Eye-Candy...HAMB Weekend Art Show!

[BARNETT]

Let's see what automotively inspired masterpieces everyone has been workin' on lately. I'll start with a couple of striped plexi pieces (some of ya'll saw these at Pistons & Paint)....

[BARNETT]

and another...


Sorry about the crappy pics...I take bad pics and I get anything higher res to post.

[Crease]

And what else?

Arent you leaving sumthin out?

[BoomBoom]

Good stuff DB! Where were you hidin those at. I never saw them at the show. I really dig the "Like Crazy" piece. Its....Like Crazy!
Ed

[BARNETT]

Crease...shouldn't you be workin'?! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Curt Six]

I just finished this poster for my buddy's 40th birthday bash...

And it's open to everyone, if anyone local wants to stop down, let me know so I can buy me a beer with you...

[4t64rd]

My girl got me an airbrush for my b'day, don't know what I'm doing, but I'm going to christen it this weekend. Wish me luck and maybe I'll post pics next Fri. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[DrJ]

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My girl got me an airbrush for my b'day, don't know what I'm doing, but I'm going to christen it this weekend. Wish me luck and maybe I'll post pics next Fri. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Get soe of that hypo-alergenic non-toxic body paint and practice on your girl...that's what she got it for anyway!

Then post the pictures?...! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Elrod]

I saw that "Like Krazy" piece at the PnP show. He didn't have the Like Crazy on there yet. It had a post-it note saying that he would customize the center with anything you wanted. I do like the "Like Krazy"

Cool stuff! Thanks for postin' it!

[D Picasso]

beautiful work, Dan'l.

I'm tellin' you- you got the goods.

[Skate Fink]

Nice piece Curt! I grew up in Essex, so "Little" Pat's Dad was one of my local heros......."Wacky Mac" used to tune his Pro Stock Camaro running up and down Orems Rd......

Here's what I've done with Johnny Ace's "Skate Fink" (shitty photo.I was still in pain.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif)
http://www.weirdtrip.com/shots/sf3.jpg

Close up...Note: The truck isn't bent, my arm was, the yellow lettering isn't messed up, it was still bleeding and it's not bruised under his tail, it's shading. Guy did a great job I think? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
http://www.weirdtrip.com/shots/sf2.JPG

[G V Gordon]

Guys like you inspire me Dan. Still practicing. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Curt Six]

Skate Fink - Orems Road is still used for all kinds of shake downs...and "Big" Pat is STILL a local hero! When I first knew him about 8 years ago he spent 5 hours (up until 2:30 am) the night before Thanksgiving helping me rebuild the 3-speed for my nailhead so that I could make it down to Florida with them the next day for the Turkey Run. Hell of a nice guy...and HELL of a mechanic. You should stop down to the party at Sylvester's and say hey (that's his and Little Pat's bar).

And the skate fink looks great!
Curt

[hamilton]

painted this big guy back a few months ago but recently sold it at Pistons and Paint to Hamber JK from OKC, just wanted to publically say thanks J & T!!!

[nailhead54]

Nice job guys...Hamilton--that thing rocks!

[BARNETT]

Nice stuff, as usual! Thanks for the compliments everyone. Hami...F.U. Franky is awsome! I'm not sure everyone can tell, but ol' F.U. is about 7' tall! Really cool...show-off. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif How the hell did you get the pic to post that large? You can see how small mine are. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[surf monkey]

i`ve got to put my hands up here and publically admit i`ve never really `got` the idea of pinstriping...i`ve sat and watched weirdo watts for ages at shows and been totally impressed with how he does it, but thought it kinds looks the same as the next guys (dont slate me for my naivity [sp])but that after seeing that first piece posted by dan i think i`m finally begining to understand...that is f*****g awesome

monkey

[surf monkey]

i have to add that even though i dont know a lot about it i`m taking my wifes scooter to weirdo to have some of his designs added

monkey

[BARNETT]

Wow! Mighty high praise from you, Surf Monkey! That piece was just kind of a late night-panel jam-break in a new brush-experiment with color-kinda thing.

[surf monkey]

dan believe me , credit where credits due....if i could ship my wifes scooter over to you...i`d get you copy that on it....no doubt!!

monkey

[KnuckleBuster]

Great stuff as usual guys. One of these days I'll get my ass in gear and create something post-worthy.

Hey Barnett - The best way to get big pictures with small file size is through a program like Adobe Imageready. You can take a huge Photoshop file or .jpg and whittle it down to almost nothing without losing a whole lot of quality. It gives you a 4-up preview, so you can play with different formats too. Let me know if you need any info or help. I may not know much, but what I do know I'm willing to share http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Daddy-O]

OK, some more pinstriped art......

[Daddy-O]

Sorry the pic is so small. Here's another.....

[Toyghoul]

Nice stuff! Love the FU Frankie, Nothin new here this week, here's an older one from the files I don't think i've posted before. http://www.geocities.com/toyghoul/botray.JPG

[drgnwgn289]

The newest thing I have to show off is on a flyrite chopper. I did the pistripes on the black one on their home page...

[Crease]

Really great stuff guys, keep postin por favor.

[BARNETT]

Anybody else have anything?

Here's another one I did at P&P. Not my design...the guy had it tattooed on his arm and wanted it on his trunk. His monkey...my simplified shading. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[Jeff Norwell]

WOW!!!!!!!! You dudes blow me away!!!!!ALL OF YOU....AWESOME WORK!!!!!!!!!

[Evilfordcoupe™]

Jake you did an awesome job. Two more bikes are ready for you, Do you have time???

-Jason http://www.flyritechoppers.com/whitneye/flyritechopperscom.nsf/b1.jpg

[autocol]

Barnett, do you have photoshop? if so, in the file menu there's a function called "Save for Web" that allows you to keep good sized (as in hieght and width) pictures that are small (as in file size)...

have a go at that...


hamilton.... sweet as...

[BARNETT]

Testing 1,2,3...

[BARNETT]

KnuckleBuster and Autocol...Thanks! I'm still not positive what I'm doing, but the "Save to web" thing helped! Now I just have to really learn how to use it...I might make it into the last part of the 20th century yet. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[autocol]

basically, as i understand it the web is configured to send a certain number of colours as hexidecimal code. for example, black is #000000... if my calculations are correct there's about 16 million combinations (and hence colours) possible with 6 characters of hexidecimal code (it's 16 to the power of 6)...

anyway, photoshop works with 32 million colours (how your brain can tell the difference i don't know but apparently it can!) so the files don't work very well over the web. if you look in the colour selector in photoshop there's a little (!) mark that appears in the top right corner somewhere, which means that what you have selected is not a "web" colour.

so basically, save for web does two things. firstly, it takes any of the 16 million available colours that aren't "web friendly" and replaces them with the closest avaialable. secondly, and the effect will depend on how much compression you select in the S-for-W dialogue, it takes two colours that are very similar, and just replaces them with one colour, ie less information. the only time you notice this is if you REALLY compress it, and look at something like the sky, with a gradient of colour that loses its gradient somewhat when photoshop starts "sharing" colour data across multiple pixels.

ANYWAY! the net result is that by using S-for-W, you can post a much larger IMAGE in a much smaller FILE!

it's good shit.

hang on, let me take a photo or two, and i'll post an example. sorry for hijacking the art show!

[autocol]

okay, here's two images i've just taken into photoshop... (you'll notice they're ART, making me only slightly off topic!)...

the first uses save for web, set to low file size (a lot of compression), and is 600 pixels across...

http://users.bigpond.net.au/cfink/Cave-Guy.jpg

that file is 19 kb. small. ryans server would happily accept it.

the following file, of very similar subject matter (greylead pencil on shitty paper!) is only 300 pixels across, yet is saved with very little compression, and is 29 kb...

THIS WANTS TO BE A RED 'X'

from our point of view, the quality is very similar (you can see some compression remnants in the paper of the first one), but the first one is less than half the size file-wise...


EDIT: shit... hang on, the second one won't even post for some reason... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif and i'm trying to look like the expert! typical...

[autocol]

http://users.bigpond.net.au/cfink/Dog-Thing.jpg

[autocol]

are they posting for you guys? all sorts of wierd shit is happening to me at the moment. anyway, dan, i hope that helps you some...

cheers,

col.

[Empire32]

Tshirt projects...

http://mapage.noos.fr/rocket99/temp/Ghost_services02_low.jpg


http://mapage.noos.fr/rocket99/temp/salt001low.jpg

[BARNETT]

Autocol...I can see one drawing all by itself, but that's it. Good to see even the smart guys have trouble sometimes.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Empire...very cool images!

[surf monkey]

nothing new from me...just putting this old one up to see if i can get that `save as web` thing to work

monkey

[Jonnyhotrod]

Hey.. it's Jonny. While you guys are posting some art, I thought I'd throw a few paintings up there...

www.jonathanbradstreetillustration.com (http://www.jonathanbradstreetillustration.com)

[Jonnyhotrod]

... another....

Jonny

[Jonnyhotrod]

..a little junkyard scrounging...

Jonny

[drgnwgn289]

Jason (evilfordcoupe), I'd be glad to put some stripes on a couple more bikes for you...however, I won't be in your area anytime soon. send me an email and we'll see what we can work out.
Jake

[Jonnyhotrod]

Last one for now... Last month's Hop-Up web page cover...

Jonny

www.jonathanbradstreetillustration.com (http://www.jonathanbradstreetillustration.com)

[autocol]

http://users.bigpond.net.au/cfink/Cave-Guy.jpg

[autocol]

there we go, that seems to have worked, FINALLY!

you can see in that one the remnants from compression. anyway, it's a lot bigger to look at than the other, but the file size is actually about half.

cheers,
col.