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Calendar: February vs Valentines Day 2010 Wallpaper

By: Popephoenix
26-01-2010
365 illustration, Graphic Design

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OK. I thought about this idea a little late to do one for January. Nevertheless here is my February vs Valentine’s Day calendar wallpaper. This is a different take on a Valentines Day image as you never know what love will bring. Love is a fickle mistress and is more spontaeneous then a room full of caffeinated spokesmen with Touretts. If that makes sense.Which it probably doesn’t.

This wallpaper was first drawn out with pencil then scanned in. Then using Photoshop to ink, paint and light till I reached a point of completion. I had fun with this and can’t wait to work on my next one for March. This particular piece is gonna be submitted to Smashing Magazine’s monthly calendar wallpaper. Hopefully, It’ll get picked. I’ll keep everyone updated.

Hahaha Wooo… ok. Today has been kinda dark visually. I’ll lighten the mood with my next post. Promise…

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Day 026: For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Popephoenix
26-01-2010
365 illustration, Poetry in Paint

Today’s image come courtesy of my unpromoted love of writing. This is an old poem written some time ago. Life and experiences dictates vision of an artist, in saying this we all live through both highs and lows. When I wrote this I was dealing with a darker part of my life. I was overwhelmed by responsibility, desire, lust, pride and ignorance. Also this was around the time Kanye dropped 808s & Heartbreak (which is pretty dark itself.)

With my mind polluted with mental stress and Heartless, Coldest Winter and Pinocchio’s Story on infinite repeat the only outlet I could find was my pen and in my writing. This is one of a series of poems that I wrote during that time and over the course of the year I’ll post more.

I’d love to hear what you think of this prose. How do you deal with stress and your dark days?

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Day 017: Questlove or ?uestlove

By: Popephoenix
17-01-2010
365 illustration

Today I was lined up to go party it up at a ?uestlove event out in Brooklyn. You know drinking, dancing and enjoying my Pre-MLK holiday. BUT unlike most people I totally refused to understand the concept of pre-ordering tickets. HAHA ohh the joy of trying to order sold out tix. With no party lined up I decided to stay home and knock out more illustrations. What you see above is the culmination of my poor ticket buy ability.

For this piece I used Adobe Photoshop to create the original illustration of ?uestlove then added textures, type and various lighting techniques to create the final effect. I think its pretty dope for about 2 1/2 hours of work.  I’m currently a few days behind on schedule, 17th day and 14th illustration. No excuses, I told you this was a work in progress. Catch you tomorrow.

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Day 015: Spider-Man on the MTA

By: Popephoenix
15-01-2010
365 illustration

Spidey… OHHH how I love thee.

As I walk down this path for discipline and design enlightenment, I discover that there are a 1000 different ways draw an image. I’m gonna try as many different ways I can think of. This image was colored in Photoshop using a multiply layer over my black inks. Haven’t really slept well lately. Too much work to do. Brain is on like 15%. Pardon for the short post but time to sleep. Manana.

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Day 009: Painting Tests

By: Popephoenix
09-01-2010
365 illustration

Today was a long day. Spent it running errands, going to kids parties and doing laundry. Oh yeah, getting over partying last night. First time in a while. That’s why today’s image is coming in so late. So I have decided to be very diligent with this painting thing. So here’s another Photoshop painting. No layers or layer effects. Just a straight painting of a famous Movie scene wallpaper. If you can figure it out you get a cookie.

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Day 008: Betty Boots

By: Popephoenix
08-01-2010
365 illustration, Character Design

Today as I walked my daughter to school in the snow. We came across this little girl which you see above. I call her Betty Boots. Now this ISN’T a faithful recreation of her look but how I saw her in my mind and all I could remember were here incredibly big boots. Almost unimaginable how big they were they had to be hand-me downs since she practically swam in them.

As I said before I’m really getting comfortable in drawing with the Wacom. This image was done completely in Photoshop with no pencil sketch scanned in. All this practice is paying off… Let’s see how these things look early next month. Till tomorrow. Enjoy the pics tell your friends, I’m in this thing for the long haul.

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