Fake Movie Poster Designs

          These are a couple of movie posters that I made up. I used various images, layer style setting, different fonts, the brush tool and much more in Adobe Photoshop to create these designs. A few people actually thought the ones that they saw were real movies. Many compliments like: "Those look great," "When is that movie coming out?," "I haven't seen previews for that, but it looks very interesting," and more were made by some of my co-workers, friends and friends/acquaintances from pool league.

Benefit Flyer for Marty Kinard

               This is another pro bono benefit flyer done for Crossroads (pool hall/bar in Orangeburg).
I did utilize the patch tool, mainly for, the picture of Marty, his wife, and his two grandsons to make it look as if it was apart of the baseball. I also used a layer style on the background and all of the words in this flyer to make everything look a little more popped out of the picture. The bar owner told me that he and his wife really like the design and were very appreciative.

Flamin' 8Ball Character

         

         This is a little character designed for a t-shirt idea that is still currently in the works. The flame is the only thing in the picture not drawn, that was pulled from Google images. As for the 8 ball, the eyes and the mouth, those are all drawn with the Adobe Illustrator program. Here are some other versions of this creation.

Breaking 9Ball

                  With this creation, I was just trying to give some life to an ordinary picture of a 9 ball. Comprised in this picture are 4 different photos. I used various layer styles and effects to design this image. This is what the 9 ball looked like before:

               So as you can see I added flames, a darker background, cracks, and even punched in the circled number 9 into the ball a bit. I started designing this while attempting to come up with a logo design for the league operator of TAP, (tap is a pool, as in billiards, league) John Sanders, in Columbia, SC. I'm not sure if he's going to use it, but he has expressed positive comments the design.

Benefit for Blake Jr.

          This is a flyer that I just finished doing for a bar called Belle's Bar and Grill in West Columbia, SC. This flyer was done pro bono to help raise funds for a 3 year old boy that has two deaf parents and is trying to fight through stage 2 brain cancer.

Flyers for Crossroads

 

            

        These are a couple of flyers that I have been working up for a great pool hall in Orangeburg, SC called Crossroads. I love pool, so it seems easy for me to produce designs such as these. The owners have exclaimed how very pleased they are with the look and feel of each flyer that I create for them. I was also asked to come up with a new logo for them as well. The logo featured in the right hand corner of each (and the middle of the top one) were also designed by myself.

Blog 6 February 19, 2014 | Dream Sequence & Frico Sludge Ad

     The composition above was created in a Graphic Symbolism course at South University. The objective of the task was to design a composition that is something that would be viewed in a dream. So I conceptualized the above design. In order to formulate this piece I used Adobe Photoshop and I used four images. This layout is comprised of and image of a snake pattern, crocodile eye, a hole in a wall, and finally a human face. The tools used to complete this project were the wand tool, adjustment layers, the opacity bar, the eraser tool, and a couple of other tools. After using all of those items I was able to come up with this finishing product that got me an "A" for the assignment.

    Frico Sludge is a made up advertisement for coagulated refrigerator sludge. The purpose of this assignment was to pick from a list of either disgusting or dangerous items and advertise them in a way to mislead your audience into believing that there's absolutely nothing wrong with the product. To accomplish completion of the job I used Adobe Photoshop and four photographs to get the message across. The brainstorming on this piece wasn't very difficult, but it was a bit of challenge seeing as I had to make something as repulsive as coagulated refrigerator sludge seem harmless. Typeface treatment, color, outer glow, opacity levels, and photo manipulation were all utilized to create what you see before you. This assignment also received a good grade.