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Vector Genius had the great pleasure of stumbling upon a great line of shirts from Wake.Live. These simply yet powerfully bold shirts capture the viewer’s eye with elegant lifework and great design sense. Each shirt has its own identity, from latin-based engravings to punk rock designs, the shirts scream personality! One of the Vector Genius artist’s ordered one of their shirts ‘Not Alone’ featuring a full front design with great iconic symbolism which has definitely been a highlight of his now fashionable wardrobe.

We encourage you to check out their site to see more designs and be pleasantly impressed. With such a subtle brand that packs a powerful punch, Vector Genius hopes to see Wake.Live designs spread like wildfire.

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    I started drawing when I was really young. I liked to draw my favorite things like superheroes and cartoons and this motivated me in the future to continue drawing and take up the trade as a career..

What is your preferred subject and why?

    I always prefer sequential art with superheroes as the subject. It is just what I have always enjoyed doing. It doesn’t matter how ridiculous the plot could be, comics are just plain old fun to me.

What is your preferred medium and why?

    I always do my preliminary work and rough sketches in traditional media first. This helps to keep a flow or life in my drawings that sometimes a full digital piece can lack. When I ink and color my work I use Adobe Photoshop. I like to render things with a wet watercolor or marker feel.

Who or what are you inspired by?

    My biggest inspirations are Stuart Immonen, Pepe Larraz, Masashi Kishimoto, Capcom’s artist: Bengus and Kinu Nishimura. I am also inspired heavily Japanese and Korean manga. I admire the manga artists I follow because they continuously pumping out 16 page chapters of their original stories every week. Some of the creativity and originality behind them is just mind blowing to me.

How do you feel when someone interprets your artwork differently?

    Doing comics is tough sometimes because it can be a bit of a niche and I run into some people who overlook black and white penciled pages for full color illustrations.  When someone misinterprets my work I always try to hear them out and analyze their perspective to see if if there is anything I can use to improve my future artwork. I am never really dissapointed from a bad critique. It just lights a fire under my feet to get working on my next piece.

How has your work developed through the years?

    I have come a long way in the past four years alone. Though it does not seem like a lot of time when I start to think about it. The years went by so fast. I have developed my compositions and detailing techniques tightly. It has been only recently, the past year or so, that I finally honed down my color sense and style application to my lineart. I am also dabbling a bit more type in some of my more design works.

Do you listen to music when you create your art?

       All the time! I am huge fan of South Korean pop. Way before the whole Gangnam Style pop culture craze. Korean pop is fun, bubbly and just plain catchy. It is what I listen to at any kind of time I need or want to create some art. South Korean pop is a major influence and inspiration for my fashion illustrations, which are my guilty pleasure.

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Art Directors help artists craft their way of creating and visually communicating to a target audience by being knowledgeable of the market place which allows artists time to concentrate on their work. In this way, the constant interchange of ideas to help evolve a piece of work to an audience broadens the perspective of the arts and the impact their work can make on the world. Art Directors are an incredibly important part to the creative process

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Vector Genius completed two large and terrifying sculptures for both the Twisted Terror and Quarantine haunted houses.  In the span of two weeks, Vector Genius artist Scott Prather sculpted a giant spider to terrorize the guests of Twisted Terror.  He was assisted by local artist Cliff Jorgensen on creating the structure of the spider and was subsequently hired to create a 9 ft tall giant bio-hazard face to scare you in Quarantine.  We were fortunate enough with hard work and many hours put in to get everything done on time and completed before opening night!

These things are menacing when walking through the haunts with the lights on and actors running around!

Next update will be the final murals and some bonus work!

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Clowns! They’re everywhere!

Some more of the miscellaneous painting progress from inside the Twisted Terror Haunt. Clown-in-the-box concept done by another Vector Genius Illustrator Jared Moraitis.

Still more to come, giant spiders and scary faces up next!

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More progress pictures on the Quarantine mural, the theme being a mental institution with nefarious experiments taking place inside.  Both Gabe and John helped with the painting on this mural as well.

The owners of the haunt, Shawn Troxel and Tony Cordero served as inspiration for the doctor and assistant in the lobotomy surgery vignette.

Vector Genius will post finished murals and rooms as Halloween approaches!! Next up are some of the interior rooms painted.

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Vector Genius was proud to be apart of this year’s production of two incredible professional haunted houses for the Halloween season: Twisted Terror and Quarantine.

Vector Genius illustrator Scott Prather designed and led a team of artists creating over 2,000 square feet of custom mural artwork and 2 large-scale 3-D sculptures.

Over the next couple of weeks, Vector Genius will be posting progress pictures, process sketches, finished drawings and of course, the finished product.

Starting this post with the roughs and the beginning painting of Twisted Terror, the largest mural at 56x8ft. Seen here hard at work are Scott, and Ringling illustration students John Carvajal and Gabe Sorondo Stay tuned for more Halloween fun!

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This was an environment concept illustration I did to help me piece together some of the locales in a comic book project  I’m working on. This particular thing is a gratuitously-armed water-bound fortress for coastal defense.

Step 1

I first drew out the whole thing in pencil, working out my shapes from my imagination and a collection of reference of various stuff from WW1 and WW2 – concrete bunkers, field fortifications, flakturms, etc. This took me a couple hours of diddling around until I had the kind of look I was going for – big and menacing. Then I went over the whole thing with a ballpoint pen to get my lines in nice and tight.

With this sort of illustration, I know it’s the drawing that’s going to be doing most of the heavy lifting, so I have to make sure I get that right before I move on to anything else.

Step 2

After getting it scanned in, I started blocking in the large sections of color with the pen tool in photoshop. My initial colors are always super garish so I can keep them separated more easily.

After I get all that done, I start fiddling. I like starting my colors this way, because I can quickly change whole areas just by double-clicking the layer and fooling with the color picker until I find a basic scheme that works.

Step 3

Then comes the ‘stuff’ – I paint in some sky smudginess, aerial debris, etc, and throw some texture on top of the fortress itself to give it more ‘grit’.

After that, I start fiddling with adjustment layers to non-destructively edit the whole thing until I get a tighter color scheme going on. At this point, it’s starting to look kind of fearsome!

Step 4

Next is all of the optical effects, both in front…

…and behind. The glow and lens flare bits are stuff I hand-paint in there.

Finished!

A few more final touches in the form of a color balance adjustment layer and some additional painted bits, and we are set!

This should be appearing somewhere inside of my comic book project when I wrap it all up in a year or so

Patrick Benjamin is a professional illustration enthusiast who persists on a diet of charcoal and sunlight. www.tetchist.com

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