Final
Finally added the rest of the details: basketball lines, skin, shadows, highlights, shoes, white surrounding the figure.
For those who follow these sorts of things, you'll know that the title for this piece is a fallacy. That is, Kevin Durant was NOT the 1st Overall Draft pick for 2007. He was the 2nd - Greg Oden was 1st. Big shout out goes to my brother-in-law Von Corrona for coming up with this concept. Over the holidays, when I was thinking about what to do for the show, I asked Von his thoughts on what aspect of the Trail Blazers I could depict. After giving it some thought, he smiled a bit and said (paraphrased here, of course), "I don't know how people will feel about it, but you could do something about that whole Oden/Durant thing." I had to ask, because I wasn't familiar with this 'thing' and then I remembered: when we first moved to Portland in 2007, there was a BIG commotion about Greg Oden coming to Portland. ODEN this, ODEN that - Oden was EVERYWHERE. All the press and fans were talking about Oden, to the point where it was like he was the Chosen One. Of course, he got injured. Again. And again. He's become a big BUST for the Trail Blazers, and this has spurned many to speculate "What If?" What if they had chosen Kevin Durant over Oden that year? Kevin Durant, who became the Rookie of the Year for 2007, who's gone on to win the MVP for the NBA, among several other awards, playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder (which was originally the Seattle Supersonics). So, yeah. I thought that that would be a good angle to go with for my piece for Boomshakalaka. Thanks, Von!
Final
Finally added the rest of the details: basketball lines, skin, shadows, highlights, shoes, white surrounding the figure.
For those who follow these sorts of things, you'll know that the title for this piece is a fallacy. That is, Kevin Durant was NOT the 1st Overall Draft pick for 2007. He was the 2nd - Greg Oden was 1st. Big shout out goes to my brother-in-law Von Corrona for coming up with this concept. Over the holidays, when I was thinking about what to do for the show, I asked Von his thoughts on what aspect of the Trail Blazers I could depict. After giving it some thought, he smiled a bit and said (paraphrased here, of course), "I don't know how people will feel about it, but you could do something about that whole Oden/Durant thing." I had to ask, because I wasn't familiar with this 'thing' and then I remembered: when we first moved to Portland in 2007, there was a BIG commotion about Greg Oden coming to Portland. ODEN this, ODEN that - Oden was EVERYWHERE. All the press and fans were talking about Oden, to the point where it was like he was the Chosen One. Of course, he got injured. Again. And again. He's become a big BUST for the Trail Blazers, and this has spurned many to speculate "What If?" What if they had chosen Kevin Durant over Oden that year? Kevin Durant, who became the Rookie of the Year for 2007, who's gone on to win the MVP for the NBA, among several other awards, playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder (which was originally the Seattle Supersonics). So, yeah. I thought that that would be a good angle to go with for my piece for Boomshakalaka. Thanks, Von!