Tuesday: Conceptception

Yo dawg! I heard you liked concepts so we gave you 2 concepts! Doesn't really make sense, but I needed a theme for today's post. The Evansville Rivermen lead the Hamilton stags until the final day, where somehow the Stags came out ahead. After the Olympic break, it will almost be playoff time for the HCIHL, and that will be fun. 

Indy Fuel Bradley DeBode

This is Bradley's first concept on HCI, and mabye even his first ever! Welcome Bradley! It's always cool to have new artists take the stage here at HCI, and show off their work.

Design: I like the checkered flag stripes. It works for Indy (and mabye Daytona) only, and pays homage to the teams home city, which is cool. I like the ECHL logo below the collar. None of the other teams do that, and it works. I might recolor it like they do in the OHL, to the darkest color on the light jersey and vice versa.

I don't think enough black is used in either jerseys. I would switch it with the yellow on the dark jersey, and with the black on the light jersey. I'm not exactly a fan of the number font, I would have still used something modern, but something that would work better in sports. The colored namebar isn't the best. And I don't like the side panels, I would just do a hem stripe.

Execution: The numbers on the back are way too big, and the TV numbers are way too small. Also, The Reebok vector logo is used. Which it should be the wordmark. If you wanted to be super realistic, CCM is the jersey provider of ECHL jerseys, so use that instead. The back of the jersey is colored,  so the inside shouldn't be white at the bottom. I kept saying "dark" and "light" instead of "home" and away" for a reason. The ECHL uses white jerseys at home the first half of the season,and switches to dark the second half. 

Keep working to improve your designs,and you will see improvement in no time!

KHL Staidum Series (Dohgace Donbass) Jake88

Well, Jake is back to concepts from across the pond, and can finally live up to his name! (Not Jake, "Euromaster") This is a statement from Jake regarding his new series,

"These are meant not to fix the tacky aspects of the Stadium Series jerseys, but to embrace them! I don't like chrome, but I want to keep it real. The purpose of these concepts are more to show how good these aspects could look, rather than to scrap them."

Design: On that note, I wouldn't know this was a Stadium Series design! This jersey is good enough to be a regular jersey. All of the "Tacky Aspects" look amazing, and the mountains in the logo go good with the slanted striping and TV numbers on the jersey. 

Execution: In the KHL, Reebok places their logo on the front of the jersey, above the logo, as well as on the back. Really good execution and presentation though.

KHL Stadium Series, Can this be a thing?

 I hope you all enjoy the rest of your Tuesday, Joey will write tommorow, and you should come back for that. If you are a new artist that wants to make concepts, check out our templates page for a jump start, and send your finished designs in at hockeyconceptideas@gmail.com

~ Caden