Check this out vol. Soul 2 Sole by David Park

Photoshop magic

I love to mess around with photoshop, I don't do it as much as I use to, before I would always have it open so I can play around with pictures. Nowadays I only use it when I have a purpose for using photoshop. So with that said, the other day I was asked by a friend to help restore an old picture. Her mom had removed it from the original frame and during the process a "good" portion of it was ripped off the surface of the photo. Therefore leaving rips and white patch(s) on the bottom of the photo. My job was basically to "fill in the blank". I was "iffy" on posting this since I don't have the permission to but it's nothing a little smiley face can't fix. I am only posting this because I am proud of the work I did fixing this. Here's what I did.

Now I am not a pro, so to speak, there are flaws on the final product so don't kill me for it.

The Original

Step One

Step Two

Step Three (originally this was suppose to be the finished version, but i messed up the shadow on the right leg)

Final Product

I am so friggen bored

Thank god I got my BFF my "internet" to keep me entertain until I decide to call it a night and go to bed. Usually this time of the night is when I roam aimlessly through the blogosphere to find "cool" things. Well after reading up Jake Davis blog (who is one of those dudes with a gazillion "slashes" next to his name so I won't even get into what he does...that's your job to find out). Anyways as I was saying, after that I took a quick glance over at TREND LAND and I found these.

MOVIE ILLUSTRATIONS
by
JUSTIN REED
[images taken from: http://cyanatrendland.com/]

Jaws

Fight Club

Pulp Fiction

The Dark Knight

American Psycho

From TREND LAND
Vermont based Illustrator Justin Reed seems to have quite a collection of killer illustrations of the most classic films in history under his sleeve, but it seems as though has has not really been sharing them with the public. Its seems there will be upcoming opportunity to get your hands on a few original illustrations which were commissioned for a group show at the APW Gallery in New York. He has done 5 works based on 5 films for the show. The five films are Taxi Driver, The Godfather, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Casablanca and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They were done with acrylic on 100% Cotton paper, measuring 5.5 x 9 inches. They will each be priced at $150.00.

These babies are too sweet, if I got the dough I would copp these with the quickness. But they will serve as eye candy just for now.

BONUS

Here's a look at the process from sketch to final.
[images taken from: http://justinreedart.blogspot.com/]

The sketch:

Applying paint to the canvas:

With the canvas covered, I can concentrate on the background:

Getting into the details:

Hours and hours later we have a finished painting:

The final painting measures 20 x 47 inches, acrylic on canvas.

Romeo & Juliet

Last night I went to see Romeo and Juliet at the Four Seasons Centre. This is my first show, so I had no idea what to expect. But overall it was pretty dope, I don't know what all the moves or techniques were but if I went "WHOA" (in my head) then yeah it must of been pretty cool. I really liked the scenes in the market place when almost all the cast were involved in the scene. It just looked really cool. I apologize I sound like a complete noob, because I am. But I had fun =).

This is what I do when I am not asleep...and carely bored

The edges are a little rough but it looks alright. I was reading slam when they were explaining the inspiration for their most recent cover...well it clearly inspired me too. I love jacking others ideas =)