Deeper Intentions

Yo guys, I just wanted to tell you what kind of blogger I am to avoid any real confusion. To those of you who know me already I’m classed as a “weirdo” and a bit of a loon, plus I have a short attention span and get distracted by cool stuff and colourful objects (… a typical designer, actually). So I wanted to really place a lot of myself in my work, my blog included.

This place here was (is) a developing tool for my work, it’s here to show my development in skills, professionalism and character, but I wanted it to not only be for me but for people out there in the same manner as me. Many people have a set structure as to how they create their blog spots, but I don’t want to be like that, I decided to give myself no boundaries, so please expect none. Travelling both naturally and virtually I always come across cool and inspiring stuff, so I usually comment on it, whether relevant of not. Sometimes I’ll be putting up pieces I’m working on at the time or maybe an entire collection, other times I might just put up an image from around the world or tell you guys about a quick link here or there to something awesome, (or maybe I’ll lay down some talk in a massive rant like this one.) But I’ll be doing it because it captures my interests and imagination and because I think for anyone trying to do what I am it could always be helpful into inciting thier next big piece.

So, you stay classy, planet Earth and as always, keep watching this space…

--Urbanartist313—

Street Motifs & Urban flourishes

Back in early 2010 I started a project for a university task which I didn't get time to complete, at least not in the way that I had originally intended. It bothered me that because of the very short time constraint I couldn't properly get a chance to experiment with the medium which I was working with and explore the possibilities of my designs.

Anyway I recently went back to them and started playing around with them in Photoshop, looking for a new look and new routines & styles. These pieces were a collection of mixed media designs placed together to create a type of Urban street art or graphic flourish designs.

Each piece was designed with a specific mood or feeling related to it and was characterised by the colour ranges and the piece's title. Reference images were taken from local town buildings and street corners all centralized around one building in particular (our university's creative arts building) as I was in an attempt to forge a new scene (landscape) within the image and focus on the space within the space.

Click the title page under the "Home" pages to see the full collecion!

--Urbanartist313--

A (long) Quick Summary

Hi there guys, how have things been going for y’all?
Wow! Has it really been six months since I last wrote an entry on this thing? OK, so let me fill you in on what’s been going down.

At the start of the year I was so excited about becoming an artist (&) designer, I thought that nothing could stop me, but it soon dawned on me that I had no real direction or forethought as to what I wanted to do or where I was aiming on going. Most importantly I didn’t have any work worth showcasing let alone bragging about to anyone. So I decided to do a little artistic soul searching and at the same time try and get a few pieces down.

Over the past several months I’ve been travelling cyberspace, among other places looking (…seeking) inspiration from, the crème de la crème and attempting to figure out where I was going. In the end I came to a point where I realised that in order to know where one is going they had to first know where it is that they were coming from!
This in turn paved way for my new series of designs.

To know exactly what it was I was looking for I had to remember what it was about the industry which I really liked doing and inspired me to want to do more of it. So I’ve begun a new series of work entitled “REVAMPS”, in it I’ve taken all the old and unfinished work from past hard drives and attempted to redesign them into bodies of work and new collections.
This project is targeted to be completed within a year from now and should produce a lot of interesting pieces. I hope viewers will enjoy the work that I will be putting up from time to time!

--Urbanartist313--