I recently had a design picked up by the team over at Poligraphic. My design “WEiRdos” is a collection of character heads floating amongst pink clouds. The concept is that WE R all weird. All humans are simply strange faces from bizarre places. This design will be available on a variety of products including tee shirts, iPod skins, and laptop sleeves. Pop over to Poligraphic and get some rad gear fresh from the BeeryMethod!
WEiRdos
I had an amazing birthday with all my peeps last week. For all who don’t know, I am the definitive Pisces who was born right on the cusp of Aquarius. These two astrological signs traits seemingly intertwine to form my inner fiber, creative make-up, eclectic visions, wandering sense of freedom, meticulous account for detail, attraction to the dark and evil, and my laid back nature of person. I totally personify these water signs and find that with each year that passes these traits are engrained even more deeply into not only my soul but all of my art.
I find that connecting with so many individuals all across the board in many industries who simply enjoy what I do is the most gratifying aspect of my work. Whether connecting with a young artist, musician, or skater I hope I can always inspire and nurture the original creative qualities in all who I link up to. When working as an independent artist and consultant it is the journey through creating exceptional imagery for clients who respectively come back to give praise and seek future collaborative opportunities that keep me engaged and inspired.
Thanks to D Port and SkinnyBuddha for representing my hard work and offering good wishes on my birthday! Skinny Buddha family always!
Beery Birthday
This is just a huge shout out and enormous thank you to all my fans, fellow artists, friends, and family who have supported my all my goals and work. I couldn’t do it without you all…you are the best and I got nothing but hot lava love for you all…MAD THANKS!
Working with other creative cats is my pride and joy as an illustrator and designer. It has been a real pleasure putting together stellar album covers for some extraordinary hip-hop artists who are on the up and come up on the East Coast. If you don’t know who I speak of you simply have to check out The N.O.C from South Florida. It was an honor to put together their debut album layout for Dinosaur last spring and I recently had the satisfaction of putting together some fresh artwork for members K Sos and Rams 2010 mixtape release Murphy’s Killer.
No strangers to stirring the pot of political roughness and kicking raw flavor that amplifies the generation XYZ, it was a duo blast of urban rawness and shotgun imagery from both sides. K Sos and Rams are on the pinnacle of exploiting their freedom of expression and Murphy’s Killer is no exception. In an attempt to squash Murphy’s Law, the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will, these two members of The N.O.C put the clutch down on excelling into a new era of keeping it genuine and representing the buzz of the American street aficionados.
To do justice and reflect the messages broadcast on MK the cover had to be montaged in a seamlessly compact way. Depicted on the cover are members K Sos and Rams who have drug Murphy to his last rights. Murphy is satirized as the obese, greedy, white-bred politician who has been captured and brutalized by the N.O.C crew. A shotgun to his head, stab wounds, and all his dirty money on the pavement, Murphy (Murphy’s Law) is over with.
Murphy's Killer 2010
To complete the full effect of the chaos to ensue I broke into my bank of imagery to montage a masterpiece of mayhem. Surrounded by police squads, cops with guns drawn, tattooed chicks, screaming fans, and flames bursting in the air the focus of the cover (the slaughtering of Murphy) is pushed into the foreground. Photos used in the background came from my trips across the continental USA. The graffiti building on the left originates in the Mission District of San Francisco, the city skyline of Chicago, a water tower from Alcatraz, parking lot in Seattle, deco building and club from Italy, and characters who have been digitally painted and enhanced all come together to form a surreal environment that is reminiscent of a frame from Grand Theft Auto.
Every detail from the ghetto birds (police helicopters) blasting spotlights all the way down to the cracks in the concrete all spin from the depths of my inner beast that roars “make this solid…down to the core”. The effect is an insane composition that keeps the viewer coming back and finding more pieces of gooey visual elements that rock the soul. Here’s to putting the kibosh on Murphy’s Law and the giants of the Southeast…N.O.C. 4 Life!
My She’s Green design is now available in men’s and women’s tees at Goodjoe. It was my duty to create a positively inspiring message that is fashionable and eco-conscious. Goodjoe does “good” by donating $1 dollar from each sale to a nonprofit organization. Creating a better world through positive influence through visual art is amazingly gratifying. The garments are also eco-sustainable, made from bamboo and organic cotton.
She's Green design elements
I started thinking about the “green” era’s and all the generations that perpetuate the thought and the provocateurs that act as catalysts to initiate the cycles of “recycle” for future gens. The idea that music has always played a “vocal” role in supporting these messages for the masses to consume is always a most satisfying notion for any creative and expressive human being. We all come from earth-roots and every person (green conscious or not) has experienced a wonder that is the music and environmental philosophies that are harbored in our wonderful world.
The concept of bringing an iconic statue, that defines not only the progressive nation of the US and one of it’s most influential cities on the world, together with the rooted structure and harmony of music and nature seemed a fitting choice to convey the opalescence of our new generations consideration for making this planet a cleaner, healthier, and fantastic place to call home.
She defines “GREEN” … literal!
She's Green Tee
My favorite season of the year blended with the best holiday of the year always makes me feel like a kid again. This year I had a blast hunting down the perfect pumpkin with my brother’s family and my niece. Jude did a great job getting everyone involved and helped us all find the best pumpkin for a wicked carving party.
Little did I know, that even though the goosebump pumpkins look rather cool they are tough to carve. Those types of pumpkins are almost like a gord and feel like your carving into bone when you actually get past the outer orange skin. Needless to say, everyone but me chose a standard carving pumpkin and got to get messy with the seeds and innards and light up their jack-o-lanterns on que. Myself on the other hand needed some power tools just to crack the pumpkin. So, rather than risk splitting the warty gord I decided to break out the old carving tools and do a surface carving design. It ended up like a semi-relief that involved peeling away the outer layer. Either way, it was a ton of creative fun. We need Halloween like every other month…nostalgic!
Pumpkin Woman
Bar·fly
n. pl. bar·flies Slang
One who frequents drinking establishments.
It was only natural to make an illustration based on this widely used cliché for the drunkard who gets constantly sloppy at the bars day in and night out. It was necessary to make the scene fitting for these two down-and-out flies. The appearance of one being a little too slightly intoxicated hunched down in his sorrow concoction while the other “buzzes” on about how upside-down life is. I really picture the conversation something like, “and then she kicked me out; the little one’s a complete brat; I just got layed off; there’s a bug in my beer!…burp!”
Bar Flies
Loiter Ink picked up this as a design for tees. It looks great on a silver or charcoal tee. If your a barfly or know someone who is, this tee’s for you!
Bar Flies Tee
The crew over at Springleap did a fantastic job on printing up my dedication to nature piece SACRED WILD. I wanted to do a design that reflects beauty in nature. A deer whose antlers morph into tree limbs to reveal a leafy canopy above. With a colorful landscape of rolling mountains and speckled trees what nature lover wouldn’t adore this on any shirt. The words “Sacred is the Wild” lightly across the design it is sure to attract all ages. The wonderment of the wild is a tireless theme that can be used again and again. Sacred Wild was a real joy to create and the tees are super HQ!
Sacred Wild Tee
I had the honor of producing the entire album artwork and layout package for The N.O.C. album DINOSAUR. It was an extreme breath of fresh air working with these cats from Orlando, FL. They gave me free reign to pull together all of my media-junkie creative methods to bust out some sick visuals to compliment their amazing style and fresh talent.
Their debut album dropped July 4th 2009 is all about having a good time, hitting the dance floor, hitting the splif, chillin’ with the ladies and macs, and blowing urban minds with the lyrical tongue. Among the jive beats, bass, and ill-flavor you will find some soft political undertones. The N.O.C. keeps it collective with their own definition of the album D.I.N.O.S.A.U.R. which stands for: Delivering Images Never Ordinary…Simply Artist Using Reflection. Nothing better than working with highly creative individuals such as The N.O.C. which is an acronym for No Ordinary Cats.
I pulled out all the stops on the artwork for the album. The cover was fully customized using digital paint, photography montage, textures and effects. The entire outer cover artwork was created from the ground up, literally starting with the foreground buildings which I built in a very geometric mode of Photoshop. After the groundwork for the buildings and perspective was layed down I began to implement photos I had taken in my travels around Chicago and San Francisco. Once the background was there I began digitally painting the cover characters in Corel Painter. To finalize it I took more texture photos and effects such as road gravel, brick walls, neon lights, etc. It was an insane process but extremely fun to put together.
DINOSAUR Album Cover Layout
K Sos (leader of The N.O.C.) was great on giving me feedback and keeping up the link with me during the process. They were literally in the studio tracking and mixing while I was in my studio conquering this puzzle-piece of imagery. In coming up with the concept I laid down some sketches and the first one of these mock ups really stuck. Basically we wanted to do something that screamed “Dinosaur!” without being too literal. The subjectivity of the imagery comes from the idea that these cats are getting ready to blow the lid off of the hip-hop/dance scene with a ROAR! Taking that into consideration I wanted to render this megalithic T-Rex in the center of a downtown city block.
DINOSAUR Booklet Inside
The figures in foreground running from the Dinosaur are 3-piece suiters, politicians, and corporate America. Hence, the popular US political figure heads for the Republican and Democratic parties (Elephant & Donkey men). The other individuals are my take on the rest of corporate and political America which are clowns, vampires, and zombies. The fact that these old politicians who look like they just rose from the grave, are here to suck you dry financially and of your given freedoms, and then put on a circus for the media and shielded public eye made them a real easy target to nail down visually. The N.O.C. is near so when you hear the roar your either beckoned in if your down with the underground or run like a rat if your too black & white about life!
DINOSAUR Album Cover
Check out The N.O.C. and go buy their new album release DINOSAUR from Skinny Buddha Records. In addition to purchasing the album through Skinny Buddha, you will also receive a 12″x12″ Cover Poster created by BeeryMethod. My favorite track on the disc is NB-1, which they titled after Mr. youknowwho…but really though this entire album is hot as lava rain!
Dinosaur CD artwork
You can get a taste and buy The N.O.C. DINOSAUR album here:
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