Grave Digger: Old School Art

This is a good one to start October with. A long time ago I used to design T-shirts. 

I used seven different screens to create this design. I had to draw each color screen, in gray pencil, as a negative, on a separate vellum overlay, then shoot 14 x 17 halftone photos of each, on a camera the size of a refrigerator. These giant transparent films were then chemically developed by hand in a darkroom, before being used to expose the emulsion on the actual polyester "silk" screens.

 It was a labor intensive, technically demanding skill, now made obsolete by computers.

Chicken Logo

WAY back in the 1980s, when I worked in-house at a screen-print company, I was asked to spend 2 hours creating a logo and mascot for a one-off t-shirt. Not my best work mind you, just one more task in a busy day. Since then it became the signage and mascot for Pollard's Chicken, a fairly successful chain of restaurants in the mid-Atlantic area. Moral,... do your best on even your quickest work, or it has a way of haunting you. Even more so, as each reproduction drifts off-model...

An Angel

An old pen and ink Angel I did years ago. For all it's flaws I just always liked this one.

Who Shot First?

Long before "Clone Wars" we created this whole card game illustrated with 3d models. I like to think that our little experiment helped encourage Lucas that a TV series could be done in a CGI style.  I tend to believe Greedo reached first, but Han drew and shot faster, then Greedo pulled his trigger in the spasm of death.

Don't Shoot!

One of the quick illustrations I did for Decipher's "Wars" TCG. My favorite part is the distressed robot bartender in the background. My friend Chuck Kallenbach was kind enough to pose for this one.

Grand Moff Tarkin

My 3d illustration of Tarkin for Decipher Inc's "Jedi Knights TCG."

Agent Smith illustration

This is an illustration of Agent Smith I did, where he is drawn entirely with Matrix Kanji/Binary code.

My New Website is Up!

My new website is finally up! You can view my portfolio and more at www.joeboulden.com