Damn weather

I was on a full time hustle today trying to get this done. Shout out to orange and free for helping out as always. i originally wanted to do the photoshoot inside the baseball park, but so many factors prevented it like the damn weather, but so far the results came out cool

all colors available in boys and girls except the blue which is for boys and the green which is girls only. All 78 shirts will be at the sneaker summit tomorrow at club meridian

1503 Chartres St

Houston, TX 77003

(713) 225-1717

See you there

video goodness

owl sketch in a field from afreekan on Vimeo

quick owl skech i did with cheap markers and colors. My brother screaming in the background. Weak. I haven't colored with these in 5 yrs. I decided to see where my skills are at. This is all in 1 take. Obviously if i took my time i wouldn't do it this fast and correct my error. I got work to do. The point of these videos is to show how fastness not skills. I will try and post some more that show that but that will take mad time. Well i'm off to a photoshoot. Stay tuned for more updates later this evening

O TEAM - BRINGIN BACK GOOD TIMES, NO BULL, CHANGE IS NICE

Did alot of running around today, but i thought i would give yall a sneak peek and design inspiration of the new shirt we have coming out

This is 1 of 6 colors we have coming out in the dobale/niceguys obama " o-team" shirt. Now before some of you start acting critical because it's an obama shirt, let me explain why. First during the elections everyone was cashing in the obama hype, i stayed out of it even though i knew it was easy money, but after the elections i came up with a crazy idea to come up with mine

The 'o-team' shirt is a special shirt we decided to come out with. We dedicate this to his inauguration next month.

We wanted this shirt to have a "championship" jersey feel to it. I had so many inspirations in making this shirts. For 1 the colors we used which are not random colors but colors that have meaning. They will be coming out in green, red, blue, white, black and grey.

red, white and blue - representing the american flag

green- representing the land, the people of america

black- representing his skin color

grey- my favorite color

I decided that if i am going to come out with an obama shirt, i will have to invest time in making the process have meaning to it rather than easily slapping an obama face to like everyone else.As you can see in the front, it has 43 white stars representing all the other presidents and 1 black star representing him. I left his face in a shield signifying royalty. I left his signature pink to give it a funky feel. The whole look of the front was really inspired by vintage black and white baseball cards that was signed. ( having fun yet- this is just the beginning...bear with me, i'm almost done)

vintage signed baseball cards. I gave obama a grainy look to make it look like an old vintage card.

Now the back of the shirt. It was inspired by championship football and baseball jerseys. 44 representing his title.

This is my favorite part of the shirt. The clean linework and the inspiration behind it. If you look at superbowl jerseys like the pic below. They always add something extra to it. I also added the "niceguyslook" authentic tag to it. That was inspired by alot of authentic tags jerseys had like cooperstown. I wanted to make sure that this looked like a championship jersey because of his victory. So this shirt is not only good for his inauguration, It can be worn all through his term and even for a lifetime to remember his historic victory against all odds.

superbowl football jersey. You can see some of the similarities. I hope you are as excited as i am for the release of these shirts. I wish i could post more pics of the other colors but i will on saturday.

The shirts will be coming out this weekend and will be sold at the sneaker summit this sunday at club meridian with all other dobale shirts. Stay tuned for more updates. I will post some more this weekend

countdown to o-team

11 in the morning, made a stop to the printer's office
ezra lending a helping hand on the project

the o-team is coming with a bang. Stay tuned, i should be posting updates next week

as promised i was going to post pics on the tom ford book i have. It's huge as hell and kinda impossible to scan so i snaped pics of them. This is the cover

Inside contains A long interview tom ford did with the author. The book contains everything he did as the creative director for gucci and ysl. How he changed the world in menswear and how gucci became what it is today.

Showing all his ad campaigns, runway pics and celebrity pictures. The book is mad cool. Tom ford makes the illest ad campaigns

Back cover of the book. Alot of people say tom ford didn't do a good job as the director of ysl, but i differ. But what do i know, its my opinion

This is another book my brother has. This was on giorgio armani

It shows how armani became what it is today. Shows how he took out shoulder pads from blazers, How the brand became popular because of richard gere's movie american gigolo.
Now this is kinda random i just finished my semester so i decided to practice on some drawings today, which didnt take long at all. I know i am lazy but check out this video i posted on youtube. Its a 7 minute sketch i did in 1 take of a frog on a rock with a marker. Check it out and don't laugh, i see all the errors, I got work to do. I got more updates on the shirts coming out, stay tuned for next week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_HCY9GJJb0

Boy i was mad uncomfortable in that video.