PJ Tour Merch 2022

bradklausen said:

Imcoffeegirl said:

bradklausen said:

opsopcopolis said:

bradklausen said:
is it sunny or am I gonna walk around today like George Micheal on Arrested Development and collapse on the floor 

"her?" 

Way to plant!

In all seriousness though, love this print. Out of curiosity, do you get any sort of artistic direction, or is it purely a personal decision to make the print somewhat relevant to the locale (like with the desert theme of this print)?

there's usually a loose art direction to try and tie in the city somehow, but it's stated that that is not required.

If I can tie in the city / locale  in someway, I try too, but I often don't want to be boxed in by trying to make an image that is a travel poster for a city... it's a poster for a band, for their live music, so I want to try and make it about the music / band first and foremost, what that music makes me feel or see in my head when I hear it, and if there's a way to incorporate the city or the history of the city or the geography or any folklore or myths about the city, and it works with a bigger concept then I like having that added aspect to the piece. 

When it works well I think it really makes for a great gigposter... but when artists are just trying to reference a city just to reference it and the poster becomes more about a city and not a gigposter interpreting the music, then I find it less effective and interesting. 

Plus gigposters are one of the areas where you just let an artist's and their imagination run wild... what wild and out there imagery that no one has ever seen can you come up when you listen to a band's music or see their live performance... sky is the limit and artists can really explore interesting out there concepts and ideas.... and making an image about a city is not as creatively riveting as the ideas swirling inside the mind's of artists....  when it's just about the city, it's kinda one dimensional to me... but if the reference to the city is just one component to a bigger concept then I think it's great. 

This was fascinating to read. Such cool insight from the artist's perspective. Do most bands give you a lot of artistic leeway with show poster art? Or does it depend on the band? 

mostly yes, you get contacted by a band's merch company and they say "you wanna do a poster for such and such date?" and you say "YES!"... you usually submit a concept sketch first and get the green light to proceed (some artists are great at concept sketches, mine are like bad napkin sketches and loose and messy), which is how pj operates (but only once tsurt took over, for years you just did whatever and the band saw it the night of)... but lots of times you just make something and maybe once it's finished there might be a small note here or there on something to alter or change

but for the most part, I think they want artists to do what they do. I know for bands like Primus, they will maybe have a theme they want the artists to work in...I can remember seeing a tour where every poster had rainbow trolls in it... I think Fantomas had a tour where they wanted things to be in the color pink but whatever you wanted to do so long as it was pink. For the 2020 pj tour, there was an art direction to speak to the environment / climate. 



still not out mowing the lawn yet...working on seeing if I can't have the site ready to roll for a sale tomorrow... stay tuned 

bradklausen said:

iwasatpj20 said:

Nice poster by Brad, best of the four so far on this tour.

hey thanks! I was at pj 20 too 

Imcoffeegirl said:

bradklausen said:

Imcoffeegirl said:

bradklausen said:

opsopcopolis said:

bradklausen said:
is it sunny or am I gonna walk around today like George Micheal on Arrested Development and collapse on the floor 

"her?" 

Way to plant!

In all seriousness though, love this print. Out of curiosity, do you get any sort of artistic direction, or is it purely a personal decision to make the print somewhat relevant to the locale (like with the desert theme of this print)?

there's usually a loose art direction to try and tie in the city somehow, but it's stated that that is not required.

If I can tie in the city / locale  in someway, I try too, but I often don't want to be boxed in by trying to make an image that is a travel poster for a city... it's a poster for a band, for their live music, so I want to try and make it about the music / band first and foremost, what that music makes me feel or see in my head when I hear it, and if there's a way to incorporate the city or the history of the city or the geography or any folklore or myths about the city, and it works with a bigger concept then I like having that added aspect to the piece. 

When it works well I think it really makes for a great gigposter... but when artists are just trying to reference a city just to reference it and the poster becomes more about a city and not a gigposter interpreting the music, then I find it less effective and interesting. 

Plus gigposters are one of the areas where you just let an artist's and their imagination run wild... what wild and out there imagery that no one has ever seen can you come up when you listen to a band's music or see their live performance... sky is the limit and artists can really explore interesting out there concepts and ideas.... and making an image about a city is not as creatively riveting as the ideas swirling inside the mind's of artists....  when it's just about the city, it's kinda one dimensional to me... but if the reference to the city is just one component to a bigger concept then I think it's great. 

This was fascinating to read. Such cool insight from the artist's perspective. Do most bands give you a lot of artistic leeway with show poster art? Or does it depend on the band? 

mostly yes, you get contacted by a band's merch company and they say "you wanna do a poster for such and such date?" and you say "YES!"... you usually submit a concept sketch first and get the green light to proceed (some artists are great at concept sketches, mine are like bad napkin sketches and loose and messy), which is how pj operates (but only once tsurt took over, for years you just did whatever and the band saw it the night of)... but lots of times you just make something and maybe once it's finished there might be a small note here or there on something to alter or change

but for the most part, I think they want artists to do what they do. I know for bands like Primus, they will maybe have a theme they want the artists to work in...I can remember seeing a tour where every poster had rainbow trolls in it... I think Fantomas had a tour where they wanted things to be in the color pink but whatever you wanted to do so long as it was pink. For the 2020 pj tour, there was an art direction to speak to the environment / climate. 



still not out mowing the lawn yet...working on seeing if I can't have the site ready to roll for a sale tomorrow... stay tuned 

"Bad napkin sketches" 😂😂I would have anxiety attacks in art class when the teachers asked to see our sketchbooks. Oh, the horror!
Re: the potential sale tomorrow:

Dinkyvision said:

bradklausen said:

iwasatpj20 said:

Nice poster by Brad, best of the four so far on this tour.

hey thanks! I was at pj 20 too 

Done in Illustrator or something else? Always curious on other artists workflows. I love illustrator (using since 2001) but have been using ProCreate on the iPad a lot more lately. I’m fast in AI, but love the tablet sketch workflow. 

bradklausen said:

Imcoffeegirl said:

bradklausen said:

Imcoffeegirl said:

bradklausen said:

opsopcopolis said:

bradklausen said:
is it sunny or am I gonna walk around today like George Micheal on Arrested Development and collapse on the floor 

"her?" 

Way to plant!

In all seriousness though, love this print. Out of curiosity, do you get any sort of artistic direction, or is it purely a personal decision to make the print somewhat relevant to the locale (like with the desert theme of this print)?

there's usually a loose art direction to try and tie in the city somehow, but it's stated that that is not required.

If I can tie in the city / locale  in someway, I try too, but I often don't want to be boxed in by trying to make an image that is a travel poster for a city... it's a poster for a band, for their live music, so I want to try and make it about the music / band first and foremost, what that music makes me feel or see in my head when I hear it, and if there's a way to incorporate the city or the history of the city or the geography or any folklore or myths about the city, and it works with a bigger concept then I like having that added aspect to the piece. 

When it works well I think it really makes for a great gigposter... but when artists are just trying to reference a city just to reference it and the poster becomes more about a city and not a gigposter interpreting the music, then I find it less effective and interesting. 

Plus gigposters are one of the areas where you just let an artist's and their imagination run wild... what wild and out there imagery that no one has ever seen can you come up when you listen to a band's music or see their live performance... sky is the limit and artists can really explore interesting out there concepts and ideas.... and making an image about a city is not as creatively riveting as the ideas swirling inside the mind's of artists....  when it's just about the city, it's kinda one dimensional to me... but if the reference to the city is just one component to a bigger concept then I think it's great. 

This was fascinating to read. Such cool insight from the artist's perspective. Do most bands give you a lot of artistic leeway with show poster art? Or does it depend on the band? 

mostly yes, you get contacted by a band's merch company and they say "you wanna do a poster for such and such date?" and you say "YES!"... you usually submit a concept sketch first and get the green light to proceed (some artists are great at concept sketches, mine are like bad napkin sketches and loose and messy), which is how pj operates (but only once tsurt took over, for years you just did whatever and the band saw it the night of)... but lots of times you just make something and maybe once it's finished there might be a small note here or there on something to alter or change

but for the most part, I think they want artists to do what they do. I know for bands like Primus, they will maybe have a theme they want the artists to work in...I can remember seeing a tour where every poster had rainbow trolls in it... I think Fantomas had a tour where they wanted things to be in the color pink but whatever you wanted to do so long as it was pink. For the 2020 pj tour, there was an art direction to speak to the environment / climate. 



still not out mowing the lawn yet...working on seeing if I can't have the site ready to roll for a sale tomorrow... stay tuned 

"Bad napkin sketches" 😂😂I would have anxiety attacks in art class when the teachers asked to see our sketchbooks. Oh, the horror!
Re: the potential sale tomorrow:

speaking of showing sketchbooks.... let me ask you all something.... 

I am thinking of starting a youtube art channel... where I will do a few things... do like a deep dive on past posters, explain the inspiration, design elements, show the sketches and parts and just talk about each poster what I was thinking when I made it and what I think of it now. 

Also have segments where I go through different packaging processes, do talks about album artwork and dvd packaging I worked on, pull out old Ten Club newsletters and go through the design process / thoughts on those

As well as go through books of artists I am inspired by

At some point I would like to have time lapse vids on works in progress... and then I might do livestreams where people can watch me work on things... one idea being working on more elaborate doodles on posters using posca paint pens / colored pencils then sell or auction them to whoever might want them, stuff like that. 

A channel for design students and artists as well as all you PJ and music fans... just me talking about my process of past and present projects.... 

would you guys be into that? Think it would be cool? It would be kinda like what the Always Sunny dudes are doing with their podcast where they are going through each episode of their tv show and talking about what they thought about making each episode when they were making it and how they feel about it today, years later. 

iwasatpj20 said:

bradklausen said:

iwasatpj20 said:

Nice poster by Brad, best of the four so far on this tour.

hey thanks! I was at pj 20 too 

I met you when the Ames Brothers were signing their book, it was nice to meet you and continued success.

bradklausen said:

Imcoffeegirl said:

bradklausen said:

Imcoffeegirl said:

bradklausen said:

opsopcopolis said:

bradklausen said:
is it sunny or am I gonna walk around today like George Micheal on Arrested Development and collapse on the floor 

"her?" 

Way to plant!

In all seriousness though, love this print. Out of curiosity, do you get any sort of artistic direction, or is it purely a personal decision to make the print somewhat relevant to the locale (like with the desert theme of this print)?

there's usually a loose art direction to try and tie in the city somehow, but it's stated that that is not required.

If I can tie in the city / locale  in someway, I try too, but I often don't want to be boxed in by trying to make an image that is a travel poster for a city... it's a poster for a band, for their live music, so I want to try and make it about the music / band first and foremost, what that music makes me feel or see in my head when I hear it, and if there's a way to incorporate the city or the history of the city or the geography or any folklore or myths about the city, and it works with a bigger concept then I like having that added aspect to the piece. 

When it works well I think it really makes for a great gigposter... but when artists are just trying to reference a city just to reference it and the poster becomes more about a city and not a gigposter interpreting the music, then I find it less effective and interesting. 

Plus gigposters are one of the areas where you just let an artist's and their imagination run wild... what wild and out there imagery that no one has ever seen can you come up when you listen to a band's music or see their live performance... sky is the limit and artists can really explore interesting out there concepts and ideas.... and making an image about a city is not as creatively riveting as the ideas swirling inside the mind's of artists....  when it's just about the city, it's kinda one dimensional to me... but if the reference to the city is just one component to a bigger concept then I think it's great. 

This was fascinating to read. Such cool insight from the artist's perspective. Do most bands give you a lot of artistic leeway with show poster art? Or does it depend on the band? 

mostly yes, you get contacted by a band's merch company and they say "you wanna do a poster for such and such date?" and you say "YES!"... you usually submit a concept sketch first and get the green light to proceed (some artists are great at concept sketches, mine are like bad napkin sketches and loose and messy), which is how pj operates (but only once tsurt took over, for years you just did whatever and the band saw it the night of)... but lots of times you just make something and maybe once it's finished there might be a small note here or there on something to alter or change

but for the most part, I think they want artists to do what they do. I know for bands like Primus, they will maybe have a theme they want the artists to work in...I can remember seeing a tour where every poster had rainbow trolls in it... I think Fantomas had a tour where they wanted things to be in the color pink but whatever you wanted to do so long as it was pink. For the 2020 pj tour, there was an art direction to speak to the environment / climate. 



still not out mowing the lawn yet...working on seeing if I can't have the site ready to roll for a sale tomorrow... stay tuned 

"Bad napkin sketches" 😂😂I would have anxiety attacks in art class when the teachers asked to see our sketchbooks. Oh, the horror!
Re: the potential sale tomorrow:

speaking of showing sketchbooks.... let me ask you all something.... 

I am thinking of starting a youtube art channel... where I will do a few things... do like a deep dive on past posters, explain the inspiration, design elements, show the sketches and parts and just talk about each poster what I was thinking when I made it and what I think of it now. 

Also have segments where I go through different packaging processes, do talks about album artwork and dvd packaging I worked on, pull out old Ten Club newsletters and go through the design process / thoughts on those

As well as go through books of artists I am inspired by

At some point I would like to have time lapse vids on works in progress... and then I might do livestreams where people can watch me work on things... one idea being working on more elaborate doodles on posters using posca paint pens / colored pencils then sell or auction them to whoever might want them, stuff like that. 

A channel for design students and artists as well as all you PJ and music fans... just me talking about my process of past and present projects.... 

would you guys be into that? Think it would be cool? It would be kinda like what the Always Sunny dudes are doing with their podcast where they are going through each episode of their tv show and talking about what they thought about making each episode when they were making it and how they feel about it today, years later. 

dottles said:

@bradklausen - the you tube channel sounds like a great idea 😊