Final Thought Drum Head

Posted on October 29, 2011 by James

It’s been a REALLY long time since I’ve designed a drum head. But! I had a order come in for it in the past couple weeks. I’ve mentioned several times about the launch of the entire Final Thought Project including the Website and CD Packaging. Well they wanted to go even further as to making the drummers bass drum head the CD cover. So, my task was to make that happen. Not sure if he will have his porthole lined up like this but this is a mockup only. I think this is personally one of the coolest bass drum heads I’ve ever seen. Anyways, Check it out.

Final Thought Bass Drum Head

Toronto Ink Tattoo Studio T-Shirt

Posted on October 28, 2011 by James

After completing the website to http://www.torontoink.com I set sail on a journey for some new T-Shirts for these guys. First if you live in Toronto, Canada or surrounding areas…. Check them out! They have done some amazing work!

I had fun designing these shirts. The sky was pretty limitless as to what I could design. So I started out working on one shirt at a time… The first design came to me as I put it together. We already had a general idea for the second shirt. Our idea was a Jersey Shore Workout Shirt that guys could wear to the gym at the same time with a flare! I think we pinned it perfect. So with all that said below are the 2 T-Shirt concepts that will soon be displayed inside Toronto Ink Tattoo Shop and eventually in an Online Store.

In the first shirt I used a halftone for the upper “Toronto” text. As for the Splatter’s I actually went outside and used a can of spray paint and sprayed paper and let the paper dry up and scanned it into illustrator.

The second design I used the pen tool and created the bird. After I created the bird I created everything else around it and used a college font. Afterwards I gave it the washed out look using Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Grunge Patterns That are actually grunge’s that I made myself and are available for download in the Photoshop Brushes section or on Brusheezy.

Toronto Ink - Inked Up - Heather black

Toronto Ink - Bird T-Shirt - Forest

LA Trash Apparel Designs

Posted on October 28, 2011 by James

I’ve been so busy with school and design I haven’t been able to post to any website. I have been working on a lot of designs. I guess it would be appropriate to post them separately.

First, after finishing the Final Thought Project I have been working on a couple shirts.
I finished two new T-Shirts with LA Trash. The clothing line is finally in the process of finalizing shirt design ideas and getting them printed off and ready. I’ve posted all the previous designs all over the web, however here is the newest designs.

The First is a T-Shirt I’ve previously displayed, however the colors have been altered to a more fitting pattern. I first started this design randomly making text paths in Adobe Illustrator CS5. As the design started coming together I start using only text to create the entire shirt. I really like this design it is probably one of my favorites.

The Second is a Zip-Up Hoodie. When I went into this design I had no idea where I was going. After a while I started creating the text in Adobe Illustrator CS5 with the idea of some how incorporating “This is my hood” into the shirt. After I came up with the text I liked the idea of an abstract city in the background of the text and then once it was all finished I topped it off with the LA Trash trademarks of the Garbage Can in the background as well as LA Trash Apparel embedded throughout the large text. Overall This is my favorite design I have ever done. I can’t wait for it to get printed off.

LA Trash Text T-Shirt

LA Trash This is my hood

Final Thought Website Design Launch

Posted on October 1, 2011 by James

The past week or so has been so stressful preparing for the release of the new Final Thought Website. I’ve been working really hard on this project and I think it is one of the best project’s I have done to date. I always love working with these guys! They are open to just about anything and with the combination of that and the music style they hold my possibilities go pretty out there. I originally started designing with their CD Album “What We Need” That is to be released November 8th 2011. I recently made a post about completing the CD Album which you can find here and here showing the artwork to the entire album.

After I finished working with the album I went on to design the Website, New blog, MySpace, Youtube and the Merchandise store. I really wanted to get these guys going on a website that had alot more interaction thus why I brought the blog into the equation. I wanted to drive a bit more traffic to the website as well as give a nice visual presence and as I said, more interaction. This time around I put a Adobe Flash Music player incorporated into the website so users could listen to music while they browse the blog posts and other content on the website.

With all that said Check out the website @ http://www.finalthoughtband.com, Also don’t forget to look at the blog and other social media sites.

Here is a screenshot of the Website:

Final Thought Website Design

-James

The High Note Anchor Design

Posted on September 25, 2011 by James

This is a Illustration I have been working on for the band “The High Note”.
I always like working with these guys!
I used the pen tool alot more working with this design in illustrator and I’m beginning to really discover a liking for it. I have more projects I’m always working on so hopefully I can post more really soon!
Infact I will be doing an Illustration for a band 10 past 6 as well as Final Thought Website. I look forward to the release.

The High Note Anchor Illustration T-Shirt

Nineteen Eighty Seven Design Web Update

Posted on September 21, 2011 by James

I have been working on the main page of www.1987clothing.com. Currently adding things such as a new photo gallery, updated coding and the new header. I will eventually be adding them over to the blog and Tumblr layouts as well.

More projects will also be released soon as well and I really can not wait until those are brought out for people to see. I just finished the Final Thought CD Album “What We Need” You can read more about it in my last post. I will also be building a website for them based on the album design which I will be posting about as soon as it is finished!
You can also see the album displayed on Behance Network.

Contact Me and lets talk about something.
OH! Also.. Check out my photoshop brushes! I am not finished adding all of my new brushes either. I still have about 12 new brushes at the least to bring out.

-James

Final Thought Project Finished.

Posted on September 17, 2011 by James

So I mentioned in the last post about the album cover for Final Thought. I recently finished the album design completely, so I wanted to post all of the album views.
I’m extremely excited for the launch of this Album, not only is the music pretty amazing the artwork is well designed as well. I look forward to getting a copy for myself!

This album is printed in a 4 Panel Jewel Case. Enjoy

Final Thought What We Need Album Cover

Final Thought Inside pages of booklet

Final Thought Back of Booklet

Final Thought Case Inside with CD

Final Thought Case Inside without CD

Final Thought What We Need CD

Final Thought Back of CD Case

Final Thought – What We Need Album

Posted on September 16, 2011 by James

I’ve been working really hard with these guys on the release of their new album “What We Need”. I’m nearing the completion of the album artwork now and I wanted to give a little preview of what it looks like. I’m glad to be working with these guys!
Check them out @ www.finalthoughtband.com. The new album is really pop punk.
After this album is completely finished I will be adding all of the pages of artwork.

Final Thought What We Need Album Cover

Adobe Photoshop Brushes – Splatter Set 2

Posted on September 8, 2011 by James

BRUSH: Splatter Brush Set 2
COUNT: 5 High Quality Splatter / Spray Paint Photoshop Brushes
VERSION: Adobe Photoshop CS5
COMPATIBLE: CS5 **
http://www.1987clothing.com

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Adobe Photoshop Brushes Splatter Paint Set 1

Posted on September 8, 2011 by James

BRUSH: Splatter Brush Set 1
COUNT: 5 High Quality Splatter / Spray Paint Photoshop Brushes
VERSION: Adobe Photoshop CS5
COMPATIBLE: CS5 **
http://www.1987clothing.com

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