Motion graphics: Funky
Made for an author, this appears on Facebook as a means of promoting Jenks Farmer’s book about southern gardening. An awesome guy, Tony, help me tweak this to perfection.
typography
Street art: miserable sorcerer
Another composition of the street tar, words from the horse, and some cool old mug shots. I love doing whatever I want with the type.
Type Collage: Truth
A collage kind of thing that started with a photo close up of some public art, a photo I took of a Buddha statue, and some wood type.
Type specimens 2
Some more collage-ey things with type and maps and old images.
Type specimens 1
Playing around with found old type specimens and some other digital stuff, made into a collage of sorts. The type looks alms like it’s on old tissue paper, I love the transparency.
Hand drawn lettering
Playing around with a random quote I heard on WTF podcast about Jimi Hendrix, I drew this out on paper, scanned it, drew in Illustrator, and added some textures in Pshop.
Dudes 3-4
These were done as an exercise, with mixed results. They started as pencil sketches, then traced in illustrator and finished out in pshop. I used both painted on textures and some stuff found online. Text added from a book I’m trying to read (as if these are the dude’s names), set in LetterMpress.
Dudes 1-2
These were done as an exercise, with mixed results. They started as pencil sketches, then traced in illustrator and finished out in pshop. I used both painted on textures and some stuff found online. Text added from a book I’m trying to read (as if these are the dude’s names), set in LetterMpress.
Creative Unblock 4
The last one I did, I cut those painted leaves up in a 1000 pieces and did some free form compositions. I added some found old paper and the LetterMpress set type on top, all in pshop. Again, the idea came from here, highly recommended.
Creative Unblock 3
This one, like the previous one, references that dub step song I heard. I used the Art Rage app on a Surface Pro for the painting, then composited some found old paper and LetterMpress set type in pshop. Inspiration for this image from here.
Creative Unblock 2
At some point while working on these images (the project came from here)I heard a dub step tune (listen here), and felt an affinity to some lines in the song. This image uses the leave cut out (I loved the shadows created when these were stacked up) and composited a pastel crayon drawing on top, along with type set in LetterMpress. Dig it.
Stream of 2
I loved the type accident from my previous exercise, and wanted to stay with it. This was partially inspired by a podcast interview I heard of a very talented collage artist. This illustration uses ArtRage for the painting and layering, then Photoshop for some additional work. I’m digging this.
Stream of
An illustration exercise, maybe not all that good. It was random stuff i drew in my sketchbook, then re-drawn in Illustrator and color / texture added in Photoshop. Most all the painting texturing was done on the Surface Pro I have. It still felt lacking, so I added the words on top, these were leftover letters from other LetterMpress projects.
Bike boy, what do you know?
Created for fun, this starts with old magazine scan, painted over in Art Rage, then lots of collage work in Photoshop. Lettering created in LetterMPress. Words from e-horse books, or whatever it was called.
Street art 3
These things make me happy to create: the tar on the street photos, combined with random words, some Gaskell’s quotes and scans and a few other antique images. I love the way the tar looks like brush script. I love the haunted look of the people in the mug shots. I’ve got a few more in mind to do, the files are huge, so maybe I stop after this one.
Textures in illustrations
A while back, I took a skillshare class on using textures for CD covers. It was taught by a guy from Australia, he was quite good, some of his techniques were new to me, and I loved his style. The band I picked was Donna the Buffalo, and I picked their last album to re-create. I didn’t really dig what was done for them before. This cover uses some of their graphic looks, but with my spin on it.
Street Art 2
Another digital collage that started with a photo of street tar, then I have fun with old mug shots, digital letterpress type, and horse ebooks word snippets from their twitter account. I still want to believe these tweets were auto-generated.
Street art
While on my bicycle, I’ve seen areas of the road with what looks like tar brushed or drizzled onto cracks in the road. Some of these tarred areas look like foreign calligraphy. 
They can be beautiful while I’m in motion on the bike, and in still images too. I’ve started playing with photos, just seeing where it leads.