Smoke!

This was a quick little guy I threw together for fun today! Weird looking hand eh? Lots of stuff on the go right now - more to come in the next little while! Also thinking about starting up another blog or an etsy site really soon for the airbrush portrait shirts I've been doing!!

Beautiful things

Here is a picture I made as a personal project - lots more of these to come over the course of the summer. Did a little bit of experimenting in this piece - not sure if everything is really working as well as I'd like it to - but it did come together really fast! Exciting! Let me know what you think!> (the colors on here are a little desaturated)

Great Experiment.

Today the Great Bloomers debut full-length hits shelves. REALLY exciting stuff! Below is a cover design/illustration I did for the guys! I totally ventured off into some new territory (typography) and totally took an altogether different approach in terms of both the imagery and the way I put the whole thing together. Much different than how I normally work - but I think in the end the whole thing picks up on the vibe of the record pretty well! If you haven't heard them yet - you definitely need to check them out asap! Definitely some of the most talented friends that I have. Let me know what you think!

Non-conformity.

So this was the last assignment of the year in Paul Dallas' class. This really has been the most exciting year in picture making for me - still a long way to go in learning and figure my own thing out, but I'm real excited where things have been leading lately. Big plans to keep the ball rolling this summer - hopefully I'll be able to do weekly updates on here and get some feedback from all the nice people who like to comment!

Laws of Power

Really happy with the idea in the first one - had a lot of fun putting it together. The second one I'm kinda making a face about - don't really like the way I put it together as much - to me it feels a little to rigid and graphic, whereas I'd really like to start working with a little more delicacy.

Get others to play the cards you deal:Always know who you're dealing with:

Milk

Here's a portrait illustration I did for a review on the movie 'Milk' of Sean Penn in PEE-DEE's class. Really pleased with how this came together.

The Style Imperative..

More computerized work from my media class. These are the two spots from an article talking about the difference between style and fashion. The first spot dealt with the idea that what we wear should in part reveal something about our inner self. The second spot is touching base on a line I thought was really good in the article talking about how style didn't demand a credit card - it should prosper on courage and creativity! Plastic pants! 

Edit: I just added in the main image - basically the story behind this image is how 'style' is what gives a person a true identity (hence the fingerprints all over the place) - whereas fashion/clothing are ephemeral objects that are mass produced and can be owned by anyone - so in turn can blend a person into the city's landscape.

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sketch-a-sketch.

I just made these. Quick sketchbook experiment with acrylic ink and charcoal.

Ps. Unless you're allergic to gold, I really feel as though you should treat your ears to some unreal songs from some good friends of mine - The Great Bloomers have posted up 2 new tracks up on their myspace - if you hit up the link below I think you can also catch a glimpse of the new album art I did for them as well! 

www.myspace.com/greatbloomers

Respect, Protect

Two b/w illustrations for an AIDS annual project for the words Respect and Protect. The other catch was that the images had to be floating images - so I did my best to keep it real in that department. Pretty happy with the result.

Computerization.

Album cover design for my computer media class - based on a song called 'sexual sportswear'. Not my favorite way to work - but the challenge was to assemble a traditional elements in the computer, taking advantage of the certain transparencies and effects - but still retaining a look that is conducive to doing everything by hand. 

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This picture here was a quick in-class assignment - '1% monster'. Photoshop a sketch like crazy so that its still looks entirely believable as a hand-made picture.

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This one last image was from kathryn adams guerilla entrepreneurism class (man I loved that class!). My product was a car dashboard sun-visor (the accordion style ones). The fictitious company name was 'double vision' so this is the image I produced to be adorned on it. A bit cheesy sure - but if you saw this in a car dash.. you'd probably explode.

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