17.01.2012
PIPA/SOPA Protest
Just a reminder for those who don’t follow all of my ridiculous social networking sites, my site will be blacked out January 18th, 2012.
17.01.2012
Just a reminder for those who don’t follow all of my ridiculous social networking sites, my site will be blacked out January 18th, 2012.
13.10.2011
Some of you may not know, but I design most of the posters for the Northwest Florida Arts Association. But I do. Yeah.
Anyways.
I particularly like the new one so I thought I would share. Enjoy!
09.10.2011
First off, I just realized this is my 200th post on the website. Awesome! Woot. I have nothing planned and since it is 1AM… yeah… getcha next time, kid.
Tutorial time!
The other day a girl I know asked me to show her how to make a cool Halloween type font effect for a poster she was designing. So I figured why not, let’s share it with you lovely people! Happy Halloween and such!
First up you need a badass font. I am using “Frank Knows” from http://www.dafont.com
Launch Photoshop and hit File->New. Make the width 800px and the height 600px, resolution 72. Background color black.
Using the text tool, type your text and then right click the layer and hit blending options.
Apply the following Layer Styles with the listed settings:
Inner Glow
Bevel and Emboss
Set the gloss contour to have the U shaped contour and set the shadow opacity to 0%
Satin
Color Overlay
Anyways you should be good to go after that!
If you need any help, hit me up on my Facebook or download the PSD file here.
A few months ago, Angel asked me if I was interested in designing a logo for the 2011 Zombie Walk. I said sure and put together a few proofs. I haven’t had any contact with the Jaycee’s people at all to be honest, so I have no idea where the logo is being used or in what manner.
SO you can imagine my delight when driving to work yesterday, I saw a giant neon green billboard featuring my logo! I’m very excited to say the least!
Anyways check it out. I took this picture of it this morning. This billboard is located on Highway 98 as you enter Fort Walton Beach from Hurlburt Field and Navarre. It’s right near the “Welcome to Fort Walton Beach” sign in the center of 98. It’s out there! Be sure to come support the Zombie Walk as well!
On a side note, the Zombie Walk posters you see around town? I did not design those. Just the logo.
04.10.2011
So I finally joined Flickr about 15 years later but whatever. I have always had FTP access to webservers so I have never needed external image hosts but I joined to be a part of the Photo Walk’s group.
On that note, here are my pictures from the Photo Walk on Saturday:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ihateartists
21.07.2011
Doing some tests for an effect I want to use in my next art piece. Of course I shattered a very nice champagne glass doing the tests… good thing I don’t value that kind of thing. =)
Broke the tupperware too… fucking hell…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information contact:
Brandon Pence
Digital Artist
(850) 225-6290
brandonpence@gmail.com
DIGITAL ARTIST BRANDON PENCE’S ART WORK CHOSEN FOR STATEWIDE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COVER
Pensacola, Fla. (Jun. 13, 2011) – Local artist Brandon Pence has had his work chosen by the State of Florida’s Department of Health for their 2012-2014 Comprehensive Prevention Plan. The Prevention Plan will be printed and distributed throughout the entire State of Florida.
“It’s an absolute honor to have my work chosen for the cover,” says Pence, who also has his work on display at Full Circle Art Gallery and the Northwest Florida Arts Association Art Lair in Fort Walton Beach. “I’m very proud to be able to give back to this wonderful state.”
The 26-year old self-taught digital artist has attracted a niche following for his graphically enhanced photographic narratives. He captures portraits in a unique and intense way, posing his subjects against light and dark color contrasts. The eclectic, passionate tones of Pence’s art clearly reflect his musical inspirations such as David Bowie, Johnny Rotten and Sascha Konietzko. For more information, call (850) 225-6290 or visit www.brandonpence.com.
More About Digital Artist Brandon Pence
Brandon Pence has been a working professional in the graphic design field since he was 17 years old. Currently Pence is a graphic designer with Revive Media Services. Pence owns and runs www.brandonpence.com, a virtual exhibit of all his art. Pence also works with clients to create conceptual portraits from existing digital portraits such as graduation or wedding photographs. Self-taught, Pence first honed his skills working for a regional sports publication and then created the branding for Java Jo’s/Cuppy’s Coffee.
07.06.2011
What music (if any) do you listen to when you create art?
It depends on my mood at the time. The music doesn’t really effect the art directly; I have made some of my darkest work listening to techno or something light. I would say some consistant albums on my playlist while working on art are:
What inspires you the most for your art? movies? books? advertisements? people?
I would say the majority of my inspiration comes from my life. I think a lot of my art is me expressing emotions that I need to get out; whether positive or negative.
However out of the above, I would say people/art as a combination. More specifically: music. I hardly ever look at art work; in fact, I intentionally try to avoid it. I want my ideas to be 100% my own without question so I try not to look at other art. I do enjoy a few artists though… Sagmeister, Ranum, etc.
Would you ever do an artwork focused around a dragon? that’d be awesome!
Probably not, honestly. The “fantasy” genre of artwork doesn’t interest me much. Dragons, faeries, vampires, etc. are incredibly one dimensional to me. I have made a few vampire pieces, usually as a request. The closest thing I will likely come to this type of art is the Alice in Wonderland pics I did.
However… who knows what the future holds…
How much planning goes into your work? Do you tend to fly by the seat of your pants, think everything through in detail, or something in between?
I try not to plan anything. Planning a piece always leads to disappointment for me. It’s never as good as I wanted it to be. I typically wake up, get some breakfast and coffee and then sit down and focus on a single emotion. This emotion could be powered by a recent event in my life and then once I have the emotion, I focus on how that makes me feel and I start working. When I am firing on all cylinders with a single emotion, things will talk to me. A certain picture will stand out to me. I could have seen it 500 times before and ignored it but this time, it’s the one. Emotion changes the human perception greatly so I let it fuel my art.
Do you answer the questions or just collect them?
What do you think?
When did you decide you wanted to be an artist?
I’m not sure I ever conciously decided to be an artist. I know at one point when I was around 17, I became much more interested in using photoshop as a tool for self expression. At some point I decided to make that my living, but I’m not sure I, at any point, decided to be an artist.
As a kid I wanted to be an animator at Disney. Perhaps it’s something that has always been with me. However as most people know, I think the term “artist” is bullshit and meaningless…
Where did you grow up at?
I grew up in Niceville, Florida. Bluewater Bay to be specific. Back then there was absolutely nothing in Bluewater Bay, so my friend Clayton and I would spend every day finding new ways to tear the world apart.
24.05.2011
Lately I have been experimenting with new art techniques for my work. I am constantly changing, improving and altering my technique. My fans and friends have said that you can always tell which pieces are mine, no matter the style, so I really appreciate that. I tend to go into extremes with my style; I will think of something, accomplish it, do it a lot, and then move on. You can see this in my work, for example:
I typically learn the style, apply it to an extreme, and then subtly use it from then on. I do this constantly with my art.
So lately I have been adding a rather extreme new element to my art: realistic 3D liquids.
I have always loved the way liquid looked when it splashed and I decided to find a way to do that with my art. There were several ways to do it initially; one involving setting up a camera, glass, lights, etc. and taking real photos… but why do that if I can render them in high resolution, and even have them alpha masked?
I started doing research and remembered a program my boss, Kevin Almodovar had found called RealFlow. I took a look at it and decided it would work perfectly. So… I set out to learn it!…
…then promptly realized there are virtually no tutorials for it out there… LYNDA.COM! YOU HATH FAILED ME!…
…then I set out to try and learn it…
Below are the results of my experiments. I’m very happy with the results and I hope you enjoy seeing these things used in future art of mine.
03.02.2011
My good friend and awesome photographer Holly Bain has posted the pictures from the photoshoot we did a few weekends ago!
Here are a few previews…
To see the rest, visit Holly Bain’s website here.
In other news I bought a laptop and I am horribly sick right now. Fever and shit.
Also I have recently realized this website is horribly broken in Internet Explorer. I will fix that this weekend once my body is done hating me.