A STORM APPROACHES THE ELEPHANT

Sky Fishing

Rebel Scan

I clipped a few images to create a collage, but never used them, so then I decided to create the collage in photoshop, but while scanning them in without the scan cover and the lights out, it created an image that I wasn't expecting and eventually gave me the idea to create the collage on the scanner and just nap a picture of it. I wonder how creative I can make images with just scans.

Witches On Tor

D'Image People Band Launching flyer and tickets

Issue No.2:Need For Spead

ISSUE NO.1:Ms.Fat Booty

CHOICES

Sometimes in life we are forced to make choices, good or bad, and the choice we make can change our lives forever. We'll I'm faced with one of those choices and my life will be forever changed.

The Protector

I didn't have any motivation these last few days, been feeling tired and slightly depressed, maybe it the freezing cold weather that makes me just want to lay down and sleep all day. Anyway I at least wanted to complete one thing this weekend and I had a couple of ideas swirling around in my head...but this wasn't one of them. I took the easy route, I didn't want to do much work so I tried to create something that was easy for me too accomplish.

Tortured Soul

I wanted to make this piece a little bit more robust, but the computer I'm using right now can't really handle all these layers, and started slowing down almost too a crash. So when I get a better system I'll try to push it as far as I can go with the abstract pieces.

Jay Z and Beyonce Makin Love / Consenting Adults Flyer

Final front and Back.
This is a flyer I'm currently working on for a party me and my boys are throwing in Dec. My boy came up with the name and I automatically remembered this ad for KY jelly of the man and woman laying in bed like they just had sex or was about to have sex.

The only problem was it's an urban party and the original image of a white man and woman wouldn't have appealed to our demographic, so my biggest challenge for this was making it look like it was a black couple and make it look believable. In my search for a woman I could only get Beyonce with the right angle and expression, and trying to find a guy was even harder...but I just so happened to find a pic of Jay walking away with his head slightly turned, how ironic.

I totally crashed and burned with the back of the flyer. I simply did not know what to do with the back...at the time I had just started doing flyers again, and was still figuring how to lay them out in different styles, and how they work in the actual party and promotions setting.

LESSON LEARNED: Flyers have too pop, and they must be easy to read.

Eve & Adam Revised

I think that my game has stepped up some, cause now I'm noticing flaws in previous works, and now I'm able to shape the image and ideas a little bit clearer in the revisions. It definetly shows growth and I have been looking for a gauge on how to track my progress and growth...and I think this way shows me how much I've grown from the previous year.

A Clown Contemplates His Fears and Insecurities While Smoking A Joint.

FIFTY

EGO

I'm really motivated to create surreal images right now, partly because I get the most satisfaction from these types of images. I think it's more creative and there are no rules to surrealism it's anything goes, what's going on in the scene does not have to abide by any rules of the physical world and I like to operate with no rules.

BLACK REPUBLICAN 2008

This image was done last year but I always felt like it was missing something. Today while I was on the train to work, it just suddenly hit me... to make this image as grungey as possible. This one is an instant classic, i'll think I'll blow this one up and put it on my wall.

Man, Woman and Child

Every once in awhile I create an image that looks like it was meant to be. This is one of those images. Everything came together so perfectly and I had all the right pieces to go with it. This is an example of how I want all my images to be.

I'M BACK....Rapture 002

After a few weeks hiatus because of assholes breaking into my apartment and stealing my computer and monitor, I'm finally back up and running.
This is one the three images I created since I've been back up and it seems like the break has done me well, no thanks to the thieves of course.
This is another one in my Rapture series...which is essentially taking an explicit image and making it artistic.

Momentarily Out Of Service

Bastards broke into my apartment stole my computer and my television. So I won't be posting anything for awhile until I get a new computer.

Way of the gun?

Some more experimentation with this sort of free association black and white projects. I just compile a series of vectors and brushes to come up with something that's recognizable.

Fish?

I'm bored with my style, it's starting to look repetitive, so I'm trying different things to hopefully inspire me into a new and different direction.

Slackness Promotions

My first flyer I did for Slackness Promotions.  This wasn't a very dynamic flyer by any means, and if I remember correctly, I think this might of been a rush job. Slackness is family to me, so all the flyers I do for them must always exceed the last one.

Temptation Of The Oversized Moon

The oversized moon is back again lookin at mo' booty. This time an intergalatic passer-by made an impromptu stop to get a souvenir of the event.

Fully Loaded Cards

Business Cards for a DJ Sound System in Trinidad.

I Get Money

What started out as me doing a practice flyer ended up being a cover of the Kanye and 50 publicity stunt. I really wanted to do a flyer or something with women but couldn't find the right images and I ended up using the Kanye image and it just took me in a whole new direction.

Stones Throw Podcast

I was listening to Stones Throw podcast and was inspired to design these covers, real simple just focusing on the text elements. Stones Throw would never do a cover like this though it's too conventional, their style is a little more abstract, just like their music.

Ball Hard or Go Home

Psycho Sid

Crime Pays

Basic Instinct: Greatest R&B Jams 80's

I Carry The Torch

Another Mixtape cover design, I think it's time I do something a little more creative. I'm getting lazy.

Mind Of A Boss

Another Cover...shit this blog is turning into a mixtape cover blog. I really need to get back to more creative work. And yeah the text is hard too read...just think of it like graffiti which is also hard to read.

Who Is Mike Delorean

I have no idea who this dude is that's why I named it Who Is...
I've been doing alot of these covers because there are endless psds for me to use on the site which saves me time from cutting the image. I think it's even getting me lazy with the cuts too.
I did this cover out of frustration because I was trying too finish a myspace layout and it just wouldn't work for me so I took a break and decided to bang this out in about an hour. This layout was easy though.

Fuck Taxes

Another design for the officialpsd site.

Superstar

SUPERSTAR: starring NEYO, RIHANNA and USHER. This DVD cover is for a May tournament on officialpsds.com graphic design forum. The theme was a dvd cover, the name sucks but I couldn't think of another name ...mental block.

GOON CITY

I've used the image of Plies a few times, but I think this time is a charm.

RUN DMC...Legends

This is my mixtape entry for the Official PSD May tournament. The theme is old skool hip hop.

Strip Club revised

I was never happy with the text in the original, finally found one that I liked.

Panties Down

This is the last time I'm using that image of Melyssa Ford. I've used it way too many times and I think I have to officially retire the damn thing.

Too Young For Love

I've joined an online community for photoshop enthusiast of the mixtape genre. While most of the work is not that good, there are a handful of them who actually have some decent skills. This community helps me with my own work by critiquing my work and also engaging in some friendly competition. It's been cool, so i'll be posting alot of mixtape art in the near future.

Attic Clothing Business Card

FrontBack

Dominican Spa Revised

Cut' N Class Barber Shop

Flyer for new Barber Shop

New America

It's been awhile since I've done my movie poster series, even longer for a political piece. With all the shit going on, it just seems like the country is falling apart, perfect plot for a movie...who will be the one to lead us out of this mess or is it too late.

Young Berg

Young Berg's makeover.