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More images from the archive aka my closet. The last couple of years have been rough for me mentally and I’ve spent them dealing with emotions and taking my final steps into adulthood. During the course of this journey I had to endure the truth about who I am, how people perceive me and how I see myself. The last part is harder than the other two because its harder to be honest with yourself sometimes than it is to be honest to others. You may think that you are the best there is in your eyes but sometimes that reality can be so far from the truth that you can drown in it.

Which leads to today’s image. It was drawn a few years back, in the midst of my darker days when, as my brother would say, the Dark Wings were out. Where everything was horrible, I was living a very unhappy existence by just existing. Which I DON’T recommend. Beyond that it was just an overall bad time for me. When I first drew this piece I thought that the image was about a man drowning someone else. As I sat coloring this image I realized it wasn’t about the man doing the choking but the person who was drowning. The one being choked by the actions that they took which lead to this point in time.

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What you see above is one stage in my plan for artistic world domination. Along with the numerous illustrations and graphic tees, I’m gonna begin to start putting out vector packs that I create on a day to day basis. I’d love to hear what people think about this idea and and this first vector pack. Its a miss mash of items used in the course of my day to day artistic life. What you would use them for… well what ever you’re creative mind can come up with.

You can find the link to download after the jump:

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Today’s image is yet another of my many Jimi Hendrix done at work. This is one of my favorites combination of vector graphics, photoshop splatters and various layer opacity treatments. This was a fun piece to do and I’ll post more of my T-shirt layouts. Short message today, late for work. Be back later.

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Today was a hard day for me. Work, 3 meetings, 30 emails and a really bad plate of week old Lasagna. Either way, I added yet another drawing for the day. Booyaaa. Above you’ll find the little used and awesomely George Washington Carver powered Mr. Peanut Armor. These are the insane kinds of things I think about when I’m at work. Random…random… random, things. Enjoy, I gotta create a PDF before I go to sleep.

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Today’s drawing is a rough character sheet of avatars for a site called Shotgun Love…. What that site is about really can’t be discussed on this family oriented site but let’s just say its a Men’s Lifestyle site and quietly move on.

This sheet is drawn in Illustrator and designed as a basis for the characters and are more like pieces to be mixed and maxed as the final 3 characters are chosen. I have 4 base heads with a wide variety of ideas that can be combined to create even more characters once the client gives their feedback. I like’em but I’m not the client (wink, wink). FYI, I do have ties with SGL and they said it was cool for me to use this as part of my blog. Hope you enjoy new art coming tomorrow.

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Today’s image is brought to you by the letter Jay and the Letter Z. Its no secret Jay-Z is my favorite rapper I had this idea to design an image based on him and this is the first part of a multi-stage image. I used photoshop to create an illustrated version of a photo of him then cleaned it up in Illustrator. Colors and final layout done in Illustrator. This is a good beginning but far from over. Total work time: 2hrs 15 mins. Give or take 15-20mins. Let’s see what tomorrow holds.

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