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deviantART: by:yellow-five http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:yellow-five&section=today deviantART RSS for by:yellow-five en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:26:46 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Thanks for the Continued Support. http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/28444422/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/28444422/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:33:15 PST

~yellow-five

I wanted to take a moment and thank all of you, who have constantly offered me support through the rough times. It really has helped. As you can see, I have a few new pieces, and I am feeling more on top of my game than ever. Not only in art, but in life in general. A Big thanks goes out to my best friend, and Led2Escape colleague

who has helped me turn my life around.

Thank you all.

y5

]]> ~yellow-five My Headaches. http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/28386021/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/28386021/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:47:34 PST For this last year I have been thinking about ways to start my design/illustration studio with my friend. I would have to say a good example of who I am looking to follow is Sos Factory. Still I feel like I am left with out a clear path. Life is hard as it is and this last year has been no exception. There has been bad, but there has been overwhelming good. Still no clear path of how to become successful from art. I have an idea in my head, but I have never seen anyone do it.
It has left me feeling like something is just rotting away in my soul until I can accomplish this.

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Open for Commissions http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/28169871/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/28169871/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:25 PST
-Yellow-five

LED 2 ESCAPE

]]> ~yellow-five Asking for some Help.... http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/28022084/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/28022084/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:27:55 PDT

He is a very skilled artist, more than what you see on his page, but is really trying, wanting to grow as an artist. It used to be an ease for him to draw. These days not so much any more. Ever since we both had a friend who brought us down, tried to control us etc... its just bad all around. He is finding it hard to get back into the flow of drawing. That feeling where your imagination see's one thing and your hand cannot keep up. Any advice, techniques, or warm-ups you know of that can re-spark that drive and creativity we all have would be great.

Even I am going through some hard times finding the motivation again to pick up a pencil and draw. I feel like I pigeon holed myself in graphic design.

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Funny How Life Changes. http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/27803606/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/27803606/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:55:30 PDT My job is not something I would of even remotely thought I would do. In fact I have absolutely been frightened by the idea of Hospitals, or anything dealing with Health Care. Now I am working five days a week 24/hrs a day at a care home. Doing things that disgusted me 5 months ago. It was only a few years ago when I could barely take care of myself. Now I take care of 6 patients on a daily basis, washing, cleaning, helping get around, feeding etc some patients every day.
Life is a funny thing. Sadly this has taken away from "me" time. I barely get time in a day to sit down and find the focus to draw. But I am trying at every single opportunity to. I know this is not going to be the rest of my life, but for now it is what it is and I cannot complain.
I know there are a few of you who are looking for me to do something new, it is coming. This year has been a massive year of change, in who I am, what I do, my issues with trust, love, & friendship. I look back and I know my life is in a better place.

do you like Lupe Fiasco? Good music? Check out XV.

myspace.com/xtothevizzy

]]> ~yellow-five The 2010 Project w/ Chosen by Destiny http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/27486563/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/27486563/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:46:46 PDT
So Eclipse is dead. Chew Chew and I are coming up with a whole new business model and a new name. Our first project is a 2010 Calendar w/ Chosen by Destiny. So keep an eye out for that.

]]> ~yellow-five Photoshoot in SF. http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/26782307/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/26782307/ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:08:49 PDT

<-Ryan who is probably one of the most talented photographers I have seen...ever. The whole thing was dope we started out with a photoshoot with hella graffiti so it was nice to see that side of SF again, especially stuff I never knew was there. Then we did some other shoots, around and about. Overall the whole day got me really inspired, and kicking it with Ryan was hella coo, not laughed that much in a long time.

Other than that, I have taken a break from throwing club events on the weekend, while I work about 5 days a week at a care home. Which is not all that bad, it is kinda putting me in check with my life. Which is good. Also I have stopped doing flyer design for many reasons. One the whole industry got cheap and thought they could just bully me around with threatening me to go find other designers who cost less than 80 bucks a flyer. Which is a lot when your are making a few thousand a night for a club event... my bad. I am just laughing at all this cheap pettiness, cause all the flyers now look like some one went to the bathroom and picked them out of the toilet. These companies really are stupid, because a good design can either make or break your event. Your flyer looks wack, people are not gonna wanna come. Don't believe me message Tonic Live about his [parties lately... barely breaking 200 people. While our events were breaking 800+ people for our first time ever throwing events... Honestly why do you think big companies spend so much on marketing and advertisement... yes the biggest seller is word of mouth, but people are not gonna tell their friends about anything if your advertisement looks like crap. Second reason, for our Launch, Dusk till Dawn, our company sold over 500 presales alone for that night and had a guestlist that was not as good as our thursday events, but we don't have presales for our thursday events either. still was not too bad. After 10 minutes of the club being open the own, who we have done numerous flyers for, shut the event down. He had several excuses why but what it comes down to in my mind is like this, When we started he offered us thursdays because he was in drama with the previous company who threw events there, rock the bay/ irock, and the week before he patched everything up with them pulled our thursday and when it came for our friday launch he seemed like just wanted it to be over before it even started. To me he just used us to get back at the other company and when things got fixed he threw us to the wind. Pretty unprofessional if you ask me. He then got back to me asking for flyer work, and saying he hopes we are still friends... We were never friends it is just business. He got impatient before the flyer was going to be done this last thursday hit up my buddy mark's phone and cursed out his voicemail, saying I was being unprofessional, for what? Not dropping my actual work work I do at the care home, taking care of people who need it over a damn flyer that is going to pay me 80 bucks? Sorry I am not that horrible of a person. After that I e-mailed him and told him I would not be doing any more flyer work for him at all. He had replied to me cursing me out and telling me that if this was some attempt to ruin his business as a club owner that he would fuck up my career. GL with that buddy, been around longer and been doing more freelance work before and after your little short lived flyer work you had for me. Plus I was paid better. After all of this and this nagging feeling that club work is soo... how do you say BULL SHIT I am stopping. I am now focusing on more legit work, that actually pays you, and clients who don't freak out when I send them contracts and stuff. Also work that you can do after your 30 years old... cause honestly if your working in the club industry after 30 and you are not a club owner, hate to tell ya I think your life went wrong some where.

So yeh that is basically what has been going on. I am going to be putting together a calendar with some of the local models around the area doing some massive photomanip, illustration work, graphic design work on them and have them out before October hopefully.

FIve

]]> ~yellow-five New journal soon http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/26495676/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/26495676/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:29:45 PDT
]]> ~yellow-five Back to Basics. http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/26492837/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/26492837/ Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:02:29 PDT
I'll be shutting down my Redbubble here soon so get your t-shirts and everything while you can.

Thanks

Dan

]]> ~yellow-five Let's break new ground! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/25933365/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/25933365/ Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:18:22 PDT [link]

Ok peace all...

OMG secret of MI comes out this week!!!!

I know where some of my paycheck is going.

]]> ~yellow-five OMG it's a THREE-HEADED MONKEY! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/25806079/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/25806079/ Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:20:44 PDT
]]> ~yellow-five Hey it is Summer!!! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/25132678/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/25132678/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:10:43 PDT
SO what is going on? I quit working for Tonic Live back in early March, because pay was shitty. Me and Chew Chew (aka Matt) have been designing for just about everyone else under the sun in the Bay Area since then. So quitting Tonic was a REALLY good thing. Rather than one to two designs a week from him we get about 2-3 a day. But we have a good team going, and work is increasing even more. Today I had 4 projects to finish today. I know we can do better though, my personal friend and one of the people that hires us for work, Jay of Irock ent/ Rock the Bay had a conversation with me about increasing our turn around time even more, because he knows we can pull easily 6 projects a day and get them finished that day, at a minimum of $100 a piece, and doing that for 5 days a week does not sound bad at all.
There are bigger fish to fry though in this world, and that is why we (me and chew chew) are teaming up with our best friend Markeezy, to start our own company, focusing on promotions, designs, and a few other things. He has already been helping manage us and deal with the business side for us, and now he is taking a more active role. This guy knows thousands of people in this area alone, and is great at networking/ promoting. He is one of the most wanted promoters in the bay, but he really does not want to work for anyone, we would all rather work for ourselves. So that is what we are doing. We will be looking at what we have available, coming up with a name a start planning events and the start of our clothing line at the same time. We have been looking for a very contemporary urban name to use, that is fun and engaging, not a hype name like many companies out here. We are not only going to be working with night club events, but with musicians, models, etc... So it should be pretty big, with a LOT of work to be done. We have been accumulating other talented people to work for us as well, so far we have 2 models/gogos working for us, a photographer and a few DJs. We'll see where this all takes us. I would rather not count my chickens before they hatch and just plan this all out thoroughly before I make a big deal about it.

Anyway that is about it for now.....

-FIVE

]]> ~yellow-five Throwing away the Thorns(1998-2009) http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/23403307/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/23403307/ Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:08:42 PST It has been a marker to the roller coaster my life was. I admittedly viewed it as a martyred name. It is important to hold on to our past as lesson we can learn from not as a model to our former selves. Considering I no longer think that the name suits the path my life is going to take, I am changing the name, getting a new account, all that fun stuff.
So I will still be doing art, just under a new name.

Stay Tuned

-Dan

]]> ~yellow-five What is going on with all the Graphic Design?!! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/23114333/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/23114333/ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:05:54 PST
This past month I have been teaching my best friend Matt or

the in's and out's of photoshop. I am no where near the best, but he is learning, and fast. Not only that but my team of creative people is growing... we now have a photographer, my buddy Nate, or Natrix as he like's to go by. Actually just the other day he had a photoshoot over at my house with some other good friends of mine these 2 girls who are local models.

Unfortunately the three of us are still trying to come up with a solid name for our creative group. Not only that we are also working with some other creative people in the area on an assortment of projects. I am hoping soon, outside of the clubs, we can get started on working with Mike C. of Lost Kids. If you do not know who they are, they are a dance crew out of SF who was not able to get on America's Best Dance Crew Season 3 because of politics dealing with Team Millenia, even though they are far much more skiled then they are. Also we have some work to do for my good friend Lacey Dee, who is a model in the area.

There is just a lot of work right now, a lot of it is Graphic Design because it is what people want and it is not too time consuming to get it done, plus it pays and puts food in our stomach.

Though, just in case any one was interested, we are open for commissions so drop me a line at yellow5@anothalevel.com. Please only reasonable inquiries.

That is about it for now, as soon as I get a chance I will upload more.

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Getting Back to Yellow 5 http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/22984136/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/22984136/ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:33:07 PST

want to go in is much different than what people in the industry want. Which is fine occasionally through networking you find some equal minded people.
One of good friends and now partner in our creative team Natrix, is joining me and Chew-Chew as a photographer. So the goal right now is to organize my time and focus on doing what I love again.

y5

]]> ~yellow-five Taking a break http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/22517262/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/22517262/ Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:05:44 PST
Much Love

DAN

]]> ~yellow-five Happy New JAM! tomorrow... http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/22132973/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/22132973/ Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:19:17 PST

HEY! How has everyone been. I just finished up a new piece for Lost Kids. I guess you can call it a Christmas present for em. AHAH Mike C. been asking me about it since Saturday. Keep tellin him to be patient.
SO miracles do happen btw! I found out just last Friday I am getting kicked out of my place by my roommates with 5 days noticed because their old roommate/ friend wants to move back in. Considering I am not into bringing dirty white trash girls home or into crack and drinking daily we have not been getting along. O WELL! BUT it left me needing to move before Christmas... with no idea of where I would go. Then before me and my friends headed out to the City this last saturday, which was insane 3k people at a 1.5k capacity venue there was apparently some gunshots, HELLA fights, just bad till they closed the doors. ANYWAY my boy JP all told me that our friend Ariel is looking for a roommate, and it ended up working out perfectly. AHAH, so I may not have family around this Christmas, that is fine I get to start off the new year with friends and in a MUCH better place to make 09 great.

ANYWAY some other cool news, is one of my friends I head out with on weekends, Matt, is a VERY skilled traditional artist, GREAT inker well we are gonna start working this week together. Making our own little art crew! SO we are coming up with a good art JAM idea for this new year!! I am trying to get him to join Deviantart. I don't think he has a computer, but he is gonna be over at my new place all the time working with me he can just use mine.

SO i guess that is it for now! Catch you all after christmas!!

DEC.26 Little Black Dress @ Whisper in SF!
GET OUT from behind the pen and pencils for a night and have some fun!

]]> ~yellow-five Commissions. http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21818080/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21818080/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:37:58 PST

I am opening back up for commissions. I need to pull in money ASAP, for rent, phone, and christmas. SO if you got something you want, or want to give that kick ass gift that everyone wants the encompasses uniqueness then GET AT ME. Though I really will not respond to unrealistic offers. So please don't be wasting my time. Thanks people!

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Laughing it off http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21799572/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21799572/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:10:51 PST

This week has started not so well. Though I am not letting it get me blue. Some problems with work, home, and then I no longer have my phone... so that is wonderful.

BUT it has given me a chance to get back to customizing my desktop. Back all up on Trillian and stuff. So Hit my up on that IM yeeeh. Need advice or some Iono. AHAH

Anyway it sucks, I want my phone back. Probably am gonna go for Ghetro for the time being. At least they give you unlimited everything for just $50 a month. though I want myself and Iphone or sidekick.

Also I have decided to convert all the languages on all my devices over to Spanish to force me to get used to speaking it again. Then next I am gonna take a shot at learning Tagalog. Then i wanna learn Navajo. Hell if my uncle knows 15 languages fluently I should be able to keep up.

Okay bye
-five

]]> ~yellow-five It is HERE http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21752668/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21752668/ Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:38:35 PST

Hey folks!!

THAT IS RIGHT the first set of TonicLIVE clothing designed by your very own YellowFiv3 is here just in time for the Holidays! We will be having a release event out at Whisper in San Francisco either this thursday or next! Pre-sales are no longer offered for TonicThursdays, but you can get on the Guest List. Come out say hi! Get a drink or two..

You can find out more @ TonicLIVE.com. Also you can purchase them Online when they come out!!

Be Sure to pick up "Favorite" Shirt. Yes there will be one for Designers as well. AHAH

MUCH LOVE

Again big thanks to all the support I have received over the years through this community. I ain't goin no where yet ahah!

If you are in the SF Bay Area, I will be updating this to let you know what local vendors will be carrying our stuff.

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five The good and the stressful http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21728506/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21728506/ Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:00:10 PST

I honestly would be blowing through my work and would be completely caught up with everything IF it was not for this piece of shit PC. Which either keeps freezing lately or starts spazing out.... I know it is at it's end. Hopefully I can finish some work so I can run out and buy a Mac Book Pro. Then not only that but I am using a wireless internet right now off a near by smog shop and it is a VERY weak signal and disconnects about every 5 min. So trying to e-mail designs and files to my boss takes forever. I spend about 90% of my day trying to send the designs that I finished. UGHH!!!! I hate the world. Then my roommates refuse to allow me to get actual internet because they feel the wireless is fine, and well one of them is massive drug addict who is paranoid that the government is gonna find him if I do get internet. Idiot.

Ok good news, Illustrator is AMAZING. I have had it for years only in the past few months I have been getting more and more into it. Last night I was working on a design, and now I now realize the illustrator is like ten time easier to use in some aspects than Photoshop. Pen tool not so much I don't like it I still do all my digital lines in Photoshop then save the anchor points as a custom shape for later use and export it as a path to Illustrator to turn it into a vector image. But wow Illustrator is soo coool. I have a meeting today in SF and I think I may call in and say I cannot make it because I am having SO much fun using Illustrator right now. I cannot brake myself away

Enjoy

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Soooo http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21719138/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21719138/ Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:05:29 PST

Right now I am REALLY trying to get my life in order to deal with my new career. I have nothing really to say right now, I have a lot of work to do... So an update soon. I hope everyone enjoyed their turkey day.

-dan

]]> ~yellow-five IN THE BAY ?!! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21659038/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21659038/ Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:03:26 PST

Hey hey people!!! TONIC LIVE/ YELLOW FIVE clothing hitting the bay next month!!!!!!! YEEEEEAAAAH!

Will be available through many retailers local and nationwide!!! Including Against All Authority!

BUT this Wednesday a pre-thanksgiving event. Got artist block or just want to have some fun...

Need a presale IM me at YELLOWFIV3-AIM
YELLOWFIV3-Y!
YELLOWFIV3@HOTMAIL.com-MSN
Let me know your from devART.... free drinks at the bar.... woot

Wanna know when the clothing will be hitting the stores?! add us on myspace

myspace.com/mrtonicsf
myspace.com/yellowfiv3

ART AND LIFE people!!!
MUCH LOVE!!

-DAN

]]> ~yellow-five This week http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21596762/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21596762/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:16:24 PST

This week has been a LOT of work, and a LOT of fun. That would best sum it all up. I have been working like 23 hr days, my boss is effin awesome. Actually last night head out with my best friend, met up with my other friends and all just had a hella good ass time. When you work your but off for the whole week, it makes going out so much more fun. Especially if your boss buys you a drink. AHAH! I got up with a new zeal about life this morning, even though I partied last night got up hecka early to get back to work cause I love it so much. Not only that but me and my best friend got to kick it before we headed out, and really got to bond a bit more. Which is cool cause we both are so busy during the week, that we just text each other to keep each other pushing hard for our goals. So when the weekend comes and we get to kick it, we just go out and have hella fun.
Actually going out tonight as well, it will be hella crackin. But I gotta finish my work first. I got like 4 projects to finish today so I can start on the next batch! wooo! Ahah I really have not been this happy and in good spirits since I was 18. So I am just enjoying the hell out of this.

-FIVE

]]> ~yellow-five TonicLIVE http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21557552/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21557552/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:53:59 PST

First, again for all those inquiring, I am no longer accepting commissions any longer. Sorry, but thank you for the interest.

So I am now working with TonicLIVE out here in the bay! There are no good words to describe what I am feeling. But I am sure if you are near me you could definitely feel it though! ahaha

But I would write more but I got work to do.

-FIVE

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NOVEMBER FEATURED ARTISTS!
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Let's get this rolling!

First off

VITAL EMCEEE
One of the most verbally skilled underground rappers that I have come across. His music keeps me inspired. The song "Writing on the Wall" is just a feat of talent, with May Lay sage and Matt Embree from RX Bandits laying down some verbals.

Check em out

[link]

Next We got

I know she is featured by Fooray too.. But really it is well deserved. I have been just enveloped by her work these last few days. Trying not favorite the whole damn gallery was a challenge.

So show em some love! ]]> ~yellow-five IT's back! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21383007/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21383007/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:08:02 PST

So after a about a month I got a chance to kick it with my best friend who has been down in LA for America's Best Dance Crew Season 3. Hella proud of him for chasing his dreams. Anyway this was just cool, we got to touch base and just hang out.

We both had a very long talk about Art and Dancing, how the two are the same but not. How they are both perceived as a hobby by people on the outside, when it really you have to devote almost every waking hour to constantly thinking about new routines or designs. It is funny cause when we are just walking in public he is talking and dancing as we are walking always working on something. While I am constantly looking at patterns, lighting, colors, shapes etc for something cool.

The great thing is we keep each other pushing for our goals even though they are separate. I started to get down on my self late last month and into this week, and it was perfect timing. It was just the pick up I needed, to refresh my out look on art and how to make it something big. Ironically he was also getting down on himself bout dancin, till we went out tonight and he improved like ten fold within just a few weeks. Really amazing, made me feel like working 3x's harder than I have been. It really is great to have a close friend who is just equally as driven if not more so at times than you. Always keeps you on your feet, and pushing you to just be around some one equally as passionate. I always hate feeling like I am trying to push my other friends to take what they like to do seriously. It is sad but it seems so many of them have accepted that they can never be anything with it, so they just give up. Which is hard for me I don't like to see people give up like that. Or not believe in themselves. It also kills it for me, and makes me doubt myself. That's why I always like hangin out with my best friend more, we just are able to play off each other and constantly keep moving forward no matter how many haters we have. And trust me there is a lot.

Our belief if you don't got people hating on you, then your not doing something right.

So to everyone out there, I don't care if your just starting on your passion, just keep in mind what you want and run full steam. There is no rest, just press on, and run like a wild man/ woman! Surround yourself with equally passionate people, you will be surprised how much things will get better. Look at my gallery after may, when my best friend started getting on my case to take this seriously, I made leaps and bounds, in my opinion, but I still have quite a ways to go, because life ain't over yet. With all creativity it is about constantly reinventing yourself. Your either ahead of the curve or your behind the stampede. Try something new every day, take a risk, take a chance, you could fail. With out failing you would never succeed, every failure is one step closer to success!!

Keep your head up!

-y5

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NOVEMBER FEATURED ARTISTS!
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Let's get this rolling!

First off

ââVITAL EMCEEE
One of the most verbally skilled underground rappers that I have come across. His music keeps me inspired. The song "Writing on the Wall" is just a feat of talent, with May Lay sage and Matt Embree from RX Bandits laying down some verbals.

Check em out

[link]

Next We got

:iconlazymill1986:

I know she is featured by Fooray too.. But really it is well deserved. I have been just enveloped by her work these last few days. Trying not favorite the whole damn gallery was a challenge.

So show em some love! ]]> ~yellow-five BIG NEWz! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21351599/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21351599/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:17:08 PST

Hey folks,
to the casual viewer and the dedicated people who always show me some love. I now have a blog all set up, which I will be maintaining. This is all until I can get my web site up, unfortunately I can be a little dumb on the web design front. So check it out.

[link]

ALSO big Updates happening on my redBUBBLE page, apparently you can submit art for sale as calendars, wall art, and greeting cards too... not just t-shirts!! So I am gonna be updating my whole gallery on there to only feature for sale items. Also been working on my portfolio over there, though it still has some kinks to work out.

I am just taking all this web stuff a lot more seriously, as I am trying to make freelancing a main source of income from now on. So tonight I am finishing up what I can then tomorrow I'll do the rest as well as writing up my contracts that I will send out. Which I have needed to for SO long. Then I can get my hair cut and lined up again tomorrow before the weekend.

My best friend is back from LA till the end of this week, as he is in the try-outs for America's Best Dance Crew right now in LA. So we gonna party a bit this weekend, then it is back to work for me. I am wishing him all the best of luck though. Great to see him just going for his passion no matter what, keeps me pushing hard every day. Though at times I think I end up stressing myself out too much.

I really also gotta say that

's Blogs on freelancing and stuff have been the biggest help these past few months. If you have not checked them out do so now

SoSNewbie.com

That guy is my freakin hero right now.

Anyway I have been typing all night updating things...

Just keep in touch

myspace.com/yellowfiv3
[link]
redbubble.com/people/yellowfive

Peaces for now

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five A Design Disscussion. http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21211935/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21211935/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:09:36 PST

So I have been really getting into this whole design thing. I am really trying to capture a certain style, that is a mixture of Urban Contemporary art to more fancy urban design. Though adding elements I have not seen yet in design, mainly the aspect of actual illustration.

So here is what my general idea is right now, I want to take of the style and design aspects I see in "club" flyers etc, graffiti, illustration, even photography at times to create something very unique. One of my favorite things to do right now lately has been just to stop in at small and even larger clothing shops and really just look at the art that they are putting on their clothing. I am not trying to follow a trend, really making my own curve here. I have been exploring this idea for a while now. Today I went out to macy's and they carry a lot of Ecko, Roca Wear, Sean Jean, and other stuff. I have always really liked what Ecko does with their stuff. They have more of a fancier face on their designs then lets say, a lot of stuff you could find at Against all Authority, They really, from why I saw, shy away from the glitty glamour stuff. which makes me want to hurl. I mean it is good if your city doesn't have street lights and your walking at night, but it is just really gaudy. Then at the same time I love a LOT of Upper Playground's stuff, which focuses more on Urban Contemporary art, but I always feel a LOT of their designs fall short. Or I don't feel like I am getting a lot for the money I am paying. 25.00 for a Jeremy Fish shirt, that only has like a 5x7 design, and it is never anything new. It is always a skull, and animal, and either a midget or some body part. Cool at first then gets lame.. Same with Sam Flores though too, I only have his card shirts, just cause I always liked that idea, and well they look cool, but his illustrations are always soo depressing and a lot of times are just solid colors no shading no detail or anything. A lot of times I am wondering," WHY AM I PAYING 25 FOR AN UNFINISHED PICTURE!!"

See I have come to see clothing as almost the new canvas for art. A way to allow people to express themselves outside of their home, and on a bigger scale as well. But I do not see many, and trust me there are MANY, clothing companies really looking at it like that. I'd wanna a shirt that looks like it was grabbed right off a graffitied wall. Many times you are paying for a name... It used to be the names stood for something... Perfect example. LOST, used to be strictly a surfboard company, then they started making promotional clothing as well, now that is all they do is clothing. They used to have fully illustrated surf boards and they were awesome. So many of these companies really don't do anything any more, except slap their name on a shirt in a few different fonts and people buy them... WTF.
Now Companies like Volcom and Ecko just to name a couple, are actual companies that focus on design and quality products. So the name means something. Volcom I absolutely love their higher end clothing, suits, ties, even shirts.

So now I am trying to wrap my brain around coming up with a good style for graphic clothing. I would not be focused on garment making, nor will I be branding it on the front of the clothing as the main selling point. If i do include a name or something it would only compliment the illustrations and rest of the design. I really wanted to start a discussion about this, because it is so hard trying to do all of this on my own at times. I keep trying to get my friends involved but they don't take much seriously these days. O well.

Now this of course is not my main career goal in life. But with the demand I have gotten from the designs I have done I think it would be foolish to ignore the opportunity and keep working crappy minimum wage paying jobs that are barely getting me by while I am waiting to finish school. Plus I gotta be honest comics, I though may have been my thing, but they really aren't. I always have new ideas, and am always thinking about new things so it is hard for me to actually dedicate to something so time consuming when my head is really not in it. Plus I feel this path I can really express my own creativity more, really conceptualizing things, and break new ground here and there.

So please thoughts comments, ideas POST EM!

-y5

So took a crack at a flier design for Element out in LA. Check em out myspace.com/elementrhymes

my flier:

PElement

]]> ~yellow-five Feelin a change. http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21210892/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21210892/ Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:36:10 PDT Photobucket

Learning more and more.

As I opened my eyes this morning to see I had fallen asleep on my sketch pad. I could feel something was different today. One of those moments where you feel more enlightened, but at the same time when you think about what you usually do a wave of dull boredom comes over you. This was more or less me realizing how arrogant I have really been this year. The whole feeling of change stuck around the whole day, occasionally being accentuated by moments in my day, like being at the store or eating lunch. I realize I have been focusing on all the wrong things. I have been acting foolish as if I am still twenty-one. Especially when opportunity has been set right in front of me, I have been dealing with stupid things I should have never even bothered with.

All of this is good, I don't fear change, I fear making the wrong choice. I some what feel I am making a horrible choice by moving back into the richmond area. The area has been a lifeless void for me, every time the area has crushed me. Once you are in the current of this whirl-pool there is no escape. I really was counting on moving out of the area and moving forward with my life, yet I feel I am taking steps back in this aspect. I will be living with people who are unmotivated by life, and have no passions in their life to pursue. It is something I cannot surround myself with. I am trying to make what I love work out for me, and pay. I feel this step is going to put me in the same old situation.

BUT ny way...

some stuff to check out...

by Sam flores of twelve grain through upper playground

upperplayground.com

but you cannot have my king one haha....
Ok I am stressed so I am gonna catch some zzz's

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Free SHIPPING for a WEEK! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21143733/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21143733/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:00:02 PDT Photobucket

THAT IS RIGHT FOLKS!!! Purchase any of my shirts on REDBUBBLE.COM for this next week before Halloween and receive free shipping.

O wait you need this code first:

'friendsandfamily'

At the check out!!

SO GO HERE AND GET YOURS NOW!!

ALSO NEW SHIRTS WILL BE UP TONIGHT!!!

-y5

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[link]

WOOT WOOT

]]> ~yellow-five Devious Journal Entry http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21076258/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21076258/ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:55:58 PDT Photobucket

I am currently finishing up my commissions. I will be open for more....

if your interested here is more info:

[link]

Peaces

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five They are COMING http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21005873/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/21005873/ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:35:36 PDT Photobucket

GOOD NEWS folks. I was put on to a company out here who can do the kinda of screenprinting and shirt making I am looking for. I am now in works with them to get hecka shirts made! They will be a product of my new grouping with my best friend. We ain't a company just 2 guys who are hustling what they are passionate about. So we are coming up with a name and gonna use it on the clothes. The T's will not only be bay related, it is just what people out here really like, and I like to represent where I am from.

As soon as I know the exact date the first shirts will be in I'll let you know where you can pick up one.

Soo woot

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Grab yours today! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20941748/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20941748/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:21:56 PDT Photobucket

Hey folks got some new stuff up on my REDBUBBLE shop.

So go pick up a shirt today!

One Design 3 Choices!

Sketchy in Black/Blue $23.94

Bay is Sketchy $23.94

Sketchy Purple/Blue $23.94

Bay is Sketchy - Purple $23.94

Or the Vibrant Full Colored Version $23.94

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Remember you can see all the stuff for sale at my REDbubble SHOP y5 T-shirts

Enjoy all. The first GET LOST shirt came in just the other day, as soon as I am able to I will also allow you to purchase them from Redbubble as well. I can say that the quality of these shirts is amazing. So I know you will not be dissapointed.

***Update***
Hey folks, if your familiar with Americas' Best Dance Crew, I'll be doing work for Supreme Soul located up here in the Bay. Absolutely stoked right now.

-Dan [yellow-five]

]]> ~yellow-five The Big Change http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20836660/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20836660/ Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:05:16 PDT
But yeh other than that I am busy working away doing several commission through this week. I have set up a schedule and as long as there is not another power outage I'll be fine.

So. other than that is any one else drooling when they see the Wacom Cintiq??

]]> ~yellow-five God damn it! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20660366/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20660366/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:52:20 PDT
AHHHHHHH

âOuTâ

âºy5

]]> ~yellow-five Info on the 415 Shirts! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20578556/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20578556/ Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:52:45 PDT
Also I am trying to find a urban clothing company in SF or the East Bay I can get hired by. If I can do that I would be able to put up the shirt through them. The YF would probably change though to their Initials. So who knows. Though I have thought about changing it to L.K. with the words Lost Kids underneath in support of my buddy's dance crew.

So I'll have a definite answer to when and hopefully where you can purchase these shirts later this week. If I can get my site up it will be as easy as going through there.

Unfortunately REDBubble and Cafepress do not work on the sizing I would like for the graphic and many other ideas I have so the minute I can get a better and more flexible manner of making these on a regular basis the more you will see.

Thanks All for the Support!!
-Yellow Five (Dan)

]]> ~yellow-five Taking the Initiative. http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20547199/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20547199/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:23:49 PDT
So... the other day my buddy was cutting my hair and doing my line up, when I decided to be daring and get a design on the side of my head. Took the arrow from my Stressed? pic and it ended up coming out hella clean. Every one is hecka diggin it. So I think I am gonna do a different design every hair cut. Next one I have already designed and it is gonna be crazy sick. I try to keep them very cool but still classy to where it is not going to be inappropriate for work... I'll post a picture up here soon.

Woot.

Sorry if I have not got around to finishing your pic this last week. There has been a lot of crappy drama I had to deal with which utterly consumed any creativity i had for a few days.

Anyway back to the wacom...

peaces

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five what's on the agenda.... http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20401700/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20401700/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:47:08 PDT With me working almost full time right now as well as looking for an apartment, and trying to finish some art that I have been just dying to. I am also really burning the candle at both ends to get my best friend's initial designs done for his dance crew. So by next week if we can find a good place to get em made, we can start getting these shirts mass produced. They will sell too, like hot cakes. Theeen.... later this month I supposed to head down with him for taping of America's best dance crew season 3... Not only that but I am all talking to this one girl right now which is fun trying to find enough time in the day to hang out with her as well!! So if my life ain't crazy enough I think I'll make it more crazy by trying to finish my website next week...

Woooo....

Plus i gotta finish my other friend's tattoo design.

So now it is like 4:45 am I am tired.. I gotta wake up in about 4 hours to continue coloring my new lines so I can have them done before I go to work tomorrow.

So good night All!!
And thanks for the support as always!

Current Inspirations:
Seriously if you have not yet add these people... their work constantly keeps me striving to step up my game

]]> ~yellow-five The bubble is about to BURST! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20348865/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20348865/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:24:12 PDT

[link]

]]> ~yellow-five New coloring technique!! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20212839/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20212839/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:01:52 PDT

Sorry I just had to share this... When coloring use the stroke option in blending options on the layer your coloring.... seriously helps BIG TIME!

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Ugh.. http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20142544/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20142544/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:23:29 PDT

So I took care of the allergy thing, then I was playin ball with my friends and ended up colliding with a buddy and hurt my neck pretty bad, and now I am getting sick... did I walk under any ladders or something?!
ahahah

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five In the process of.... http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20013643/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/20013643/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:01:44 PDT

So this last week sucked... Found out I got allergies and it knocked me out for this last week... ugh. Anyway, got my claritin-D and I am doing a whole lot better.

So what's been going on is I've been busy working on my best friend's design for his dance crew. Having a lot of fun with it actually. He actually dances with the guys from supreme soul and he will be on season 3 of america's best dance crew, and you may see some of my art on them. Who knows. Also in the process of trying to find an apt, so lot of work to do.. plus working over at the art store during the week. Speaking of the art store, today fooray came in to the store. I was hella star struck. Ny way I guess he is just moved out to the bay. Plus we just got a Jermey Fish book at my job, and I was all drooling over that thing...

So I got some work to do this week. I gotta pull some money together for moving costs... plus other stuff.

So back to work!

-dan

]]> ~yellow-five HEADACHES!!! AHHH http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19890459/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19890459/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:04:51 PDT

So more and more recently, I have been being asked to do more urban stuff. Cause I guess my style or so I am told is urban, yet some say anime (which I am lost on)... I really don't care what it is... I would love for it to be urban, and very graffiti like in nature... But anyway I have been drawing question marks on my fore head in complete artist block for days now.. at work I have so much inspiration... then I get home and i am too tired to do much of anything... probably cause I have been sicker than hell... who knows.. any ideas on how I can knock myself out of this funk... i got the whole day off tomorrow and all I wanna do is draw...

]]> ~yellow-five New F#$K it shirt!! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19852664/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19852664/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:52:54 PDT

Hey in the further exploitation of my art, in order to control the world one day, a new shirt...

find it here in other colors as well... Bad luck day, are you not to be crossed? let the rabbit say it for you... if you say it you could get sued... could cost you a fortune you don't have but with this shirt your not saying it... guilt free cursing..

who doesn't love that?

Go get one:
[link]

Enjoy!

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Prints and More!!! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19802800/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19802800/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:19:37 PDT

Hey folks been busy, but got around finally to starting up my shops on Cafepress. So I have 2 shops up right now. Stressed focuses more on prints while, danjerous has the shirts etc. There is a few other items as well so go check out the store.
So enjoy, soon I will be offering other prints as well.

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Busy me.... http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19763918/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19763918/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:45:16 PDT
So... I will be working a lot with traditional mixed media for a while making some large canvas art with an extra depth to them I guess you could call it. Just exploring some new ideas, which you really cannot express digitally. Plus gonna start some new collab efforts with a few friends to start some type of artistic service. **YAWN** Okay I am back to work now... I got work in less than 5 hours and have a lot to finish in less than 3 hours...

UGH!

-dan

]]> ~yellow-five Summer Cleaning http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19634794/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19634794/ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:37:03 PDT

really got me out of a slump. Or a least has motivated me to start working my way out of it. I do not nearly have all the answers, but I will get there with time.

Somethings you may have noticed right off the bat, a little more than 80 deviations are gone! sorry folks I am cleaning up my gallery with things I felt did not bring a completed feel or a good breath of what I can do.

For a bit now I am going to be trying my hand at freelancing. Plus producing quality rather than quantity. If I feel a picture does not come close to what I expect from myself it will not be posted. Sorry, just the way I am going to do it right now. No second takes on old stuff anymore. Not only have I cleaned up my DA space, but my working space and everything. I still will be doing designs for Anotha-level, for the most part you may have to find them on that site.

So woot.

BTW ny one seen the new X-files yet? is it good? or is everyone still caught up in Dark Knight fever, which I am yet to see till it comes out to the Oaks in Albany.

-Dan

Ps... Donate to the SF Aids Walk, support either me or my team:
[link] ]]> ~yellow-five Please Help http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19600835/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19600835/ Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:30:40 PDT
Ps... Donate to the SF Aids Walk, support either me or my team:
[link] ]]> ~yellow-five GALLERY UPDATE!!!!! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19523112/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19523112/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:34:10 PDT
ÂÂÂEDITÂÂÂ
Journal is done!!! woo hoo finally figured it out.

BTW I am still open for commissions!

Here are some basic prices for you:

Basic Lines 9x10 = $15 + $2 for ever additional character
Digital Colors = + $15 (it's double the work plus I won't skimp you) + $5 per character

Always if your looking for a more in depth or larger picture let me know.

As soon as I get my charcoal back I will be available for Charcoal commissions. Plus I will be framing them and sending them off to you so they don't get ruined.

So either send me a note or e-mail with what you want.
BTW for you MMORPG players if you want a commission of your player you need to send me screenshots of the front/back and side views... maybe an action view to, helps me grasp the character.

THANK YOU BIG TIME to all the people who donated to the SF AIDS walk!!! It was a blast I was dead tired but it was fun! Ended up being well over 20k people there and the whole event raised 4.5million dollars!!

TAKE CARE FOR NOW!!
-y5

Ps... Donate to the SF Aids Walk, support either me or my team:
[link] ]]> ~yellow-five COMMISSIONS! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19392879/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19392879/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:53:19 PDT

Hey folks got something you want done?! Hit me up.. Really looking to do as many as possible... need to get my portfolio more complete....

-y5

Ps... Donate to the SF Aids Walk, support either me or my team:
[link] ]]> ~yellow-five AIDS Walk San Francisco 2008 http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19337714/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19337714/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:04:37 PDT
[link]

Thanks!
-y5

BTW we are still have the BATMAN JAM, you can find all about it in my recent journals.

]]> ~yellow-five BATMAN JAM! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19211859/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19211859/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:46:42 PDT
-y5

]]> ~yellow-five DREAMWEAVER HELP! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19117811/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/19117811/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:47:34 PDT
PLease some one help me out here!

]]> ~yellow-five My Every Thousand Contest! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/18993879/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/18993879/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:08:00 PDT
So be the person to be #29,000 and get a free picture request! You have to send the screenshot to me though, that's the only catch... this gets me drawing out of my norm really letting me explore creating someone else's ideas rather than just my own.

I am excited, I am currently dancing in the background... or not who knows.

**UPDATED 6/26**
for all you hip hop fans if you got a myspace find Ariano or Castor Pollux's page, they have a free CD for download they put out for Father's day, good songs are Misunderstood and Getting easier.
-y5

btw last week I d/led from Itunes the Pinky and the Brain Vol 1 set, I seriously forgot how funny this show was.. next animaniacs!

]]> ~yellow-five 28k winner! http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/18788987/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/18788987/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:33:17 PDT
thanks to everyone!!!

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five Sooo... http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/18653975/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/18653975/ Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:21:59 PDT
So anyway, I have a new zest for drawing that I have not experienced since I was in junior high, so ten years ago... I dunno what the reasoning is behind it, but I am feeling like myself for the first time in a long time, not just some one watching through the eyes of a hollowed out shell of a person. I will post some new stuff tonight that I had the chance to draw today. Anyway. I am more than welcoming to the summer time finally. Only thing is work may screw me over and I won't be able to go out to lake berryessa this year which will piss me off, but I am hoping I have a chance to head home for a reunion with my long time friends next weekend. That would make my year. Though I have learned never to set plans in stone because anything can happen, and usually does, some times bad some times good.

Anyway I got some new stuff so stay tuned. (website soon too)

-y5

]]> ~yellow-five It's just anotha saturday... http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/18385931/ http://yellow-five.deviantart.com/journal/18385931/ Sun, 18 May 2008 15:57:35 PDT
btw what are some good games for PS3 i got Unreal Tournament right now,

]]> ~yellow-five