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finished up this new woodburned piece
Ideal - Wisemen and Monkey
8.25 x 32.25
$60 shipped no grip.
You should print boards with that graphic on it. I would buy it multiple times, as long as it skates good.
You don't get it.
you could pay $60 for this one and skate it (in fact I suggest/insist you do), but I'm not going to make another one, thats the whole schtick. Every graphic I make with Ideal is going to be unique and 1/1, and also skateable. $60 is barely more than you'd pay for just a regular ol' company board from some mail order site. When you order a board with me, you can be assured that the artwork will be unique to that board, 100% skateable finish, and without logos (because putting a logo on my work feels like putting a watermark on a photograph. douchey.). All my boards AGAIN are from Generator woodshop. I didnt seek them out because of how good their boards look on a wall, I went with them because they make the best boards I've ever skated (Magenta).
I hear you. And I know it's skateable. I'm just saying, you could make some money if you printed this. I see what you're doing with the 1/1 thing. I got you.
I would find it hard to skate art. I would have to hang it on my wall. That's just me though. That's why I said you should print boards with this graphic. I have no problem skating something that isn't one of a kind.
Printing it would immediately make it less special, less of an art object and just another copy. and while I'd love for this venture to be a money making cash machine, I'm not willing to compromise what makes what I'm doing different and special from whats already out there.
If I just printed off a bunch of boards with the same graphic, then what the fuck makes my boards any different than another, larger brands product? My work stands above what other brands offer partially because of the exclusivity.
You shouldn't be afraid to skate it just because its one of a kind. I wouldn't even bother using deck's as a canvas if I didnt want people to use them (I don't really think of my boards as finished ART anyways, but more as doodles in a sketchbook that I'm willing to have the pages fall out of. After I finish a deck and take some photos of it, I'm done with it and ready to cast it out to the streets and give it a full life), and its kind of a nice feeling to treat and think of your board as something more special than just another maple copy spit out by a machine.
that being said, I am working on a graphic to be printed (possibly up to 100 decks) thats basically just a frame, and each board with that print will then get the frame filled in with original art work, so they'll all kinda look similar or from the same series, but each one will still be unique as well.
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