The latest Belladonna Trackers bike is in the works., Up next black shades and outlines plus some heavy scroll striping.
Rad bike. its going to be out of control when finished!
Archive for the ‘freehand lettering’ Category
Black acid Tattoo bike progress
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Stadius truck lettering
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Mystic design and color theories from 1915 by the signwriting master Frank Atkinson served as a guide on this one. So each color ended up being blended up special (plus a little extra for the passenger side 
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I am not sure if the colors are exactly the way they should be but it is pleasing to the eye. The red that he called for was called Tuscan red which I checked up on and it is the color of old Pennsylvania railroad trains! kinda cool, the rest of the colors are various shades of olive green and buff.
Rockafella Sign
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Here is a Sign I made for the Childrens Rockabilly clothing brand Rockefella! they requested a Sign painted to look old for use at fashion conventions. The layout and design was provided for me altough I favored my own lettering over the original font.
After I painted it all up the surface was heavily distressed and then hit it with my aging varnish mixed to matte to diffuse direct lighting.
Hope all the kid rockers dig it!
Signs for Swahili Bob’s new location
Thursday, November 26th, 2009This is a bit dated I know but for those who haven’t heard my friends at Swahili Bob’s Tattoo and Piercing moved to their new location
Birkag. 33 11339 Stockholm
And although they where happy to bring along the original sign I made them way way back in 2005 (my first Stockholm sign job!) The new location needed more, so..
Both windows where painted with the new logo (a nice design by Papa Bear) and I also made up a Blingin’ Southside Minneapolis/Vandervaartian style Sandwich board for ‘em !
1320 Krusaders
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Recently I did some custom text and 50’s inspired weirdie striping on these parts for a customized HD Night Rod.
The bike belongs to Janne who organizes the vintage drag racing meet, Blacksmith nats. Janne’s dedication to the sport is reflected in the text, as there are 1320ft (1/4 mile) in the length of a drag strip. with I’m Looking forward to seeing it all built up, should be sweet it is going to be all black and grey.
Handshifers and Debops shoebox
Sunday, May 31st, 2009Von Sven Kustom Deluxe » Modern Studio
Here is some side jobs from when I was down in Lund teaching the Pinstripe class.
First up I had a Shoebox from Magnus of the De Bops car club. Magnus had given is custom a nice flame job and all that was left was the outlines to make them pop.
After that Magnus had me letter the car name.
-that’s spanish for “shoebox”
you can check out more from the De Bops club on their website, http://debops.se/
The other project was for Fredrik who has Hanshifters Motorcycles in Skåne. He came up with a whole concept for the lettering and striping. I have to admit I was a bit skeptical but it turned out great in the end. The pinstripes in gold on the tank follow the style of crocker scalloping, this is then intertwined with the outline of a 1930’s Harley tank emblem which then creates the inner scallop of the teardrop which creates the background for the Handshifters logo! Not a bad idea, Check it out ..
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Blackboard logo
Sunday, May 31st, 2009Von Sven Kustom Deluxe » Modern Studio
Here is a logo I designed for Annika Lindström. Annika is a master seamstress, is a specialist in mending vintage denim and also produces her own label, Blackboard. Check out her clothing or contact her for alterations or other services via blackboardlabel.com
The logo is brushed freehand in a one stroke casual with a relief drop shadow. The colors have then been corrected for print.
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Yama-tracker
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Finished up the lettering and striping on Robin’s bike the other night, this is third project from the belladonna trackers
Yama-tracker preview
Monday, March 16th, 2009Started lettering and striping on the Robins new project down in the belladonna trackers garage …
…. more pics very soon, I’m heading back to square it off later today!
Trigger Happy
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Here is my latest Nose Art style jacket. the pin-up is inspired from a found image from WW2 jacket and a similar from a WW2 planes nose art. The machine gun and lettering I came up with myself. The letterstyle used is my own script but it is modified to resemble a 1930’s speedball text called “personality script”
As usual the fades are all brush blended wet-to-wet rather then airbrushed for durabilities sake.
