A shirt I did for ESP Guitars. Not sure if it will be accepted or not. I was trying avoid the standard design fodder that accompanies logos when trying to appeal to a broad “alternative” audience. I put a frog in to which they said “that’s a little out there… a frog?” We’ll see.
8 Comments
ifohdesigns said 11 months ago
I love the design, but where does it say “ESP” or I might be missing it. The frog is the highlight of it by the way. Nice work.
derekdeal said 11 months ago
something about this doesnt sit well with me, i think its cuz at first glance the orientation of the skull and the ribbons kind of make it look like it has an orphan annie hairdo. I think id like to see the skull brought out into the foreground more, maybe tilted back to open the mouth up more and give the frog more room.
the frog may be too cute. ESP caters to shredders, i dont know if this captures that.
I definately can understand why you took a different angle though. kudos for that, for what its worth its still a great illustration.
chrisrushing said 11 months ago
ridiculous ribbon work.
1000styles said 10 months ago
the whole thing’s killer. do you use traditional pen & ink to draw these, or some kind of art pen like a staedtler or pigma micron?
jfinley said 10 months ago
Yeah the ribbons/scrolls were supposed to be hair sort of. And the ESP Guitars logo is the blue background color. It’s supposed to be subtle. From my perspective, if you’re a guitar company, how much merch/t-shirts can you actually have? Just your logo with some various grunge applied to it?
Well, this isn’t my favorite design I’ve done. But I just figured I’d post it cause it’s new. And I used a Wacom tablet for the whole thing.
Weston said 10 months ago
This shirt is so metal! It makes me want to go play some Slayer.
jimmyheartcore said 10 months ago
Yes, the white shirt with pastel blue is really metal.
It does look amazing, though!
Nice one Jeff!
jfinley said 10 months ago
Yes, I was um.. Thinking outside the box on that one… hehe