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.

GZA ad

I did this for fun. I have no idea if Legend of the Liquid Sword came out on March 9th, but it's unlikely. But it's an important date in hiphop, and it was the first one I thought of. He and Biggie are two of the best, so I used March 9th for the date. This was done in Illustrator, and the font's Bank Gothic.

Barca vs Arsenal teaser poster from 2006

I did this piece for fun. I don't support either team, but I'll watch either when they're on tv. I wanted to do something like boxing or UFC does on their posters where they have the fighters, then a picture of the arena they're going to fight at, so since the final was in Paris, I used the Eiffel tower. I guess I did this around the time the actual game was on.

It's a Photoshop composite. The picture of the Eiffel tower is from sxc.hu. That's my main stock photography website. It was black and white, but I added color to the sky in Photoshop. I imported the team crests and UEFA logo from my collection of soccer crests I found on the internet. I used the perspective tool on the crests. I don't see that tool used a lot, but Photoshop and Illustrator have one. It's useful for the types of things I do, and I like seeing things in other ways other than just straight on sometimes. I think the font is Bank Gothic.

Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia flyer

This is an flyer I did for the Georgia Sickle Cell Foundation last Christmas. Besides maybe adjusting some of the colors of the logos in Photoshop, this was all laid out in Illustrator. I think the snowflakes are actually dingbats of some kind. I probably got them from DaFont.com. I recommend that site to anyone who needs unusual fonts. I recommend checking for dingbats before you draw complex things. And you don't have to use them as they are; since they come as vectors, you can use Illustrator's tools to take them apart and make new things. You don't have to start from scratch for no reason.

The South Bronx FC Season 12 poster

For those that don't know, I play in a Wednesday night soccer league. I wouldn't say we take the league more serious than the other teams, but we do put a little more effort into being there, which is why we're the only team in our division, and maybe the entire league, that has jerseys w/our names on the back, and not even our real names, usually.

Besides that, I've been making online flyers to promote the games. It hasn't really worked; only our best friends and an occasional acquaintance ever comes, but it's still fun to make flyers for our online fan pages on Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. Here's the newest one that I've done for our 12th season, a teaser poster showing our mascot, Igoo from the Herculoids cartoon from the 60s.

The flyer was done mostly in Photoshop, but the text and the text background were done in Illustrator. I was originally planning to use teammates, but most of the pictures of us were too low-resolution at the size I needed them to be. But this way, the entire team is represented. Anyway, let me know what you think.