RaiLei Girard Week 11 - Laser engraving

Concept:

The concept behind my piece is delicate beauty. I wanted to board to be an art piece rather than be turned into a working board. Butterflies are a very important personal symbol for me so I decided to base my art off of that. The art is actually three different photos set together to look like one long harmonic piece that runs the length of the board. Two of those photos are actually a scanned drawing that was duplicated and flipped, then a center photo which was found separately.


Technique:

 

The first thing I had to do was splice my photos together. I had the drawing flipped in photoshop to give that symmetrical evenness. The center butterfly picture was set in the middle and the ends of the wings were lined up with the beginning point of the other two photos. I then had to remove the background, whiting it out and then size it properly and form it to the board using the given template. 


Materials:

To create this I used a basic skateboard deck, a drawing, a picture, photoshop software, acrylic paints and sealer, detail brushes, and water. The picture and drawing make up the design, I used photoshop to put everything together and painted with detail brushes in acrylic paints diluted with a little water to get into the smaller areas in the engraving. Then I sealed with an acrylic sealer. Thus giving me the finished product.

Valeria Cavazos: Week 11 - Laser Engraving

Concept:

       
          My concept design for my skateboard deck is the Gotham City Sirens because I adore the series of the trio together and separately. I wanted to represent each of the sirens through symbols or objects identifiable to them. 

Technique:

          I created the sketch before uploading it to Illustrator, redrew an outline and later fitting it to the measurements of the skateboard. I tried to make all of the items on the board to interact with one another and accomplished that through making the venus fly trap grabbing hold of everything. I used items that represent each Siren, like jewelry for Catwoman and a hammer for Harley Quinn, rather than drawing the trio. After the redraw of the sketch, I assigned it to the appropriate layering required for the machine shop. Once the file was properly formatted after some help, I sent it to the machine shop. After picking it up from the machine shop, I colored the engraving with colored pencils but tried to maintain as much of the original engraving as possible as an outline. Although a differing subject, the way I colored the skateboard deck is based on the Pokemon tattoo sheet, posted above, in order to try and create the same aesthetic style of a tattoo.

Materials

Engraving

          I used a skateboard deck my friend's dad made, Prismacolor color pencils and a clear acrylic sealer. 

Michael Zink: Week 11 - Laser Engraving

Concept:

     I have always enjoyed the aesthetic of a lighthouse sitting alone in the open ocean, sitting on a rock that barely has the size to support it so I decided to engrave it onto my skateboard.

Techniques:

     I first created the picture in Photoshop, then imported the file into Illustrator to change it into black and white for a raster engrave and to scale down the image to fit on the skateboard. Once that was finished, I brought the file into Rhino and used the hatch command to create the lines in the image. Unfortunately, when I received the skateboard back from the machine shop the engraving was very light and did not show up well in anything besides direct light, so I decided to paint over most of the lines to create a more realistic style instead.

Materials:

7.5 inch blank skateboard deck
Acrylic paints
Gloss varnish

Hannah Barnes: Week 11 - Laser Engraving

Concept:

For my deck, I used a series of designs that I've been iterating over for the past year. The theme is a mixture of technology and steampunk, involving symbols such as gears, the power button, and circuit boards. The top picture depicts one of the triangles (made of cardboard) that I created in the first iteration of the design. The bottom picture shows my second iteration of the design, where I used a CNC machine to cut out designs in wooden triangles. For the skateboard deck, I decided to recreate the designs in square shapes to better fit the board.

Techniques:

I created this design using Adobe Illustrator. I used mainly basic shapes like rectangles and circles and then used the Shape Builder tool to combine the shapes into a single vector shape. After I created the base design, I decided to created a lined background to add depth to the design. I then added the proper colors: a yellow deep cut for the base design and a green medium cut for the lined background. Lastly, I properly formatted the file for laser engraving and sent it off to the machine shop to be engraved.

Material:

I used the recommended skateboard deck for this project, which is a 7.5" Moose Canadian Maple Deck. I liked the default color of the board, so I just applied a clear coat of acrylic spraypaint to finish the deck after engraving it.

Taylor Volquardsen : Week 11 : Laser Engraving

Vurro's Boogie

Tiny Plants

Background Influence

Concept:
My design was heavily influenced by the video in the link above. The video combined with lots and lots of plants pretty much sums up my aesthetic, so I wanted that to come through in my engraving. Just the skull with the plants on the board felt empty though, so I added a graphic art background to help fill in the space behind them.

Design in Adobe Illustrator

After Engraving

Techniques:
I wanted a slightly jagged feel, so I hand traced all of my pieces in my design using a heavy stroke with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. It's composed entirely of straight lines, even when it looks curved. When I got it back from the machine shop on campus, I used a medium-sized brush to fill in the large engraved parts of the board with wood stain, then used a much smaller detail brush and a towel to fill in the smaller lines of the design. I used the towel to brush away any stain that got outside of the grooves and clean the board. After the stain dried, I added a coat of clear gloss polyurethane to seal everything.

Stained Engraving

Materials:
8.5 in Moose blank skateboard deck
Varathane Kona wood stain
Minwax clear gloss polyurethane

Anyssa Akridge : week 11 Laser engraving 2017

Concept :

For my skateboard I was inspired by the art of Rockin Jellybean. He's a graphic designer for movie and band posters as well as merchandise like t-shirts and even skateboards. He is one of my favorite artists of all time and his sexual punk rock imagery/ 60's exploitation film imagery has always been an inspiration to me. A lot of his art is graphic and colorful as well as busy. He's a master of typography and dynamic compositions. I took inspiration from his demon girl motifs. I also took inspiration from his comic book art line style in the second image. I thought his fringe art style would fit the feel of a skateboard very well.

Techniques

I drew my image in procreate on my ipad due to the line-art textures they had that resembled old school cartoon ink. Then I transferred it over to Photoshop to change the imagery to gray scale and edit my image. Next I transferred the Photoshop file to adobe illustrator to change it into a vector using the Live trace and expand commands. I separated the white from the black vectors, and deleted the white tones. Then I transferred my image into Rhino. I colored my vector lines red to create a crisper shallow cut edge, I used the hatch command and set the hatch to black for a deep engrave, imported an image of my skateboard deck and used the place point tool as well as the create line tool trace said deck in rhino. After that I scaled both images(The art work and deck tracing) down to 29 inches by 7.5 inches (The dimensions of my deck). I colored the lines of the deck cyan, placed it on a 48x24 cyan square as well as putting my name information in cyan.

Materials

Urethane varnish.

David Rake Week 10: Cardboard Ball

Concept:
    I had started working on this costume prior to this Halloween as I have wanted to build it for over a year but was deciding on wether or not to do full dress up attire or not. I decided to make the mask and a more casual clothing arrangement for the character Cayde-6 from the game Destiny.

Techniques: 
    Using an already built model that I rebuilt in Rhino to fix some errors in the model I 3D printed it. I Sealed the mask and Painted 2-3 coats on each piece of the desired colors. I later went back and painted on diluted black acrylic and wiped it off to weather it. The Mask was printed in four separate pieces which with minimal sanding was able to slot together and glue in place. As for the clothes I bought a gray hoodie, jeans, and yellow converse. On the gray hoodie I first painted on a white spade, a signifying symbol of the character. Later on I marked some red insignia on the side of the hood and made a line down the left arm. No changes were made to the pants. On the shoes on the outward facing side of both shoes a gray circle was painted along with a white spade on top.

Materials:
    3d Printed with PLA, 6 total colors of acrylic used between the mask and other clothes. Underneath the mask is a see-through mesh with velcro attached to it, the hoodie, and the mask to keep them all in place. Cotton Hoodie, Denim Jeans, and Converse Shoes.