I reckon you should just do what you think looks good and stuff what everyone else says. If you try it out and don't like it, change it. If people say it looks sh1t, f#*k em. Don't waste your own time on other people's opinions.
Sometimes Pulsey, but sometimes a great spark happens in your head when discussing crap with others, totally unrelated. That happened with me with that Hawk Claw I spray stencilled...I was throwing ideas about on the junkie forum getting yays and nays, then suddenly 'bam', it came to me. Then Skully suggested an accent to it which in my opinion took it from average to way cool!
A 'catalyst', that's the word I am looking for. The conversation can act as a catalyst, which promotes a reaction within your design process without actually being part of it. Say for example SK8ER could be snaffling on about green Bombers, and you can be going 'Yeah, yeah' when suddenly your brain says, "The pink Claw needs white Trackers!"....and then you end up using blue T Bones!
Wake I do agree there's no harm in getting feedback and ideas from others. Just saying one shouldn't let others decide for them what looks good and what doesn't. I like to get ideas from photos online. I'm not much of an ideas man myself, but I will never copy someone's work. I always put my own stamp on it. Rock on!
All good stimuli peeps....whatever works! What I would never do is buy a complete, there is always something I don't like...bearings, wheels, Indy trucks!
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Where did you find all those old stickers?