Vintage Torque Fest and Gnarly Magazine teamed up to put on a Skull Panel contest. Contest voting begins tomorrow April 10th on Gnarly's site and the panels will be auctioned off on May 5th at Vintage Torque Fest.
I thought it would be fun to see how the sausage is made, so here is my panel from sketch to finishing:
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| Sketching out ideas |
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| Cutting birch plywood to size and shape of supplied metal panel |
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| Gluing the panels together |
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| Edging and transferring the pencils |
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| First burn |
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| Outline burns |
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| Torched |
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| Pyrostriping underway |
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| Details |










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