We’re proud to announce a new designer has been added to the family, Assault, Fernando Rodriguez. Fernando, formerly of Ecko, is currently in the preliminary stages of launching his own design agency called EyeKandy. He currently resides in New York, but will be moving back to Puerto Rico to dedicate his time to developing his new company EyeKandy.

The shirt he has designed for Assault comes in black and white and is called Fatal Justice. It features the classic underlying political message that Assault has become known for, as well as some of our favorite design motifs–skulls!!!

Fernando had the idea from his experience living under the Puerto Rican government. There’s alot of corruption, like in most governments, but especially in the Latin American governments. His other inspiration for the design comes from the current situation in Darfur. Some common themes in this design as well as in many other Assault designs are about how greed for power leads to killing and mass poverty among the working class.

The design’s major theme being about how there really is no more equal justice for the rich and the poor. Justice has just become a beautiful icon, and is no longer what it used to be. Fernando hand draws all of his designs, and then inks them and scans them into Illustrator. He uses live trace and later brings them into Photoshop to clean them up. The color palette is neutral based to further emphasize the grunge look to go along with his original idea for the concept.

Fernando is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design. If you’d like Fernando to do some apparel design work for you, or… if you’d like to contact him because you are a pretty lady who likes artists, you can go to his personal website and email him–especially if you live in Puerto Rico, or NYC.

Relavant Links

• EyeKandy
• Fernando’s Personal Website
• Buy the Fatal Justice T-Shirt in Black
• Buy the Fatal Justice T-Shirt in White

This shirt originally looked a bit more like the Punisher’s logo, but in fear of getting sued by DC Comics I decided to dress it up like an old Spartan Warrior. Take that Marvel! I made this using many of my custom shapes and custom brush sets in Photoshop which I have decided to post here on this as a free download. Do with them what you like, but don’t make an exact copy of my shirt and get it printed on your own! Let me save you the trouble by pointing you in the direction of the Skull Spartan Warrior’s product page on our official store.

As of now it’s only $22.99, if you can’t afford that then you shouldn’t be able to afford an internet connection.

As promised here is the zip containing several items: click to download the custom Photoshop skull shapes, and the custom star random brushes. Click the image to the right to download the high resolution image of the Skull Spartan Warrior T-Shirt. I cannot take credit for the custom shapes, but the custom brushes are all mine baby. You’re getting a spartan warrior custom shape, and a few skull shapes that I found on my long trek through the internet.

For those of you new to Photoshop, you must use custom shapes and brushes in your designs. They’ll save you hours of time and it brings you to the next level of Photoshop. Be sure you have a high powered machine of some kind cause they tend to eat up processing power and RAM. I prefer using my Dual 2ghz Powermac G5 with a gig of ram. (I know I need more) Photoshop CS2 runs like a charm!

Download custom photoshop shapes of skulls, spartan warrior in vector format