Friday, May 22, 2009

Destructive Tendencies


I wonder if deep inside, we're all really as dark as the people we choose to ignore.

-Design is mine, font is not

Edit: Originally "Destructive Instincts". I decided "Destructive Tendencies" sounded more poetic.

7 comments:

Sarah.... said...

I think we are. It's called total depravity; you'll learn that when/if you come to Calvin...haha.

Noooooo Sam, nooooo! Why "destructive instincts"????? I don't want to see that everytime I visit your blog! It's too depressing!

UGN said...

nice pen work..
are you into that genre(whatever you call it) of abstract design now?

Samuel said...

>Sarah
Hmmm as if "depravity" by itself isn't enough that you have to add "total" as a prefix. haha...

Well it's titled "destructive instincts" because the design is of a single flame. No matter how hard to try to control or contain it, fire will always retain it's desire to destroy. A metaphor for human nature if you will.

And if you look closely I hid the letters SAM inside which reflects my own affinity with fire. And not just my frequent playing with it. =)

>UGN
Yea I've been trying to learn how to draw tribal designs for some time now but only recently got down to actually doing one.

And you guessed right btw.. Pen tool in PS. Original design was something similar I drew on paper, took a photograph of, and traced with the pen tool to make it look smoother.

UGN said...

AH YES. Tribal. =.=;

hmm. I THINK i can see the S A M.

try making one with T A W A U.
=)

Samuel said...

Hmmm turn your head sideways to the left. The letters are overlapped so as not to be obvious.

Hahahaha... Maybe when I'm bored to hell in NS I'll try... =)

Christine Kan said...

Nice =) as always. haha

Samuel said...

Thanks.. :)

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