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It’s been a busy two weeks both at work and at home…and there is no denying the fact that most everyone around here anyway, is still going Steeler crazy. So, in doing my part I decided to throw together an art piece to commemorate the big event and I’m posting it here with two different colored backgrounds. |
"Let’s Go Steelers"
Filed under: B-Art, Sports Art
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Trying to increase my postings to make it more interesting to visit. So I thought I would post a little snap of a recent pencil sketch one of my regular freelance customer’s ordered from me. As much as I love to do art from sketch to full color I am trying to build up some clientele that just needs a pencil sketch and then they can take it from there. |
In this case they sent me a picture of a certain snowman in a certain artistic style and warned me not to deviate from that except to have him as a basketball player. So, I stayed the course, redrew the supplied art converting it to a basketball player and sent in the sketch. They wrote back with a one word email reply: Perfect!
I’m happy if they are happy.
"Let’s Go Steelers"
Filed under: B-Art, Sports Art
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Ok, jumping around from news to people to art, here is a few snaps of the evolution of a quick (cheap) paper banner I had hand-painted last night for my daughter’s friend’s baby shower. You may notice that some of the lettering (blue) is edgy and a little ragged compared to the smaller lettering (black)? That’s because one was done with water base paint and the other with oil based paints. |
So, if I keep getting asked to do more of these paper signs I will either have to buy more colors in the poster flat, oil base paint or buy a whole new set of water base lettering brushes. A better quality of water based paints wouldn’t hurt either as the color selection I have now are just some cheap hobby type paints I picked up at the local Walmart.
Also, you are pretty much looking at an old school way of producing a cheap paper banner, because most of today’s sign shops have color cad cut printers and surely can beat the 2.5 hours it took me to slap this one out.
If I not mistaken, I think I even seen the local Shop-N-Save grocery supermarket advertising paper banner signs in the party center area of their store?
It’s nice to be able to "Hand-Letter" a quickie or even a more permanent, elaborate sign design but having done this commercially for over 20 years I do not think you can compete with the latest technology the sign and t-shirt shops of today have to produce these kinds of art.
Steelers V.S. Cardinals 
