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  Aug 11 '08 by Style Swap        15 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
Hi There,
This is Pseudo Fatheed aka kennybanzai, Style Swap participant, and designer of Bunyan's Blues.
This Style Swap was such a great learning experience for me as I tried to mimic the awesome style of Fatheed aka Aled Lewis, one of the multi-printed Threadless community wonder children...
The design started by looking at Fatheed's work and trying to get a good feel...He loves to show his process in the blogs, you should check those out. I found he likes to create scenes of sorts... i imagine some of the designs like on a stage or a scene of a play... For many of these I think he draws with nice precise perspective lines which probably creates the sense of depth or space..land etc...The characters and objects fill out the framework into great compositions of awesomeness and hilarity...

So I then started just writing down words of ideas , and the top three were (nobody steal them please :P) , Dooks of Hazard ... birds chasing and pooping on the General Lee from Dukes of Hazard, Rough times at the Bunyan home ... the bunyan family eating blue meat around a table, and a cowboy in the dusty west branding a train among graffiti leaving his brand/Tag... I worked on the first one, Dooks of Hazard a while but I decided to change to Bunyan...
So, for a good scene I realized a charcoal grill we had was pretty generic, good for drawing, and my brother in jeans with flannel could be a great model.. and that was it...grilling a blue steak! so I kind of traced first and then enhanced a Fatheedesque color scheme with the beard and axe then finished with stumps and tree....
Here is a picture of my bother standing at our grill which we got from neighbors trash when they moved out...heres a pic

Thats it!

That product shot guy looks crazy in the eyes!

Congrats to the other winners this week, one being Aled with the Foam Monster!

Thanks Style Swap! Thanks Fatheed!
Thanks Threadless! Thanks Voters!
Thanks Chris my Brother! Thanks Paul Bunyan! Thanks Babe!

-Ken aka kennybanzai
www.kennybanzai.com

igo2cairo
   igo2cairo on Aug 11 '08 at 2:08pm
Congrats, you did such an awesome job on this!
Phiffer
Phiffer on Aug 11 '08 at 2:09pm
Way to be Kenny
Maltzmania
Maltzmania on Aug 11 '08 at 2:10pm
congrats!

(make sure you fix your website link on the bottom!)
Jellyes
Jellyes on Aug 11 '08 at 2:14pm
Yeah, really good job, this turned out awesome! Congrats.
atomic child
atomic child on Aug 11 '08 at 8:33pm
awesome man
Pinoy_Designs
Pinoy_Designs on Aug 11 '08 at 8:35pm
sweet!
SoldierofGondor
SoldierofGondor on Aug 11 '08 at 8:36pm
Awesome. Congratz man! Its in my cart.
yeohgh
   yeohgh on Aug 11 '08 at 8:38pm
Congratsssss,,really great PRINT!!!!
valorandvellum
   valorandvellum on Aug 11 '08 at 9:12pm
Huzzah! Congrats, Kenny!! That was cool reading about your process too.

LONG LIVE STYLE SWAP
FRICKINAWESOME
   FRICKINAWESOME on Aug 12 '08 at 1:55am
V&V is right, it was really fascinating reading about how you narrowed down the process and whittled your concepts to the finely-honed Fatheed-esque landscape of awesome we see before us. Seeing the original pic of your brother is awesome! Keep up the good work and many many future prints from ya!
5 days later
empiricist
   empiricist on Aug 18 '08 at 1:03am
Congrats!!
9 days later
ska_boss55
ska_boss55 on Aug 27 '08 at 7:29pm
I'm wearing this right now. it's sweet!
369 days later
tysonstown
tysonstown on Sep 01 '09 at 4:43pm
I love this t-shirt so much!
Torakamikaze
   Torakamikaze on Sep 01 '09 at 4:44pm
creeeeeeeeeepy
Chengui
   Chengui on Sep 01 '09 at 4:46pm
yeah...that's a random bump.....
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