I am just testing my new blog plugin on my iPhone. Seems to be working great! Now I can blog on the road even without my laptop, which will be a lot of fun. Now to see if I can upload an image as well…
This is a bronze plaque I designed for the ‘Sons of the Desert’ - The international Laurel and Hardy appreciation society. (Homepage: Sons of the Desert)
Bronze plaque designed by Ian Marsden for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appreciation society - Culver Hotel, downtown Culver City.
Shortly after city founder Harry Culver opened the landmark Culver Hotel it appeared in several films throughout the ‘golden age of comedy’. Producer Hal Roach featured the building in his ‘Our Gang’, ‘Charley Chase’ and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedies. The hotel is particularily prominent in his films “Putting Pants on Philip” and “Leave ‘em Laughin’” with Laurel and Hardy. Placed by the way out west tent of the sons of the desert 2003.
Ian Marsden the artist who designed the plaque also designed the ‘Duke’s Place’ logo and mural, trompe l’oeil for the lobby bar and also was commissioned to paint several large pop art canvases for the hotel restaurant.
Here is a short YouTube video in which I very briefly show how I created the Irish Players for the new ‘Footballheroes See Red’ book using my drawing of Paul Mc Shane as an example.
I click through some of the layers and talk very briefly about some of the software used.
In the case of the Republic of Ireland team, I started with rough pencil sketches which I then scanned and imported into Adobe Illustrator CS3.
I created all my black line work in Illustrator using the pressure sensitivity from the Wacom tablet to give me the stroke widths and the right look and feel for my lines.
The Footballheroes books are printed in such high quality and on such top-notch paper that I wanted everything to look as sharp as possible.
Finally I imported the lines into Corel Painter IX.5 and colored the players using digital watercolor.
Final artwork was delivered as 300 ppi TIFF files.
The reason Paul Mc Shane is wearing a suit and a band-aid is because I wanted all of the team members to look like characters from a classic gangster movie. Why? I don’t know.
Forwarded by a friend:
I want all your artist friends to read it too: They are trying to pass a new law by the congress that will change copyright laws as we know them and make living from our art very expensive, difficult or most likely impossible. Below is a link to an interview with Brad Holland interviewed by Mark Simon
http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html
The audio link to the interview is:
http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan/orphan_works_information.mp3
