The Big 23

Francisco — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:51:11 +0000

I haven’t put anything up for a while now, so I stayed up till 3am and came up with a little something. This was a nice old picture I had on my computer and did some variations on the last tutorial I had posted. That’s me and Drew Dawg in 2003 right before I shaved my dreads off!

A Dancing Fool

Francisco — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:03:56 +0000

I decided I really wanted to play around with the light tutorial I did a while back so I went to the old photo library and found a picture of my friend Tre Balls. The photo is from a good old First Rays show at Ragtime I believe, I think they were playing his song.

Christmas Tree

Francisco — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:55:38 +0000

We set up our tree a little while ago and I took a few pics, I finally got to putting them up.

There’s the lady putting up all the decorations, I really like the natural light coming in.

She did such a great job!

Red Devil Lounge Logo

Francisco — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:10:44 +0000

Recently I submitted a few comps for a new logo for the red devil Lounge in San Francisco, I am still waiting to hear back on their final choice.

A day in the Park

Francisco — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00:06 +0000

I recently went up in the hills of Georgetown and found this awesome park, basically a private estate turned public. I took some pictures with my lady and had a blast, it was very beautiful.

I don’t know what’s going on here, making out with a fish?

Old school bath tub in the middle of the yard.

A look at the manor.

There is a library on the property too.

Kyle’s Wedding

Francisco — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:16:29 +0000

It was a week ago that my buddy Kyle and his sweetheart Kelly got married and here are my pictures from the festivities. The wedding was on Capitol Hill and the reception was 2 blocks away, pretty cool.

A couple pre-wedding beers.

Mr. Mallon

Little Kyle Dawg

Good People.

Very intrigued.

I love this one look at her in the background.

REUNITED.. Look at my eye, what is going on there?

Putting the mack down.

There was another picture taken but I am not going to post it, this one is perfect.

It’s a wrap!

1 Tutorial a Day- 24th Expresive Lighting Effects

Francisco — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:01:47 +0000

This is a cool tutorial I have seen in every search I have done for tutorials. I was looking for quick tutorials so i always passed it up. Recently I decided I don’t need to limit myself to quick tutorials instead I would do whatever I thought was cool. I took a an hour or longer one day and came back to it today to finish it today. I found this tutorial at computerarts.co.uk if you like the look go ahead and check them out. You have to download a PDF with the instructions to do the tutorial this was the first time I had to do that.

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Here is the final image of this tutorial, I think it is really cool. I have seen this technique done on a lot of different images or at least something similar and think it is a very popular trend emerging in a lot of design. Here are a few examples of similar designs I found.

Below is my final design, my friend Pat catching some air dunking.

This tutorial was a little hard to follow it needed just a little more description in some of the steps. It would say to do this or that and not tell you how to do it. I got the just of it though, there were some steps where the author added his own sketches which he scanned and traced in Illustrator. I used some photoshop brushes and did not use my own sketches. I also added some things here and there like the background texture. This tutorial was pretty cool, I used Illustrator and Photoshop, overall it was not so easy to follow but had a great final effect.

A little fun with a logo

Francisco — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:13:40 +0000

I have been trying to tone up on some logo skills and practice makes perfect. I have been trying to stay busy with some sort of graphic design work so that I can get better with every project. Here is a logo I have been working on, just something that came to mind and I decided to roll with it.

This is my black and white version, it has been said that a successful logo should be able to translate into black and white well.

I went on to add some color and switch the look up a little. I have been visiting the site logopond.com and looking at the awesome logo work on there. It is a great site and is very inspirational.

Here is another version just a little change up to see some different looks. I think I am partial to the second logo myself.

A little more Logo Love.

Francisco — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:19:36 +0000

I recently did some pro bono work, I designed the logo for The” Latino Student Alliance” at JMU. They just wanted something simple so I just did a play on the letters LSA, easy and fun.

Here is the start of the final direction I went in.

I added a diamond shape to enclose the logo, with a little gradient mesh to add something interesting.

I messed around a little with reversing the color out. I think I might be changing the color up a little to match their website color but probably just the letters themselves because the logo has to stand out from the background. They also wanted a little bit of yellow added so I will add a little.

Matt’s Wedding

Francisco — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:28:03 +0000

My buddy Matt got married a couple weeks ago and I have been sleeping on putting the pictures up. It was a nice ceremony and reception an overall great time. I didn’t go to take pictures of everything, I really just wanted to have a good time and not feel like I was working. So here are a few of the shots I took.

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The groomsmen on the way to the ceremony.

A beautiful place Oxon Hill Manor in Oxon Hill Maryland.

The groom minutes before the ceremony.

Good old David Jones, very photogenic.

Yes Joe in all his glory.

Here are some of my friends.

A little bit of bubbles to see them on there way after the reception.