Surf Board Art

I have been giving my illustrations to a surf board maker called Blue Water Surfboards in Huntington Beach for over a year, in hopes that they might put one on a board. I must have created about 20 different designs for them, and this was the one that they wanted to produce. I first created this as a pencil sketch, and then the drawing was scanned, cleaned up, and colored in illustrator.

Blue Water is dedicated to bringing the highest-quality hand made surfboards with materials that are recyclable and far less damaging to the environment than traditional polyester surfboards. Go check them out at www.bluewatersurfboards.com. These hand crafted boards are done by legendary shaper Mike Minchinton and up and comer Kevin Wear of Huntington Beach. These are not from China!