5x5 Acrylic and color pencil On illustration board

Here is the complete Clothing logo. I really like how it turned out. I tried to think of things in league baseball that were different in Sandlot baseball. The game is the same, the behaviors and habits sometimes change. I realized that in league baseball the umpire brushes off homeplate every so often so that it is visible to the players. In sandlot ball there is no umpire and the plate stays dirty save for a few quick attempts to kick the dirt off with your sneakers. I made homeplate dirty in the design. i think it complements not only the theme but the color scheme of the figure and his clothing.

It really feels good when you finish a painting and you know for sure that all of the decisions you made in the initial steps were the right ones. This is why the initial steps are the most important ;)

Here are a few of the sketches i made after the thumbnails for possible logo designs. I did 10 total but these 4 as well as the one chosen below are my top 5. I really liked the first one but it didn't make the cut at the end. I modeled the boy after the main character from Sandlot, using a movie still as a reference. I liked the hat with the big bill that didn't quite fit him. The two in the middle are nice too but they didn't get picked either because i decided that the figure in the logo shouldn't have his back towards the viewer for composition and design purposes. The face is the most important part of the image. It engages the viewer and gives the viewer a human to identify with.




This is the logo i decided on, which i liked just as much as the first one. I kept the big bill of the hat. It creates this nice cast shadow on his face. Hes got big sleeves on, his shit doesn't fit him, his hat doesn't fit him and his bat is almost bigger than he is. This is a Sandlot kid. He is a good representation of the embodiment of backyard baseball. I'm excited to paint!

Clothing Logo

CF. Payne gave us an assignment where we had to design a logo for a clothing label. The class was given a list of names Chosen by Mr. Payne himself and we had to pick one and do a clothing logo on that name. I chose the name Sandlot.
My initial thoughts were to do something related to the cult classic kids movie The Sandlot. But it turned out that such an idea was too obvious and generic. But i was positive that i had to stick with the baseball theme.

character design cont.

7x7 Acrylic on Board

And here is the complete painting. I put a backdrop of the Queensbridge housing projects where she grew up. I wont elaborate on the story, but its something like Maria Full Of Grace meets Juice, Meets Fight Girl..... i guess. Was a fun project. And ill give a shout out to my friend Lauren Gadson for the reference i used for Storm ;).

character design

Soooooo busy. My illustration class has brought me some promising pieces. The following are sketches done for a character design. We were to make up a character and do a portrait illustration of that character depicting the characters personality through visual storytelling. I went for a female rap artist from Queens NY named Olivia Rain- Alias: "Storm".