"Manly-er" Speed Racer Shoes

Finally, the completed shoes:

Now if I just had the address I need to send them to....

Sketches for Green Lantern shoes

The first one was chosen, and all the white areas are hopefully going to be glow in the dark. :]

Shoe sketches

I wanted to update, but this was all I had ready, so here's the sketches I did for a set of "manly-er" Speed Racer shoes that I'm finishing up right now for a friend, the girl ones, and a Tron inspired pair that still might be happening.

Captain America Vans

And one happy Marceli :]

GO, SPEED RACER, GOOOOO

Process shots of Speed Racer shoes

Naptown barBAYq

I recently (last night) completed a logo design for the first annual Naptown barBayq, which is a BBQ event, certified by KCBS, that has been scheduled for May 13-14 2011 in Annapolis, MD. It's being put on by the Parole Rotary Club to raise money for the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Cancer Charity. Around 5,000 people are expected, and tons of vendors have already contacted them.

I'm pretty excited about having done this for them, even if it has never made sense to me why gleeful pigs are always used to promote BBQs... Anyway, here's the (almost) full process:

Thumbnails!
Actually this is post-thumbnail-rejection (and explaining to them that having the sails engulfed in flames does not remind one of delicious BBQ, and charity), pre-desperate-doodling.

They liked this last one, but wanted a Maryland state flag, too, so I sent another sketch.

"tight" sketches

color studies
(I couldn't change much, of course, because of the MD state flag having to be red/gold, pig needing to be pink, and ocean generally being viewed as blue)

screen shot while playing with type...





Final, vectored image!

SUCCESS

vector doodle

working on a new portfolio site.

Zebra

I had this dream I was a a carnival and got challenged to a duel (slapped in the face with a glove and everything). To duel we were going to joust, but instead of hitting each other off our horses, these two adorable fat little zebras with really tiny legs were set lose, and we had to use the lances to pull the sashes off of them while they were running around. It was ridiculously cute.

Guache. Touched up a bit in photoshop.