Hard Knocks bar sign

[WDP]

Vector is more vivid

 

[Just Another Sign Guy]

i think a more human not demon skull would work a little better with smaller canines and not sure what is going on with 'it's' left eye are those rings hanging through the eye socket or gold scrathes? i would nix them.

 

[Mosh]

No way, necks like demon skulls.

 

[neato]

So how did you do the effects? The design is GREAT BTW....

 

[jiarby]

do skulls sweat enough to need a bandana?

 

[Pat Whatley]

So how did you do the effects? The design is GREAT BTW....

The effects are a combination of Machine Wash Filters and some Photoshop actions I've had. I was just messing around with it to get an aged, dimensional look. The Machine Wash filters can do some pretty slick stuff really easilly. Here's a rusted and a weathered look.

And before anybody mentions it the Smith sign was a gift for a friend who builds guitar amps. It's stuck on the wall in his workshop. He had a booth in the NAMM show with Fat Tone Guitars who had an Americana looking shield in their booth. He mentioned it, it reminded me of THIS SIGN I'D SEEN by Brandon Lesley on the Letterhead Fonts site so I copied it. I'm just showing the effects applied to it.

 

[SignManiac]

Hey Pat do you know if these filters will work in Corel Photopaint? I likey!!!

Nevermind, I just dug through their site and it looks like it will work with Corel Photopaint X3

 

[luggnut]

sign maniac here is a distress generator for corel draw. i'm sure you could do it without the plugin though.. i just don't know enough about corel to say.. i bet joe diaz does (i saw some of his designs with distress from corel)

http://www.unleash.com/tomknight/distressgenerator/

 

[OldPaint]

my only question............WHY, IS your version of the CIRCLE SHAPED like an EGG.....?????

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

good start ... but ,,,NOT WICKED ENOUGH

 

[Pat Whatley]

my only question............WHY, IS your version of the CIRCLE SHAPED like an EGG.....?????

It's called an oval. I did all the versions, they're all mine. I liked the look of the oval better.

 

[OldPaint]

i like the circle..............

 

[Mike Paul]

I like it, makes me want to shank somebody...
I'd adjust the stars and probably shave down the canines a bit.

Love the weathered look...

 

[MITCHATEXOTIC]

A different idea

How 'bout inverting the bevel so to make it look carved...just my 2 cents.LOOKS GREAT

 

[SignManiac]

sign maniac here is a distress generator for corel draw. i'm sure you could do it without the plugin though.. i just don't know enough about corel to say.. i bet joe diaz does (i saw some of his designs with distress from corel)

http://www.unleash.com/tomknight/distressgenerator/

Thanks Luggnut, I'll check this out and play around with it!

 

[HeavyHitter]

Pat, looking good. Looks like a gorilla skull.

 

[kstompaint]

I like it! What's a hard knox beer joint sign with no brass knuckles though?