Fu Manchu Poster

Film positives made

Screens exposed

Screens washed out

Black positive taped to paper- all screens will align to this

First ink pulled- flesh tone

Second color- light green

Third color- brown halftone

Fourth color- dark green

Tavi "helps me" by doing some crazy dance



Fifth color- black

 And that's how it goes. Three very cold nights of printing out in the shop, about 1 hour per color. Posters are 25"X17" printed on 100# matte cover stock. Signed and numbered prints go on sale Saturday Jan 22nd here: http://www.kentdesigns.com/poster_gallery.htm

Logo Progression

I thought it would be fun to post the series of sketches and revisions that go into a logo. Sometimes a client needs to see some changes to realise that it's right the first time. Sometimes I do too.

first sketch based on phone discussion

clothing added and pose altered

back to original pose, tail added to girl, fire added to an altered DD

corset changed to cocktail dress

final black and white version



airbrushed final version- tattoos added





airbrushed fire with back shadows added- this is the final final



Devil's Daughter logo

Well, back from a 2 week vacation and right into a week (possibly longer) of jury duty. Leave it to the American legal system to make what could have been a very interesting case a long boring pile of unnecessary facts. In the evenings I have been working on this logo:

I've also designed and set up a poster for Slightly Stoopid. I should be able to start pulling ink this weekend. I'll post photos soon after if I can fix my camera.

Pin-up T shirts available

I have added 2 new men's T shirts to the Kent Designs website:

Pin-up back

Pin-up front

 Pin-up design is 5 color back/ 1 color front printed on white only. (Sizes S-XXL) I did a few long sleeves for this design too. Sleeve design will read: The "K" stands for quality. That part still needs to be printed. 

Logo design back

Logo design front

Logo shirts are 3 color front/ 3color back printed on Irish Green shirts only. S-XXL
Either shirt can be ordered here for $17 (shipping included) http://www.kentdesigns.com/apparel/kent_pinup/kent_pin-up_shirt.htm

A portion of every sale will go to support The Kent Family Worm Farm, so please, be generous.

Newest Art Prints (Bite Fight)

This box of prints has been moved around my office for months now. It is now time to do something with them. These are leftover prints from the sports themed poster show Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles put on in March 2010. The show was called “The Greatest Moments In Sports History” and the intent was to capture and/or commemorate a great sporting moment. This was weird for me being I don’t follow sports at all. I mean, other than competitive eating that is. First thing I thought of was Tyson biting off Holyfield’s ear.

Lots of ways I could illustrate this but I opted for a subtle route and did a pin-up style ring card girl. This is a 7 color hand pulled screen print on 100# stock. Edition is only 35 signed and numbered pieces. Price is $35 each, postage paid. It is called “Bite Fight”. Only 50 artists were invited to participate in this show and I was quite honored to make the cut. Prints can be ordered on my site.

http://www.kentdesigns.com/originals/bite_fight.htm