Archive for May, 2010

Posted by Alex Fugazi on Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 9:53 pm

Anville approached us in Flatstock Austin and let us know what a big fan he was.  What he didn’t know is that we were already a big fan of his.  (Keep it a secret…we don’t want him getting a big head.)

That mutual appreciation society has borne fruit.  Stainless steel fruit, traveling at 88mph.

The above detail shot is from a larger print that will go on sale to the Nakatomi mailing list later this week.  If you want it…I’d really suggest being on the mailing list.  Full details, image, and purchasing instructions will go out on Wednesday.

Join the mailing list HERE.

-alexfugazi

 
Posted by Alex Fugazi on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 4:17 pm

Originally done as an album cover design, Doyle has re-tasked this image as an art print! Featuring our favorite Time Traveler, ‘Tempus Fugit’ is a four color (with metallic ink) screenprint, available in four different colorways!

Each color is limited to just 30 copies each, signed and numbered by the artist, and is in hand and ready to ship!

Check it out now in the Nakatomi Store!

-alex fugazi

 
Posted by Alex Fugazi on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 8:21 pm

Hey! Cleaning up the Nakatomi Studio here, and I noticed, we sure do have a TON of original artwork just sitting around in a pile in the corner…

So, instead of us pulling a Steve Ditko and using ‘em for blotter paper (seriously, he used the original artwork for his Spider-Man run as scrap paper…crazy balls) we’re giving the public their chance to lay hands on this stuff!

At the very least, the gallery we set up on our Flickr page is a neat little look behind the process of poster making.  Just about every poster that Tim Doyle has drawn by hand has the art now up for sale!  From Lost to Robocop- these are one of a kind hand-drawn artworks!

The sales will be handled through email- go to the Flickr gallery HERE and shoot us an email if interested!  First come, first served.

-alex fugazi

 
Posted by Alex Fugazi on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 at 2:08 pm

This is the second and final installment of the process thread for the printing of “The Sea Also Rises: Interlude- The Camino Cats Make Their Escape”

Read the first part HERE.

4th screen- Red now down- reg is looking hot. The Texas weather can be a real bitch when screen printing, as the humidity can cause the paper to swell up, throwing reg off. But it looks like the Texas weather gods smiled on us so far…

Them dots have lined up. To a printer, that’s about as beautiful as the actual poster. (Almost)

Throwing down the Transparent Black layer. Trans black is something Clint turned me on to a while back, and it’s hard not to use it in every print I do now. It adds a shadow layer to every color, doubling the total amount of colors in the print. The brown you see in the top left (the seat back) is made by the red over the green, FYI. Making a brown like that was something we learned totally by accident on the ‘If You’ve Seen What I’ve Seen’ print a while back- I like it a lot more than pre-mixed browns.

Clint between passes on the Transparent Black layer.

Waiting for the final layer, Black line. You’ll see we did the shark and tires w/ the Transparent Black as well. For me, part of the design fun is all about getting as much colors as possible out of the smallest number of screens!

This is the finished print! 18×24 edition of 160. We seriously didn’t have a single ‘reject’ in the run. Pretty neat! Signed and numbered by me.

This is the finished Line Art edition of the Camino Cats print- edition of 15.  It’s a whole different screen from the black layer on the color edition- there was a lot of changes from the original line art to the color version.

Each of the Line Art Variants (Edition of 15), like all the line art variants in this series, have hand-drawn doodles by me. The design on this one left a lot of open space down in the bottom for me to draw in, so these are way more complex than the drawings on the last two “Sea Also Rises” line-art prints.

These go up for sale tomorrow (Thursday) on the Nakatomi Site!

Please note- 25 of these puppies are going over to Japan for the ‘No Fin No Future’ art show/ fundraiser to help end Shark Fishing!  I already had this print in the pipeline when the call for entries came, so it dovetailed perfectly with their theme!  Now, if only we could train cats to rescue sharks in the real world, eh? Check out the art show HERE.

-Tim Doyle