Because boguskyle Complained like a Bitch

I've been thinking recently that I really want to start like a design company. Like t-shirt, sweater, apparel design. As well as album art, posters and shit like skateboard decks or whatever.

I really want to refine my style into a more clean, bright shit. Most all of my stuff I have uploaded from my blackbook is really sketchy and basically just ideas. I've realized that I spend a lot of time on shit that doesn't really matter, I dont focus on getting an idea on paper then refine it later.

So what do you guys think? Would you buy a t-shirt with some/any of my art on it? If you skate would you want some of that shit on your deck?

Ideally I'd want to drop my own line of clothing, sort of like shepard fairey did with OBEY. Definitely would move to shoes and shit, just cause I love foot gear

 

Yes and yes lol

Your stuff's good, I wouldn't mind one bit being a walking billboard. Let me know if this progresses into a business fersure, I would love to be the first person to buy one of your shirts

 

Hell yeah I'd buy something with your art on it. Your shit is pretty fuckin impressive dude, and it will only get better and more refined over time. I'd say you really have no reason not to do this.

 

Judging based off of your album alone: no.

The rhino is the closest though. Especially would work as a skate deck.

 

idk i would buy it cuz i dont buy stuff most of the time. if you do start your own thing though ya gotta get the word out everywhere. a guy i knew made a big roll of stickers and put them EVERYWHERE in the school, random places in town and i even saw them in LA and shit i was like damn. so ya maybe do that.

 

I'd dish out a lot of cash for your designs. Starting that shit up costs a lot of money if you want complicated designs that stay on the shirt without getting faded though. You'd need an investor and to be honest with your art it wouldn't be that hard to find.

 

understandable. my blackbook is very sketchy, obviously those designs would be cleaned up and made more attractive, but that's the point of a blackbook

it's just the ideas/design is what i'm asking if people would wear.

i'm gonna try to start making a better effort to put some clean designs up here and see what kind of feedback i'd get.

 

Yeah, I think if you had more complete works, I could give you more comprehensive thoughts.

Honestly, the designs themselves don't stand out extremely in any way, and I don't find them overly original or unique, but sometimes that's what you want to sell your stuff.
Really, I would say for most of them, the coloring could make or break them -- they may not amaze me, but they are really solid drawings.

 

some of your work and your sig reminds me of Leigh McCloskey. he did the album art for Cosmogramma.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bPXEsEIdHHQ/TGEBjo9jyUI/AAAAAAAAAbI/604OasOY6ko/s1600/Leigh.jpg
idk just some inspiration for you i guess. he has some fascinating black books. a lot of it not really commercial material though.

you have great potential though. you draw people figures very well.
have you taken classes for art?

 

You have some cool stuff.

I don't get how so many people are good at drawing. It is so difficult for me.

 

oh wow, that page is fucking awesome!!

the sig is OBEY, shepard fairey.

thanks though, yeah i took art through highschool and have taken drawing 1 and 2 in college, currently looking at an art institute or someplace that will get my in the industry

 

You have some crazy talent Purp.

 

Have you ever checked out Threadless? It's a website where you can submit your designs for t-shirt ideas and people vote on them and if you get enough votes, it gets made into a t-shirt. I don't know much more than just that, but it's a pretty neat website you might want to look at if you want to get into t-shirt designs.

 

yeah threadless isn't really my style though. i submitted a design once, but people didn't really like it.

people there like more cutesie/highly stylized things which aren't my area.

there are other sites like it though

if i start this, i'm gonna probably just sell t-shirts that i screen print myself - using not-so-complicated techniques. the result is still a quality product if done right, but it is just more labor intensive than if i would have the equipment to have bit of a more streamlined company model. all in time though.

i'll definitely be using quality textile though, that's one thing i really appreciate about a good custom T. if the threads are something you buy at wally world, it won't wear or make you feel the same if you get a nicely sewn cotton T.