While I was gone.

     For a lot of reasons I won’t get into, I was unable to update the site until now.  But, during that time, I was still busy making new pieces of artwork.

     One of the things I was up to was updating my graphic design portfolio.  This was one of the various pieces I did.  The image itself is of different pieces of a few cell phone images I found online.  The text was done in Photoshop Elements.

     While I was doing those graphic design pieces, I thought of a few design ideas I could start doing, instead of always doing illustration & digital coloring.  I’m a big fan of combat sports, and this is what almost immediately popped into my head.  The color scheme is obviously taken from the NBA logo, and I started on the next one right afterwards.

     Here are the next few I followed up with.  Pretty good if I do say so myself.  I’m gonna be following up on these at some point, making more as I have the time.

     I did this one based off of a picture I saw in GQ Magazine.  It was a pictorial about a famous UK race driver.  I hadn’t planned on finishing this once I started, but, I kept going, and didn’t want to start over later.  Once I finished, I wished I had recorded it.

     And here’s where I really got mad at myself.  I did this about a day later, same story as before.  I started doing this as practice, got going, and didn’t want to turn back.  Before I even finished, I started regretting not recording this.  From here on out, I’ll try to start recording, even during practice just in case.

     This piece was based off of an advertisement in a magazine that came to my house.  Around the 1:30 mark, give of take, you can see a jump in the pieces progression.  While recording the video, my PC crashed, and I lost the footage.  The music in the video is from Esperanza Spalding, from the albums Chamber Music Society & Radio Music Society.
     I had two others, but I decided to redo them.  I’ll post them later on.