Creating Goals

Today is the last day of 2011 and it’s been a wacky year from pop culture to the more and more designs. Tomorrow is the beginning of the end of the world, if you happen to believe that sort of thing. Either way people tend to start resolutions for the new year, that’s all fine and dandy, but how many people follow through. Resolutions are kind of a joke, because it’s a fantasy. You can start a goal anytime, but once you title it a “resolution” it becomes hard to follow through. Let’s just keep it simple and not create a new word for it.

I did have a goal sometime before 2010 that in 2011 I will create “365 days of creativity”.  Originally I wanted to post it on my blog and then I realized I preferred to keep my personal project personal and only share what I felt like. It was something I want to accomplish on my own and I did enjoy sharing it, but besides it being difficult to post everyday, it was something I wanted to do for myself. I felt like there was some added pressure to share with the world what I’ve done and I don’t know who really wanted to see it. I had fun doing pursuing it and trying to get better, which is great. Having fun achieving your goals is important. I know some goals suck, but you can try.

What was important about my goal or any other goal I have in particular is writing my goal down. Writing down your goals and having it visible is crucial in reminding you to achieve it. About a month ago I picked up a dry erase board to write down my goals, I’m not saying you should get one, but having it on a post it on your fridge or some where visible is important. Chances of you achieving after your goal when you see it everyday will be a lot higher than when you don’t.

I hope your new goals in the future go very well for you. Whether you’re trying to improve as a designer, businessman, becoming a road scholar, losing weight, whatever it may be, just focus and get on trucking.

-Joe Baron

Jay Wise Shoelace Design Process

It’s been awhile since I posted a design of mine, so here is the latest creation. Hip Hop artist Jay Wise is a “sneakerhead”, he literally has two closet full of sneakers and he wanted his name created in shoelaces. I originally took a pair of shoelaces and tried creating his name with them. I wanted to get the shapes, take a picture, and work on it on the computer. Well, the shoelaces did not go as planned and were quite difficult to form a letter, although I was able to create a mean “O”, but there’s no “O” in Jay Wise. I decided that sketching would obviously work best, so I sketched it out and finally came up with one I liked.

 

*Serious inquiries only if you are interested in having me design a sneaker shoelace design

The design was only going to work in script, but I wanted it to be fun and wavy.  I felt I was able to achieve that when I worked on it in Illustrator. I like the text by itself, but felt it needed an outline, which I feel is better. Lucky for me, Jay loved them both, so they’ll be used in designs for him.

 

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365 Days of Creativity – Days 151 -189

Time to update my 365 days of creativity. I’ve been working on my photography, trying to finish more designs on the computer, and practice my sketching.

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187- Renzo Gracie Rockland jiu jitsu t-shirt

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365 Days of Creativity -Day 119-150

Damn…here is my little project of mine that I’ve been working on. I just have to keep the design gears moving. Some stuff are not great and some are ok.

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Day 123- Working on the logo redesign for the company.-Design removed.

 Day 124-Rough draft for a flyer

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Glimpse of another flyer

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Day 127- Marauder sketch and sword

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Day 132-Worked on a circular pattern

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 Part of a flyer design

Day 139- Glimpse on a project I’m involved with.

Day 140-Photography

 

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Day 142- Design-Design taken down due to legal reasons.

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Day 144- Now adding text

Day 145- Design finally complete and ready to be printed for a friend of mine who’s participating in the Spartan Race this coming Saturday.

 

Day 146- Art for rapper Okwerdz

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Day 150- Part of a logo, I’m working on.

365 Days of Creativity -Day 108-118

Here’s the update…My favorite was working on the newest sugar skull design.

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Day 109- A portion of a draft of a flyer I did for a client

Day 110- Flyer that the company wanted and used.

Day 111- Glimpse of another flyer I worked on.

 

Day 112- I still wanted to create a comic book superhero composition, so I was sketching and here’s one sketch.

Day 113- Sketching out ideas

 

Day 114- Beginning of the newest Sugar Skull process. If you were following me on twitter, you would’ve seen the process via twitpic

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Day 116-Almost complete, but not quite

Day 117- The final result. I mocked it up on a t-shirt, because people were asking for it to be sold as a t-shirt. Since they were asking for this on a t-shirt I decided to see if I would print this up.

 

Day 118- Just doodling, hoping something would strike.

365 Days of Creativity -Day 86-107

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Day 90- I don’t know why, but this sketch reminds of Lady Gaga

Day 91- When I did this, it did not.

Day 92- I had to work on creating this to a vector file

Day 93-Finished vector format

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Day 100-An example of how templates can be a timesaver

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Day 103-Part of a flyer I was working on

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Day 105-I’ve been playing this video game on PS3 that my girlfriend’s brother downloaded and I felt like drawing a fun quick sketch

Day 106- I was thinking of the old Nintendo video game Bubble Bobble and decided to create my own fast sketch of a similar looking monster.

Day 107-Fast female sailor sketch. I was looking for a good example to sketch and I almost ran out of time for today, so this is the quick doodle.

365 Days of Creativity -Day 81-85

If you’ve been following this blog for some time, you would notice that I have a goal I call “365 days of creativity”. I want to try and stay fresh whether it’s sketching or creating full designs. I feel it’s always good to see an idea of how other people work or sketches to help bring some inspiration on your own work. Lately, I wasn’t able to post, so I’ll be posting my daily project every week. I will say that it is not always easy to stay creative or be on top of this, because life can be so busy. I’m trying and trying to stay on top of it with new ideas.

As always, click on the picture to enlarge.
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I have had this idea to have a diver diving into a galaxy in space, but I’m still trying to get the execution to come out right. Here is the picture I used, before I started to manipulate it followed by the execution.

 

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Day 85- Photography isn’t as easy as you may think.

 

365 Days of Creativity -Day 71-80

Hey, I know it’s been awhile since I’ve updated these. I decided since I’ve been busy, I will update these at the end of the week. The next update for this will be on the 27th. Unfortunately I did miss one day, which I’m really pissed and got pretty sad about, because it was a goal of mine to work on this everyday. Sometimes life happens where you cannot control what goes on. Anyway I’ve been sketching a bit and jotting down ideas, before I decide to follow through with them.

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Day 71- I was watching the Roast of Donald Trump when I was designing this for hip hop artist Jay Wise. He makes references to space, so I thought having planets and elements of space in his name made sense.
 

 Day 72- I was playing with ink and it got stuck to the other page when I closed it, that’s why there is a rip. I wanted to create an odd character, so I sketched that.

Day 73 – Female sketch

Day 74 -Sketch of a banner and knight like figure

 Day 75- I had an idea to create a St. Patrick’s Day beer label, because a lot of people go out drinking. I had the date, the shamrock, and the snakes that according to the myth St. Patrick drove out of Ireland with. It’s something I may work on, but here was the rough sketch.

 Day 76 – I was playing around with some vector stock art.

Day 77 –  Here’s a self potrait, when I was playing around with my camera.

 

Day 78- I like typography and decided to create a custom font sketch.

Day 79- I always had an idea of a cool bird design and here was my first concept sketch.

Day 80- I was again messing around with some fight vector stock art that I have.

365 Days of Creativity -Day 66 & 67

Day 66- I was continuing working on my halftones, but specifically working on some radial halftones.

Day 67- I enjoy working on these designs. I think I will create a tutorial on how I made these.

365 Days of Creativity -Day 64 & 65

Day 64- I worked on some creative halftones and will probably continue to work on some more, so I can release them for you all to download for free.

Day 65- I felt like working from a picture, so I created this in Photoshop.