Black Tie Soccer Game logo

Here's a logo I did for Soccer in the Streets' Black Tie Soccer Game. Soccer in the Streets is an organization that works for social change through soccer. The people that play in this game play in formal wear. Here's some video. http://ht.ly/1DXI7

For more information about what Soccer in the Streets does, and to find out how you can support them, visit the website @ http://soccerstreets.org. It's a good program, and another way that soccer helps people all over the world.

Artwork for South Bronx

These are my favorite pieces that I did for my soccer team for different games and events we held. Thanks Dave for being a good sport on a few of the pieces. He's the one wearing the Darth Vader helmet and the No Country For Old Men wig.

Old Videogame style illustration

This is another Flexisign piece. I was making fun of sequels or something, or else this just popped in my head to do. If you don't play video games, this is based on the Legend of Zelda. It's an old game from the 80s and they make a new one every few years.

Pteron

I did this for my Conceptual Illustration class. It's a book cover dealing with bat-like creatures.

I did the creatures in Illustrator; I copied and pasted the bats but moved their wings into different positions so that they wouldn't all fly the same. That's the advantage of not drawing on paper; you can move things around easier when you have similar objects to create. But it's not that big of a deal to have to draw them, but it's faster by computer. It was like playing with a toy that had movable wings. You adjust the wings with the mouse instead of your hands. The background was done in Photoshop. The sky was done from a stock photo that was colorized in Photoshop, and I think the filter was Film Grain to give the sky that scratchy look.

Outrun poster

I did this in a Digital Photography for Illustrators class at the Art Institute. It's a composite using FourFourTwo magazine, a stock image of a soccer ball, windmill, and field. At least I think the windmill was separate, because I added a blur effect to it that I didn't add to the field to try and make it recede more into the background. I used the clone stamp to add flying wheat under the ball. I have a version of this that has some text added, in case you ever see it and wonder what happened.

Mario Brothers at the Oscars

This is another Computer Illustration project from the Art Institute. I had to find a date in history that maybe hadn't been that well known, so I picked the first movie ever made from a video game. From that I showed Mario and Luigi receiving the Oscar.

I again worked from a sketch, and did the final work in Illustrator. The curtain was a photo that I added an Illustrator effect too. Nearly crashed the computer, I think. I used references of people crying while giving Oscar speeches to do Mario's pose. I think his was based on Nicole Kidman's picture. The font is based on the letters that spell out "Hollywood" in California. Again, Dafont.com for those.

Nintendo trio

Done in Flexisign, but the transparency effects were done in Illustrator. I don't think Flexisign can do transparency. There's never any need for a sign to have transparent material, at least not that I can think of.