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The best nights of my life...

Ketzakoatl

This will be an image feared across the globe. An image of the greatest metal band to ever live: Ketzakoatl. I thought up the name a while ago, and decided to make an image for the band. I always dream of being in an awesome metal band, and this is just one step closer for me. It's just a live-traced black and white guitar with black images put over it.

NUKE JUICE!!!

This image is full of my own inside jokes and is kind of a tribute to all those awful energy drinks i sometimes live off. That nuclear explosion is actually pulled from the cover of a Megadeth album (Greatest Hits: Back to the Start), automatically making this one of the best things ever created. it was just a bunch of shapes meant to look 3d. I think i accomplished a lot with this first Illustrator job.

Opeth

The most talented man in music, Mikael Akerfeldt, and his band Opeth in the mysterious woods of some Norwegian country. A cool image of one of the most talented bands of all time. All I did was steal the image, invert it in photoshop, live trace it in Illustrator and add the text.

The Greatest Thrash Metal Band of All Time Gets the Illustrator Treatement

Well, these guys deserve as much. They have written some of the greatest metal albums of all time, and were an absolute fit for a kick-ass image to end the year. I took 6 images, one for the background, four of the band and one of their logo, leveled them in Photoshop, went into illustrator and live traced them, brought them back into PS, deleted the background and cropped the images, saved them as GIF files, and then added them one by one. Notice that one handle is touching each member of the band!

Slipknot

I did this one just for fun. See my previous Albert Einstein post to see how i did this. I did exactly the same thing.

Albert Einstein

I used to play a trading card game called Magic: The Gathering. Recently, my math teacher gave us an extra credit assignment to create a trading card for a legendary mathematician. So, I thought "I'll make a Magic Card!". I looked up on the internet a magic card (one actually made of Spartan 117), then erased all the type with the clone stamp tool. I replaced the image of Master Chief with one of Albert, and wrote in new type. He's actually a pretty damn good card!