Based off of the main character in M-Flo's PV "Sound Boy Thriller", I drew a young chubby b-boy that had the moves and enerrgy i was looking for. He turned out great, with many hard days of re-doing it and finding out what worked out the best for this colorful character.
What do you think?
I just happened to stumble upon this while window shopping at Shin Kong Mitsukoshi this weekend.
I thought it was really great to see everyone's different rendition of the Iron Man suit.
If you want to see more, go to the set here. Sorry for the bad quality, I only had my iphone at the time.
It's not exactly design-related, but its designer-related since I'm a designer and I went there. It was raining, so it was definitely not a great weekend to go, but my coworkers and I had some good laughs. It's good to be away from the computer once in a while.
Lately, I've been looking for inspirations, iconic characters or people that I know that I could use in my work. I chose Akira, from the movie "Nobody Know" as one of the street urchins that just slips on by, raised up on the streets and has that street mentality and look(see below).
This one has gotten a lot of attention on my FLICKR, celebrating its 50th view rather quickly. My work is somewhat simple, and perhaps not as significant, nor as interesting, as some other FLICKRians, but I'm glad its been on people's eyes and mind.
I've also been trying to keep an eye on "V", a character I developed for the same series but I didn't want him to be predictable. I never noticed how many applications of the letter "V" could I find, but I found plenty to work with and this got some pretty good pickup, so I'm glad.
MONSTERS! Something my students all know and say at some time in class. Love the simple lines here.
Simple monotone poster, with a clear message. Jealous of the great shapes created here.
Nice color collage here, layering some interesting elements here. I think that it needs some text, because it seems like its lacking a general direction as to what the piece represents.
Great visual illusion conveyed in this illustration. The text on the top and bottom could use some refinement, as I think they detract for the overall image but kudos on the image itself.
I love the paths created by the type. It's fun and communicates in layers. Love it.
I'm not an expert on paper cutting,but this just looks really cool, and remarkably difficult to achieve.
From an artist based in China i met on flickr. He's got some great paintings and interesting subject matter. I picked this one because it reminded me a lot of the robotic monstrosities in those Transformers movies.
A cap of David Choe's work. His stuff is so surreal and I always love the rad colors he chooses to juxtapose.
Right after "Revolucion", I got to work on another character nicknamed "the champion", a spoof of a kid trying to be a crime fighter out of the comic books, namely batman. I used Paul Pope's BATMAN as an inspiration here, and put together this interesting rendition.
This one got a lot of views, and I followed up with another dynamic shot of the character(below), which took a couple of tries but I managed to get it right.
This took three days to do.
Day ONE: Sketch out the identity
I used a photo of a friend(below) with a unique face. I think these types of faces have quite a bit of personality so I find them much more memorable to work with. It was difficult to figure out which is the right fit, and to capture the likeness but retaining the style I've been using as of late.
DAY TWO: POSITIONING
The second day involved perspective, clothing, and the right pose to communicate the best mood and tone. It started off rather rough, almost like playing around with an action figure and figuring out how the character would work and why.
DAY THREE: Shadows, details...
After HOURS of burning the midnight oil, the pose was finished and then came the "finish". Putting in shadows and other things to see what would work best. Trying to figure out something unique per the work, was a bit difficult because I wanted there to be a message that is relate able to the character.
REVOLUTION was appropriate. There needs to be change right?
