L.A. Boyzz
First off, this is something that I just finished for Wired Magazine. I got a call Wednesday evening for a rush job. Basically sketches due the next day and a finish due the day after that. For some reason I always enjoy the rush jobs way more than the long drawn out assignments. I think there is something nice about finishing an assignment in a short amount of time. The article to accompany this illustration was on the website, sellaband.com .
Basically it's for new bands to get people who visit the site to sponser them. Everyone can chip in 10 dollars and if the band raises $50,000 they get to record an album with a top notch producer with state of the art equipment. If the band makes it big, everyone gets some sort of dividend (though theres some weird catch to this in the contract). I really liked the idea of people contributing to something larger and came up with this concept. The second sketch is something crazy that the art department thought of on the fly, and I also thought might make a good visual but thankfully was rejected.
I had a lot of fun working on this one and I felt like I won a small victory that I didn't have to do the usual cliché that would normally go with a "concept illustration".
This is something totally unrelated. Apparently a couple of nights ago my studiomate Kunche heard these guys chasing another dude down the street. He was attempting to break into their car and I guess they caught him in the act and took a bat to him. Our neighbor said he saw them slam this guy's body into the curb WWF style....Everything in these photos is probably 5 feet in front of our studio door.
anyways, here's a little taste of L.A.
Basically it's for new bands to get people who visit the site to sponser them. Everyone can chip in 10 dollars and if the band raises $50,000 they get to record an album with a top notch producer with state of the art equipment. If the band makes it big, everyone gets some sort of dividend (though theres some weird catch to this in the contract). I really liked the idea of people contributing to something larger and came up with this concept. The second sketch is something crazy that the art department thought of on the fly, and I also thought might make a good visual but thankfully was rejected.
I had a lot of fun working on this one and I felt like I won a small victory that I didn't have to do the usual cliché that would normally go with a "concept illustration".
This is something totally unrelated. Apparently a couple of nights ago my studiomate Kunche heard these guys chasing another dude down the street. He was attempting to break into their car and I guess they caught him in the act and took a bat to him. Our neighbor said he saw them slam this guy's body into the curb WWF style....Everything in these photos is probably 5 feet in front of our studio door.
anyways, here's a little taste of L.A.
Posted at 11:39 PM
15 Comments:
L.A. cops suck. He was probably jaywalking.
Anyhoo...
Josh, great concept for the illustration, reminds me of the people puppets from Unico and the Magic Island (if anyone's seen it.
WWF style!! We need more photos like this on the blog. And Unico is amazing fantastic, like amazingfantastic.com.
Great stuff. Topping it off with Pro Wrestling is definitely a plus.
Nice sketches, there is something i like from the second sketch, but great concept on the finish one.
Great sense of design, colors, and use of space on this one. Nice balance. I thought I saw Koko B-Ware in one of the photos....
Nice resolution to the problem. Like the playfullness too.
I had no idea that you guys kept it so real down there. Gangster!
as for the pic - at least the guy is white - no more rodney kings
Thanks for comments! Frank, I have no idea what Unico and Magic Island are. But it sounds interesting....And yes we do keep it real here at the studio. I have to say my studiomate Kunche captured everything on his camera. I must have been safe at home, in my warm bed. My studio is in this sort of sketchy neighborhood on the edge of Ktown...otherwise known as Beverly Park (?)
I think he looks Mexican or Asian. What ever happened to Reginald Denny?
This piece is awesome. Perfect for the story.
ha, josh!
back in taiwan in the mid 90's, there was a reeeeeallly cheesy boyband called the "LA boyz". (seriously.) they would rap in mandarin. but that aside, the illustration is brilliant!!
and the photos - it's cuz koreans apparently rule the classy part of town. hehe .. yeah, i hate la cops.
stella, ohh....I KNOW about the LA Boyz! And the korean boy bands like "Solid" and "Turbo". Hi Chris
Solid was and still is awesome.
Great illo Josh.
I went to high school with the LA Boyz. They tried to be as badass as possible. Well, as badass as possible considering they lived in the swankiest part of Irvine. Around school, they called themselves the "TR Posse", after their subdivision. They'd wear matching silk shirts and dance to BellBivDevoe songs at lunch and assemblies. Needless to say, observing them was usually fairly entertaining for my jaded, punk rock self and my other misfit friends.
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