Logo/Business Cards

And some said I couldn't do make-up... Well, they were right. I can't. But I can do artwork for make-up artists. One in particular, my friend Christina. Here is a set of logo/business card comps I created for her. On a previous set, I included Christina's pic because she's bonny and photogenic (Yes. A person can be both.) I'd figure, why not use her God-given feature to help sell her make-up services? However, that's not the creative direction she wanted to go with.

And it's always about the client's needs... not mine. So, I started first by customizing her first name as part of the whole look of the card. And more often-than-not, since the human face is the canvas of the makeup artist, I wanted to reinforce that with this overall design.

The "R" and the "A" meet to form what looks like a smile. The lipstick, when zoomed in, shows her favorite Bible verse as one of the detail lines on the lip. I kept the entire look as minimal as possible in order to communicate that the real artwork takes place by Christina on her clients' faces. Once a final is chosen, I'll post that soon. Thanks for viewing everybody!

Art and Ilustration

Here's a great blog on Art and Illustration, Turn Olympus to Atlantis. His latest piece is brilliant!!

Sports Photography

If I can take the heart, passion and energy of any one of these players going after a loose ball in everything I do, watch out world! This is a photo I took of my son's basketball game. I love the effort shown in the faces in the players here. I used Adobe Lightroom to manipulate the colors a bit and completed the retouching in Photoshop. Effects used: Burn, Radial Blur and Halftone Pattern touches around the edges. I duplicated the photo and cropped the middle player (#40), and then added the white keyline. The box is duplicated on top of the background image. Thanks for viewing!

New Sports Blog

I created the following sports blog, Oilers Hoops to chronicle my son's last year playing varsity ball at his high school. I used only Photoshop CS4 for the image editing and some HTML/XML for the code editing. And, since I'm not a writer, it's my vision, to have one of the high school students, volunteer to post some summaries of the games. I may have to do a little bribing though for a teen to give up his/her Tues and Friday nights (when the games are played)... Pizza may do the trick! Thanks for reading!