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by Henry Contreras
Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:22 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Pinball,..Bring back the Arcade
Replies: 1
Views: 1815

Pinball,..Bring back the Arcade

Hey all just thought I would let you know about this very cool pinball project that
my good friend Wade Krause is doing on Kickstarter.

here's the link
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/til ... rt-of-play

Gotta love the craft

Henry
by Henry Contreras
Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:42 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Hey Dave (Smith) I went to your website. My jaw dropped after seeing the Old Soul Tattoo sketches you did. It really took me back. I started pencil skecthing again and came up with this. This was done in pencil then I took the sketch into Adobe illustrator and re-traced it. I am also (tonight hopefu...
by Henry Contreras
Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:46 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Thanks Dave

-Henry
by Henry Contreras
Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:02 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

"X" the band poster I designed and screen printed (2 color) with my son
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by Henry Contreras
Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:12 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

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Custom Eldorado for a friend. retraced form a picture
by Henry Contreras
Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:07 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

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Here and illustration I did of my friends Chopped 38 ford convertiable. Homeboys knows how to make custom cars
by Henry Contreras
Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:10 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

here's a few newer things I have worked on
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by Henry Contreras
Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:07 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Hi all,
I haven't been here in awhile, just came by to say hi

Henry
by Henry Contreras
Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:12 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Something I worked on over the weekend. It's two shades of charcoal on a 36" x 48" canvas
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by Henry Contreras
Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:56 pm
Forum: Annoucements
Topic: Happy 2011
Replies: 9
Views: 13894

Re: Happy 2011

Happy New Years!!!!! Hope you all have a great 2011.

Henry "loco" Contreras
by Henry Contreras
Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:02 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: "True Grit" signs
Replies: 24
Views: 17982

Re: "True Grit" signs

Kind of on the same subject. There's a guy that part of the whole Gigposter scene. His name is Aaron Horkey. This guy is super talented and his poster sell out as soon as there put out. He did some screen printed posters fot True Grit. You all have to check this guy out. His work speaks for itself h...
by Henry Contreras
Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:23 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Here's the seperations. I'll be screen printing it dark to light adding white to the fist color until I get to white
by Henry Contreras
Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:04 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

This is going to be my next screen print art piece. I'm hopefully going to my friends shop later today to get the seperations printed out. It's going to a 24"x24" print. I did the quite awhile back and never got around to screen printing it. I'm not getting any younger. THIS IS GOING TO HA...
by Henry Contreras
Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:05 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Logo
Replies: 20
Views: 13349

Re: Logo

The logo looks to busy. to much going on.
I did a quick layout
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by Henry Contreras
Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:16 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Here's a pencil and charcoal drawing I did back in 2007. I have always been a fan of Johnny Cash and have always wanted to do a drawing of him. After he passed I told myself I have to do this.
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by Henry Contreras
Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:15 am
Forum: Annoucements
Topic: Happy Thanksgiving week to all!
Replies: 1
Views: 9208

Re: Happy Thanksgiving week to all!

Happy Thanksgiving

Henry Contreras
by Henry Contreras
Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:11 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Thanks, I like the X poster better myself. When I submitted the posters the High on Fire was screen printed and the X poster was a print out. I use to have some screen printed X posters but when I went looking for them I couldn't find any. I think they got thrown out. Maybe that's what made the diff...
by Henry Contreras
Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:38 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Hey All, I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. I'm stilll working my day job and I very thankful to have this job. I did a local artshow here in Fresno California about 3 weeks back. It was a tribute to gigposters and I submitted 3 posters. It could be gigposters your previous work. Al...
by Henry Contreras
Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:29 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Pin Ball Glass ART
Replies: 10
Views: 6794

Re: Pin Ball Glass ART

Wade Krause is a very good friend of mine. He is a true craftsman and does what it takes to make things come out awesome. He and Dirty Donny did the pinball game together. Donny doing all the artwork and Wade doing all the production. This game is a one off (that's right they only made one) for Jame...
by Henry Contreras
Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:05 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Hi all, I haven't been here in awhile just wanted to say hi and stay back in contact with you all

-Henry
by Henry Contreras
Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:13 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Some lettering for a friend
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by Henry Contreras
Mon May 18, 2009 11:39 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

I have one, I just don't use it

-loco
by Henry Contreras
Mon May 18, 2009 2:41 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Here a 57 chevy I'm re-tracing in illustrator so it can printed at about 160" wide

The original image is a bitmap and trying to print it at that size will get all pixelated
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-loco
by Henry Contreras
Sat May 16, 2009 2:49 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Eigenbrot Brewery Curved glass signs
Replies: 22
Views: 13639

Re: Eigenbrot Brewery Curved glass signs

Truley amazing. I would love to learn some of this. The closest I have ever come is doing re-production pinaball glass

great work

-loco
by Henry Contreras
Fri May 15, 2009 7:48 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Something I worked on over the weekend. I'm going to retrace it in Illustrator. It's my wife's name Juliet-Freehand-web.jpg -loco That's Sik Henry, I dig your style I got my eye on you! When you do illustrations do you use the Gradient Mesh tool mostly? Can't wait to see wait to see how that letter...
by Henry Contreras
Tue May 12, 2009 1:18 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Something I worked on over the weekend. I'm going to retrace it in Illustrator.
It's my wife's name
Juliet-Freehand-web.jpg
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-loco
by Henry Contreras
Tue May 12, 2009 1:13 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Transparent Ink
Replies: 11
Views: 6655

Re: Transparent Ink

Here's a link to NazDar screen printing inks

http://www.nazdar.com/screen_printing_p ... &attrID=38

I have used Enamels ink and added tranparent base to them when I was doing reproduction pinball glass

-loco
by Henry Contreras
Fri May 08, 2009 7:38 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Letterhead Studios Design
Replies: 40
Views: 40312

Re: Letterhead Studios Design

Dave do you have any sketches of your work. I really like see the rough sketches and how or what goes on in a person head. The behind the scenes process. Here's a link to a poster I screen printed for an artist. He did the artwork and I screen printed it for him http://www.gigposters.com/forums/scre...
by Henry Contreras
Fri May 08, 2009 6:46 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Thanks for the comments. They took awhile. most of the time was trying figure out the best way to approach it. As long as I have a high res. photo that's in focus. That is always the hardest part. Alot of click and bend with the pen tool. The pen tool was hard for me to figure out. It use to drive m...
by Henry Contreras
Fri May 08, 2009 2:07 am
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Loco in the house
Replies: 37
Views: 24751

Re: Loco in the house

Here's some stuff I did in Illustrator quite awhile back. This was when I was really pushing myself to take Adode illustrator as far as I could take at the time I took a picture if my cell phone and re-traced with the pin tool in illustrator cellphoneweb7zq.jpg This a photo from a car magazine that ...