The Obvious

I don't update this personal blog anymore and I don't think I'll be doing much with it as time moves along. I blame tumblr a little bit, but ultimately it's my own lack of interest. If for some reason you want to follow what's been going on with my work and what I've been up to, you can find me at http://jrpomazon.tumblr.com/ .

Thank you everyone for stopping by, it's been a pleasure.

JRPomazon's Scott PIlgrim Tee Shirt Designs vs. The World - Conclusion

Well, this is something. It's not the grand prize but to be fair I have never gotten this far before with design contests. Seriously, this is sorta amazing. You can actually buy this sucker here: http://www.welovefine.com/2403-sex-bob-omb-icons.html

Thanks to anyone who voted, always appreciated by yours truly.

Months - March 2012

March 2012

So what we have here is a little something something that will keep me busy for the next few months. I call it months, because calling it anything else would seem like I wanted to make this more complicated than it is.

As I mentioned in my last post, I had a conversation with a friend of mine. He seemed a tad distraught over how our memories begin to compress things more and more as we grow older, recollecting years from only a few moments at a time, remembering decades from the memories of single events. It's inevitable for all of us, we can't expect to remember every little thing that happens in our lives and that's not a losing battle I expect to win. But I decided to make an attempt to catalog my life month by month, noting the experiences I have in a 5 x 5 grid.

So I've been writing down all the things I see, experience, work on and enjoy and making these little layouts. It's a tad personal, so a lot of these won't make too much sense. The sizes of the blocks don't necessarily mean anything, I just use the space that I feel like using for each event or thing. Normally, important events happen to be larger but sometimes I have to settle and make them smaller.

I can't very well post this to websites like DeviantArt or what have you because of the blatant copyright infringement I've committed to make these grids but to be fair the whole thing is an experiment so I'm not too torn up about that bit.

What we have here is March of 2012, the first in my series of month grids that I'll be doling out once a month. I've just started to get April underway and I can only hope May gives me some time to get things in order.

Months

I have decided try something interesting for the next couple of months, just something for the hell of it. Documenting the major events of each month as a sort of collage. I'll explain more in detail at a later time, but for now there is this. Post something later this week.

Scott Pilgrim T-Shirt Designs

Just a reminder that the designs I had submitted to the welovefine.com Scott Pilgrim vs. the World design contest are live and up for voting. Well, they have been for a few days now. Swing on by to the link below and vote if you have a moment to spare: https://www.welovefine.com/contest.php?id_contest=10

Thanks.

Scott-Heron's Revolution

"Scott-Heron's Revolution" (2011)

I finished this piece close to seven months ago as a submission to the Artrageous! 26 Auction. Hard to believe that I would plan so far in advance, I know. The auction is run through Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA and almost all of the proceeds go straight towards funding a variety of programs in the school. Last year the proceeds helped establish an animation department in the school. Now kids can major in an animation concentration, a few people I know personally have already benefited from this.

 I had submitted two pieces similar to this one for the past couple years, each usually ending with some great success for the evening. Over the past few months I had taken the pleasure of reading the written works and the listening to the music written by Gil Scott-Heron, best know for his spoken word piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." I liked what he performed and eventually picked up two of his albums and read his memoir that was released earlier this year. Turns out he had done quite a bit more than I had imagined in his lifetime.

I decided to make this piece similar to the other auction pieces I had submitted before but I wanted to see how much more I could add into it color wise.  Personally, it looks fantastic printed and physical rather than just another .png floating on the internet. I'm hoping it'll do as well as the other pieces that have come before it.

JRPomazon's Scott PIlgrim Tee Shirt Designs vs. The World

Welovefine.com was having a Scott Pilgrim tee shirt design contest, with the celebrity judges and the cash prizes. I couldn't resist. So, I decided to throw caution to the wind and create my own batch of designs. I thought I would continue with the same methods I used for the Wizard of Oz illustration show piece since that turned out well for me. After two weeks of pulling my hair out, gathering materials to use for reference, rereading the comic series, watching the movie, and actually making the designs and planning what kind of shirt to put them on, I finally, finally, finally finished two very fun designs.

The unfortunate thing is that when I went to submit the samples to the website, it seems that the colors got washed out when they decided to put them on their website and now I fear that I'll need to take action in order to secure what chance I had with these designs of winning any sort of mention. But at least, somewhere on this vast sea of electronic aether and magic, these designs are being shown properly and in true color. Wish me luck, I'll be posting/spamming the contest when it begins sometime next month.