Skateboard Deck - Roughs

these are rough because the main concern was coming up with ideas and the layout rather than trying to put a ton of detailing into each one(a mistake I made from the last assignment that drained me of precious energy because it wasn't necessary...) Also, each drawing is about the size of a business card.


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1: Each square would have one of the 3 ghouls(plus another) as they continued like a pattern. i.e.: 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4, etc. The backgrounds would all be mixed up. It's a pop-art Andy Warhol approach. The figures might be kept black and white so it doesn't clash so much, but it stil hasn't been decided yet.

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2: the idea was to put a vampire(dracula?) the werewolf, and a mummy together displaying gang signs relevant to each ghoul. The werewolf with the "westside" symbol(or maybe two W's formed by each hand as they cross his chest), vampire with the butterfly hand gesture(reference: Napoleon Dynamite), and a mummy forming the letter "M." The vampire was the ghoul I thought of 1st and then it developed into using other entities(which is why he's the front.) The background was going to be a dark purple, with the figures in black/grey/white(half-toned technique you would see in manga.)

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3: a traffic light, except the "box" of the traffic light is a grey color instead of the traditional black. I saw a pic of a novelty one somewhere, don't remember...each circle would represent the stages of a samurai killing an opponent. The top red = encounter with the the enemy or attack stange, the middle orange/yellow/whatever = anticipating and preparing to attack or in the middle of charging at opponent, green= killing the opponent.


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4: Remember that famous "Saturday Night Fever" image of John Travolta doing that disco stance? It's a zombie doing the same picturesque pose with the quote "staying alive" underneath it.


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5: very conceptual- a Chinese/Japanese dragon made up of many paper planes, as you drift further from the head(which is at the bottom of the design) toward the tail you can see the individual planes trailing and drifting apart into the individual pieces. The color scheme was going to be borrowed from this: (navigate to the 3rd image with the right arrow key) http://www.davidmascha.com/main.html. The dragon would be white with thin black outlines.
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Final image: turned this into a snowboard. it's a city of modernized igloos(skyscrapers, office buildings, etc.) with an igloo cannon shooting a penguin that's wearing an aviator hat, goggles, and a scarf. Random, I know. lol.


tried putting a lot of effort into each idea so that I wouldn't have "1 good rough and 5 whatevers," as that has been lectured about by the instructor while talking about professional practices and crappy portfolios out in the real world.