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Adora-ble ~ A Portrait Commission of a Cutie

Dec 4, 2011

Tonight I’m posting a portrait commission which was done for an extremely loving dad who had this beautiful little girl sort of late in life at age 56. He recently started an art project in the form of a blog to document her growing up and build a collection of original art of this precious little girl named Adora. He started commissioning artists from all over the world to create unique works based on photographs of his cute baby daughter. 170 diverse original pieces have been published so far on the blog. The adorable art archive is a scrollable showcase all of the images to date. The Art portion can be viewed here and he adds a new and different entry to it every single day. The main page is at http://growababy.com. Do you think this is a proud dad? I would say so, and he has every right to be. Little Adora is truly Adorable.

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Tommy Lee Jones ~ Work In Progress WIP

Dec 1, 2011

Tonight I’m posting a work in progress, WIP of actor Tommy Lee Jones. I worked most of the day on the DVD wrap for the movie but I’m running into some difficulties getting everything they want to squeeze into it. I stopped and took a break and decided to start a caricature of The Man in Black, Tommy Lee Jones. I liked this source photo. It’s a bit small but has decent detail. This is in a very rough unfinished state. I’ve only used the warp tool and just a tad in liquify but only for some small tweaks. H’e likely to look totally different than this when it’s done. In fact I’m noticing things as I type that need to be changed. I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to make a situational manipulation with hom or just do a simple portrait. I’m trying to get to doing a couple of Rock bands in group caricatures with a couple of images a friend helped me find. One of then is going to be super cool, so stay tuned. The original source image is posted below as well as a short video interview of the actor.

Tommy Lee Jones

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California 90420 DVD Wrap Commission – 2nd Draft

Nov 30, 2011

This is the second draft of the DVD wrap design for CatchPhrase Entertainment and New Coast Productions, obviously for the movie California 90420 after a laundry list of changes they wanted. The 2nd draft ended up quite a bit different from the first. As you can see, almost everything was changed in some way and it’s not finished. There are more icons and information that they wanted on the bottom of the back cover but there is no room so I sent them this and I’m leaving it up to them to figure it out. Oh well, you have to give the client what they want. I will hopefully be posting the final draft tomorrow or I think I’ll ask to them visit my PayPal account again. 🙂

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California 90420 DVD Wrap Commission – 1st Draft

Nov 23, 2011

Tonight I’m posting the first draft of a DVD wrap design concept for the movie California 90420 by CatchPhrase Entertainment and New Coast Productions out of California. I’m sure most of you are familiar with the poster I was initially commissioned to do. It was simple on a white background because it was so huge and they didn’t provide any source images at the size required to create a custom background at that print size. This project is a little more fun because I can create backgrounds from smaller images. I’m not much of a graphic designer so this is a bit out of my element as far as type setting and all but this is my attempt with the limited recourses I have, namely fonts. This is just the first conceptual comp and will change considerably before completion but I just wanted to show what I started with and how it will evolve over time with the clients’ input and added source material. Sometimes I have to just put something together to get the client thinking and deciding on what they really want, so this was a very quick mock-up. I’ll be working on the final product tomorrow and with any luck, have it posted the next day.

Just for kicks, I’m posting the movie trailer below as well as a little info on the movie premiere dates and locations. Enjoy!

Directed by one of the guys that brought you the comedy hit, “Waiting…”, comes the story of 4:20 Somethings; learning, leading, striving and thriving in California’s semi-legalized marijuana culture.

California 90420 will be premiering on the east coast November 4th and 5th at the Asheville Cinema Festival in North Carolina. (www.ashevillecinemafestival.com)

The west coast premiere will be in Los Angeles on November 19th. If you are interested in attending this private screening, go to www.facebook.com/California90420.

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Alan Greenspan ~ A Rare Revisit

Nov 22, 2011

Tonight I’m posting a rare revisit to one of my manipulations of Alan Greenspan or anyone for that matter. I thought this caricature study had potential but the version I did a while back didn’t go as I expected. The original source image which is posted below was washed out with little detail and I didn’t really know what to do with it or how to deal with those issues at the time so I put him on a gradient background which was a banding nightmare. It made me sick every time I looked at it so I decided to rework it just a bit and put him in a new setting. He makes a great subject and I felt it would be a shamed to toss it out, so here is Alan Greenspan IIIV.

I just finished a movie DVD jewel case design for New Coast Productions so I will probably post that tomorrow. I also finally finished the collaboration piece I did with Jesse Smith of Loose screw Tattoo and delivered it to him today as a gift. It wasn’t enough change to bother posting again. It was mainly fine details getting it print ready. I have another little fun project going on the side that I’ll post in a day or two.

I’m working on a deal with an art magazine who wants me to do a webinar on my work. I’ve turned two of these down already but I think I’m going to accept this one, so all of you who have been hounding me about doing a tutorial and showing my methods, this is for you. There’s a lot involved and there’s the scheduling issue so it won’t be until next year but I’m headed in that direction. It’s been a very long but productive day, so I’m calling it a night guys. Until tomorrow!