I continue exploring the many uses of 3D graphics from SketchUp. When the local bicycle club approached me for a t-shirt/poster design for an upcoming event called Singletrack Stampede, I immediately thought about using this concept I had already been considering. You see,
Longhorn cattle is very popular here in Texas. So much so, there have been more than one individual that has built a longhorn bike. I have actually ridden one, but I am yet to see a Longhorn mountainbike.
Anyways, I digress, the the point is I created this longhorn mountainbike in SketchUp:

...that I
Warholized:

(Please click on the thumbnail for a more detailed drawing.)
...and though about the challenge of creating a longhorn mountainbike stampede, dust-cloud and all, in SketchUp. Without any fancy rendering tools at my disposal, I quickly realized I would need some serious
Photoshopping in layers and transparencies to pull this off. I would end up putting it all together in Illustrator:

(Please click on the thumbnail for a more detailed drawing.)
I think you can't beat the dramatic perpectives that can be easily achieved with 3D, but I didn't want it to look sooo 21st-century-3D-thingamajig, so I designed the piece to look like a circa 1970 repro.