I took this photo in Tokyo, Japan, back in December 2009. This illustration on my photography is actually part two in a series that I’ll continue to add to. Just for fun.
http://www.fluentflyers.com this is my brother and i's t-shirt company! It's officially up and running. Check it out and let us know what you think! Thanks!
Michael Manalo and I collaborated on this project almost two years ago. The Iraqimemorial.org project was featured at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno, last month.. from February 15-March 12, 2010.
This design was intended for a charcoal colored shirt. Large print on the back and a smaller print on the front over the heart. I love blogging about the process when I can. :D
This shirt is for the West Valley CHP. They have an annual ride or race from Baker to Las Vegas. This isn't usually my style but it was fun to work on. Plus it gave me more practice with my tablet that I got a few months ago. Intuos 4!
I very recently found out that I will be partaking and competing in what's called the Cut&Paste competition (Los Angeles; there's others in other cities as well). In a nutshell, the participants have 15 minutes to build their design from scratch based off a certain subject. There's 8 designers, 3 rounds and an audience of about 1000.This monkey fishing for banana fish in banana waters was my test round idea; which I sacrificed a day of snowboarding to attend. The subject was 'bliss.' This actual picture is my pre-test round before the actual test round cuz i didn't get a chance to save it for myself. So yeah, that was done in 15 minutes.
Anyways, Cut&Paste goes down on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at Avalon Hollywood. 5PM - 11PM. $15 online pre-sale. $20 at the door. For more information, take a gander here. Mark you calendar. Come out if you can. I really don't know what to expect but it should be fun and something different!
This gator is from my children's book that I'm currently reworking. Just a quick sketch and color study. Refreshing myself on coloring with Photoshop. I've come to realize that coloring with a mouse is a pain in the wrist! I'll seek a Wacom or a Cintiq when I really get going with this certain thing that I really need to get going on.
So I designed this deck for this small show in chinatown. I never designed a deck before so I thought it'd be cool to photograph my progress with my canon eos digital rebel xti. This little project took me about 2 nights to do; partially due to a little thing called procrastination. I actually spent more time trying to think of what to draw than actually drawing it. And one more thing in a nutshell, land of the plenty (where i got the board) helps kids get boards so they can skate and whatnot. Without further ado..