MOPED ARMY

Thanks Brennan-

But actually.. I think I should've just kept this post on buy/sell, as sweeet moped racing posters don't actually make your bike faster, just make your work area look cooler.

My Bad.

tomos ttlx, moby 50v and vespa ciao?

so rad. i will be ordering one for our shop.

really very cool. They look a bit photoshop though. I know it's difficult to replicate that older style of watercolor / gouache painting in photoshop but you're almost there. You should add just a bit of grain overall to give your flat colors just a bit of texture. It could also be cool to make the text french, or german to give it more of the feel of the European posters, you should probably switch up your fonts and adjust your drop shadows. Also these posters were made at a time before air-brushing so you don't see the kind of gradients in the older posters that you have on yours. Sorry for the critique but I think that your design is really cool and thought you might appreciate some constructive advice (I used to intern at an ad agency that specialized in movie posters).

You mentioned that you're doing this to fund your racing. If you're participating in the Polini cup you should try to get into contact with the people at Polini who are running the show. Maybe you could convince them to let you create a new poster for each race. They could absorb the printing costs. You'd be able to sell a lot more of them if they were the actual event poster for the race. Just some thoughts. Keep em coming.

=D

Hmm. Bad example.

See if you can find the "Keystone" poster - it's more period-correct.

The Boston-NY-DC versions don't use any shading - they're more like art deco directed by Genndy Tartakovsky

man, those are awesome. I was wanting to have similar posters made, but I can no make art, and all the artists I talked to are lazy sacks of shit. You'd think offering people money to do the things they allegedly enjoy doing would get them to do them.

There are definitely way better artists than me in the moped community. If we had to wait for only the most talented people to do stuff, nothing would get done though.

was this of any inspration?

yes, noah, is the best, for comic book stylie. He lives in Oakland, CA now, btw. and THAT is a picture of Puddle Cutter Taylor.