Just for fun...

Little present I did for a friend of mine, done in Illustrator, texture added in Photoshop

New logo !

It's been a while since I considered my logo and I found my old one quite aged, plus I felt like I changed my "style" ( if you'd like to call it that way ) quite a lot, so I thought it's the right time to come up with something slightly different. I'm not quite sure what's gonna be my next step, but at the moment this feels like the right thing to do, so I hope you like it : ) 

Aaaaand another portrait

Messing around and cleaning up after, exploring and getting lost, experimenting and getting big bang out of it, learning and failing...then exhausted falling into the depths of armchair...

Hope you like it

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O.

Back to digital...

I know I mentioned some time ago I decided to practice more water colours...and look, I'm right back where I started, digital stuff. More exactly - Adobe Illustrator and all the joy and happiness that comes along with it : )) 

In a way I think this piece was inspired by a recent discovery of Lichtenstein's painting "Cable", which went missing for about 42 years. 

This one is still work in progress, but I'm sure I'll keep you posted as soon as possible. 

Inspired ( clearly : )) by a film noir.

Thanks!

O.

Strange things happen

Ok, guys, this is something I've been working on for last two weeks. I have to say it's been delightful cooperation with a client, they were very helpful and we kept in touch for the whole time, discussing all the details and anything I was interested in, I just asked the question and got an answer immediately.  Unfortunately what originally was meant to be a cover for a photo book had been turned into T-shirt design. It's all about this guy, Kamil Holan, who won The Isle Of Man TT Newcomer's 2012. It's the first Czech guy ever who won this and it took some balls to do it, so thumbs up for this racer, it's a hell of a success.

And the T-shirt designs:

Little water colours practice

1. I did this as a preparation of something I would love to do in a bigger scale and different media, most likely  acrylics.

Shaun...

...of the dead
I was gonna do a poster for this film ages ago, when it came out but never got myself to do it. Couple of days ago I went through my DVD collection ( yes, some of us still keep DVDs, even in the age of downloads : ) and found SOTD.  I couldn't resist and watched it right away and few days later it made me sit down and actually do it. This is just one of the first roughs, there's still lot of work to be done on this.
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And the process...

This time I didn't go for a digital and for the first time I tried analogue process, both painting and capturing the image. It was a bit of mission with my camera, but in the end I persuaded it to cooperate and give out all the footage, so here it is :) sorry about the bad lighting conditions, my desk is not exactly what I would call perfect :)

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O.

I though I would get back to water colours, as I left them behind for some while and I definitely need some practice, so here we are: the portrait of a beautiful friend of mine, Zarrina, hope you like it!

Thanks!

Some of the older stuff...

I used few of my older images and started to think what could I do with them. Not a rocket science, but still had fun with it. I started to consider a type face a part of my work, so here are some quick experiments I did today. Hope you like it. Thanks.

Quick portrait sketch...

...of my beautiful cousin. I used one of her photos for a reference. The only thing I changed / added was the butterfly, her pose just suggested there should be something on her hand she's looking at. I bet she could be a great model for portraits. Gotta get some more photos of her and develop it in more detail, definitely work more on it with advanced media, not just Copic Pens and ProMarkers, like I used for this particular one. Also I would like to leave the realistic looking style and go for more abstract feel.
Hope you like it :)

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Little insight of the previous image...

 ..I thought it would be fun to create a little time lapse video of this image, so here it is: 

    Cupid - making of

Things don't always go according to a plan...

...so we have to find a way to deal with it. Therapy by work I call it. It was gardening, major deep cleaning of a house...just about anything to keep us busy not thinking about what lets us down so much. And of course drawing is a part of it. Sometimes words can't explain everything entirely, sometimes the more we talk the less sense it makes, so maybe the creative way is the right one. Anyway, here's my little contribution to relationships, to all the people in love as well as to everyone who's heart-broken. Thanks

And few close-ups

Forgotten Corner

Once upon a time, there was this assignment. It was given to us by...well us. We are trying to start to run this collective, bunch of people working together, supporting each other, but more importantly giving ourselves a weekly, fortnightly or monthly based projects, challenges, or whatever you want to call it. I'm more than happy this is actually going on for it keeps us going and not to get stuck in one place. This one was actually quite difficult one for me, as I got a little outside of this thing assignment and now have to get on with it, but luckily Im just like the postman, always delivers. There's a little peak of the process as well, not a rocket science, but you'll get the idea. Hope you like it! Thanks!

Sad news...

Sadly it is true. Last night a great actor, definitely underestimated by few, Michael Clarke Duncan passed away. His one of the first big films was Armageddon. Maybe a cheesy one, with all the american flags waving around, with a mission that needs to be done to save the world, with loads of cliche quotations ( you know what I mean: I love you forever, I need to do this, or somewhat like main character assuring his daughter:"Don't worry, I'll be alright..." As soon as he says it, you know he's pretty much fucked and there's no way back for him). ANyway, I don't want to write a review for this film, I like it anyway, I think it was cool back then. His other big role and I think many would say the BIG one, was The Green Mile. Who wouldn't remember the prisoner called Coffee. He performed brilliantly in this one, retarded Coffee, who can suck any disease out of people, and as we saw towards the end, he could also pass all the bad stuff in him to others. It was surely a great novel by Stephen King in the first place, but making a film out of it, they created a legend. Yes, it had great basis to be built on, but it was also a great choice of actors to be involved in and I dare to say that this film ( considering the prison theme ) can match with classics such as Shawshank Redemption. What fascinated me the most was the meeting of two worlds, two realities. The real world as we know it, and the fantasy one, the unbelieveable. You know sometimes you get films, where something entirely unreal happens, but characters kind of take it as it is and get on with it. So what, there's a Godzilla in the town, but we are more scared because of its size, rather to think, what the F just happened. In Green Mile, all the wardens just look so scared and so not believing what they just happened to see. As I said before - a great casting. Of course Michael starred in so many other films ( Sin City for example), TV series ( Spider-Man), or even did voiceovers for quite a few characters in video games, such as God of War II ( voice for titan Atlas ) or SOCOM II: US Navy Seals. Michael Clarke Duncan suffered from heart attack some time ago and unfortunately, even such a big man like himself, did not make it so he could stay with us. Rest In Peace, gentle Giant, you will be missed. I have done his portrait originally by pencil, then scanned in Photoshop, added textures and played around with layer mask and unrevealing the back by painting it black. Simple process, however I tried to keep the whole image simple, considering the situation.

Logo

New screenprint design I used for my current logo, business cards and postcards. I didn't want it to become just one of the dull images, I rather wanted it to be a bit of fun as well.