In 2010, some friends and I decided to come up with a fictitious wrestling federation centered around the WWE games. The original idea was that it would be to satirize wrestling as a whole, so nothing was off limits, creative wise. I did this silly little project for about 5 years and here is some of the output.
HWE went through various stages and the logos reflected that quite a bit. In essence, what I wanted to do was create something simple and malleable if I ever needed to make changes.
One of the first layouts I ever did for the fictitious pay-per-views. This one was called EMERGENCY and was the first to use the HWE logo. The cardboard aesthetic represented a surprise package, or a mysterious box of various items, just like the PPV itself as it was split into three parts.
Pain Mountain was a pain to make. Honestly, I didn't have any good ideas at the time and was struggling to come up with what would fit. We had Lord Zedd (Yes, that Lord Zedd) at the time as our main focus, so I just went with the psuedo-soviet propaganda angle. It gave me an excuse to use the Nyet typeface that I stumbled upon days prior.
Summerfest is another early project I did. This time I incorporated many more small details into it. The towels were simple vectors with a grain overlay and displacement to make the folds. The bottles were used from another personal project and downscaled to litter the sandy beach. it was around this time i decided to use sponsors (from the 'Brands From Elsewhere' project).
Sniping Post took place in Vegas for some reason and accordingly, I made something to fit that. All I remember was that the font and layout used was to mimic the WWE's BREAKING POINT pay-per-view logo a couple years back and that we got a good laugh out of it. This was kind of an involved project as it went through 2 different iterations until I was happy with this one. As to why a 'Sniping Post' relates to wrestling...you got me there.
Like Pain Mountain, Nyet was used again but this time I used it's strengths as a blocky text to make something (in my opinion) more true to the soviet-esque style. I even added touches of decay on the font itself to make it look more rugged.
Elements was interesting. We wanted to do something different and this is the result. It was kind of an interesting experiment making 4 different slides, each represent an element.
This one was fun to make. A Grindhouse-inspired double feature event. I downloaded a lot of different typefaces just for this project alone.
Speaking of double features, how about a triple feature instead? This was kind of an evolutionary step for me. I recreated three posters (in painstakingly detail...) of infamous movies in the thriller, horror, and science fiction genres, respectively.
I don't remember the name of this one, but it was supposed to be thanksgiving themed. I drew up the original design then proceeded to smear it with a variety of brushes. To make the grape jelly more 'thick', I added a heavily distorted bevel.
I used a vector outline and filled in everything else. Something neat, something different. 3 other variations were made, but I like this one the best.
"A RIP Roarin' Good Time!"
I honestly can't say what a typical Canadian graveyard looks like, but this was something I did before but improved on the second time. Using various pattern overlays and grunge brushes for the well worn effect of the tombstone.
I honestly can't say what a typical Canadian graveyard looks like, but this was something I did before but improved on the second time. Using various pattern overlays and grunge brushes for the well worn effect of the tombstone.
I'll be the first to admit, the size porportions are just...off but I was trying two different things on one template. Design wise, I was at an impasse to remove the stapled/tacked on notices on the pole, but ultimately kept it in as flavor. Still, let's this be a lesson: Porportions are a priority!
This was an exercise is seeing how much of anything I can put on a community college corkboard. It's not obvious, but I was watching Community at the time I made this. Like Community, there's nothing but in-jokes on this one so forgive me if some of the notices on here don't 'click'.
