October 18th, 2009 by Trevor

I actually made this design in anticipation of last years Halloween derby at shirt.woot, but they made it a “costume” derby instead.  It’s been collecting dust on my hard drive ever since…

This is the first design that I made using the technique that I like to call “erase-art”.  I put down a blog splotch of ink on the image (on a separate layer) and start erasing it away until it leaves kind of a grungy, sketchy look behind.  I did that with the grass that the horse is kicking up, the fence off in the lower left corner, and the lighting that is coming from the horses eyes and nose, and the pumpkin’s face.  I’ve used that technique in other pictures since then, like The Leviathan, A New Calling, and Joan of Arc – Righteous Indignation.