Star Wars Symbol Tattoo Ideas

     Heynow, I was bored tonight and had an idea for a tattoo. I saw the Star Wars Rebel symbol in a movie "Fanboys". I then thought about combining a tattoo idea I already had, the Captain America Shield. So I made one that's transparent. Then I thought, have other Star Wars symbols. So I searched for some symbols and made a bunch of transparent symbols.

Captain America Shield with Rebel Alliance Symbol

Captain America Shield with Galactic Empire Symbol

Galactic Empire with Rebel Alliance

Jedi with Rebel Alliance

Jedi with Galactic Empire

 Galactic Empire with Confederacy of Independent Systems

Jedi with Mandalorian

Punch-Out, Child Hank, Sonic Ringtones

     Heynow, it's been awhile again but lately there's been nothing going on at work. It gets that way during the winter. Anyway, I got bored yesterday and made some GIFs and some other pictures. Mainly about "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out" and one about Nerdfighteria (Project for Awesome, Vlogbrothers, Hank Green).

Mac 14-0 14KO

Bald Bull - Bull Charge Stomach Punch

Mac - Victory

Mike Tyson - Wink

Soda Popinski - Laughing

Child Hank Green - Deal With It

     Today I'm going to try to make some Sonic the Hedgehog ringtones. I post pictures, songs, and videos on my tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/erikesemo

     Well, that's all I have to post for today. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday to you and yours. Later peeps.

Paintings For Sale and Other Stuff

     Heynow. So the painting thing has kinda burned me out on doing anymore. I have two paintings that were requested and now they have not paid for them. One is over a month old and the other is almost a year old! if I do anymore for anyone, I'm going to get some money up front, like 50% or something. I'm tried of doing a painting and them flaking out and I'm stuck with it somewhere. I still have some paintings up for sale if anyone is interested, I'll put links below:
Angus Young from AC/DC
Boba Fett from Star Wars
Darth Vader from Star Wars
The Beatles "Help!" Album Cover
The Bealtes "Sgt. Peppers" Pop Art

     I also have some other items on Craigslist if anyone wants to look: Camber 12" Crash (Drum Cymbal), Camber C4000 20" Rock Ride (Drum Cymbal), Logitech QuickCam (WebCam), PlayStation 1 System & 16 Games, and a Flip Mino Camcorder.

     Other than that stuff, life is pretty good. Angel and I are happy. Oh yeah, we got new furniture this month from EZ Rentals down the street. I was nervous at first but once anything was setup, it looked awesome. We got an Ashley Couch, Love-seat, a Toshiba 42" Plasma TV (Newer one that doesn't mess up the screen) and a TV stand for $135 a month. That's not bad and if you're late on your payment, they only charge $5. I think that's a good deal. Hopefully, Angel and I will get payments done and everything good happens. I don't know, I just want good things to happen and that money won't be a problem to use for a while.

     Anyway, here are some painting/tattoo/graffiti ideas:

The Bealtes - Apple

The Beatles

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Wall (T-shirt Design)

Guitar Tree

(Still working on it)

Thor

Hello Kitty - Maneki Neko

(Angel's Tattoo Idea)

     I guess that's it for now, thanks for checking me out. Later peeps.

Back in the Saddle Again

     Heynow. It has been a while but I've had things to do. My girlfriend, Angel, is moving in with me this Saturday. The plan is: she comes in on Thursday night/Friday morning and stay until Saturday morning where we both get in my truck and help move. She don't have a lot of stuff which is good, I hate moving.
     Anywho, I'm back in the saddle again when it comes down to painting more. I got a request yesterday to make one of Johnny Depp, which looks fairly easy and was easy to find and design:

Johnny Depp

     But before I can get started, I need to buy some canvases. I have one 12"x12" so I might be able to do this one first before my other project. It's Black because it's Johnny's favorite color and Tan because it's her favorite color. Silver was her first chose but on paint it turns out to be gray. 

     I posted some paintings on Craigslist and when I sold the Slash painting, the person who bought it had another request, Axl Rose. I got to work on it and gave her this one which was hard to do and took a lot of time.

Axl Rose

     I told her I could change the bandanna color, red or blue. She came back with different pictures. I'm not sure if I want to do this one anymore since it seems like she wants me to start from scratch again. I guess I'll say, it's either this or nothing because I'm burned out on it. Which is somewhat true. After churning out painting after painting, I got burned out on it. It was more time consuming than anything and I think I charge way too low for there's.

     Anyway, that's whats going on at the moment. Moving and once that's done, I'll get started on Johnny Depp. My life is exciting, later peeps.

Dark Side of The Wall

     Heynow, it has been a while. So work, relationship, and being active have been the majority of my life lately and I'm glad. Okay, I have made a few designs and that's why this blog has been so popular so here you go:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Wall

A fairly easy one to figure out. I made this design and put it on a blank baseball shirt and it looks good.

     Okay, this one I did a look time ago when I had long hair and I recorded enough songs to put on an album. If you haven't guessed, it looks a lot like the "John Lennon - Imagine" album artwork. Yeah, that album at the time was very inspirational to me. My band is "Eric Smith & The Grasshoppers" with the album "Subject to Change". It's basically me doing all the recording parts and if someone wants to play, that's great and they are part of the band with no hassles. 

     But anyway I thought that Pink Floyd design was cool and I thought I would share it with you.

    In personal news, I have bed bugs in my bedroom. I got some protective covers for the box-spring and mattress, I need to wash my sheets in HOT water. I have washed my sheets before but not in hot water, I forgot about that. So hopefully some vinegar will do the trick and kill everything and not damage any clothing too. I'm gonna put my clothes through that and hopefully they won't shrink. Anyway, life is pretty good and the relationship is great. Soooooo, my life is boring. Later

Selling, Buying, Working!

     Heynow. Okay so it has been like a month since I last posted but I've been busy. In April, I did VEDA (Vlog EveryDay in April) and if you want to see that, here's the playlist: VEDA 2011!
   
     Anyway, I've put up my paintings up for sale on Craigslist. It doesn't matter if your far away, I can mail it to you. Here's the links:
Angus Young - AC/DC
The Beatles - HELP!
The Bealtes - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Darth Vader - Star Wars
NEW Boba Fett - Star Wars.

     You can get the Darth Vader and Boba Fett painting together for $40. You can even get both The Beatles paintings for $45. I sold the "Slash - Guns N Roses" painting yesterday and I need to ship it today at lunch time. Plus I am selling my Flip Mino Camcorder! Everything works but there are a few screen scratches but it doesn't affect its performance.

     Okay, now on with my life. Angel and I are very happy together and that's all I wanna say about that. Hopefully, I will get off work early so I can get to her house at a good time. The last couple weeks she has traveled down to see me but this week I'm going up to see her. Oh yeah, I got a new truck!

It's a 2011 Ford Ranger XLT. It's a standard but I like that sometimes. At least I won't have to worry about the oil leaking and all that stuff. It had 9 miles when I got it :) and thanks to my brother, Casey, I got a great deal. So using this truck to drive to Hazard isn't a big deal. I would get nervous sometimes thinking that my old truck would crap out at any minute but luckily that didn't happen. Plus it has 6 months of free Sirius Satellite radio so no bill for that until November. So many things to talk about but I feel like I have A.D.D. on this blog. Anyway, Angel's friend Brittany is a musician that plays Outlaw music which I think is sub-genre of country so I made this graphic for her yesterday since work was slow:

She said she loved it and was wanting me to do her album artwork. She said she was going to pay me for this but I guess I'll ask for like $20. I did a few different alternatives but she really liked this one. AND now my boss has given me something really hard to do and it's not really in my job description. I need to Photoshop a custom walkway at a weird angle and all I used to do was look online at photos that looked okay. It's a bit different than what I've been doing. Really Mr. Adam's? You have given me no work until Friday?! That's like breaking your own rule! He has always said to not start something new on Friday. Crud crud crud, at least it's something to do. Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope you liked the update. My life is boring, later peeps.

P.S.: Oh yeah, a person emailed me a while back and wanted a decal of my Abbey Road drawing! So I need some more information about the size and stuff so I can go to the local sign shop and get an estimate. Okay, that's enough bye.

Steady As It Goes

     Heynow. It's quite a while since I've made a post. I'll try and recap whats been going on. Angel and I are dating and this weekend, she is coming down to meet my parents and Casey & Ashley. The week after, I think we are going to Lexington to visit her dad. Life is great. I haven't been this happy....ever. I have a job that I like (I'm close to), I have a girlfriend, and there's not a lot of drama. The only thing is money. Of course it's still a thing but I'm thinking of ways to get a better education and job. Whether it's a state job or going to UK to get a bachelors degree.
     Which reminds me, I need to get started on my portfolio. And I need to get a UK portfolio application. I was working on the UT application and since I live in Kentucky now, tuition will be a little cheaper. I think I have to pay for an application like last time. Lets hope not, I'm going to check now. SON OF A BITCH! I had to apply by Feb. 1st. Now I have to wait till next year if I wanna do it. This sucks. Now the only option is to work somewhere else. I won't do that till this job goes under. This sucks, I really wanted to do it this time. Wait, am I a undergrad or grad? I got a associates from Southeast Community & Technical College. I'm so confused. I forget all the terms and stuff. Ah crap, after looking further into it, it had to be done before Jan. 15th. I am so late on everything. I just don't get it sometimes. I could still try and goto UT. I don't know. Maybe just look for a state job or go to Vaughn & Melton. They're right here and in other locations, plus I know a few people there. Just thinking about money and how I don't want to live paycheck to paycheck and if I wanna start a family, I'll have comfortable amount of money so I (and we) can do it. Sometimes I feel like I wanna do something different other than architecture as a career. Like music whether it's an sound engineer, producer, musician, or anything in recording. I don't know. I'm at the point in my life where I feel like doing something else. So much stress I'm not suppose to put on myself. I'm just gonna forget it and just tell everyone that I'm doing a portfolio anyway. So say that I'm trying at least, and even though I'm not doing the portfolio, I'm still trying anyway.
     I guess in the meantime, I can look for a state job on a website and bookmark it so when the time comes, I'll have some sort of plan on looking for a job. Nothing that I could see but I bookmarked it and I'll look on it later when I need to get another job in my field.