skate decks and sketches and ink, oh my.

i recently stumbled upon popdeck.com, a site like threadless where designers submit art that is voted on and has a chance to win a cash prize.

this time, it's art for skateboard decks.

i'm not a skater by any means, for those who have seen rob and big, i'm definitely more big than i am rob. but i had been itching to reuse the design i had blogged about here, so i put this together:



please help this cool community grow, vote on the design here, and join in!

in inky stinky news, i must request that you watch this sketch comedy clip from the whitest kids u know before scrolling any further:



finished?

are you sure?

if you are not, please don't scroll yet.

it will ruin the awesomeness!

seriously.

stop.

oh you did watch it?

okay.

i figure i should let you continue.

here it is!



that, my friend, is dedication. much more dedicated than my autobot sigil tattooed on my shoulder.

that is fantastic.

dann mathews: tattoo designer.

my boss asked me to design a tattoo for him so he could get inked before he heads off on vacation.

his wife (another boss of mine) had inked a beautiful design commemorating her succesfully having cancer removed. and she is so in love with her tattoo that she talked her husband into it.

my boss is a knights templar free mason (i'm sure i got some of that wrong, i know more about the springfield stonecutter's than i do of the masonic societies)

so he asked me to mix in a few elements: the double barred cross, a sword, some icons and the wings.

so i put this together, mashing them all together:



(that bar above the "G" icon appeared during file compression... i was too lazy to get the source file from work to fix it)

i'm pleased with it, the only things i didn't draw by hand were the icons on the crest (as they're too small to worry about the detail in the time crunch i was under) and the wings. the wings are from an existing tattoo design.

he's getting this on his bicep, it should look cool. he just wanted something more than the compas and all seeing eye that alot of other masons get inked in.

it was an interesting diversion for a day where a client called my work "crap".