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Mark Matyjakowski
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sharpie and photoshop ... only colored for kicks and the web.
T-shirts and all ad appearances will most likely be one color.

for those paying attention, fourth year in a row with the "rat and a chick on a bike" theme

there was another idea for this year ... but it sucked , so I stayed with past theme

past runs art here
www.summerfunrun.com/pictures

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Mark, I want to tap your brain....just for a minute, cause Mine will be full at that point.

Great job as always!

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Looks like fun... the ST1100 would be up for it but it's a bit too far for my body.

Nice artwork

Gerald

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Gerald Lauzé
FeatureWorx Creative Fabrication
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Surrey BC
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Very Kool as always Mark!! How ya do that in one color??

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Mark Neurohr "Ernest"
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I love it!

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Very nice Mark.

Is there somewhere I can see the past years?

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Sam Staffan
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Mark Matyjakowski
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Mark, I draw it as hard line art, scan into photoshop, set layer as multiply and color on layers under.

Sam,
www.SummerFunRun.com/pictures

Glenn, maybe I'll be calling you on this one, I would like to print full color but have to see what the charity "committee" says.

Jake, someday hope to tap your brain too, just don't tap mine too hard as it tends to bounce around.

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Bring it on. It looks like a fun one deserving of some specialty ink treatment.

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Hits on all cylinders Mark! Looks great.

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Mark - awesome image!!! Love the colorful pic.

Only criticism would be the word which I know is "Run" appears to say "Klin" to me for some reason?

I think it's the "R" running into the word above it gives it a funny shape...and the extended strokes of the "u" and "n" that are throwing me....

Not a big deal - love the art as a whole! [Smile]

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Todd Gill
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Awesum Mark!!!!

It would be a shame to not print it in color on a black shirt.

Joe,

Makin Chipa and Havin Fun!

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Great stuff again Mark, A little bit simplified than past meets which is cool... I like them all thou.

cheers mate!
Rod

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Looks cool.

Great layout.

Perfect colors!

(Like I would have expected anything else)

Geeez

Peace,
Bob

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Todd, I think if I strengthen the connecting strokes on the letters it might help legibility ... I don't think I want to go all the way to simplified letter identification but I understand what you're saying.
If it was a commercial use I wouldn't be all overlapping letters and stuff.

Yeah Rod, it's a bit simplified but I'm running out of ideas, I've got "a rat and a chick on a bike" from a lower left view, upper right view, straight on, now the right side, next year .... facing left? [Big Grin]
I have another design to do for a charity run for a sick kid ... they want "a bike or something" on it [Roll Eyes]
[Bash]
[Big Grin]

[ March 27, 2007, 05:42 PM: Message edited by: Mark Matyjakowski ]

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Mark, I always get excited to see what you have done & I am NEVER disappointed! Good work!

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Mark,

Looking at the 2004, 2005 & 2006 designs, are you using photos as reference material to work from or are you working straight from your mind's eye?

I'm no illustrator, but I find myself being forced to learn how to do these types of renderings, particularly with cars and tractors.

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Mark Matyjakowski
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quote:
Looking at the 2004, 2005 & 2006 designs, are you using photos as reference material to work from or are you working straight from your mind's eye?
Absolutely!
... is that a good or bad thing?


now if I could get my hands to accomplish what my minds eye interprets from the reference material, then I'd be on to something

[Smile]

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Wow Mark, I am seriously impressed. I always have to work from reference material of some description. To know that you pluck everything straight out of your head. Incredible. What a gift you have!!

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let me rephrase my last response...
I use reference material,
I can't draw as good as what my mids eye sees when I look at the reference material.

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Ahhhhh...... Now I don't feel so bad. [Big Grin]

My father is one of those people who can draw straight from memory as well as his mind's eye. I could never do it no matter how hard I tried.

Back when I was a kid, my father told me not to waste my time in art because there wasn't any money in it. Now look where I am. [Roll Eyes]

I have 45 years worth of learning to catch up on.

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Wow Mark great job
it is so good to be back home in this community.

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