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STUFF Banzai Skullion

This is the first [proper] concept piece since about two to three months ago, it's rough, raw, sketchy and not cleaned up in the least. And I'm not apologetic about it in the least since it seems to work in the design's favour.

Inspired by (1) the question posed by the title, (2) the Japanese traditional depiction of the Rising Sun, and (3) the manga Air Gear by Oh! Great, a certain patch/insignia design on one of the volumes' covers, the design was originally sketched in pencil with GraphGears, followed by inking with a mix of Artliners (Copics, Artlines & Sakura Microns) and then finally coloured with both texters (Staedtler Triplus & ZIG Clean Colour) plus shading with Faber-Castell colour pencils.

The final, full-paged illustration was photographed with a Sony Ericsson C702 Cyber-Shot mobile. It was uploaded to the nearest available computing device to be tossed into Adobe PS CS5 where a t-shirt template was lapped over it and then cropped. Sounds easy, but wasn't, even though it was pretty simple to execute, in theory.

Say hello to the very first t-shirt [concept] design from the original label [concept] STUFF, the Banzai Skullion!

Hopefully, one day, this t-shirt will see the light of day, being produced in limited quantities for your consumption.

PEACE!