My concentration is deconstruction of the human mind
WOW! lots to talk about. first up is the piece with the red white and blue. titled ameritard. I was flipping through a book of portraits when i came across this fantastic photo of a guy from new york holding the american flag. so i pulled out some paper and started drawing. i took some key ideas from the photo, and then threw my own little spin on it. i played off of how wierd the guy looked, and the fact that he was holding an american flag. i tried doing the whole making the eye follow something, so i carefullyplanned where the yellow went and how the whole movement was down and to the right. i also just distorted the reality and made it all grotesque.
Second is the martini man piece. they other 2 pieces actually go together. its a top half and a bottom half. i also started out with this one by looking through a portrait book. this particular photograph was of a man in his kitchen sippin on some martini. gettin faded. i took the over all posture of the man, and modified the line quality and colored it differently. i also did the top half of the man on one sheet, and the bottom half of the man on another. crazy huh. i also did all the color on one half of both the top and bottom. the value and errything is really partially distributed on purpose. added a dimension to the character. implying that i partially knew him. he was very to himself, not very talkitive. mysterious
