New logo, New look.

Welcome to the updated site, complete with a new logo and a new look for the page.  I am currently working on getting a couple websites up, including my own, so look for links soon.  Let me know what you think of the new logo at adam8485@gmail.com.  

French Horn Hat, after much ado.

So I finally got around to making the picture that won the vote held about a month ago.  French Horn was the clear winner, so here it is:

Apparently, Bootsy loves to say "wooooow!" so I thought it should go in the picture, especially since I waited so long before finally getting around to making it.

This is probably the last of the Bootsy related artwork for a while.  BUT if you'd like to reminisce and look at all the Bootsy art I've done up til now, click here.

It's Bootsy Again, Baby!!!

So I still haven't drawn Bootsy with a French Horn on his head, but hopefully this will tide you over:

Apologetic Rob(ot).

This is a t-shirt design I did for a friend.  She gave me no guidelines at all, just wanted something fun.  So after a few iterations and some ideas from my friend, we ended on this design:

If, by any chance, you are interested in owning one of these shirts, please contact me!

Bizznizz Cards

I recently just completed a commission that included logo design and production of business cards for a very talented watercolor artist named Marilyn Lebhar.  Her artwork can be seen here: Watercolors by Marilyn Lebhar.

This is the final business card which includes the logo of which I posted drafts in a previous post.

Two-Show Surfside Players Postcard

Every couple shows, the Surfside Players make postcards advertising their next two productions.  Below is the postcard I did for Frost/Nixon and a new play called The Wayward Email (which won Surfside's annual playwriting competition).  There were stricter guidelines for this postcard, which required inverting and adjusting some of the Frost / Nixon coloring and finding a way to have general text that worked over both designs' color schemes.  Here is the finished product:
 

To view a later version of The Wayward Email play poster, click here.

Phun with Philters

Last night I was at a concert for the hip hop artist Drake (my girlfriend won tickets on the radio!) and I took a few pictures.  I only snapped a few and they weren't particularly good or clear so I decided to use this as an opportunity to experiment with some of Photoshop's filters.  I went the extreme route so none of these are supposed to look remotely real. 

This is using the Cutout filter on a picture of the stage and the crowd, with some coloring effects.

Here is a picture of Drake's house band and their shadows on the wall, using the Chalk and Charcoal filter.

This is the crowd before the show altered with the Glowing Edges filter.  In my opinion, Glowing Edges can make any mediocre picture look stylized and AWESOME.  Look at all those glowing human heads in the crowd!

Neglected blog!

Hey blog followers - sorry for neglecting you.  I actually have a few commissions I am working hard on right now so hopefully I will be posting some new stuff soon.  The Bootsy's New Hat poll is closed and French Horn won - the resulting pic will hopefully be posted later this week.  Here's an HDR to tide you over.  Stay tuned!

The reason I like HDR (High dynamic range) photos so much is that there are a lot of ways you can distort a single image.  You can make a photo look hyper-real or give the photograph a certain mood or feeling that it didn't previously have.  The image above is actually taken from the same photograph as Stormy Tree (click the link to see) - I cropped it into two photos and used effects on them each in different ways.  To view more of my HDRs, click here.