Rockstars Drink Beer

I created this by gathering cutout clippings from magazines and arranging them together.  I made copies of multiple sizes and eventually found a good size to work with to create a symmetrical image.  I traced an outline of the clippings and then transfered the image onto bristol paper.  I outlined the objects in ink and then improvised with some of the other objects like the disco ball and smoke near the bottom.  For the colors I went with a triad harmony and added some black around the edges to border the image.  Its pretty simplistic, I think I may darken some of the colors so there is more contrast.  I posted a picture of me holding it along with a scan because sometimes the scans change or lose their colors.  I decided to call this “Rockstars Drink Beer”.  Let me know your thoughts!

Chronicle of a Death We Can’t Accept Illustration

This is an illustration I came up with to better represent and take place of the image used for this article in the New York Times.  I created a few before I finally was content with a final illustration.  Below is the original copy of the article along with a large copy of my final illustration, I call it “Hearse Race”.

The illustrations are of 3 hearse’s racing to get the bodies to the cemetery.  Which do you like best?  Lets call the larger one posted above #4 (Final), and the rest posted from left to right #1,2,3.  Click on the thumbnails to make them larger for better viewing.  If you want to see the original illustrations without the newspaper surrounding it visit my flickr.

Sketches for “Memory Lane” Illustration

I’m working on an idea based off the book “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick“.  The book displays black and white images along with a caption and headline that leaves readers open to interpretation about the story.  I’ve came up with a caption and headline inspired by an Elliott Smith song titled “Memory Lane”.  My sketches are posted below and they’re based off “Memory Lane – A place where suffering is just a game.”  Which sketch is your favorite?  I think I’m going to go with the bottom left image and turn it into a 7×10″ graphite illustration.  I may end up turning all of these into 7×10″ eventually but in that case the caption/headline would be the same.  I’ll post the final illustration(s) once I’m finished.

Andrei Tarkovsky

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist: the artist exist because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it.

November at SDMA

I rolled solo to the San Diego Museum of Art yesterday for a tour I needed to take for one of my art classes.  I missed the correct day to go with my class but luckily my teacher was going again this weekend with a different school so I got to make up for it.  I took some pics on my camera phone but since its a basic nokia they came out pretty bad and don’t do the art justice!  Below are just 3 of my favorites that I viewed, 2 of the pics I grabbed from the internet because they’re better quality.  It was cool to peep the diverse paintings up front and take the time to look at each piece rather than just reading about them in a book or the internet.  I think more than one trip is definitely needed!  I also seen people in there sketching the architecture of the place and everything that was going on.  It made me realized how many talented artist there are out there.  I don’t think the everyday person these days really values art or even understand the time and amount of work that’s put into these.  The sad thing about art is that most artist don’t get appreciated until they’re dead, only then people give value to their work.  The Triumph of Death was one of my favorites there, I overheard one of the tour ladies telling somebody that the artist carved out the art on pieces of wood-(I think she said wood, I may be wrong) in reverse and basically uses it as a stamp for a canvas.  The Ridotto is an Italian piece that caught my attention because of the masks the people had on.  It reminded me of the film by Stanley Kubrick “Eye’s Wide Shut”.  Obviously this art work is older than the film.. I’m not sure what the masks symbolize in the painting, or if that was a tradition back then or still is?  Viewing that piece though makes me realize how much art can inspire other artist involved in film or other mediums.  Overall it was a great-fun-learning experience!

The Young Shepherdess

The Triumph of Death

The Ridotto

Tough times don’t last, tough people do.

Realizing your full potential requires dedication, determination, innovation and the burning desire to succeed.  Team work is always essential; especially when others expect you to fail.  A great pleasure in this life is doing what people say you can’t.  Tough times don’t last, tough people do. -Steve Douglas

Texting and Driving

Here’s a few typography poster I designed.  I printed these out and set them on poster board.  These are two rough prints, I only have 4 printed for now.  I have a few pages of different sketches on this topic that I might turn into finished posters.  I’m also going to be making some stickers for these soon.  So the question is, do you text and drive?  I think we all do.  Here are some facts below that you may not know, courtesy of a study from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institution.

CELL PHONE TASK	Risk of Crash or Near Crash event
Light Vehicle/Cars
Dialing Cell Phone	2.8 times as high as non‐distracted driving
Talking/Listening to Cell Phone	1.3 times as high as non‐distracted driving
Reaching for object (i.e. electronic device and other)	1.4 times as high as non‐distracted driving
Heavy Vehicles/Trucks
Dialing Cell phone	5.9 times as high as non‐distracted driving
Talking/Listening to Cell Phone	1.0 times as high as non‐distracted driving
Use/Reach for electronic device	6.7 times as high as non‐distracted driving
Text messaging	23.2 times as high as non‐distracted driving

RPPW Cheer 2009 Photo-Montage

Here’s a photo-montage I put together for my cousin and her cheer team.  I was given around 700 pictures, 7 dvds and had 5 days to put something together.  I spent pretty much all 5 days working on this day and night.  I ran into some trouble with some of the dvds not working and other issues but thats the name of the game!  It was a fight between me and the machine and I just got it done on time and put onto 15 dvds!  It was frustrating with the time deadline I was on but in the end it feels good to make another finished product.  The last time I had a race against time while editing was probably back in April, a challenge is always good!  So this is it, I posted it into 3 separate parts onto youtube.

Mumford & Sons “Little Lion Man” (Experimenting with Text)

In the world of advertising there’s no such thing as a lie.