Ken Smith
11-29-2012, 01:42 AM
I found this story about me from a local magazine called 'Bucks Life Magazine (http://becsketch.com/archives/1433)'. The Link however goes to our FB page rather than our website (http://www.kensmithbasses.com/).
http://becsketch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/KenSmith.png (http://becsketch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/KenSmith.png)
Ken Smith is the hands and mind behind the appropriately named Ken Smith Basses (http://www.facebook.com/KenSmithBasses). He crafts extraordinarily beautiful species of wood into bass guitars and (double the pleasure, double the fun) double basses. His work is detailed and rockin, so I wanted to make his visage into a graphic, bold, sticker for one of his guitars. As always, started with a sketch and then did the strong black line work and coloring in photoshop. I recreated one of his guitars from his site (http://www.kensmithbasses.com/) and let the power of bevel and emboss assist in creating a vehicle for his sticker self. This photoshop file size was a BEAST- I spawned nearly 80 layers trying to achieve some of the cool little nuances in Ken’s guitar. It took sometimes a full game of Bejeweled 2 just to wait for the file to open, so some unintentional credit goes to Ken for aiding in my new high score.
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I/we do not make double basses here but rather deal in them, mainly older basses and most of them are purchased in dis-repair and then restored by one of the Luthiers I use to bring them back to life. The DB scroll I think is the Jacquet-Pillement I have. I can tell from the Gears and Scroll but in photo-shopping or reversing the negative, he has the Gears in reverse on that bass.
http://becsketch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/KenSmith.png (http://becsketch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/KenSmith.png)
Ken Smith is the hands and mind behind the appropriately named Ken Smith Basses (http://www.facebook.com/KenSmithBasses). He crafts extraordinarily beautiful species of wood into bass guitars and (double the pleasure, double the fun) double basses. His work is detailed and rockin, so I wanted to make his visage into a graphic, bold, sticker for one of his guitars. As always, started with a sketch and then did the strong black line work and coloring in photoshop. I recreated one of his guitars from his site (http://www.kensmithbasses.com/) and let the power of bevel and emboss assist in creating a vehicle for his sticker self. This photoshop file size was a BEAST- I spawned nearly 80 layers trying to achieve some of the cool little nuances in Ken’s guitar. It took sometimes a full game of Bejeweled 2 just to wait for the file to open, so some unintentional credit goes to Ken for aiding in my new high score.
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I/we do not make double basses here but rather deal in them, mainly older basses and most of them are purchased in dis-repair and then restored by one of the Luthiers I use to bring them back to life. The DB scroll I think is the Jacquet-Pillement I have. I can tell from the Gears and Scroll but in photo-shopping or reversing the negative, he has the Gears in reverse on that bass.