Thursday, May 21, 2009

Skateboard Highres Croppings



I was thinking about how board graphics were originally created with the thought in mind of trying to reflect the pro riders style of riding, or characterstics, and how that was so influential of the sales of boards. And I came to conclude that the buyer then creates their own style of graphics by grinding rails, curbs, etc and distorting the original graphics that were on the board. So I scanned one of my old boards in 800 dpi and was thinking it would be cool to make huge prints of these for posters. You can see every small detail of scratches etc. Here are some croppings.

2 comments:

thenewprogramme said...

the legs are the best because it looks like the figure has fallen into something crazy (the scratches). cool idea ryan.

Ryan Shawgo said...

Thanks Tyler! :)