EVOLUTION OF LIFE
The Transformation of Boy into Man
For this project, I took inspiration from my own experience with my father. The evolution depicted is a fiction one, but have similarities to my own life.
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My Father had been a car nut in his younger years, having a muscle car and a true handy man. When I was 17 he had unfortunately experienced a stroke. After this time, and I began to feel some transfer of power to myself. My younger brother and I around this time started to gain a strong passion for the same things he was into before; building owns working on our own cars.
These five illustrations depict an evolution of manhood, and the unspoken conversations of love, passion, and life and death.
MUSIC FACES
A face shows a lot, and there’s something about the analyzation of illustrating these musician’s portraits. The physical touch of hand to paper, and the eye to eye concentration to create a face on paper.
Music has always been a large part of my life, and a person’s face can tell just as much as a song or album.
PLANKS OF WOOD
The Art of Skateboard Culture
Skateboarding is more than just riding a deck with wheels. It’s the lifestyle tied in with it. The camaraderie with one another, the interests, and the overall lifestyle. There is a sense of individuality, from the tattoos that skaters plot on their bodies, to each deck having its own unique design.
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in this project I took inspiration from my own life. Tattoo art and skateboarding have a close tie that isn’t inherently obvious, but it highlights the individual aspect of the culture.
BAD LUCK CLUB
Clothing
I took ideas and a certain specific feeling that I had for these designs. The darker vibe that these female faces, fonts, colors, and designs all articulate was something I was trying to convey.
I purchased a vinyl cutter and heat press machine to create some high quality sweatshirts and T-Shirts. The company is owned by myself and a good friend of mine Cole Keene, to handle the management and production side of the business.
THE BARBER SHOP
There’s something about being a man and going to a barber shop. The first few times the nerves of being the only white man in the shop, the fear of being judged, the nervousness of conversation. After a while those nerves calm down, and there’s an unspoken about idea of what happens when going to get cut by your barber. Each time you go, the same barber from last time will tell you he got you next. These drawings depict the sight, smell, touch and sound of going to the barber shop.
BASIC NEEDS FOR LIFE
Every human, even those who are not as fortunate as others, live lives striving to survive. The 5 essential means of human survival exist even in the dark crevices of life.
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Every human is another human.
COMIC CONCERTS
Working with an avid photographer in the concert industry, I created layouts for what could construct a unique style of photography book. The combination of retro comic book design, modern digital illustration, and sleek photography of some of today’s biggest artists.
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Photography by @tmmip
TIME
A 3D Illustration Piece
This piece depicts the display of time that has passed. An old man still tinkering on his old mustang. The car is beat up, as is himself. Photos and trophy’s of his glory days, old tools and car parts sit casted on his garage wall. The change in time of day gleams through a cracked window, showing the day by day change inside of his little old garage.
The piece is made out of a hollowed out wine box, printed images, clay, cut up t-shirts, wire, wood, cardboard, and other found materials.
KORUWORKS CARS
My mother was adopted, and she met her blood family later in life. My brothers and I didn’t grow up knowing her brother as our inherent uncle, but he is now after we met him as young adults.
Tyler Clayton, our uncle, was a working illustrator and then moved his passion into building drift cars at his shop in Atlanta. Art and Japanese cars are also something my brothers and I naturally found our own passions for. I found this interesting how our family whom we didn’t grow up with, was also sharing the same passion in another part of the country.
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Tyler commissioned my brother and I to make these graphics of the shop cars at Koruworks. My brother sketched them out roughly in a caricatured version, then I digitally enhanced them with graffiti-esque energy; graffiti also being something Tyler and I share a background with.
