Troy Polamalu ORIGINAL For Sale on Amazon

TROY POLAMALU original brush, ink and watercolor ORIGINAL illustration for sale on Amazon (Click to go to Amazon listing) …a CRAZY-AWESOME, one-of-a-kind, GET-IT-NOW and amaze your friends gift for yourself or your favorite Steelers fanatic! GO STEELERS!

Santa Sports Mojo – “All I Want For Christmas”

Check out the crazy fun Play Strong® Santa Sports Mojo line (hockey, soccer, lacrosse, football, baseball and basketball) of t-shirts, hoodies, ornaments, Christmas cards and more! The Hockey “Checking It Twice” t-shirt is all this little guy wants for Christmas!

Santa Lacrosse Mojo; “The Nutcracker”

This is the latest addition to the Santa Sports Mojo series…LACROSSE; “The Nutcracker”…I’ve enclosed both the final and the sketch (thought it best to make Santa a little less mean and ruthless looking from sketch to final), see them all at Play Strong®

SportSketch365 #23 – Missile-Toe

It’s that time of year! I did this Missile-Toe Soccer Santa as part of a series of Sports Christmas cards for Play Strong® (Click to check out / purchase all of the cool Sports Santa Cards at Play Strong® Sports!)

I’m FREAKING OUT!

Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants freak everyone out, win the World Series! (Click to read)

Tim Lincecum, aka The Freak leads SF Giants to World Series Victory

SportSketch365 #22 – Bigg-er Three

The big three Celtics…Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce looked BIG last night at their home-opener over the Little Three in Miami…2011 hoist another trophy?

Big Three Celtics

SportSketch365 #21 – Spanish Big and Tall

Pau Gasol comes up huge in Laker’s home-opener…dangling the competition with full European neck beard and everything (Click to read Lakers)

SportSketch365 #20 – Beauty and Tennis Beast

How do women play tennis wearing big earrings, jewelry, make-up, nail polish, hair clips, evening gowns and crush the ball like beasts?

Maria Sharapova; Beauty and Tennis Beast

SportSketch365 #19 – Sumo Studs

Sumo…the sport of the gods…these guys actually live in stables and use iPads (check out this article)

Sumo; The Sport of the Gods

SportSketch365 #18 – ‘Roid Rage

I did this illo for a client a couple years ago for a kid’s summer baseball camp, sadly he never used it…never found out why…I’m thinking it’s because the guy’s kind of ‘roided out…I’m ticked, I kinda miss the huge home run hitters…baseball’s boring now…do I have reverse “Roid Rage?

'Roid Rage, Where have All The Homers Gone?

Who’s your favorite coach?

I’ve drawn a few coaches (see below; click to enlarge)…who’s your favorite all time coach? Let me know and I’ll see if I can draw him (or her)…

SportSketch365 #17 – Grandaddy Football

Face it Penn State Fan, JoPa’s gonna be coaching forever, long after you’re gone, get used to it…wait, look Joe’s got his happy face on!

Joe Paterno; Grandaddy Nittany Lion

SportSketch365 #16 – CC Large

Everything about this man is LARGE…he makes $161 large, he mans-up large, he pitches changeup x-large, the brim of his hat is large…let’s see if comes up large against the Rangers…

CC Sabathia; XXXL

SportSketch365 #15 – All Black Attacker

Speaking of rugby, Jonah Lomu

Jonah Lomu; Fierce Attacking Rugby All-Black

SportSketch365 #14 – Rugby Pencil Study

Rugby, what a crazy game…check out the Rugby World Cup 2011…I’m getting ready with some pencil studies (click to enlarge)…

SportSketch365 #13 – Baseball Caps

Have you tried drawing a baseball cap recently? They’re tough! Especially the ones with the propeller on top…a few attempts:

SportSketch365 #12 – Diehard Diva

Brett Favre, love him or loathe him, the guy just won’t go away…

Brett Favre; The Diehard Diva of Football

SportSketch365 #11 – Sticky-Note Soccer Sketch

A sticky-note, the perfect place to sketch…and the fields are teaming with soccer kids!

Sticky-Note Soccer Sketch

SportSketch365 #10 – Flyin’

This looks like fun…

Jack Davis; The Classic Sports Illustrator

This water polo illustration is hilarious, a classic Jack Davis of Mad Magazine fame…

Water Polo; World's Toughest Sport; Jack Davis Illustration

 

 

SportsSketch365 #9 – The Sanchise

Around here they call him The Sanchise…the New York Jets’ jet-setter franchise QB Mark Sanchez…the next Broadway Joe (Namath)?

Mark Sanchez; NY Jets' QB

SportSketch365 #8 – Big Nose Weird Lefty Football Guy

Went with kind of a sepia look with this one…my daughter’s artistic feedback was “His nose looks big…and his left hand looks weird.”

Big Nose Weird Lefty Football Guy

SportSketch365 #7 – Tennis Girl

I love tennis…my family and I play doubles quite often…my wife and son against my daughter and I…it’s a blast! Every year I really enjoy going to the US Open at Flushing Meadow with my brothers and father, an awesome sporting event! Kim Clijsters and Caroline Wozniaki, stars at this year’s Open both incredible players…here’s a small, fun tennis sketch…

SportSketch365 #6 – Russian Left Winger

NHL Capitals Left Wing Captain - Ovechkin

Illustrated Adidas Ads – 2008 Olympics

These illustrations done by illustrators Luming and Lance Ma are quite amazing. They were promotional ads for the 2008 Beijing Olympics for Adidas illustrating “Impossible Is Nothing”; the togetherness of the Chinese nation and their Olypmpic athletes. Evidently the artists drew the backgrounds by hand and added the athletes in later… wow! They must have been amazing billboards…

Advertising Agency: TBWA, Shanghai, China
Creative Directors: Yang Yeo, Elvis Chau, Sarawut Hengsawad, Lesley Zhou, John Merrifield
Copywriters: Leslsy Zhou, Sarawut Hengsawad, Nicky Zhang, Michelle Wu
Photgrapher: Mark Zibert
Illustrators: Luming, Lance Ma

SportSketch365 #5 – Jeeeta!

Jeter, The Shortstop, Yankees' all-time hits leader

SportSketch #4 – The Freak

Any wonder why they call Tim Lincecum, starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, “The Freak”?

Tim Lincecum aka The Freak

SportSketch365 #3 – Hairtastic!

Okay, 16 ink cartridges later I’m done with Polamalu’s hair...Troy Polamalu is part Donna Summer, part Jr. Seau and part Fabio…fun  to draw, the commercials of Polamalu are pretty hilarious…he’s listed as 5’10″ but with hair, 6’9″…

Troy Polamalu; The Dude With The Hair

SportSketch365 #2 – Tebow 2.0

Tim Tebow in the NFL…will the collegiate Man-Of-Steel crush in the NFL? Baby Steps now, Big Man impact later? Tebow 2.0…ball point pen and watercolor sketch:

Tebow 2.0

SportSketch365 – #1 – Lebron Over Miami

Wow, next week kicks off the 2010-11 NBA season, unbelievable! What better way to kick-off SportSketch365 than with Lebron takin’ it strong to Miami! You can see all the white-out, I started to draw something else then I decided to draw ‘Bron’s body…maybe looks like his tatoos a bit?

King James Takin' It Strong To Miami

Magic: Kobe One Away From Best Laker Ever

“The great thing about the Lakers is that we judge by championships,” said Magic, who — along with Kareem, Kobe and crucial role player Derek Fisher — has won a handful of rings with the Lakers. “So when Kobe gets that next one, then he’ll be The Man; he’ll be the greatest Laker. And I’ll have no problem giving him that.” (Click to read entire article)

Kobe Bryant MVP of Lakers All Time?

Play Strong® Sports Christmas Card Series

Play Strong® the exciting new sports gift and greeting card brand for players, coaches and fans announced the launch of it’s special Christmas holiday sports greeting cards series “Holiday Mojo”. These fun and expressive sports themed holiday cards (six designs) are perfect for the sports-lover and include original soccer (“Missile-Toe”), basketball (“The Stocking Stuffer”), baseball (“The Snow Cone”), hockey (“Checking It Twice”) and football (“The Holiday Rush”) original illustrations and designs. Each can be previewed and purchased at the Play Strong® website store greeting card section (click to check ‘em out!). Play Strong® offers unique, high-impact and encouraging sports messages, original illustrations and designs on premium quality greeting cards, stationery, apparel, merchandise and gifts. Over twenty sports are represented (including basketball, soccer, water polo, football, baseball, volleyball, snowboarding, gymnastics, surfing, skateboarding, field hockey, ice hockey, golf, skiing, tennis, softball, swimming, lacrosse, wrestling and motocross). The Play Strong® website includes a store, blog, wholesale page and more. This season, Play Strong® and unleash your inner Santa sports mojo! 

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Conquest Continues; Lakers 6-0 Dominate Dallas

Kobe, Gasol, Bynum and Co. continue the Conquest of the West 2008-09…(Sports Illustration)

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Champions Series Illustrated Designs

Over the next week or so I’m going to be highlighting some of the sports illustrated and graphic designs I’ve been working on…here’s a few thumbnails of illustrated designs that I’m real excited about that I did recently for the Play Strong® Champions Series…a line of greeting cards, stationery and journal covers inspired by some of the great contemporary sports champions…including Tiger Woods, Jeff Saturday, Tom Brady, Gretchen Bleiler, Michael Phelps, Coach Bo Schembechler, Rafael Nadal, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson, Kevin Garnett, Sidney Crosby and others…hope you enjoy…

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Go Planet Design Launches Play Strong®

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Go Planet Design, the sports illustration, design and promotions firm announced the launch of an inspirational new sports greeting card and gift brand, Play Strong®. In the often hyper-competetive world of youth sports, Play Strong® offers positive, high-impact and encouraging sports messages with original illustrations and designs on greeting cards, stationery, apparel, merchandise and gifts. Over twenty sports are represented (including basketball, soccer, water polo, football, baseball, volleyball, snowboarding, gymnastics, surfing, skateboarding, field hockey, ice hockey, golf, skiing, tennis, softball, swimming, lacrosse, wrestling and motocross).

Steve Shoff, president and creative director of Go Planet Design commented, “We believe that genuine encouragement and affirmation are two of the most vital and effective motivators of young athletes and their coaches. There’s something very special about gratitude and generous recognition that inspires the aspiring athlete. That’s what Play Strong® is all about.” The Play Strong® website includes a store, blog, wholesale page and more featuring fun, festive products and greeting cards for the holiday season. So this season, Play Strong® and unleash your inner champion!

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