24 year old male artist Miami Kaos, is one of the biggest names in mixtape cover design among DJ’s and graphic designers. MK is best known for his signature photorealistic painting style, which is kept secret, despite the 100 of question topics across art forums asking how to achieve this style. I first saw MK’s work back in 2007 on a DJ Trigga mixtape (Jay-Z Vs. Lil Wayne), the cover artwork was a manipulation of Jay Z knocking Lil Wayne in the side of the face, having no idea who the DJ was, and not really caring too much about Jay’s or Wayne’s music, the artwork convinced me to download the mixtape. Well recently I came in contact with MK, after he twittered a article on GrahamPhisher.com, which led to this interview, enjoy.
Here are 10 Wave Splashes, and 15 Milk Splashes, which are extremely helpful in abstract photo manipulations, you can get the 15 milk splashes here, and the 10 wave splashes here.
I noticed the lack of flashback tutorials, on the web and decided just to do a quick one, if you click read more theres a video tutorial, its basically just using a bunch of filters, nothing fancy, with a black n white gradient map.
How to do a smoke effect in 30 Seconds, have a model, and a picture of smoke, place the smoke over the mode, change the blend mode to lighten, than use the lasso tool and feathering 10 to remove any smoke on her that makes it look like the smoke isnt looping her. Than use gradient maps for blending.
