The iconic Citroën DS as a cut away design

The Citroën DS is a beautiful car both in design and technology.  In a time where most cars had rigid axles, leaf springs, drum brakes and sometimes air cooled engines,  Citroën came with the DS. A car with pneumatic hydraulic suspension for all wheels, disc brakes in the front, and engine with feul injection ( later models ), front wheel drive and swiveling headlights 😍. So when I wanted to create a cut away shirt design the DS was a obvious choice. 

Here is the pencil drawing:

And the finished design:

An sepia version:

Of course available on many products:

There are 6 versions,  a version with background in a soft color palet and a sepia version. A version without background in soft and sepia colors.  And to complete a very simple light and dark line-art for dark and light colored shirts.  My personal favorite is the sepia with just the car 😊.

The design is available at Teepublic and Neatoshop,  see links at my "links" page in my blogsite. 

Feel free to leave any comment or suggestion.  

Until next time,  have a great day. 

Greetings Andres 

Low Poly Dodge A100

A little in between project,  a low poly version of the classic Dodge A100 van. 

Link to Teepublic shop

I have been experimenting with low poly filters but never liked the results of those filter. So I decided to create low poly by hand, first on paper and when finished I traced this drawing using tools in Gimp ( free to use open source photoshop alternative  ). Filled the areas with a gradient to give it a bit more flair.  I'm happy with the results and time will tell if it fits my shops. 

The pencil sketch:

Until next time,  have a great day. 

Greetings Andres 

The Honda Dax

The Honda Dax is a typical motorcycle that is build for fun and city cruising. I always had a soft spot for this little bike. So that's why I got inspired to draw this classic for my new design. The Dachshund is of course a reference to the name Dax and in the title the name Daxhund is misspelled on purpose to avoid the copyright infringement 😁. 

I created 6 versions ( the dotted background is not part of the shirt design ),

3 versions with a background,

A full color for multiple colors shirts:

A light version for dark shirts 

 

A darker version for light colored shirts 

And 3 versions with no background:

Full color for all colored shirts 

A light line-art for dark shirts 

And finally a dark line-art for light colored shirts 

And now some close ups and work in progress:

 

As you can see the background is also hand-drawn, on 2 sheets of paper, one for the brush strokes and another for the rough sky scraper sketch. And the full color version with background I even used an old holiday picture from a city in France. When I started to draw I wasn't sure about the expression on the face and I tried different expressions and finally went for the neutral cool look. With this new design I tried some new methods and created multiple designs with different shirt or background colors in my mind, and I'm happy with the results.

As always follow the links to my shop at Teepublic or go to the "link page" for links to my other shops ( this one only at Teepublic or Neatoshop ). And don't forget that there are also other products like phone cases, mugs, stickers and other stuff.

Finally I would like to say to all the beginning artists: keep on creating , trying new ways and new ideas, there is always another sheet of paper.

Have a great day

Greetings Andres

The Legend of the Lost Game

Maybe you'll remember some old 8 bit games for the Nintendo entertainment system ? 

Well this artwork is inspired upon the boxart of the classic videogame "Digger T Rock" a videogame I used to play a lot in my younger years. 

This design was the first time I started using an A3 size paper so it was possible to put a lot more details in the lineart. Instead of scanning I now take a picture from the finished drawing.  To create the stone and marble look I used different brushes and smudge techniques. For better printing results and a smaller filesize I used a posterize filter. As always I used the open source alternatives for photoshop,  Gimp and Inkscape to add colors.  

Here is the boxart where this drawing is inspired upon. 

And here are some pictures from the work in progress:

Here is the link to my shop 

Hope you enjoyed this blog and have a great day.

Greetings Andres 

Endless Chase part 2

This new design is inspired upon the work of Esher,  with classic cartoon and movie villains chasing the good guys.  

As usual it started with a pencil drawing traced with a fineliner and brushpen. The lineart is scanned to be finished digital, this method gives the design a unique appearance. The halftone dots are used for the retro effect and it also beneficial for a better print on the shirt 😊👍. See the close up for some details.

The left side of the triangle is the same color just with a different color dots. Even this close it's difficult to see. Here you can also see the cloud effect.  

For inside the triangle I used dots with different sizes to get a shading effect and thrown in some splatters. Link to design Endless Chase part 2

For this design I tried something new. I applied a sepia filter on the main color layer to create a more subtle design.  The halftone dots are the same color. 

I really liked this toned down subtle colors,  so I also started on some older designs with a more subtle color.  For me personally I think it's easier to combine a shirt with softer colors with the rest of my wardrobe, hopefully more people agree on this.  Link to the design with softer colors

So next posts probably some existing designs with new softer sepia colors 😊👍. 

Hope you like it, as always feel free to leave a comment or suggestion.  

Have a nice day. 

Greetings Andres 

Eyes Scream

A little bit weird and abstract design with bright colors and halftones for the summer. 

 ( the pink and yellow halftone background isn't part of the design  😁 )

 

Here you can see the three colored outline and halftone dots. 

It's available in my premium shops ( Teepublic & Neatoshop  ) check the link at my linkpage. And the design can be printed on many other things besides T-shirts. Link to the Eyes Scream design

As always feel free to leave a comment or suggestion.  

Stay healthy and have a great day. 

Kind greetings 

Andres