Onground Color Theory

Themes : Skate and Surf

STUDENT GALLERY

Karamycheva/Quirky
Chavez/Adult
Griffen/Relief
Bydlo/contempo
Tanciatco/Rebellious
Bradbury/Freestyling

INDUSTRY EXAMPLES

stemmler, EBOY
misc 1
misc 2
misc 3
Misc Snowboards
Misc Skate Artists
Misc Skate Artists

Description

Create a design for one of the following: a skateboard, snow board, or surfboard. The theme title has to be included as part of the presentation. See your text for examples of color/theme relationships.

Browse around for a template to fill and alter, or photograph someone's skate/snow/surf board. Tip: Go to a local surfshop (Mall) and get a free surf/skate publication. Scan a board from one of the ads (at 150 dpi) and you'll have a good quality image to make into a template. Jpgs and web images generally will be lossy and have poor edges.

Digital format 600 x 800 or perhaps a panorama, 600 x 1200 or more, scrolling horizontally (see my artworks section for an example of this). Digital works present 4 designs.

If you are working analog make it bigger than what we have been seeing, perhaps 2 sheets of paper wide, or 24".

Non-digital works can be one design.

Consider collage, cutting out the form and pasting it onto a board or some other surface, printing/painting directly onto the surface of a board, or presenting a freeform model not glued to a rectangular surface.

Do some research on surf/skate culture. Go to a surf/skate shop. Do a google search for images and ideas.

At LMCA there is a great book on skateboard graphics.

There is a substantial history of board graphics. Some of the most cutting edge design has been developed in this industry.