DROP SHADOWS NOT BOMBS

I heard this today ..

BLAH BLAH BLAH

more self indulgence ...

MORE INDULGENCE

Number II

SELF INDULGENCE

I like me.
Part I

ACTIONS AND WORDS

I saw something like this and took it a little too literally .. and changed it up ..

ADDICTINGLY DISGUSTIVE

Type sketch .. needs to change a little bit .. have a better idea for this ..

BAKEBAR

Restaurant branding.

[2]

EDIT* - CHANGED SOME THINGS AROUND AND ADDED STROKE.

New old font .. was browsing through some behance.net work and someone had a similar idea to mine but where I decided to discard it, he saw it through and it turned out beautiful.
That sent a little shock to bring back an old project and redo it.

Heres SQUARED.
Working on a stroke version instead of "Light"
Posters to come soon.. and maybe numbers ..

 

FLYSHACKER

Branding for FLYSHACKER Clothing Company.
This was a quick half hour process work .. concept sketches all over the place .. happiest with this concept. Will need more work to it.

BELIEVE

An old piece of work that I found .. that I like ..

SHIRK

something old .. that I decided to touch up again ..
about an hour and half to get the whole thing done ..  
I will have to play around with it some more .. not totally happy with the composition .. but its turning out like how i see it in my head ... would really help to have a photo studio ..
really exciting stuff .. learned a few things here ..
can't wait to get this right ..

NEW HEADER

Well it's been a little while coming !!

Also kinda sad .. I had started a book of illustrated type .. did a few illustrations already but now I cannot seem to find them .. really do not want to redo all of them again .. bah .. heres hoping i find them ..

NEW BANNER IDEA

I wanted to revamp the blog with a fresh look and new header design.
I thought it would be a good idea for a type treatment ..

This is basically what I have come up with.

PENCIL FIRST

It all starts with pencil work.
The lettering for SHIRK started here.
Lower mid. is the concept sketch for the poster to be made for her.
My header lettering and also uses for other stuff is on the right.

But as much as I try nothing ever seems to look as good as it does in pencil.
I find that hand lettering is amazing and the translation to digital rendering is something I have to put a lot more practice into.

More later but for now .. I AM KENYA BOUND !

SHIRK

I have started an editorial project on an awe inducing person.
Brittney Townson of SHIRK MAGAZINE and MODELE.
She had me at hello and ever since I have been a huge fan of hers.
There is a lot to say about her and I had some really good choice of words earlier. Well I guess just wait and read about it when the spreads are up.

Here are some quick warm ups .. god I love type.
I wanted Shirk to be written in something that had a little style / jazz and a lot of fun.
I also wanted to retain that fashion magazine elegance.

I think I got it.   

Next I shall try implementing a few effects like a shine or something on to it ..

BUT .. definitely check out her BLOG. You will not be disappointed!

STYLO

It has been a while since I created a font.
I always have some form of lettering that I will add but I wanted something more .. I don't know ..
anyways .. I love tall fonts, I find that they are not so many out there or maybe I haven't searched enough.
But I illustrated this set. Working on the illustrator / cleaner version of it..
Inspiration for this was me trying to do a fashion magazine editorial thing and i wanted an original font to use.
I present STYLO.

I am thinking this somewhere between Heidi Klum and and a young Cate Blanchett

TPH

Posters / Flyer artwork done for TPH.

LIFE IS MAGICAL !

Edited an old illustration.
I am quite happy with this.

E R I N

Lettering for Erin.

JOE LE .

Lettering for Joe Le Photographer.