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Rather old thing (I crafted it in November 2007), but I never really shared it. I’ve got my handmade customized belt buckle with “mx” insignia on it:

For those who’s curious how it was done: hand drawn sketch of my logo (since I don’t have a printer at home), a plate of pretty thick (about 1,5mm) aluminium, saber saw, a couple of rough files, broach files (to make edges cleaner) and the almighty sandpaper to make it look shiny. It’s actually glued on the belt buckle, and after some years of non-stop rocking this beauty it’s still there :)

Kind of an earlier attempt at playing with geometric transformation in Adobe Illustrator®. I’m pretty satisfied with this one, although there are a lot of those “vector tricks” that I haven’t had chance to try out yet… Though, as Guru of Gang Starr sang: “Experience’s the best teacher…” ;)

So, as a big fan of flat-billed fitted baseball caps, I’ve always been distressed at the fact that local girls can barely be seen sporting fitteds… Luckily there’s a plenty of hot girls all over the world who’s not afraid of doing so. For example, Strictly Fitteds has one of the best sections evah — “Caught in the Act”, where you can spot men and woman in all these sweet caps :)

Check it out:

Photos by Jesicka DeVenuta. Make sure to peep her flickr and tumblr — it’s really worth.

So I’m learning how to create letters with the almighty Adobe Illustrator…

It’s been pretty tough for me in the beginning — I’m too used to draw letters by my own hands, but there are some cool tricks (smart guides is a really good example) to make it easier. Prepare yourself for my vectors ;)

ps. I’d like to take the opportunity to thank Jonathan Connolly (of creativetempest.com) for his help. Hola, Jon!

I’ve been collecting my drawings and other creative stuff since the school days, and today I’ve got literally an archive of random paper sheets filled with weird imagery from back in the day :)

Here are some that might be interesting:

I guess some of those still look cool, but I don’t feel like working on them anymore…
Anyway: watch, enjoy & leave comments if you’re inspired :)

Something that might become a t-shirt design. Fountain pen on paper.

We spent a great weekend with my brother, who I sincerely congratulate on becoming a father on February 4th! Late night we were hanging out at his place and  I found some useless brochure and spent the last drops of ink of my 1,5mm marker by throwing some strange-looking calligraphy-like stuff on the pages.

Some shots of what I came up with at around 5am:

The pic above shows the result of my freestyle session with some phat pen I found at my temp. job back in January. I’ve got hundreds of such pieces laying all around my room, I throw these when I’m bored, or, most of the times, when I’m cleaning pens (by simply rubbing a ballpoint  tip upon a paper sheet) while  drawing a serious illustration. It’s a natural flow I guess, I don’t even think what, where and how it should be drawn — it just comes out of my mind. I’ll be posting these “cleaning” paper sheets soon, just gotta sort ‘em out.