Golden State's Official Breakfast!

Everyone loves cereal. As I prepared for Monday's Warriors-Lakers game, I wanted to throw fans off guard with a "Wheaties" inspired design featuring Monta Ellis. "Wheaties" is such a universal identity everyone's seen sometime in their lives. Flipping the script and representing the Golden State Warriors with a recognizable design is my personal treat to the 80,000+ attending tonights game. As usual, it's all about having fun. It felt good drawing this piece, I've been so out of funk the past few months with all these fun ideas... I just didn't have that drive to push forward and do it. We'll get into that later. We'll see you at the game tonight! Oh... Remember Monta Ellis Flakes?! LOL!

Warriors vs. Lakers tonight!

Last game of the season for wifey and I... Tony.psd will be in attendance!

My wife and I have patiently waited for this game. An even bigger treat that it's on National TV via ESPN. (Let's just hope we don't choke!) I think it's been about 3 years since we last saw a Warriors-Lakers game from home. In the past we shared the Season Tickets we had with a big group of friends and of course LA, Cleveland and Boston games ran out first! I played my cards right and finally copped a pair!

The atmosphere is gonna be hype. It seems anywhere LA goes they attract big followings, especially in Oakland. There's a lotta trash talking on both sides and it's just fun to see! With this being the last game of the season for my wife and I, we're coming prepared with some bonis signs. Damn, it felt real good getting back into a positive drawing pattern. Been out of it for months. A lotta that inspiration is coming back. Hopefully one of these signs gets on National TV, that would be legit! See you guys at the game!

I love Vector outlines

I was digging up some past material from 2004 (my has time gone by!) and stumbled across some old Illustrator work I worked on for personal use. (J.Scott Campbell tribute/redraw over his pencils) This is what I love so much about Adobe Illustrator. Beginning with a solid outline and filling it with bright colors. Finding this piece inspires me more in keeping consistent and excited about being a Graphic Artist!

Masters of the Philippines

By the power of Manila...!

Parodies... I love em'. Especially when poking fun of my own background culture. I'm influenced by a lot of great designers who have the same common interest as me. As of late I've seen some parodies recycled by other folks who probably saw it from someone else. You know the deal: Biters. Did they do it because the style is out of print? Did they do it for personal gain? Whatever the case is it brings creativity as a pause because some folks are putting stuff out that's already been done.

Moving forward, there's suttle change to my "Masters" concept... brought back some of that He-Man flavor but flipped out the "Universe" with a "Philippines" touch. Think of it as a gesture to our culture. I also used some suttle color changes and used Filipino colors rather than trying to slap the Filipino star somewhere lol. For what it's worth it was a fun project moving forward!

We lost... again.

...Instead, we got served. (Big ups to Richard Dato for the awesome pics!)

Preview: X-Men Jim Lee Tribute

Back in like 1991-92 Jim Lee was the man in drawing X-Men comics. He had this 3 panel poster I wanted so bad, Some stores sold all 3 of them for $24.99 and back than, I was barely getting $5 allowance a week. By the time I had the money the poster was gone, (no on-line stores, I had no credit card!) Fast forward to 2010, I wanna redraw the 3 panel Poster (here, only 1 is shown) and print it out for personal viewing in my office. I will look nothing like Jim's classic representation but its gonna be fun to redraw it through my eyes.

2010 Home Game Designs

Havin' a great time out with the Golden State faithful!

It's nice having the games we are attending to be spread out. A few seasons ago I tried to do a new sign during every game and didn't really work out well. Nowadays it gives me time to think about what I want to post up. For what ever reason, We always have a good time bringing these concoctions. Whether its getting a nod from the players, getting on the jumbo tron or just getting folks to smile, its all about having a great time! Tonight's game should be fun, it's going to be on National TV!

TNT is in town...Now serving Denver Nuggets!

From left to right: 2008 design as seen on TV... 2010 design hopefully to do the same!

I'm lovin' it when TNT comes to town and its only right to try and get on national television! We're gonna be seeing the Denver Nuggets take on the Golden State Warriors which is sure to be interesting, especially in the 4th quarter! Charles Barkley, Denver Chicken Nuggets and some of our Dubs in concession outfits should keep the crowd amused. Join the open thread at GSoM and if you haven't seen my first sigh on TNT- check it out now.

Valentines Day came a few days early

Golden State Valentines 2010, Monday, February 8, 2010 vs. The Dallas Mavericks

Valentines Day came a couple days early for my wife and I. We weren't gonna be at Wednesdays game (2/10 vs. The Clippers) but had tickets to the Dallas game. What a great time to make my wife a Valentines Card-like sign for her favorite, Monta Ellis. It was a fun night, we were about 13 rows down visible enough for the players and cameras to see. Yea, I know we lost but as of late it just feels good to be out and about with the ones you love. It's the little things that mean a lot to us.Happy Valentines Day everyone!

"West Coast" (promo)

Adobe Illustrator with a "touch" of Photoshop... featuring a few of my talented friends. (Left to right) Lyrics Born, Megabusive, Dave Paul (Bomb Hip-Hop), Dem One and G-Wrex (Finger Bangerz)

I've got too much love for how we represent the west coast. Its hard finding a shirt that can represent California as a whole. Usually you see the same idea, a single color silhouette of the state of California or the Bear used numerous times... Too many "Bay Area Stand Up" shirts or "Killa Cali" using impact font with a bunch of area codes on the back of the shirt... it's the same gimmick. My "West Coast" takes tribute to that old school "Wild Style" flavor with the same number of letters, but for the West Coast Cats ya' know! I just wanna rep that pride and rep folks looking fly!