How do people make shit like this? It makes no sense to me. How can you conceptualize something like that in your head?

Real answer: I dunno. I see something in my head and then try to create it in the program. The two images hardly ever end up being the same, but often thats part of the process of creating what ends up being the final piece.

i still love this one.

i want a copy.

holy crap, i'm kind of ticked i missed this thread when it first came out
awesome work SC! how long does it usually take to make a show poster? is it spanned across days or usually just one long stretch?


How creepy is it that I noticed SC's name is Jason?

Shit! Thread reminds me I forgot to send Simakos the art for the thing.

Thanks Haid.

It depends and is wildly variable. That Nada Surf one was probably 8 hours spread over days. Most of the time is taken up by playing with different ideas tho, so that eats the main share of the production time.

clear out your PM's, Senor!

Done

Not sure how I missed this thread until now.

Wow, really great work, Senor. Do you ever do freelance design/illustration work for ad agencies. Our's is a B2B agency, but every once in a while we're looking for something beyond the usual industrial crap. It would be good to know you're there, if interested.

Oh yeah. I do all kinds of stuff.

I day job as art director of a magazine so I do the "clean" stuff alot too.

Thanks!

Cool. BTW, what magazine?

Nothing you've heard of...

http://www.sactownmag.com/home.php

Were just a regional that's about a year old (tho we have nabbed a pretty good amount of noms and awards in that time, oddly enough. Even for the crappy site that I linked you to up there, which I also designed. )

New poster for Tuesdays DBT's show
Im trying to do more one color stuff of late.
I figure if I cant rely on a cool color pallette or transparency effects, then it will force my ideas to become stronger.

Who knows.

Applied some extra touches to the finished DBTs poster tonite

hey cardgage, make me a badass avatar? in exchange i'll bump your birthday thread everyday for a week.

Done and done

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANYONE EVER CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK AT WORK, CHURCH, ICE CREAM SOCIALS, ETC.



http://img27.picoodle.com/img/img27/4/6/22...usm_35c9330.jpg

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Damn, that's disturbing! How 'bout a NSFW?

We should start a semi-rad artporium for a bunch of us to post in. I just finished an album cover, but hate to hijack the Senor Cardgage's exclusive thread.

Could take the place of the "Anyone wanna design my album cover?" thread I keep refraining from posting.

There we go. Refrain no more.

Thanks a lot, my shift manager was right behind me when I opened this thread. He's calling me into his office now. I think they're taking away my computer priviledges.

Looks like I'll be scrubbing plates from now on.

I need to stop clicking on links on the SOMB, I think.

C'mon, Senor. Jesus.

Yancy will now call me anti-fun.

OK, I changed it from an embedded pic to a link, but I didnt label it NSFW.

That has now been fixed.

All of my homies at the Ice Cream Social were scandalized

I came by the RL bar last night, didn't see you there. What nights do you work?

Nah, this was different. Luckily I arrived too late get NSFW punk'd.

I love that SC's mag is called Sactown. My inner 12 year old never tires of such things.

Your present self(late 30's AM I RITE) says the same thing.

heh.. balls.

These are damn good Cardgage! Love the colors on these. Great work.

yeah, that's some freaking gorgeous work. kudos.

Thanks guys!
Really appreciate all the kind words.

Im tryin to get back up to the speed I was working at a couple years ago when I did most of those.
I kind of fell off a bit when we launched the mag, as it dominated my time.

But I have a ton of new stuff on my plate right now.
DJ logo, cd design.
Doing a poster for The Kooks and a silkscreen poster for Flogging Molly that Im super excited about.

A WIP.

A CD cover Im workin on, this bein the inside 2 panels of the booklet

BAck traycard

So here's the official first draft of that CD Cover....


The cover itself...



Frontside of the CD booklet....



Inside of the CD booklet....



And finally the traycard art....

Inside of the CD booklet is kinda freaky and cool.

Just curious how many layers is that in photoshop?

I really like this Cardgage, but ... and this it just one man's opinion ... something about the composition of that text doesn't sit right with me. The typefaces are great, but the size and placement is off.

Thanks for the input!
Much appreciated.

Do you mean the text placement in the composition itself?
Like its place on the page?

No problem!


That's exactly what I meant. It's gonna be hard to make it look right without it running outside the face-hole, so I can see why you have it the way it is.

Maybe you can blow it up and have the face-hole overlap the text a little bit? I don't know, that might look terrible, actually.

I don't mean to just wander into threads and post random crap (anymore) but I have to say, I like peanut butter, motherfucker.

is this band playing on the Warped Tour?

Lol, dude I know.
But to be a versatile designer, you gotta do the work.

not judging, I know what your job is.

would definitely love to get one of those Luna posters if you ever find a way to make some good-looking reproductions of them.