Video of complete Street Fighter custom canvas

Hey everyone, as promised earlier in the week, here is a video of the finished Street Fighter canvas. The camera I am using at the moment is not of the best quality, so keep an eye out for updated videos very soon in full 1080p HD.

For now, enjoy this video, and please comment and rate on youtube!!!!

In this video - The completed Street Fighter canvas



Thanks again for reading, and come back soon for me!! The site will be updated on a daily basis from now on!!!

Salaam - Mac815

Street Fighter Piece for sale - special price of only £180!!!

Hey everyone, just to let you all know that the finished Street Fighter graffiti piece is currently for sale on ebay.
The link is here - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=250602668571&Category=60438&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D1
It is up for bid, or alternativly you can buy it now for £180.

Happy bidding!!

In these pictures - The finished Piece

Salaam - Mac815

Street Fighter canvas development video

Hey everyone, right this video was shot very early in the development of the Street Fighter custom canvas, so the quality shows. My plan is to get a good video recording of the finished piece at some point this week, so keep an eye out for that!!
For the time being, enjoy this developmental video!!

In this video - The Street Fighter piece in its early stages of development 



Salaam - Mac815

Video of Afro Graffiti

Hey everyone, just thought I would share a video here with you of the Afro Samurai/Samurai Champloo piece I did in a customers bedroom. It shows not only the 2 characters in the piece, but the whole room with the sky effect wrapping around every corner of the room.
I am really happy with the way this piece came out, and I think this video shows the work well.

Hope you all enjoy!!

In this video - The Afro Samurai - Samurai Champloo piece in all its glory!!!



Till next time - p.s. if you watch the video, follow the link to YouTube and subscribe to my channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/salaam28?feature=mhw4), there you can see all my videos before they are posted on this blog. There are only afew videos now, but much more will be added soon.

Salaam - Mac815

Finished.... For Sale

Right everyone, I have an image of the finished Street Fighter custom canvas. This canvas is currently for sale. I will ship the item to any location in the world, given the delivery costs may be significant to some countries, as the product is based in Leeds, (Uninted Kingdom). Please contact me for any information regarding shipping costs or the piece, such as if you would like to see more images, see it in person etc.

The piece
The piece is 60 inches wide by 48 inches high.

Payment and Delivery
I unfortunatly can only accept PayPal payments as of now, or cash if the product is picked up. Please contact me for any information regarding payment, delivery costs etc.

To contact me email - salaam28@hotmail.com or call me direct on 07950539303.

Here is the piece!!

In this picture - The final piece

Salaam - Mac815

Almost..... almost there

Hey everyone, as per usual I have a nice little update here for you. I'm not gona give time scales anymore for when this piece will be finished as it seems to be ever lasting, but I think the hard work is starting to pay off now. The actual piece is starting to take shape, the two characters are almost done, and I will be starting on the background tomorrow, which will hopefully bring the whole piece together.

Well here are a few pics of what I got done today. Hope you enjoy what you see!!

In this picture - The Ryu character with some detail added

In this picture - Another shot of Ryu with some detail added

In this picture - A shot of the entire piece as it looks at the moment (15th March 2010)

Well thats all for now, come back again soon for the finished piece!!


Salaam - Mac815

Expect the Unexpected

Hey everyone, as the title says, I was expecting to have both characters done by today, but the complexity of this design continues to astonish me. So this is as far I have got with it today, I am hoping tomorow will bring greater progress.

In this picture - This is as far as I have got with the piece as of today (13/3/2010). All the main layers for the 2 characters have been applied, the fine detail will come next

Well people, that is it for today, check back tomorow for more. Hope you are enjoying following my work, and thanks for looking.


Salaam - Mac815

Some light at the end of the tunnel

Now then all my readers, I have a cool little update here. I thought that I would have both characters complete by today but some complications arose (as always in life, haha), so I will have the complete characters for you all to see tomorrow. Anyway, here are pictures of the progress I made today, not as much as I hoped as I mentioned, but progress non the less. By the way for all you Facebook people out there, I have started a fan page there, you can follow my work there aswell, the link is   http://http://www.facebook.com/index.php?lh=60b55acd6f6c1a62c6f25234d5bcfc58&#!/pages/Salaam-Mac815/329507454439?ref=ts Enjoy!!

In this picture - The first and second layer of the bottom half of the Ryu figure are applied

In this picture - The third layer of the bottom half of the Ryu figure is applied

In this picture - The fourth layer of the bottom half of the Ryu figure is applied

In this picture - The fifth layer of the bottom half of the Ryu figure is applied

In this picture - The sixth layer of the bottom half of the Ryu figure is applied

In this picture - An alternate view of today's progress

Well that's it for today everyone, hope you all enjoyed looking and reading.

Come back again tomorow for the two finished characters!!

Salaam - Mac815

The Vision starts to become true

Hey all, this time in my update I have some cool pictures to show you. You can now see that the second character (Ryu) is really starting to take shape, and the overall idea I had for the piece is starting to fall into place. I'm really happy with the way it is going, hope you all like it too.

I will have a big update for you all tomorrow so stay tuned!!

In this picture - The first few layers of the Ryu character are put down, beginning a long process

In these pictures - All but one of the layers put down on the Ryu character, with no fine detail applied yet

Thanks again for looking everyone, keep up to date, and remember to follow this blog if you like what you see!!


Salaam - Mac815

Small update on Street Fighter Canvas

Hey everyone, unfortunately I have had a persistent cold over the past week and a half so I was unable to attend to this blog, but I am glad to say I am back and have resumed work on the Street Fighter 4 custom canvas, here is an image of today's progress, keep your eyes open this week for the finished piece!!

In this picture - An almost completed Akuma next to a Ryu in very early development (with only 2 colours applied)

Remember to visit again this week, far more progress to come!!!


Salaam - Mac815

Street Fighter custom canvas (update 2)

Hey everyone, this is the second update for my Street Fighter graffiti canvas that I am currently spraying. I have to say that i never thought the piece would actually be as hard as it is, but I feel that the rewards of the effort can now begin to be seen in these pictures. The Akuma character is not complete yet, as I did not get as much done today as I hoped, but I'm confident he will be complete tomorrow, then I can move on to the Ryu Character!!!

Anyway here are the pictures, let me know what you think everyone!!!

In this picture - A close up image of Akuma's face

In this picture - A full shot of the character as he is now (//2010)

In this picture - A landscape shot of the top half of the Akuma character

In this picture - A close up shot of the symbol on Akuma's back. This image shows a symbol still in development, I hope the actual end results will look alot better

In this picture - The piece as it looks as of now (//2010)

Thanks again for looking, stay posted as I will hopefully have some of the next character (Ryu) done tomorrow, along with a finished Akuma

Peace

Salaam - Mac815

The New and Shiny unknown - my work used in a feature on DeviantArt

Hey everyone, just thought I would share this with all of you, as it was a great surprise when i first received this shout out in a feature on deviantart for unknown artists who deserve more attention.

This piece they featured is a variation I produced on an earlier piece.

In this pic - The original piece

In this pic - This is the variation I did

The link to the feature is here if you want to check it out,  http://news.deviantart.com/article/105396/

thanks again for looking!!

Salaam - Mac815

A random pencil sketch done at 2 in the morning

Well i think the title of the blog is pretty self explanatory, so here it is


A friend of mine (Jennifer Marie) told me recently that I should use my skills to capture the beauty of a woman, so I decided to give it a shot. I think that I will develop this into a proper piece on canvas soon because I'm really happy with the way the sketch came out.

Let me know what you think everyone out there

Salaam - Mac815

Street Fighter custom canvas (update 1)

Hey everyone, these are the first few images of how the Street Fighter canvas is currently developing. This piece will be for sale upon completion, the price has not been established yet as this will come about when this piece is complete. So stay updated for info on the price if you are interested, or you can mail me at salaam28@hotmail.com with an queries regarding the piece.

Anyway, that aside, here are the first few pics, enjoy!!

In this picture - The beginning of the looong process of creating the stencils that would be used to create the characters. As can be seen I began with the Akuma character, largely becausee I really wanted to try the new shades of green spray paint I had managed to get my hands on.



In these pictures - The first stencil mount card prepared and ready to be cut.



In this picture - The top half of Akuma being sprayed. 3 shades of green, 3 shades of red and 1 shade of brown have been used at this stage.



In these pictures - 2 additional shades of brown added, some black and some greater definition given to the overall character






In these pictures - These are the most recent pictures of the piece to date. I feel the character of Akuma is developing well, and I think I will have him finished tomorrow.







Well that's all for now everyone, check back tomorrow for a (hopefully) completed Akuma!!

Peace

Salaam - Mac815

Street Fighter custom canvas

I am currently working on a new design based on the popular Capcom fighting game series, Street Fighter (All rights reserved by Capcom, I own nothing in regards to the Street Fighter franchise). I'm sure that nearly all of you out there are familiar with the name, and have most likely played, or own a number of the game yourself. Well I'm a big fan of the series, and after playing the old super Nintendo Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo recently I was inspired.

And the following design is what I came up with.



The design was greatly influenced by the works of Alvin Lee, one of the most well know character artist for the Street Fighter series, so credit to him for the inspiration in terms of the characters design.

The background will be a dark moon lit sky, with a dark field in the foreground. The light coming from the two characters hands will fly into the night sky as well, creating a number of lightning effects.

I will begin spraying this piece tomorrow with some Montana Gold spray paint on a big 60 inch wide by 48 inch high cotton canvas.

Ill post pictures of the progress, so keep up to date!!

Peace

Salaam - Mac815

My first official post

Salaam, graffiti tag - MAC815

First let me say hello to anyone visiting this blog, I'm very gracious for your time, and I hope that you enjoy looking through my blog. My name is Salaam and I am a Leeds based artist, and I am also currently establishing myself as a self-representing graffiti artist. I graduated this year from the University of Huddersfield with a First Class Honours degree in Business Management (BA). My current goal is to harness the skills and knowledge that I attained within my degree and combine this with my life long passion for art to establish my own small business in which I intend to produce and sell my own art work. I intend to produce a range of varying designs on canvas, that I will then be selling to anyone interested in my work. Each design will be a limited edition and there will only be a certain number of each design produced, such as 20 canvases. Each canvas will be designed, then hand painted, signed and numbered by myself.

I will be producing the pieces on high quality medium grain stretched canvases, which are individually hand made using an 11oz 100% cotton duck canvas which is then triple coated with a high pigmented acrylic primer. This makes the canvas ideal for use with acrylics. The canvases are 18mm deep and the edges are clean wrapped and free from staples or tacks, and are also ready to hang or frame. My medium of choice when producing the pieces will be Montana Gold 400ml acrylic spray paint cans, as seen in these images.

To give you an idea of that kind of work I produce, here are a number of images of the last graffiti project I completed. I was commissioned to do this piece in the master bedroom of a customers house.

He was interested in Japanese animation and Manga therefore we collectively choice to do a piece based on the well known Afro Samurai character, and the Samurai Champloo animated series (as seen in the picture at the beginning of this post). (All rights reserved by the respective owners of both the Afro Samurai character and the Samurai Champloo animated series, I own nothing in regards to these two franchises).

Well I will close this initial blog by saying thank you for your time if you read all that I wrote and looked at the images of my work that I posted, I truly do appreciate it and hope you continue to follow my work on this blog. I will update on a daily basis with info on new pieces, with images of the new pieces currently being developed, as well general ideas/themes for future work and drawings of the initial ideas for the future designs.

Hope to see you back here again soon.

Salaam - Mac815