New iStock Upload

I just had another vector upload approved on iStock. This time I took and image of a hibiscus flower, and tried to do a clean trace over on it. Check out the rest of my iStock portfolio here.

New iStock Upload

Actually there’s been a few new uploads I’ve made lately, I just kind of liked this one. I tried to make it look like more of a line drawing; it was kind of a pain, but I think it came out looking okay.

Two New iStock Uploads

Here are two new vector uploads that just got accepted on iStock. The image of the pelican was traced over a photo I took while at the Oceanside pier (only the wood planks were live traced).

The zombie vector was from a sketch I did a little while ago. My brother actually helped me out a lot on this one. There’s still two more sketches that need to be worked up. Hopefully we’ll get to them soon.

iStock Vector Upload: Dead Crow

I worked this up yesterday. It’s based off a photo a took while on a walk. I know it’s kind of morbid, but I thought it would make for an interesting illustration.

Thai Fighter

This was a quick vector trace over job that I did recently for NKTSport, a company that sells kickboxing gear. Below is the original image they sent me, and above is what I did. It was a pleasure working with them.

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New iStock Upload: Zombies!

I just got another iStock upload accepted today. I guess I was still in the mood to draw zombies from the t-shirt concept I worked up for AtomicMoo.com. I even have a few sketches I haven’t vectored yet, so hopefully I’ll have another set of these up soon.

Atomic Moo Shirt Design

I thought a good way to begin working tonight on this site would be to start with a post of my most recent project. This was a t-shirt concept I worked up for a blog I run, AtomicMoo.com. The idea came from a series of comments on one of my posts. I thought I’d run with it and see what happens. I think the part I liked best on this was working on the type. The font I used as a guide was Sans Serif Extra Bold Condensed. I then took some brushes I made and built the letter forms with their shapes. The zombies were also pretty fun to draw. I used some stock photos I found on DeviantArt.com as model references, and drew them up in my sketch book and tried to play with the poses and stylization a bit. To save time, I just left them as silhouettes.

After it was completed, I wasn’t sure what to do with it. I wish I had the money to have these screen printed, but I don’t. So I decided to try Zazzle.com. I still have to work on setting up the store, but here’s a link to what I have so far. I’m not sure about the whole digital print on demand stuff; I’m not sure about the quality. I did order a print of the shirt to see what it would look like, but it’ll be a few days until I get it. That also brought up another issue: the price. For a digital print on an American Apparel shirt, where I did all the design work, I feel they’re charging way too much. I need to see what I can do to bring that down, or maybe find something else.

Here’s some images of what it should look like on a shirt. Here’s hoping it turns out alright.