Fish boy says ...suprise ?

There is not really much to say about this particular peice .. It started out as a sketch..I never really intended to take it any futher but I started to color it and fell in love with the process. So take a look ..and feed back is always appreciated.

Cyclical Trends

So let me start by saying that I try not to be judgmental. But I was in NYC around Spring Street last Saturday just walking around and picking up some art supplies when suddenly I started to realize that every once in a while people with those huge Dookie rope chains draped around their necks would pass. I kind of smirked to myself thinking that it was interesting piece of fashion that just happened to be making a come back. But, it did not stop there little by little I started to see more late 80's early 90's hip-hop fashion. Everything from the flip up multi colored caps to, high top fades, to those big rimmed glasses that Spike Lee used to sport in Jordan commercials back in the day.



Now, seeing all these fashion revivals separately I pretty much just dismissed it and kept it moving. Then, heading uptown I heard a rumbling of bass and the sounds of clapping behind me. I turned around to find a group of no less that ten full-grown men dressed like something straight out of Krush Groove. I felt like I was in a time warp, these people were decked out in what was the height of fashion…about two decades ago. And the bass was coming from a boom box hoisted upon the shoulder of the man that seemed like he was the pied-piper navigating his group merry human throw-backs through a crowd of people either shaking their heads or clapping.

Bear vs. Shark

So I was just sitting at work one day and thought to myself ..."self, what would a bear wearing a pointy hat versus a shark under water look like? Yea I know, I have a lot of time on my hands. But I digress, I started putting some ideas down on paper and eventually turned that into a finished product. So feel free to scroll down at take a look at the process from beginning to end.
This is step one of my process. Just using copy paper I put down two sketched on paper.
This is step two, I decided to go with the first sketch mainly because it looked more like an even battle, rather than the bear hitching a ride on the back of the shark. I took the first sketch and created a cleaner work up with a few variations.


Step three is me spending hours pushing and pulling the color and mess with filters in Photoshop. After all that what you see above is the finished product...I hope you like.

Popping my blog cherry...

I don't have much to say as of now. After all, this is my first attempt at blogging. So i will just post an image that I put together a few days back that i intend on using for a special project. What is that special project you ask? Well keep checking back to find out of course.