I was playing around with a design in Illustrator and decided to finish it out in Photoshop with a photo I shot last week in Venice Beach.

Usually when I'm working on stuff I try to work in such a way that'll make my life easier as I come back to do revisions.

Not gonna lie, I didn't do that this time and I regret it. For some reason I decided not to pen tool the skater and it made everything 5x more difficult than it needed to be. I ended up masking by hand with the paint brush which succckkkkkked. Especially since I didn't use my Wacom, just the track pad on my laptop.

You live and learn though, won't be making that mistake again.

The other day I started messing around with a photo I had shot. This ended up being the result.

It started with an abstract design I noticed in the background of a tv show my fiance was watching. I thought it might look interesting with a photo layered over it, but then I started warping things and adding some text for texture and messing with the colors.

Eventually I landed here. Decided to add in a paper texture for good measure so it didn't feel so vectory.

Let me know what you think.