New Artwork - Urban Dreams
This new piece is based on a picture of my friend Niki. I have always thought she had a very appealing face and thought it would be a good challenge to create something around it. When working with faces in artwork it's very difficult to retain all the beauty that someone contains.
We are naturally drawn to facial symmetry. Studies have shown that the more perfectly aligned and symmetrical a person's face is, the more attractive they appear to other humans. When recreating or editing an image of a person, just the slightest adjustment can throw the entire face off-balance and create a very unflattering counterpart. Before this picture the only female face I had worked with was Jessica Alba. She was very intimidating, not only because I looked her straight in the eyes for hours on end but because every single time I accidentally moved part of her face she would completely lose her beauty.
This continues my effort to urbanize my style for a while. I went on a nature spree for quite a while, and now find myself very drawn towards the feelings of the city. I wanted to show the great connection one can have with a cityscape, no matter how unnatural they may seem. There can be beautiful man-made creations with art seeping out of the alleyways and most unassuming places you can think of.
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New Artwork - Flow of Nature
This new piece is something I put together while on vacation in Florida. I thought I would be inspired by being in such a different climate and environment, and this turned out to be partially true. All of the inspiration for this piece came from fake plants at my Grandpa's house. I wanted some very specific looking plants to use, and I couldn't seem to find anything outside...and then I realized, all of the plants I was searching for were right in front of me.
I made a very conscious effort to make something different with this piece. I have never used a white background before, and wanted to try and make things have more of a gritty feel. My style for quite some time has been very smooth, and I decided it was time to wander a little ways off the path. I am very happy with how it turned out. There really isn't any deep thought or hidden message in this, just an attempt to push my aesthetic range a little further.
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Slayer Magazine Cover
I'm not really the biggest Slayer fan, even though I respect them for representing all things metal and making every other 80's band seem very, very weak. I would never admit this at a hard concert, because I'm fairly certain it would be the last concert I ever experience due to Slayer fans twisting me into a ball and tossing me around the crowd. For those of you who really don't know any Slayer songs, "Angel of Death" is a great introduction.
This is my 4th month in a row doing the cover for Maximum Ink. They did not ask me to do the latest issue, and I can only speculate what the reasons may be. I think it's possible that they simply cannot handle five super badass covers in a row, and they decided to give everyone's retinas a break from all the visual super-awesomeness.
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