Valley of the Dolls

Going through my files found another interesting piece, can't even remember doing this one. Don't know what my thought process was and it's so surrealistic I almost left it stuck in limbo, but because I'm addicted to blogging and was looking for something to post, because I'm not working on anything right now, I thought what the hell somebody might like it.

Best of 2007 / Blowing Bubbles at a Music Video Shoot

Most of my best work for 07' is already posted, but this one, was one of my more creative pieces, so it had to be showcased. I was trying to make the elements of the piece interact with each other, to become one. This one I really pushed the envelope to try an make something in a style I had never tried before.

Honorable Mention 06' / Black Money

I was going to school in 06' but dropped out because I wasn't getting what I needed from the school. While I was there I had a visual communication class, and for one of our projects we had to redesign money. A classmate designed a $20. bill with Malcolm X on it and that shit looked so fucking cool, I was pissed I hadn't thought of the idea myself. I had to do my own version, so I found the same pic she had of Malcolm and I found a specimen copy of the new $50 bill online...and the rest is history. The only problem with the specimen bill is I can't print the damn thing, half of it prints and the other half has property of federal gov't or some shit written on it. That means I can only display it here, which sucks!

Best of 2006 / A Little Trip To Def Jam

This poster is a replica of a movie poster, and after I did it I saw a few dvd covers with the same layout.

Best of 2006 / Evil Empire

Evil Empire was my very first political piece, and it just might be my best one to date. It took me a few months to complete this one and a million revisions. I had George in the background, but I decided against it because the message became redundant, the white house is already a representation of the government. The face of the young man represents the young men and women who are placed in harms way to enforce a false doctrine.

Best of 2006 / Untltled 00

Merry Christmas to all Major corporations and the consumer zombies, who sucked the joy out of the Christmas spirit, unfortunately I'm also a consumer zombie! Let it be more about family and love of being with family and friends and less about shopping!!!

Since there is only a few days left to 2008, I'm going to use these few days to post my favorite pieces from 2006 and 2007, leaving the best for last. Starting things off is my favorite piece of 2006, can't remember when in 06' I did this one but it was so different to anything I had done before that I couldn't stop looking at it for days afterword. It was so simple but, strong. Never had a name for it, so this it's entitled, untitled 00.

Plies / Fight Club...Got Next

Sometimes I get extremely lucky with the images I find, this background was to die for, I mean it gets no sweeter than this... a Fight Club scenario. Plies expression is priceless, it almost looks like he's taking his chains off cause he's next up to fight.
I had finished it awhile ago but something was missing, so it was sitting in limbo. That's why I used his head for "The Hit" poster because I didn't expect to finish it completely. I just learned a new technique that I've been using on damn near everything, and thought I'd try it on this and to my surprise it worked like a charm.

Girl in Blue

Caught in the rapture of women.
Continuing to experiment with new styles, pushing the boundaries of color, textures and coarse lines. Ultimately it goes back to coming as close to the look of a painting as possible without the use of painting plug-ins. This particular look is more of a color pencil.

HIP HOP UNIVERSAL

Hip Hop is universal, it's gotten bigger than us all.

Focused Machine

Focused machine approached me to do a series of designs for their upcoming party, which consist of two logos, a mixtape cover and a flyer for the event. This is the front of the mixtape cover.

Aaliyah

Not very inspired this month, thinking about this big project I'm about to undertake with some colleagues of mine, has drained me of all my creative energy. I forced myself too create something and it took me almost ten hours to come up with this.

BLACK ROCK

Revised Version: FinalFirst Draft
More experimentation with this new style.

Another Milestone

The Hit / Gangster

Revised this image again, needed more room to tell the story

LOOKSEE / ALI BABA NEW

A Trinidad Band flyer.

Rza and the Bentley

Bobby digital!

Rapture

Public Enemy

Who is the real Public Enemy?

Youth Summit Logo

My good friend and business partner Anthony "Boogie" Dunn had a youth summit earlier this year aimed at sending positive messages to the kids and the community through the word of God. He wanted a logo designed for it since this was going to be a subsidiary company of his parent company FireStorm.ent (soon to become a household name for those of you out there who like popular music). We bumped heads a few times on the creative process, but the end result I think captured the essence of what the Youth Summit was and is all about.

Keisha Cole

LORD OF WAR

I was browsing the internet the other nite and I stumbled upon this movie poster spoof for Lord of War with Dick Cheney and I thought that was a pretty cool idea. So I tried to replicate it, because I thought that it could have been better executed. This is my version, check out the original version link.

George Bush

Everybody is always talking about how stupid George Bush is , but how stupid is he really. He got the American people to vote for him twice, he got the senate to go along with most of his plans, he made the people he works for and his friends extremely rich, while leaving the same people who voted for him out in the dust. So when he said Mission Accomplished, he wasn't joking. So the question is, who is the real idiot, him or you.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Portrait

Stress and frustrations make me into someone else, and I don't want to be that person...sometimes I feel like I have multiple personalities and hence the inspiration for my latest creation.

Mario Powers UP

FuTuRE with no tomorrow / Gritty version

Wanted to make it a little more gritty, so it could feel more apocalyptic.