You Belong Banner

This is a vertical standing banner I just designed for my church.

Superman Redesign

Been a while. We had our baby, Lincoln Wade Finch, on Nov. 12th so life has been pretty hectic but awesome as well. I've wanted to do a Superman redesign for some time and just last week I finally got around to it.

I have always felt like that Superman's "S" was always to obvious. It should not just be a "times new roman" "S" pasted to his chest. It has more meaning than that. It's his Kryptonian family symbol for crying out load!! I have tried to make it more than just an "S" but still have it recognizable as an "S".

I also wanted his suit to be updated to fit a more modern world. I got rid of the red underwear because it seems ridiculous to have this as part of his design in this day and age. Instead, I added the gauntlets to his forearms to help add more red accents pieces. I attached the symbol to his cape to make it one piece that comes down over his chest. I think this helps makes him look more powerful and imposing.

Most use a shade of yellow and some even use black for the color behind the "S" in their suit designs. I felt like both were too harsh for this look and went with a darker shade of red.
I left the look of the boots mostly in line with what is traditionally done for his suit.
So there you have it. I would love to know what you think.

Element Youth Ministry Logo

Here's a logo I just redesigned for a local youth group. The youth group is actually a part of "Harvest Christian Centre" so I wanted the logo to have a similar look. I basically took what they had been using and tweaked it to be something all their own. I also created a unique type face (much like I did for the Harvest Logo) for the text associated with the logo.

Sentinel of Liberty...

Here is a project I just finished for Project: Rooftop, a website that issues design challenges dealing with redesigning comic book characters costumes. The recent challenge, in light of the movie concepts coming out, is to redesign Captain America. I choose to go with more of a WW2 style redesign. I got rid of the traditional red and white stripes on his torso in my design, also thought it kinda made my look like he's wearing a corset. Instead, I put the stripes on both the belt around his waist and across his chest. The belt around his chest would be used to attach his shield to on his back when not in use.

I also posted this on my coroflot account and it has already become a featured item on their featured work section! So hopefully good things to come with this!!

Finalized Harvest Christian Centre Logo

Been a while.....but here is is the finalized Harvest logo. We decided that a much smaller, compact design would better serve the purpose of this logo. This design still keeps the essence of the designs below but is much more complete.

Harvest Christian Centre Logo Process Work

Here are some logo options I've been working on for a local church. They want to update their look to have a more current design. I'm still tweaking the details but the majority of the designing is done. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Get Pumped Walk Results

The walk to raise money for juvenile diabetes research my sister and mother organized raised over $15,000!! Not bad for the first walk in farmington and really only being put together with two people.

Notice all those blue t-shirts? Pretty nice uh? Over 500 t-shirts with my design on them were sold for the walk.

Best Models We Could Find...

Here's a pic of my sister and I wearing t-shirts with the logo I designed for the fundraising walk she is organizing. All the proceeds collected go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to help find a cure. The walk is in early April. Brianna (my sister) has all ready raised over $2000 by herself! Scroll down a bit to see the original posting of the logo.

Just For Fun...

Just a fun exercise to get my back in the swing of things. I haven't just sat down and drawn something for fun in a while. I found an image of Wolverine I liked and went to town. Top image is my pencil work and the bottom image it the inked version. I'm going to try and to more of these as a way of disciplining myself to draw more.

Fly Me to the Moon...

Here is a piece I've been working on for a while now. Just a fun take on "Old Blue Eyes" himself, Frank Sinatra. It's a mixed media piece much Like how I handled the John Wayne piece. Hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think!

Get Pumped Logo

This is a logo I'm working on for a JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) fundraising walk my sister is organizing. The design is centered around an insulin pump, a device used by many diabetics as a way to help control their disease. This project is near and dear to me because many members of my family are diabetics including my mom, dad and sister.

Sorry about the typos, most of the time my mind moves quicker from thought to thought than my fingers can type. I'm sure I'm the only one that ever happens to.

Move Along Pilgram...

Here is the final art. Touched up and added a few this via photoshop. I added a simple light blue gradient for the delineation of sky. I also the text "the Duke" to his badge but it's not like he needs a label. It's John Wayne for crying out loud! Hope you enjoy. I would love to get some comments either here or at bryanfinch@hotmail.com.

John Wayne Caricature Work In Progress Photos

Here is the final art before I scanned it. I added the line work to strengthen the cartoony aspect of the piece. I used a black out line for the figure to help bring him forward and a red/brown line for the background. I pretty much painted the sky back to solid white so I could add a simple indication of sky in photoshop.

More paint and colored pencils, really starting to focus in more of the final details.

John Wayne Caricature Work In Progress Photos

Here I'm just adding more detail with colored pencils. The desert background started to come into focus at this time.

Here I started using colored pencils and acrylic paint applied a little more opaquely to move the image along. Notice I reversed the value of his vest and his shirt. I decided I wanted the vest and hat to end up being about the same color and the shirt had to be a classic red one. I also eliminated about 2 inches of the sky making the composition more squat. Not doing the sunset just made that area dead space.

At this time, I was just make more changes and adjustments. I changed my mind on the sunset type sky and decided to go with day time setting. This helped with the overall value range in the composition.

I then used more acrylic washes to establish values. At this point, I kept it mostly monochromatic to help visual the value placement.

Here is the first step to my John Wayne piece. After I transfered the drawing to a piece of illustration board, I applied a warm wash of orange.