Mike T / Alex Doumergue Snowboard:
I was really excited to work on this project for Imperium Snowboards 2009 collection. The art director gave me the freedom to create whatever I wanted for this painting. Since I have always been a fan of the 70′s Black Exploitation films and posters, I came up with this theme. It seemed like a logical fit, “Snow & Black Action movie,” why not?
I’ve attached a video below of one of the actual boards. The book I used to show scale is, “What it is… What it Was!” It is, without a doubt, one of the most referenced books in my library. I used Corel Painter to create this, and will be posting a few working pictures later.
Although I completed this illustration early in 2008, I wasn’t allowed to talk about it until the board was available for sale a year later. Ultimately the board never made it to stores, due to some company restructuring. The entire ’09 delivery was scrapped for financial reasons. The good news is, I was sent one of the five prototypes produced. So even though I was looking forward to having my art on a board people could own, I can’t get too upset.
Hope you dig it.
That design is killer! And i like the area-space you’re given when working in on skate-decks. You used it the right way. Would’ve been nice to have the complete results go through but, I’m witcha on that prototype. As long as YOU get one? That’s all ya can ask for.