Sunday, 30 January 2011

Draw - Throne o' Diablo T Shirt Concept

I am friends with the lovely lads in the band Throne o' Diablo and truly enjoy the music they produce. So while listening to them and messing around with my pencils, a while back, I got the idea of a "T Shirt of Terror". I decided from here that I would draw up a T Shirt for the band.

The one image that kept reoccurring was the idea of having something sharp stuck into my eye. From there I got the idea of having my eyeball actually tattooed. Give them a listen by clicking their name and you may get your own inspiration.

This is the work in progress images taken with my phone when I was working on them. I will post the final T Shirt design once I get a minute to redraw and ink it ;)









Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Draw - Zombie Embrace

I have recently started work on modifying a wonderful piece of photography by Alfred Eisensaedt.


It is called The Kiss and was taken on VJ Day in 1945. The picture itself stirs up many emotions, but I have decided to make my homage a little different.

I have been working on the concept of a War sidetracked by Zombies and the Kiss is being transformed into more of a Zombie embrace rather than a passionate embrace of celebration/Welcome Home.

I will be posting my progress on here as well as posting the final article up on my redbubble site.

Here is the first sketch with some basic shading on the focal point of the piece.

Sunday, 23 January 2011

Stickers Offer @ Redbubble.com

If you like decorating your own things with stickers or know someone who does, head over to my redbubble.com shop. At the moment if you buy 6 of any stickers, including designs by other designers, you can get 50% off the price.

So you could grab yourself one or more of the following and only pay for 3 ;)


Head over to my shop @ [ mikmcdade.redbubble.com ] The simply click the design and choose sticker from the options. Remember you can have 6 of the same or 6 different and can mix and match any designer to receive your 50% discount.

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Monday, 17 January 2011

Doodle - New T Shirt Idea (Finished - "Got Brains?")

Finally got the colour and border sorted for my Zombie piece and here is what it looks like on T Shirt.


I really enjoyed messing around with this piece and like the simplicity of the final design. It is available on many different colours so pop over and have a look here.

As always, comments are appreciated.

Also if you have twitter why not share the thread or site with your friends....you can even follow my own twitter by clicking the twitter button on the side.
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Thursday, 13 January 2011

Draw - Something for a friend

A friend asked me last year to draw him a picture of a Robin. It was in memory of his late Grandfather. Unfortunately I am a tad forgetful and only just got round to it. Today is the anniversary of his passing.

This is what I drew for him.


This is the first time I have ever drawn a bird to look lifelike. I am pleased with the outcome and may even try to do some more.

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Doodle - New T Shirt Idea (Part II - "Got Brains?")

Got round to adding some ink to the design and picked out a few bits to discard/highlight.

Here is the final piece of work before I start computer manipulation.

Monday, 10 January 2011

Doodle - New T Shirt Idea (Part I - "Got Brains?")

So Now that the Arrgghhhhh-topus design is finished I am moving on to another design. Here is the first Sketch of the new one. It is comes from the warm feeling the undead leave within me :P


This will be inked and then coloured in GIMP. Keep your eyes peeled!

Doodle - New T Shirt Idea (Finished - "Arrgghhhhh-topus")

So I finally finished the Arrghh-topus Tshirt design I have been working on for a while. The final product looks a little like this.


You can see how it looks on a Tshirt here.

Feel free to comment. All criticism welcome.