The celebration of a birthday.

On Sunday my coworker will celebrate his 29th birthday and he asked me to use a photo he took with a painted naked woman and make him a shirt. Since I've done stuff for him before I know the style he likes so I intentionally made it look a bit sketchy, threw in a bit of Aztec influenced patterns and some west coast style lettering. Came out kinda cool. He loved it.

Glad I could help you out homie. Happy Birthday.

Project update - BSKY NYC

Recently I completed some illustrations for a street wear brand here in Brooklyn that I'm quite proud of and I'm happy to say these pieces will be included in their new Fall 2014 line. Keep an eye out.

This series of illustrations is a bit of a departure from normalcy for me since I'm usually illustrating with traditional media and cleaning up in the computer. However, these were 95% completed strictly in Photoshop. I wanted to challenge myself and create a different workflow.

Imagery of the panther is used to create a sense of power and grace while the mandala, in this context, is meant to embody the universe, wisdom and impermanence. Trident's and alchemy symbols are also used to push the feeling of power, self worth and the root of oneself even further. 

I'm a symbol and imagery nerd... 

The trident representation of Neptune in particular embodies the becoming, being and the passing away, the cross (or line) at the bottom of the trident is considered the root or stabilizer for the erratic nature of this concept. Which I thought was very inherent of human nature, we are a very erratic species and we need something to root us, and keep ourselves on track.

Anyway, I'll post up the full pieces when I feel they are 100% ready, I'd say they are about 90% right now!

Thanks for reading.