All of the following designs just need you! These folks went with a different design, and I'd really like to see these ones get made 'cause I put in some time and I like them and I'm broke. I will put your band name in, make them suitable for whatever you want (they were all intended as tshirts, see below) make a few adjustments, colors are negotiable, etc.

Prices are $20 plus whatever you want to
use them for ($140 for 20 two-color t-shirts- I'd waive the extra 20 for the design if you use them for shirts), except the freakshow one: that must be used for shirts and something else (I'm thinking posters/flyers?) because I like it so much $170.

Check iheartmachine.com for shirt details and paypal and more designs! (pretty much everything I have is for sale). If you have your own ideas I do custom design too, with fees being waived or reduced if you buy merch.













here's how these might look on a t-shirt

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That one is pretty sweet! How much is that one going for?

--Third Hour
www.myspace.com/3rdhour

No charge for that design if you order shirts.
20 two-color for $140.

I juts have to brag about this Lowlights tour poster I made. I'm so into it. You should see it at 11x17. Custom poster/flier design starting at $30.

awesome! good colors.

Do you use paper drawings and then scan them or do you use stock art?

If you look into the skull's sockets, you can kinda see some eyeballs in there. creeps.

Thanks! Both. I use public domain stuff more when I have a deadline or don't know how to draw something or am going for some very specific look. I'm moving more and more away from even public domain stuff though, as it can be hard to verify copyrights and you run a risk of having someone else do the same thing. I see a lot of stuff that is just someone else's work (clearly recognizable) with a name crudely pasted over, which is fine for fliers but not cool for commissioned, paid-for work. Photoshop is a blessing and a curse to the world of visual design (which I think of more as a science than an "art"). On one hand it's super-fast and much cheaper than art supplies, on the other you end up having to work pretty hard to make sure stuff doesn't look "photoshopped." When someone looks at your stuff you don't want them to be picking out the filters you used.

I usually look at a pic and redraw it myself. This time I used references of three leaves from a book. I sketched the whole thing, scanned it, colored it in photoshop, printed it out, drew over the print and rescanned, and then cleaned it up and recolored in photoshop. The colors are based off their album cover colors. The instructions they gave me were just "a skull, a forest" and I pretty much knew exactly what I was going to do right away. I like to get instructions like that: simple guidelines and impressions; I can do something I want to do. If I get no instructions at all I can get self-indulgent or indecisive.

On the above pics: the flamingo is referenced from a coloring book, The siamese twins are referenced from that one pic of them that you see all the time (and obviously based on the typical freakshow banner, which I collect); I drew them and scanned them and did cleanup, compositions and colors in photoshop. The butterfly and creepshow skull are straight photo manipulation (those parts), and the shield/bed one is a drawing with the mouse (which is really hard to do!)

All of the text is just fonts, though I usually mess with them so they aren't totally straight. I'm pretty slow at hand-drawing text, and it's boring, so I don't do it much anymore unless I have to or I have the time. Actually, most of the above ones need work on the text parts, they aren't wholly finished. I have thousands of fonts, so many that it takes Photoshop or Word about 5 minutes to open on my computer. I get tired of seeing the same ones over and over.

My favorite part is doing the composition and iconography. I'm trying to go for a kind of combining pop and nouveau kinda thing. Which is cool because screenprinting and web display have technical limitations that actually lend themselves to that stuff, and the style can be made to work for all kinds of music genres too (except punk; you can't have nouveau in punk. Too many bells and whistles. Advertising based stuff, modern design, works better with punk). I'm way into anti-symmetry right now, which is hard since most bands think they are designers for some reason but then almost always want something totally symetrical, which seems kinda typical and amature to me.

Anyway, I could talk about this stuff all day. Bullshit was my major in art school.