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The actual road scene. This did get screenprinted, but to be fair: it looked nowhere near how I had wanted it to look. The thin lines and intricacies of the drawing are as much to blame as my rudimentary and inadequate screenprinting skills.

Another one from the 'master 2010 unrealised and probably too ambitious screenprint sketches' box

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The full text was to read the following:

"This is the story of 2Pac
[insert picture of 2Pac]
and his LA biker gang
[insert picture of LA Biker Gang 'The Dopeboyz']
robbing a bank
[Picture of two duffel bags full of 'dough']
, but actually it's about
[insert 'PROJECTION' picture as seen above]
and space and place and how we experience it.

(In time it became clear that the whole 'I want to draw 2Pac on a motorbike and cover it up with my previous research on space and place'-shtick was beginning to wear quite thin)

1. I find designing logos to be one of the most difficult things to do.
2. I have noticed that I myself am the most harsh critic of my works.
=> designing the GRINGOFLASH logo was to be no simple task.

Pictured above is were I stand so far:
I still find it stale and bland and uninspired, but not to the degree of immediately discarding it.

I am looking for some critiques. Like it? Don't like it? Why (not)?

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Some superfluous explaining:

– I like bows and arrows and the middle ages and heraldry because it reminds me of my youth.
>>> there was always the promise of one day finding the perfect stick to craft the perfect bow to launch the perfect arrow into the perfectly round apple.

– I like drawing bows and arrows even more.
>>> I remember vividly how, when I was a kid, I learned to draw the stance of the archers in my medieval war-drawings by looking at reproductions from the Bayeux Tapestry (which were, in their own right, far from anatomically correct) in Ooggetuigen books (De 'Wapen en Wapenuitrusting'-one taught me and my nephew everything).

– the 'S'-thing at the bottom is supposed to be the 'flash'-part of the logo

First and only panel of my once-to-be
'Birds scared shitless of the internet'-comic.

(What these birds are saying, incidentally, does not make much sense, and is even less related to their being afraid of the internet)
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One from ye olden box, I think 2008'ish