store. I made the design using the old fashioned tools of pen, brush, and ink and then colored the whole deal digitally. It was drawn on 14″ x 17″ 300 Series Bristol Paper and is a beauty in my humble opinion.
Till later,
VP
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