Sparkster logo - I painted this logo per a request I received here at CAL Designs. Sparkster runs a multi-purpose website dedicated to NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. As you can see, I ran with the spark concept and was really happy with the final product. I haven't drawn enough sparks and lightning to really feel comfortable with it, but though this one got the point across well enough.

Board icons - I've had the pleasure of designing various board icons, primarily for use on Team LightSpeed's forums. I generally try to focus on the member's racing scheme and team. As you can probably tell, I was really hooked on using the pre-built shapes available in Paint Shop Pro to create most of Team LightSpeed's board icons.

Team LightSpeed banners - You might catch a glimpse of these banners as part of Sport Planet's banner rotation program. I've grabbed the car shots with the Car Viewer program and tried to highlight the outstanding paint schemes run by various members of Team LightSpeed.

OFS logo - Although by our standards this is a pretty straight forward and simple logo, how it came about is interesting in my opinion. My wife, Donna, works for a trucking firm in Oklahoma City and her boss needed a company logo. He'd hired an artist to create logos for his other companies, paid through the nose, and really wasn't happy with what he got in return. Donna convinced him that I could produce him a logo that he would be happy with and this is the result.

This logo is now on the company's letterhead, coffee cups, and on the side of the trucks. So if you see if traveling down the road. You'll know who designed it.

Team LightSpeed forum logo - I really love using the Car Viewer program to take interesting shots for logos and have used it here. Again with Paint Shop Pro's cool motion trail filter. Chris Rosado (#61) and Brian Simpson's (#34) paint schemes are beautiful and lend themselves well as Team LightSpeed's logo.

LightSpeed Team Challenge  - Did a whole lot of work on this series, designing the main banner and all the page headers, but the series never got off the ground. I really loved this series of banners and this page header logo is a good example of some techniques I learned creating them. The car in the foreground has been pulled off the in game screenshot and I applied a pastel filter to the screenshot. Then I placed the image I'd pulled back onto the shot. I thought it really made for a cool looking logo and showcased the paint schemes I'd created for the series. The logo to the right of the header is the main banner and was going to be on the Team Challenge webpage and the hoods of all the IROC style cars we'd planned on using. Still really like to see Team LightSpeed get another racing series off the ground.
 

Pardon the light blue outline around this logo. I went and lost the original layered version, but I can't part with the logo. I've done dozens if not hundreds of logos for the pages of Team LightSpeed, but this has always been my favorite - by a longshot. And the sad thing is that I didn't even take the screenshot I created the logo from. The folks over at Papyrus did. This logo was posted over at LightSpeed on the track and driving guides pages. It was my first try at using the pastel filter and I thought the Cherrios' car just popped off it.

This in an early banner I created for Team LightSpeed's NASCAR Racing 4 setups page. It marks one of the first tries at pulling images off the screenshot for effect. It's also from what I jokingly consider my "blue" period, where I colorized my headers in blue to match the theme of Team LightSpeed's pages. But I really liked pulling the images off the screenshots and still use the technique today. I'm hoping to share the procedure used to do it with you on the Tools and Tips page.