Saturday, February 28, 2009

Black Magic

This is a Vector art piece that I created in Photoshop. I took an image from my photo shoot with Brooke in the bathtub and just played with layers, brushes, gradients, and color pallets until I got to were I wanted to be. I wanted something funky, edgy and modern as well as a bit dark and mystical. If I had a hot young shoe and handbag line I would love a set of adds with this feel.

Hope; let it take flight within you

This is an add I did in Photoshop. I wanted it to have a peaceful and calming tone, yet be inspirational and motivating at the same time. I love this image of the little boy on his fathers shoulders. It reminds me so much of my childhood riding on my Father's shoulders and feeling on top of the world. I used the silhouette of the birds because they are such an icon for so many things I was trying to capture here, peace, freedom and hope. I created the saying, "HOPE: Let it take flight within you" and placed in where it would not be too obtrusive, as to let the audience still experience the image by its self, yet where I knew the eye would eventual lead the reader so that it subtlety sunk into their line of sight. I hope that this piece does for you what it does for me.