locohenry- some of my artwork

[locohenry]

I thought I would show some of my work.

I did a gigposter for the old school punk band "X"

here's the main sketch/idea

[Coy]

nice. it feels old school. I could see it being used in the custom motorcycle industry.
do you have a finished version?

[locohenry]

I thought I would show some of my work.

I did a gigposter for the old school punk band "X"

here's the main sketch/idea

I draw it out and get the basic idea in a very rough form. Then I look at what side looks better. The face is pretty much re-traced as is (in illustrator with pin tool) then since the rest of the image is going to be a mirrored image I just do one side and do alot of re-touching and line cleaning and also adding and taking away here and there.

[Coy]

I like the right side better.
That's the same thing I do.

[locohenry]

Here's the re-trace with the pin tool. It takes awhile. Once I get started it goes pretty fast.

[locohenry]

I kind of jumped the gun. I have a John Doe (singer of X) solo CD and one of the photo's has a rooster on it so I did a search on google and found this image and liked the rooster head. I retraced it loco style



the re-trace

[locohenry]

I did the some sketching of some swirls to put on the corners.

sorry for the bad pic. At the time I couldn't find my camera and just did a webcam shot


the re-trace

[locohenry]

Here's the finished poster that I also screen printed at home in my garage

[Coy]

really like the finished work.

[locohenry]

Here's logo for a t-shirt design

the freehand sketch


Re-traced and cleaned up in illustrator

[locohenry]

Something I worked on today. Still waiting to hear back from my friend about this

here's the sketch


Retraced and color idea.

[.:FMD]

really like the CPG perspective. Its nice to see that people still use pencil and paper to design.

Do you use a tablet when you do the retrace?

[locohenry]

really like the CPG perspective. Its nice to see that people still use pencil and paper to design.

Do you use a tablet when you do the retrace?

I use the good ol mouse and guide lines.

[locohenry]

This is a re-trace in Illustrator I did of a cell phone I had at the time.



This a picture I took from a magazine and re-traced it in illustrator



-loco

[KHDZN]

Nice work. I really like the punk band X drawing. I can see that on a t-shirt.

The poster is great too but I'm not sure why you chose those colors. The light yellow/cream doesn't seem like the right choice.

I look forward to seeing more of your work!

[locohenry]

Nice work. I really like the punk band X drawing. I can see that on a t-shirt.

The poster is great too but I'm not sure why you chose those colors. The light yellow/cream doesn't seem like the right choice.

I look forward to seeing more of your work!

I tryed alot of different version, plus I had a very,very little time frame to get them done before the show. I also had to screen print and ship them. I was burning the midnight oil just to get them done in time

I'm in the process of screen printing the main image (skull bandito) alot larger
in 4 or 5 different colors of wood. That I will sell as art pieces

-loco

[Bernadette]

wow amazing
do u use a drawing tablet?

[locohenry]

wow amazing
do u use a drawing tablet?

thank you

No,.. just a mouse. Click-Bend-Click with the pen tool
At the time I was pushing myself to do something I thought I could pull off but at the same time no sure if it was going to come out right. As long as I have a crisp and clean photo. That's makes a big difference.
The cell phone was a picture I took with a digtal camera. I used a tripod and took the picture with the timer. To make sure the camera didn't move. The photo I worked from grabbed all the detail and made alot easier
for me to re-trace in illustrator.

-loco

[Bernadette]

really great effort
I like the quality of your finished work, I also like the retro poster and the logo

keep it going

[Maxson]

The car and the phone are amazing, u definitely r a pro. When I was making photorealistic wasp it took me months, and by the end I totaly lost the enthusiasm. Maybe I wanted to make it too real or its just was too complicated for the first try. Whats your story.