I’m an 18 year old student, and this is my second semester at OSF this
is the seventh board I’ve created and I’m excited to see what else I
can make before this semester ends. My brand Queasy Rider exists to
connect sick art with sick people. I mainly produce art for people
who enjoy grotesque imagery and anyone with a sense of humor.
At the beginning of the current semester I was told to try something
new, a new process when it comes to designing boards, I had many ideas
and wanted to do all of them but one in particular intrigued me the
most. I wanted to design a board that paid tribute to one of my
biggest inspirations: action figures. I decided to design the board as
an old school action figure in a box; the action figure portion is an
addition small piece of veneer pressed on top of the deck so I could
get the feeling that it’s actually coming off the box. The shape of
the board is an old school pool deck and I think it works very well
with the themes of the board. I used wrestling figures from the 80s,
Stretch Armstrong and he-man figures as reference for the “Queasy Boy”
and a wide variety of 70s-90s action figure boxes and box art as
reference for the rest of it. I spray painted the board orange and
hand painted everything else. When planning this board I thought it
would be interesting to feature a retired super hero or something
along those lines, so I painted an older, out of shape version of the
Queasy Boy holding little versions of a younger him. The way I see,
allot of people including myself have a soft spot for figures pre 2000
because they are irreplaceable something about the strange proportions
and hand painted feel as well as that cheap plastic smell are just
great. I wanted this board to embody some of that as well as showing
someone holding on to the past. Making this board was challenging but
allot of fun.
I really enjoy trying new things like this and will continue to do so
throughout the rest of this semester, so stay tuned and make sure to
check me out @Queasy_Rider
