Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Digital Creativity 101-CD Cover




DDDDDDDone!!!! My computer keeps crashing when I run some of my Photoshop brushes- with all that happening I managed to complete a cover for this amazing musician
www.myspace.com/jushearose - It's such an amazing experience working with talented people,
I would like to think that I surround myself with people of interest to keep ME interesting- haha

Saturday, January 17, 2009

What the hell ART!!!!


I was watching the Colbert report online last night and he interviewed Sheppard Fairey. I thought to myself hmmmm now that name sounds familiar. Then it came to me "OBEY" and along with that thought came " OH NO noNONONONONNONONONO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
The interview was about the Unofficial "Official" Poster. And how he says that he is a "criminal" but would like to extend his support by acting on his own and "creating" the now "in"famous poster
( this is the most "..." I have used in a whole)
then I started thinking.. Hey isn't this the same guy who PLAGIARIZED anti-establishment posters? It seems that his artistic philosophy is somewhat ironic. Whole idea behind his "creations" is about how we get comfortable with the establishment and that we must "OBEY" -
I have been to one of his shows and it makes me wonder, with all the anti-establishment and anti-consumerism works on the wall most of the people there seemed like drones wearing "OBEY" jackets, shirts and trucker hats- it seems that Mr. Fairey frees people from an an establishment only to be locked in by HIS version of establishment where he he tells people to dress themselves- very similar to North Korea doesn't it? Not convinced with my own opinion of his art I came upon a very interesting article;
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
A critique by artist Mark Vallen

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm

A very interesting insight to the artist's works and also a validation of what I have expressed.

Digital Creatvity 101- Making the New Old



Making the new old..
I knew there was a reason for downloading PS brushes, Mainly to get inspiration and searching through websites for tutorials. found some of the best ones through www.pshero.com
and decided to give it a try. Didn't follow it step by step but kinda got the jissed of it then moved on from there, create my own image- that way you get a good handle of your work flow and limits.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Creative 101

hmm.. where to start, Been lollygagging in Art Purgatory for a while soooooo
Decided to pretty much indulge in a downloading frenzy of photoshop brushes, vector images and pictures of ballerina, and flamenco dancers as well as random pictures of the female figurative.
yeah , I guess you can say I'm in an ART BLOCK. geez is that even possible?