Detour?

“where did you get a detour sign from??”

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I had recently started promoting my custom promoted shoes when I received a direct message from a potential client with a slightly different idea in mind. He had received a metal detour sign and had been pondering over what to do with it. He saw my work that I had promoted and was intrigued. I was simply told that I had free reign as far as the design. Artists dream of being commissioned to produce an original design so I was very excited to work on this new type of canvas and eagerly accepted.

The process for this started by taking photographs of my own hands in the position that I desired and then sketching out those photographs. I then transfered those physical drawings into a digital graphic rendering (shown above) which was a new medium at the time for me. This helped me to be able to work with colors and figure out the style of painting that I wanted that is seen in the final piece.