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[Undead Billy Mays]

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I'm bringing together a good sample of my work all in to one place.
I will have both professional, personal and tribal wars work up here.
Feel free comment, criticize, praise, idolize or whatever tickles your fancy.

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Smudging Sotw Entry

Freestyle Sotw Entry (.us)

Robot Sotw Entry

Freestyle Sotw Entry

Set Stock Sotw Entry (winner)

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Below are a few pages from a 30 page brochure I completed for a non-profit
organization building communities centered around purpose for aging seniors
and revolutionizing foster care.

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Logo Deisgn
Some of these examples of my work have been with clients, others
have been contest work, some are just for fun.

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Last but not least - This beer festival poster took second place overall to represent the local festival.

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Thanks for stopping by. Ill try to keep it updated with works I like.

 

[DeletedUser95815]

Awesome work there man. Nice to see you back on the forum! Don't know whether you remember me. I only remember you because of your name (featuring the always charming Billy Mays) :icon_wink:

Really liking your logo design, very professionally done. The Beer festival poster is very well done as well. Do you have a link to the first place one as a comparison?

Signatures are very good overall, you can see the progression you made. I remember you originally posting the Bioshock signature and me thinking it was the best signature ever. Many happy memories

 

[Undead Billy Mays]

The Beer festival poster is very well done as well. Do you have a link to the first place one as a comparison?

Hey - yeah of course I remember

The contest was open to digital, paint, print, etc so not just one medium.
The winning "poster" was a painting

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The winning submission was a really good work.
Personally I dont think it exemplified a "world beer festival" but oh well

 

[jamesanddelo2]

The logos are brilliant, really nice job on them! I would agree with you about the beer festival poster, yours definitely looks more to the brief of a beer festival than the winning entry (although I do like the winning entry, it just doesn't scream beer festival)

Some of the sigs need some more work but can see a vast improvement on some of them.

Over all nice work!

 

[Undead Billy Mays]

Thanks!

Yeah the sigs are mostly 6 months or older -
I haven't done hardly any sig making lately and that in which
i have, has been 10 min or less jobs.

 

[Napoli-ThaBosz.]

Tags aren't really your cup of tea I think
But I like those logo's you make, the brochure layout also looks interesting.

 

[DeletedUser95815]

Hey - yeah of course I remember

The contest was open to digital, paint, print, etc so not just one medium.
The winning "poster" was a painting

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The winning submission was a really good work.
Personally I dont think it exemplified a "world beer festival" but oh well

Yeah I agree with you there that is doesn't really picture a 'world beer festival' but I can sort of see the connection.

 

[Ack3rl3y]

Tags aren't really your cup of tea I think
But I like those logo's you make, the brochure layout also looks interesting.

Depends on your personal choice I guess, personally I really like them. Overall good work - agree with the others, your festival poster is more in-keeping with the theme and your logo designs are great. Good job.

 

[Undead Billy Mays]

With my signatures

Most of those are older but I still like them because they rely on elements of design, use of color etc etc. I don't often follow the pack with the exact style of smudging, filter usage, and other common themes among most the "pro" signatures. Rarely in my work freelancing do I have a project where I need to use those techniques to get a point across. In fairness to Napoli's comment most of my signatures are free of any red stripes so i can see why he doesn't like them :icon_biggrin: - seriously though I apreciate the compliments on the logo and the "interesting" brochure. Everyone has an opinion and I've said close to the same to him. I'm not a fan of most of his signatures with exception of a one or two, he's just more blunt than I am :icon_cool: We will never please everybody with our works.


Here is how I approach most signatures. Of course I don't always do the same method but on a typical sotw signature.


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[Ack3rl3y]

My appreciation for your work just improved tenfold - because of the Ichigo tag. Love it! :icon_wink:.

 

[Undead Billy Mays]

Working on a website right now and going to be embedding this graphic.
Wanted it to be very subtle and soft so as not to detract from other parts of the page.

 

[DeletedUser81336]

Wow UBM I'm very impressed mate. You've improved sooo much since you came here, it's wonderful to see you're moving on [past tags] in your graphics 'career.'

I personally love this signature here: [SPOIL]

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Not sure why, but it's really cool imo.

Also I think it's wonderful you made a brochure for an organization like that, especially for free (unless they did pay you, even if they did that's still cool). It's great to see people using their skills/talents for a good cause.

Your logo design is also incredible! You and GE should collaborate on some logos or something, that'd be pretty sick. I think you're doing a great job with those, if you choose to pursue art as a career this would be a great start (obviously throw in website designing, brochure/magazine designs, etc... in there though).

As for your animated graphic you are putting into a website I think it's a great start.
As for now the only criticism I have is that the beginning (the blank gray/blue wall) is there for a few milliseconds too long :lol: and if you could have the older gentlemen fade in slower I think that would make it a bit better. As for now I feel like he comes up very quickly :icon_wink::icon_wink: (if ya know what I mean), and is a little distracting, however that is a good attention grabber for advertising, but as you said you want it to be subtle so maybe alter that a little. Idk just some thoughts.

 

[aqeelhussain17]

Wow UBM I'm very impressed mate. You've improved sooo much since you came here, it's wonderful to see you're moving on [past tags] in your graphics 'career.'

I personally love this signature here: [SPOIL]

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Not sure why, but it's really cool imo.

Download Paint.NET ( A MS product ). You can achieve similar effects with a filter.

 

[DeletedUser81336]

/facepalm Not a one word post. Hate me syntex.

 

[aqeelhussain17]

/facepalm Not a one word post. Hate me syntex.

That's what I get trying to help you? Maybe you didn't know about it, maybe you were unaware. Jeezus Christ. =/

 

[Undead Billy Mays]

Wow UBM I'm very impressed mate. You've improved sooo much since you came here, it's wonderful to see you're moving on [past tags] in your graphics 'career.'

I personally love this signature here: [SPOIL]

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Not sure why, but it's really cool imo.

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Download Paint.NET ( A MS product ). You can achieve similar effects with a filter.

Thanks oscar - I have been doing less and less tags and more professional work. It's just as fun as just playing around. I did do that signature in paint.net using that filter I believe. That was before I started working more in photoshop, I think i actually used both at the time. But that does remain as one of my favorites too. And nice spot aqeel

 

[Undead Billy Mays]

Botg round one entry
The first one was my final submission
The second was my first submission
I felt the first submission was lacking
its flair. I added a near transparent
color gradient and a lens flare to give
it more umph.

One of the comments was to leave
off the secondary text. I felt it was
subtle enough to not take away from
the feel of the piece but can understand
the criticism. Thanks for the votes!

 

[Rai.z3l]

Great work there UBM! I especially love the creative logo designs.

 

[Undead Billy Mays]

Updated the .gif for the website I'm designing

 

[syntexgrid]

It looks better without the gradient imo, but it's still a pity the .gif format restricts to you only 256 colors; I'm sure you notice the lack of quality in the photos there.

Any chance of just using js? The animation itself is just simple fading.