Professional Practice

Surreal Self Portrait

Surreal Walk

The project was to collect anything that you can see or find along your journey and stick them down to portray what you have seen in a day.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci is the person that I picked out randomly from a ball and my aim is to create anything that has an influence from his work.

I based my project on one of the most known work pieces done by Leonardo Da Vinci which was the Last Supper.

Discourse - Eric Bailey

Eric Bailey is predominantly a painter, although he has a liking for drawing and designing from California. When looking at his work he has been influenced with many elements around him from skateboarding, graffiti, music and the influence of many artists. He paints mostly on canvas with oil based paints and you can see that clearly in his work, there are no perfect curves and lines as he likes to show more than just a perfect picture. In addition, he likes to show the obvious however, having that little more meaning behind a painting. He has worked with Nike and Adidas as well with many other businesses. Moreover, his work to me seems inspiring because of what he paints of, very understandable and easy to analyze, he paints things that I can relate to such as dogs so it is easy for me to be inspired but some of his work maybe labelled as a straightforward painting but it is the way he paints his work makes him different to other painters/designer, he paints every detail through the brush strokes that allows his work to communicate to viewers easily.

Image link:
http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2004/09/eric_bailey.html
http://www.feedmecoolshit.com/interviews-archive/eric-bailey/

Discourse - Estevan Oriol

Estevan Oriol is one of the most respected photographers in America and has his fair share of admiration around the world. He is a Mexican photographer residing in Downtown Los Angelas. His work is predominantly of black and white using an SLR (not DSLR) camera and working with natural ambience and light, this makes his photos look like the past in the present from all the resources he uses. In addition, he mostly takes pictures of those from the hood e.g. Gangbangers, drug dealers or just people from the area, however, he does work with models from around the world for magazines such as XL, King Magazine, Lowrider and many more. Moreover, he has worked with famous celebrities such as Cypress Hill, Bun B, Eminem, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and many other host of known names, within his work he has his own clothing line which includes his images straight onto T Shirts and Hoodies as well as working with clothing brand Upper Playground. Personally, Estevan Oriol is one of my favourite photographers and is an inspiration towards my success (no bum scraping lol).

Image Link:
http://www.individualsole.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/eo2.jpg
http://www.estevanoriol.com/published.htm
http://www.highsnobiety.com/uploads/pics/upperplayground_estevanoriol_calender_tees_1.jpg

Discourse - Homies

Homies is a series of 2-inch figurines that are mainly based on Chicano style characters in the life of creator David Gonzales. The success of the series has been highly recognized around the world as not only the cartoon being a favourite but the sale's of the collectible figurines and posters have hit the market selling mainly in internation al marts. Moreover, since 2005 Gonzales released more ethnic figurines that have a relation to Mexicans such as Filipino, Japanese, Puerto Rican figures as well as having Women and Evil Clowns that have been established as a Chicano significance. However before this, Homies came under a heavy controversial issue with the Los Angelas Police Department (LAPD) citing that this series influenced and advertised the gang culture, thus haveing an affect to violence. This effected the sales of the figurines by stopping shops from selling. Therefore, David Gonzales brought an end to the controversy by creating stories of a more positive attitude such as having former jail mates educating young children how to avoid going to jail and so on.

An image of some of the collectible figurines.

Image link:
http://api.ning.com/files/YkgDrmMRzXz2fLVqgJ8MeOJCetGSKDSqZj*HEwLEequX2H7Oyg6oiAcS1SvOTcnycJdvK5FDICe2Er-xxQecMnB7roq87fig/Homies_Titel.jpg
http://www.pixhost.com/pixm/mrcubby/homies-series-2.jpg