-----Last Friday Art Show of '11 12/30/11----

[Clysdale]

It's been a while since I've tossed anything up...but I'm back...and I've got some new stuff! All over the board...all 1shot...



A repaint of a tank I did that got destroyed in shipping...







and an xmas commission...

[GaryC.]

What a great show to end 2011!
Here's a narrowed Studebaker Starlight coupe.

[robber]

Wow!! What a great display of talent you guys. I am truly diggin this.
Gallons of fun!! Please give us more, OK?

[labguy]

Happy New Year HAMBers . Thanks for all the great artistic inspiration this year. Here's what I have for this week (so far)....

[Jigger]

GREAT START GANG!!!

More on that later but, before I hit the sack, here's one I'm working on as part of a collaboration
between the artist, me, and the top bidder on an auction for some relief funds for a H.A.M.B.er in need:



Sorry if she looks too big...

[hot-rod dude]

Nice work every one. Spoggie is flying around interstate on holidays , so nothing from him this week .

[sololobo]

Rockin start here kids, thanx to all for a year of awesome contributions. U-R appreciated. ~sololobo~

[Mad Mark]

Originally Posted by BOMONSTER

This year I've been hitting a few shows with my pop up store selling my BOMONSTER art. Seems like every show I attend a few of the same guys hang out, buy my stuff and tell me they're starting a car club and want me to design a shirt logo. Every show it seems they add a few more "members" who also buy my stuff. It must be part of their new member initiation because they always end up dropping a couple hundred bucks at my booth and telling me they want me to design a shirt for them. So at the end of the year, I figured they've already paid me enough to get a logo in return so I dropped this idea on them (all they told me was they like early 60's Chevy trucks):



They flipped out and told me to go nuts. And while I was at it, I thought I might share my process with this FAS. I usually start with a drawing to establish proportions and composition. I don't get too detailed - just the basic outline and maybe some light direction. What you don't see here is the truck reference photos from my online scrap pile - many of which I grabbed off the H.A.M.B. Then I transfer the drawing to a clean piece of scratchboard by rubbing the back with pencil and then redraw over the lines transferring the design onto the scratchboard. The size of this piece is 16 x 12.



I work on a flat table top taping the scratchboard to a drawing board. I work with a desklamp close to the work to see the faint graphite lines. I use an Xacto knife with a #16 blade. I wrap tape near the end of the knife to cushion my finger tips from the constant pressure of scraping the surface. Whenever I start a drawing I usually attack what I think might be the trickiest to pull off. That way if I mess up, I can start over without losing too much work. In this case I must have thought the eyes, arms and bent truck would be the trickiest.



Once I had the trucks looking good it was time to knock out the type. I really like the look of hand drawn type but also appreciate type design so the font needs to be accurate under the loose lines. I also like to leave some black showing so it's not 100% white so I felt thousands of parallel scrap marks were the way to go. Since I sometimes get lost in tiny lines. I jump ahead and scrap some lines to establish a line angle on each letter. That way if I'm veering a little off course I can readjust as I get closer to the pre-scratched marks. By taping the scratchboard onto a drawing board, I can also spin the work to fit the angle of my hand. I'm best at clockwise scraps from the 8 o'clock to the 1:00 range. Counter clockwise scraps from about 12 to 7. I constantly spin my board where my wrist works best.



After defining the letter forms with a thousand scraps I add some detail to the letter edges and generally touch up the trucks until I start to think I might have ruined the whole piece. Once signed, I scan into photoshop and fix any funny edges. Then I make an eps file and open in illustrator. I rasterize and do a live trace adjusting the setting a couple of times until it's closest to the actual scratch. Once saved it is a clean vector file which can be screen printed, reduced to a business card or blown up for truck graphics. The Wreckers loved it and that always make the effort worthwhile. Maybe now they'll stop asking for a shirt design.

Great pic and thanks for the tutorial. How much time do you have in a piece like this?

[coolstuff]

We are starting to get the NEW contributions for the Asphalt Fiends 2012 coloring book.

If you would like to contribute
please email vintagetorque@gmail.com
or
PM me here on the HAMB

YES
Zombie is going to let us use his art as a cover again!!!!
YES
BigToe is going to contribute as well!!!!
THat is two big names that are helping out with the cause.
There are some other artists that have stated yes as well and we truly appreciate everyones contributions.
THANKS to those guys and if you want to contribute we ask that the images be:
Vertical
Hot Rod/Kustom/Chopper/Bobber/Monster Art
We do not care if this is something that has already been used or in another magazine etc....
Of course new art is preferred - but not mandatory by any means.

Images should be around 9" x 12" and 300 dpi format to avoid pixelation

More details on last years coloring book can be found at
www.helpinghannahsheart.org

[TOE]

From this year's Jalopyrama

[Mr.Moose]

I made a little stop-motion video of a commissioned Christmas gift.



The song is from an artist named SoCalled.

[himjively]

cut out glue and fold
happy new year

[Offset]

Thank you folks for a years worth of entertainment and awe. You folks have some serious talent.

Happy New Year to all.

[kenmo]

Some older photos.... These are from Atlantic Nationals in 2006, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada....








2009 Atlantic Nationals






Happy New Year everyone.....

[kenmo]

Originally Posted by 57 Corvette ~ Bob

Happy New Year to all ........

Great looking image... Is that's your Vette? Looks awesome....

[Jeff Norwell]

Out with the Old and in with the New...
Happy New year all!!!
Just a very oldie....

[Tommy's Cycle]

David; That Norton piece is excellant, one of my favorites of yours. Dmitry did a "power" carving, for a show, over Christmas. Not impeccable but still cool. Happy New Year Everyone! Stay safe and sober......if you can

[4tl8ford]

Thanks to all for the most excellent art show for 2011 - Even the things that I don't like were on the highside of fantastic.
I wish everyone a Great New Year.

[Butcher's Shop Customs]

[G V Gordon]

Couple quickies I did for a friend Christmas eve morning. He welded up a surf board and sheriffs star coat hanger for his sons rooms and I decorated'em for him.