Darth Brooks

If someone wants any part the templates used here : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4XKBJ4 just send me a message. I've come to really like these helmets: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/NymOyz same story, if you want it, email me.

Here you can watch them play against the Cleveland Browns!

I had decided not to do the teams that had current NFL names & logos. The Browns and 49ers survived to modern day more or less and the AAFC version of the Baltimore Colts would look the same as the NFL's, just in green. The Buffalo Bills lent their name to the AFL team. Then I had an idea. This is an image from a program used for a game in New York. The Bills used this wild eyed fellow for their programs That led to an idea for a logo with William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, riding a Bison. This the jersey. The team colors were silver and blue so I tried to stay away from the Lions and Cowboys in the design. I also made an adjustment to the Chicago Rockets.

I told myself I was going to stop playing with this. Changed to a brighter orange and changed the eye and tongue in the helmet logo and changed the bird somewhat.

I decided not to use the original Rockets imagery and go where I thought the team could have gone if they had survived. I don't know if I'm going to do the Buffalo Bisons / Bills or the (1st) Baltimore Colts.

I had to try one with Orange and green. Edit: Fixed pant colors

This one stays away from the orange and green used by both the pro and college Miami teams.

I might have it. I might change the eyes / eyebrow up a bit.

Trying a couple of different things with Miami. First is some different colors using the Seahawk head as a logo and then using feathers as letter. Out of all of these I'm leaning toward the gold chicken, although you would certainly see the crazy chicken from a distance.

I got to looking at it and I agree. In the designs I've worked on, the Brooklyn Dodgers had a gray away jersey and a game against each other would have been a nightmare.

EDIT: fixed the color below. Adding the Yankees. Pretty much a straight riff of the baseball unis although I've gotten tired of dark blue helmets.

I'm working on the Miami Seahawks next. If you look for their logo this is what comes up. Pretty crappy. Their colors were orange and green which is a headache inducing mix. I did find this, a copy of a program with a better detailed version of their logo. I drew out a version of the logo in Flexisign, which is like Corel or Illustrator. And played around with colors. This is after playing with it a bit more. The logo on the left is meant to be the basis for a helmet logo. It still needs work. I'm trying to figure out how to use orange and green and not have it look like a parrot. I could use some opinions.

I don't know what font is on the wordmark. I had to redraw the lettering. Going thru what the font and the like came up with nothing.

The Dons were a team that played from 1956-1949 in the AAFC. Other teams in the same league were the Cleveland Browns and SF 49ers. I've decided to update the teams that didn't successfully make the jump to the NFL. Like the Brown's Brownie, the Don's featured a cartoon character in much of their advertising, There was other advertising featuring a less absurd character, And the wordmark was featured on one of the programs. I focused in on the hat and also drew someone to wear the hat. Essentially a Hispanic counterpart to the Raiders and Buccs logo. This is what I came up with. The Dons had a very bright red and blue uniform and I wanted to use that but also do more than copy it. The hat is meant to have a subtle "D" shape in the brow, although the D used in the actual wordmark is much different. Having the uniform number on the other side is something I hadn't done before and thought it might look nice. I thought about having the Helmet stripe go down the pants but realized that would be a pain top sew in real life. I'm planning on working thru the other defunct teams of the AAFC What do you think?

My high school (well, the local school) uses clip art, as in a clip art tiger straight from the disk they handed out with the first copies of Corel draw (or was it Illustrater?) I would love to make a custom one tiger for them.

It's meant to be shading to define shape. I've debated back and forth about keeping it. Without something it the horse looks blank.

Made some changes. Redrew the horse to make him look less derpy and took him down to just the head and neck. That's where the interesting part of the image was and avoids the pushme-pullme effect. It ends up similar to the current helmet decal in that respect. The full bronco image wouldn't end up on the uniform but would be used for various team graphics. I didn't change the uniform from the last design.

Metallica based football. (from awhile back)

Playing around with some ideas. Horse decal, detailed, No D with stripe.

Any from this post look like what you are envisioning?

I thought of the pushmepullme effect right off the bat and if I had done the rear of the helmet I would have had the two decals separated by a space. The other possibilities are a rearing horse like you said (although, looking at this, the orientation of the head needs to be moved down) or making a cut off that prevents the shape from wrapping around.

I'll work up something in a bit. Now I gotta get the six year old to bed. If I can. edit: he's out.

A bit of the thinking process with the stripes: First off the bottom right is in the style of a throwback. That plus the the right side helmets are close to, but not a duplicate of the classic uniform. The current unis match the jersey and pant colors for dark blue and white, with an orange jersey going with white pants. (There have been variants where the blue goes with white, etc) I wanted blue and blue to go together and then to flip the other two between orange and white. I wanted one color on each pant and one on each stripe so that meant going with the combination above. I thought about doing a shape with the stripe but they have that now and the point was to not duplicate what's already there. I could play with it. It will be interesting to see what the other entries look like. I've stayed away from modern NFL teams because the uniforms are usually iconic. (I tend to believe that as a rule, whatever a team wore during the 70's was their best uni.) On another forum someone asked to add orange to the horsey helmets. One comment that cracked me up was how he liked the subtly of the middle one or the obnoxiousness of the right side one. Someone else asked for more detail on the horse. The far left one is maybe ok. The other two do not float my boat.

Uniwatch is doing a small contest asking people to redesign the Broncos uniform. (You don't win anything as far as I know.) This is my version. The logo is new, and with both the logo and uniform I tried to riff off the old but not copy it. What do you think? What (if anything) do you like about it, what (if anything) do you think could be better?

One of these or thicker?