Posts tagged "shirts"

astronaut shirts cosmonaut cross drawings basinger hang loose shaka loftt church art deja entendu

Apr 01

April 1, 2009

call me butter, cause i’m on a roll. two days ago, i posted some bulletins looking for work (WHICH I STILL AM ACCEPTING, PLEASE EMAIL vass@ladisputemusic.com). In forty eight hours, i already completed three of these jobs, and i’m pretty proud. I’ll show you:

basingermock

The first is a teeshirt for a band called Basinger. They saw the bummer-free zone thumbs up design that I did in my previous entry and wanted something similar with the ‘hang loose’ sign. Drawing hands intrigues me, and I have the convenient reference right in front of me (at my fingertips, lol).

loftt-copy

The second is a 1 color lineart design for a church in Indiana called the Loftt (intentional misspelling). I personally am not a religious guy, and I thought that would lead to me having difficulty coming up with something, but this one came to me and I was pretty surprised with the end result.
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Last and certainly not least, I did this graphic for a music blog called Bedwetting Cosmonaut (bedwettingcosmonaut.blogspot.com). He essentially asked for a banner that included an astronaut (or cosmonaut in this case) and so I was inspired by the cover of Brand New’s Deja Entendu. Obviously, the colors used are very similar. This one was a lot of fun, and I’m still getting used to digitally painting with a wacom. He hasn’t seen it this big yet, i just emailed small previews, so if you’re reading this CJ, hope you dig it.


Like I said earlier, I’d love to keep working, so if you have a band that wants a shirt or album art, I’d love to work with you. As these people can attest to, I don’t charge much and you end up with something sweet (at least, I’d say its sweet).


shirts designs bears mouthful of birds mountain asleep

May 07

May 08, 2009

Again, I’ve gone too long without updating this. I wish it was because I’m swamped with designs, but that is far from true. Mountain Asleep just came through on tour and I hung with them for a couple days. My new band Ends played our first show in my basement with M.A. on tuesday and had a real good time. I’m rounding out the album project for Native and should have something I can show people soon (waiting for their permission of course, I’m sure they’d want to announce deets before i did).

Here is what I did this week between partying really hard. The first is a shirt design for my friends in Bears from Kentucky. I plan to change the text on it, but really like the drawing. The latter is a work in progress for the band Mouthful of Birds from Wisconsin.

bearscopy

mouthfulofbirds


merch shirts designs native mouthful of birds la dispute tour

May 11

May 11, 2009

I digitized and colored the mouthful of birds design that I uploaded last week, but I didn’t want to have an update with just one picture in it, so I’m including all the designs I made for La Dispute’s upcoming summer tours. There is also a Native shirt in their for our Canadian tour together so we would have matching shirts.
Anyways, here they are.
mouthful
nativetarotldtarot
ldsisyphusldclouds
ldbearman


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shirts sketches design la dispute to the north quiet steps art

Jul 26

Sketches July 26, 2009

Here are just some inks of things I’m working on. Looking forward to digitizing them and getting them cleaned up.
These first two, an owl and a group of mice, are going to be together for a to the north shirt. they’ll be seperated by text. i drew them on seperate pieces of paper so i could draw them bigger and resize them in photoshop, so here they are as seperate scans.
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Up next is a design for quiet steps. Its goin to be a 2 color tshirt print, black and neon green on white, and i’m also going to paint it digitally for their record art.

quietstepsCOPY

lastly are a couple lighthouses i sketched for a la dispute shirt. the pencily one was a bigger attempt at the inked one which was my initial idea but drawn very small. plan to paint it in watercolors then bitmap it for screen printing.

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merch shirts design art

Nov 17

New Shirt Designs

been doing some shirt designs for the first time in a long time lately. running some price breaks on them for bands/groups interested in getting something done, contact me at adamxvass@gmail.com.






merch shirts painting design native merchant ships art

Dec 15

Been A Month

I probably shouldn’t go a month at a time without updating. I was gone on tour with a great band called Touche Amore and let my work take a major backseat to having fun for a couple weeks. Here is most of the stuff I made in that time. Be on the lookout for new art on ladisputemusic.com and myspace.com/ladispute that will correlate to the artwork on some 7”s we have being prepared. also working on artwork for a 3rd edition of here, hear which will come out on christmas via digital download.





merch repress the cadence shirts design la dispute former theives

Jan 26

Shirt Designs

a couple things i’m pretty proud of that i did, mostly this week.






also, a couple of the shirts i designed for our band are now available at www.hellfishfamily.com to purchase. a few more are on their way in the webstore this week.


former thieves are the best band around right now in the middle west and i’m stoked to see that design get printed. if you don’t believe me, watch this:

Former Thieves - Dead Horses Are Turned Into Glue (LIVE) from Tim Dodd on Vimeo.