This design takes its inspiration from both the Blaxploitation poster art of the 70’s, and the iconic image of Che Guevara from 1960. I illustrated the shadow areas and took the design into illustrator to be reworked, exaggerating the beard slightly and adding an ear ring tunnel. The final piece used a superfly afro pick style. Part of the ‘Beardy Man’ design collection.
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The primary Ned Kelly Original Hipster design.
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Printed T-shirt design.
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Framed wall print.
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The initial trace to create the line work before inking.
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After finishing the inking I made a few adjustments to the shadow and highlight areas.
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The reworked shading removed some of the blocky shadows that didn't make sense.
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First redraw in Adobe Illustrator.
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Added the afro pick, nearly there now! Just need to decide on colours…
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The final colour choices for the T-shirt range.
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Printed versions of the T-shirt available from my artist store on Threadless. SF d-)=