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K2 / Iron Maiden - Killers

I worked with Maiden on our first collab ski featuring the iconic KILLERS artwork. We did a 4 color top sheet print but the die-cut P-Tex base is what took some illustration and computer time. This was the final scanned illustration converted to vector before I went in and removed all the excess anchor points. Very. Tedious. Work. Drawing is 17in / 43.18cm tall.
Inking in process over the light table. I had to 'connect' as many pieces as possible to limit the amount of pieces used when the design was cleaned up, programmed and finally cut out of the actual P-Tex base material.
Final product on snow showing the topsheet of the skis.
K2 / Iron Maiden - Killers
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K2 / Iron Maiden - Killers

I knew Eddie needed to be on the base of the ski as a die-cut design. The problem with base die-cuts is that each individual piece is cut out of Read More

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