I just want to take the time to create a posting that has all of my mixtape artwork. I look forward to working on your project soon and thank you to those who allowed me to work on their projects.
Front Room Entertainment’s DJ Shanx hit me up with another project along with The Tree Post Collective (http://www.thetreepostcollective.com/) . These are graphics for a Bay Area campaign for Front Room new artist Ill Camille.
Maybe you wanna know why I chose purple or maybe not. Dunno. I was just feeling this color at the time and I just saw a Mac Dre documentary the night before.
Front Room Entertainment hit me up to do a small gig for local artist in LA. Just did some clean up of the photo and boosted details and gave it a clean title treatment.
Two flyers promoting two of Ill Camille’s shows in Los Angeles at The Airliner and The Key Club. I thought I would include QR Code linking to her Reverb Nation page to get the most out of the flyer.
I guess things are kinda catching on with the mixtapes. I was commissioned by oldskool hip-hop artist AMG to do digital covers for Malcom Mays.
Doing some research I found out Dionysus was the greek god of wine and partying. So I decide to add that theme as I did the various design progressions.
Was commissioned again by DJ Shanx to do design for producer Rick Hughes. He told me to use the color blue and do my thing so I came up with this. Nailed it on the first round.
The art style was influenced by Angeleno artist El Mac and Retna
This was a personal project for DJ Shanx…One of many to come…good dude to work with by far…he was really wanting to do his own mixtape…He commissioned me to do this one…basically he said he wanted trophies and yellow and gold to commemorate the big win for the Lakers…
Wowsers…I gotta thank DJ Shanx for this one…He hit me up about bay area artist T-Mazz and the his digital release of the Scratchpaper album…In order to promote the album DJ Shanx was given the charge to do “The Legend” Mixtape…So I was commissioned by Shanx to do this one…
So…As with most mixtapes..we start with photos…for sake of the blog and not wanting to get too wordy…I am only going to talk about the photo of T-mazz…I had to do some cropping of this photo…and clean up…
Then find other photos and cropping techniques (Thanks Dylan Cole) and then make a nice composition based on tradition methods, specifically perspective and typography and BADDA BOOM BADDA BING….