d@ SerGe's blog

Spinal Tap…

daSerge22 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:43:14 +0000

With the new year under way, there are some great projects coming my way. This was a commission, for the clients husband who is finishing up chiropractor school. This was an extremely fun piece because I was given complete freedom to make it funky and make it colorful. At first I was just thinking to have the spine alone by itself, but there was still a lot of canvas to work with. That’s when I thought to add some vertebrae, and directional arrows. When it was time to paint I wasn’t really sure how it was going to turn out. I don’t usually paint this large and at first it seemed really overwhelming. After about and hour, of just throwing paint every which way, and getting some cool dripping affects going on, there was a little more direction. The hardest part about doing a painting like this, for me, is knowing when to stop painting. I stopped. Before it was too late.

Jordan 11 gif rotation…

daSerge22 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:23:00 +0000

I haven’t made a sneaker gif in a few months and well with the Jordan 11 re-release I couldn’t resist. In my opinion these are the best looking Jordan’s ever released, and my best gif animation to date!

City Boarding…

daSerge22 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:21:55 +0000

A friend of mines came to me about a month ago with a plain skate deck, and asked me to paint a NYC theme on the board. How could I say no? I was never into landscape painting, but city scape painting I have really begun to enjoy! I used pen and acrylics and then sprayed it with a clear enamel coat to give it a nice glossy protective finish. If you bring me a plain skate deck I will customize it to your hearts desire!

Blue Board…

daSerge22 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:46:48 +0000

Here is the finished board, a little over due but completed non-theless.

The Swagger Gifs Continue…

daSerge22 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:03:09 +0000

I am still having a of fun making these simple gif animations. I have been trying lots of little tricks and it almost seems endless, you just have to imagine it. I still have to learn how to integrate Adobe After Effects into the mix! I’ve seen some really, really cool little gifs made using both Photoshop and After Effects. I have been posting most of these gifs to my tumblr, but lately I have been having some issues uploading them. The bottom two – the purple sneakers and the camera – at that size I was able to post with no problem. The top two sneaker gifs, are a little more subtle in animation, and when I first uploaded them they weren’t playing right, I wasn’t sure if it was because the file was too big. So I made them slightly smaller. One of them seemed to work, but the smaller I made them they still didn’t work when uploaded? I didn’t want to make them any smaller, so I just decided to post them here.

This just in a sudden surprise just happened as I am writing this post; I pressed the preview button to see what this post will look like once I press the publish button. Usually the gifs are not working on the home page and I will leave something like this - “click the image to see the gif in action” – so you could see the animation. So now you only have to “click on the camera to see it in action”. This still leaving me a little confused as to why the gifs I made work on some sites, at certain times, while others times they may work, but work different ways? I’m not sure, but this just makes it more fun, because now I have to go figure out this problem so I can continue to make more Swag!