Metaphorical Self Portrait

This was a fun project. This was another one I did at the Art Institute. Every single object says something about who I am. There's nothing here that doesn't deliberately mean something. That's how I like all my work to be anyway. Nothing just because.

This was all Photoshop and stock images except for the Captain America shields. They're imported vectors.

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.

The Singing Catfish

This was done for a fishfry/karaoke t-shirt for someone I once knew. They asked me for it late, so it never got used. Instead they had clipart on the back of a crawfish.

I did this piece from sketches, I believe. I remember not knowing whether I wanted to do this in Illustrator or Photoshop at first. I ended up doing it in Illustrator with a Wacom tablet. There's a scratchy brush in Illustrator that I've used for some of my favorite projects. I'm working on a project now that uses that type of brush, but it has a way more serious tone to it. I like the slight roughness of the piece in places.

Blue Boys FC

The Blue Boys were a soccer team I coached once. They chose the team name b/c we wore blue. They were about 6 years old, so I wanted to do something that a kid would like, but maybe wouldn't look out of place on someone older.

This one is done all in Illustrator, except for me using Photoshop to import it in off the scanner. Then after that it was just the drawing tools in Illustrator and matching the colors to the kids' kits (the English say 'kits' instead of uniforms, and I like to use their words when talking about soccer). I wanted the mascot to be energetic and mischievous like my players were. The font is Bauhaus 93. For people that don't know the game, FC stands for Football Club, like the rest of the world calls it football instead of soccer, because Americans are silly.

Class project from early 2000s

I was given an assignment to do a cd cover. I chose to do DJ DNA. I used to really like this cover, but now I only like the back. The front was done in Illustrator; the back is my eyeball with a blur effect on it and the back DNA strand from the front imported into the eye. The text was done in InDesign; this was either b/c the professor said to do so, or b/c I just felt like using a third program for nothing. The barcode was done in Illustrator.

Photoshop composite inspired by "Inhuman Capabilities"

This is a piece I did after listening to "Inhuman Capabilities" by Mr. Lif and Akrobatik. If you haven't heard the song, lyrically they do what "the average human cannot." For fun, I decided to work on a concept inspired by the song. The song had comic book and fantasy references in it, so I wanted to reflect that type of idea.

I used a photo of a mannequin's hand from sxc.hu. I don't remember where I got the image of the Vitruvian Man on its hand. I combined the two in Photoshop and added blur effects. I think I used some sort of other function in Photoshop's blending options to enhance the effect of the Vitruvian Man, but it's been so long I don't remember.

Dav-Man

Done in Flexisign. I believe I found the pacfont on Dafont.com. They have all kinds of crazy fonts and dingbats. I like looking at this now because it looks like I'll never have to have trouble paying bills again. 27 days until Basic Training as I post this.