A skateboard deck designed for Tony Hawk design challenge, a contest run on Adobe Create magazine.

I used an iPad Pro and Adobe Sketch app to explore some ideas and to make a pencil sketch that I used with Adobe Illustrator to create a full-color vector illustration. I worked in black and white first and added color later. Part of my personal challenge was to explore the new freeform gradients in Illustrator and see how to create complex color blends without using the Mesh tool.

A process demo: From pencil sketch to color.

Short video tutorial showing the tools used in Illustrator.