My Father's Artwork

 A lot of what I have learned as an artist was taught or inspired from the works of my own dad. He is someone who has had plenty of experience creating a variety of different pieces of all types of mediums (drawing, digital, painting, sculpting, etc.). Though his primary career is something completely different, he'll often create artwork for recreation or as payed commissions to get a bit of extra money.

When you go into the basement of our house you will find plenty of sports-related paintings hanging around.

These first two are of the quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens, Lamar Jackson. The style is mostly realistic, though the background elements look somewhat digital in a way (especially with the vibrant motion lines in the first picture). This is likely because my dad often experiments in Photoshop first to try to create interesting effects for a piece before attempting to replicate said effects via painting.

This same technique was used for this painting of a basketball player (who I don't know the name of), where he had found references of him online and then placed the three of them into a Photoshop file. After that, he had experimented with a variety of brushes and tools to see what would look the most interesting. After he finished the Photoshop piece, he used the entire thing as a reference to paint.

The painting above was done shortly after the passing of Kobe Bryant which was done without the Photoshop reference unlike the previous work, but still contains interesting/unique brush strokes and vibrant colors similar to his previous paintings.

This final painting is the most different as it was done over 20 years ago while my dad was still in college. It was originally created to mark the day when basketball legend Michael Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls in 1998. Comparing it to the others, it most notably doesn't use the more 'wild' brush strokes and vibrant colors like the others, I believe that this was because digital art wasn't really used by my dad yet so the inspiration from more contemporary forms of art wouldn't be translated into his works yet.