Hi, My Name is Dave!

Room 103 Band Logo Design

dave — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:46:03 +0000

This is a logo/graphic I created for the Hollywood, Florida band, Room 103.

You can check them out at the links below.

PureVolume

Facebook

Myspace

Amanda Degard Photography

dave — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:24:18 +0000

This is a watermark/logo that I created for my friend, Amanda Degard to use for her photography. Not really a whole lot else to say, but feel free to check out her page here.

Blinkumentary Interview Graphics

dave — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:17:20 +0000

These are two graphics that I created for TomsAngels.com. The site did an interview with Haven Lamoureux and Matt Edwards of Handsome Randsome about their work filming the blink-182 documentary entitled “Blinkumentary.” The first image serves as a page header and the second is a homepage link to the interview and is also used as a site advertisement.

Highly Technical Instructions!

dave — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:17:50 +0000

For those of you who have to wear a bicycle helmet to bed, I have created a step by step instruction manual on how to create a paper airplane. You may ask yourself, “why would you bother?” Well, the purpose of this is more to detail my abilities in technical drawing and writing than to actually train you how to disrupt a study hall (I would have made a spit-wad manual if that was my intent).

Turkey Asks for Presidential Pardon

dave — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:21:56 +0000

In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, I thought I would do a small seasonal piece to celebrate the fact that every year, the United States President grants a pardon to a turkey on Thanksgiving day.

This image is almost 100% digital. The only part that was hand drawn was the line art for the turkey itself. I drew the turkey in ink, scanned it, colored it and created the entire background in Photoshop. The final version of this image is poster-sized so there is a lot of detail that you don’t see in this small version of it (I actually placed 50 stars on the flag!). The detail was truly painstaking and this piece took me probably 5 hours total to complete due to the complexity of recreating the White House.

These will be sold as postcards next year, so stay tuned.

Little Demon Illustration, Design, Logo

dave — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:06:17 +0000

This piece shows some of my work as a traditional illustrator but with also with some of my graphic design skills as most of the image has been digitally enhanced and the logo was digitally created. I used Photoshop & Inkscape to create this piece of art.

This little guy comes as part of a royalty-free art package that I am putting together (eventually).

I plan on releasing a large collection of my work to be used completely royalty free sometime in the future. I will try to keep the cost reasonable, but the license will be very open allowing it to be used on almost anything you would want (clothing, merchandise, websites, software, etc.).

Rooster Illustration

dave — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:32:30 +0000

This rooster is something I did a while back. It was a pencil drawing which I scanned, adjusted the contrast and made the line drawing appear as though it was done in ink rather than pencil. From there, I threw in the color, background and shadow to give you the finished piece we see today.

Bumper Bucks

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:41:22 +0000

I just stumbled upon this in some of my old files. It was a coupon that I was commissioned by Bumper’s – America’s Car Wash to create to help promote their grand opening. There were thousands of these printed and I saw them all over the place during their hay-day. This was the final version that ended up being printed, but there were several other versions as well.

Be sure to click the Read more link below to check out some alternate versions that were not published.

Strange Little Umbrella Man

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:34:22 +0000

This morning I was feeling a little bored and I wanted to add some illustrations to this page. Rather than look for old images to add, I grabbed my trusty mechanical pencil and some card stock and went to town creating this bizarre little man.

What can I tell you about this man? Not much that you cannot surmise yourselves. He is oddly proportioned with giant feet and huge hands as well as one arm larger than the other. Other than that, it looks like he likes to stay current (based on the newspaper in his giant paw) and also stays prepared for weather travesties (demonstrated by the OPEN umbrella in his other, slightly smaller mitt).

I may ink and/or digitally color this image later if the mood strikes me.

Hi, my name is Dave!

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:16:51 +0000

My name is Dave Perkins and if you don’t know me, this site will give you a chance to look into a part of my life. It covers three of my favorite interests – design, business, and technology.

This site has been a project on the back burner of mine for the last year or so and I am excited to finally get it off the ground. Feel free to cruise over to the about page that I have prepared with a little more information about this site and myself.

The last thing I want this site to turn into is something that is stagnant, boring or mundane. My intent is to keep it fun and keep it light!

If you have any questions, feel free to email me at: dave [at] himynameisdave.com