24 year-old Illustrator

Clients: Childish Gambino, Angry Birds,
Game Informer, Tomb Raider, EMI Records,
MSNBC, Warner Music, FX Network and more.
Posts tagged Design
Blood Brother Poster - Illustration by Sam Spratt I illustrated the poster for the winner of Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s a gorgeous and refreshingly self-aware film that I’m happy to be a part of in some small way. It will be making its way around, but I believe the next upcoming screening will be at Sundance London — so you should see these plastered around if you’re in the area. 

Blood Brother Poster - Illustration by Sam Spratt

I illustrated the poster for the winner of Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s a gorgeous and refreshingly self-aware film that I’m happy to be a part of in some small way. It will be making its way around, but I believe the next upcoming screening will be at Sundance London — so you should see these plastered around if you’re in the area. 

Blood Brother Poster - Illustration by Sam Spratt I illustrated the poster for the winner of Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s a gorgeous and refreshingly self-aware film that I’m happy to be a part of in some small way. It will be making its way around, but I believe the next upcoming screening will be at Sundance London — so you should see these plastered around if you’re in the area. 

Blood Brother Poster - Illustration by Sam Spratt

I illustrated the poster for the winner of Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s a gorgeous and refreshingly self-aware film that I’m happy to be a part of in some small way. It will be making its way around, but I believe the next upcoming screening will be at Sundance London — so you should see these plastered around if you’re in the area. 

SAM SPRATT’S SIGNED TOMB RAIDER DEV EDITION PRINT GIVEAWAY! In short: Likes and Reblogs of this image are each entries to win it. Giveaway ends in 1 week. Ships worldwide. You can also enter on Facebook. In slightly less short: I have a couple 18”x24” prints of the poster I made commissioned by Crystal Dynamics and I’d like to give one away. Only myself and the developers of the game itself have this gold foiled “Dev Team Edition” but if you’re not a gambling person, the normal limited edition is on sale HEREI might even have a few left over prints of some other works for runner-ups as well…

SAM SPRATT’S SIGNED TOMB RAIDER DEV EDITION PRINT GIVEAWAY!

In short: Likes and Reblogs of this image are each entries to win it. Giveaway ends in 1 week. Ships worldwide. You can also enter on Facebook.

In slightly less short: I have a couple 18”x24” prints of the poster I made commissioned by Crystal Dynamics and I’d like to give one away. Only myself and the developers of the game itself have this gold foiled “Dev Team Edition” but if you’re not a gambling person, the normal limited edition is on sale HERE

I might even have a few left over prints of some other works for runner-ups as well…

“Tomb Raider” - Illustration by Sam SprattOfficial illustrated poster commissioned by Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix to promote the upcoming game for global print, covers, and a special gold-foil variant just for the developers. There’ll be more info soon on when and where you can get your hands on the 18”x24” poster and I’ll have some fun behind the scenes pics on its creation in the near future.Huge thanks to Alex Ruby, Joey L, and Caleb Adams.

“Tomb Raider” - Illustration by Sam Spratt

Official illustrated poster commissioned by Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix to promote the upcoming game for global print, covers, and a special gold-foil variant just for the developers. There’ll be more info soon on when and where you can get your hands on the 18”x24” poster and I’ll have some fun behind the scenes pics on its creation in the near future.

Huge thanks to Alex Ruby, Joey L, and Caleb Adams.

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Paper by FiftyThree Studios (drawing by Sam Spratt) Mostly, I think iPads are toys not tools. They’re fun and magical and all that Apple-jargon, but at least for drawing/painting—they’re pretty useless since the screen doesn’t pick up how hard you press (which equates to finger-painting). Throw in the fact that most of the “good” pieces of software masquerade as professional creation tools with hundreds of settings and sliders, limited resolution, and slow performance—and it’s a cumbersome experience at best. “Paper” by 53 studios, is simple as hell, yet it is the first drawing app on the iPad I enjoy. Those 9 colors and 6 tools you see? That’s all you get. Hell, even “Draw Something” has a more complicated interface. However, to make up for the lack of a pressure-sensitive stylus, the app picks up the momentum of your strokes and adjusts line widths, opacity, and for the watercolor brush—how much the paint bleeds—based on how fast you move your finger or “dumb-stylus” across the screen (and the performance is great). This was my first attempt at a sketch, about 30 minutes or so and getting used to the brush behaviors—but for the first time since the initial iPad was released, there is a drawing app I like. It embraces the fact that it is a sketchbook rather than a professional tool, it’s deadly simple, and incredibly intuitive to boot.

Paper by FiftyThree Studios (drawing by Sam Spratt)

Mostly, I think iPads are toys not tools. They’re fun and magical and all that Apple-jargon, but at least for drawing/painting—they’re pretty useless since the screen doesn’t pick up how hard you press (which equates to finger-painting). Throw in the fact that most of the “good” pieces of software masquerade as professional creation tools with hundreds of settings and sliders, limited resolution, and slow performance—and it’s a cumbersome experience at best.

“Paper” by 53 studios, is simple as hell, yet it is the first drawing app on the iPad I enjoy. Those 9 colors and 6 tools you see? That’s all you get. Hell, even “Draw Something” has a more complicated interface. However, to make up for the lack of a pressure-sensitive stylus, the app picks up the momentum of your strokes and adjusts line widths, opacity, and for the watercolor brush—how much the paint bleeds—based on how fast you move your finger or “dumb-stylus” across the screen (and the performance is great). This was my first attempt at a sketch, about 30 minutes or so and getting used to the brush behaviors—but for the first time since the initial iPad was released, there is a drawing app I like. It embraces the fact that it is a sketchbook rather than a professional tool, it’s deadly simple, and incredibly intuitive to boot.

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“Alienesse” - by Sam Spratt In my perpetual pursuit of all things weird and sexy, I doodled my way into this quick alien portrait that turned out to be something of a fashion sketch/makeup design study. If you like this painting, do follow me on tumblr (I follow back almost every person that follows me for the sake of not missing out on potential inspiration), or for the latest, I run a mean facebook artist’s page and a musing-filled twitter. 

“Alienesse” - by Sam Spratt

In my perpetual pursuit of all things weird and sexy, I doodled my way into this quick alien portrait that turned out to be something of a fashion sketch/makeup design study.

If you like this painting, do follow me on tumblr (I follow back almost every person that follows me for the sake of not missing out on potential inspiration), or for the latest, I run a mean facebook artist’s page and a musing-filled twitter. 

“Color” -Close-up of Portrait Painting of Ed Maximus by Sam Spratt. Full Painting can be found here. The first of my two Portrait Contest Winners. Though the selection was random, Ed turned out to be a phenomenal photographer and had a great black and white self-portrait that he wanted me to have my way with. Working on the piece, I could tell there were a million layers of bullshit symbolism I could easily slap onto this to give it pseudo-intellectual depth and meaning—but the reality is that it was simply a technical execution of painted color. And it is titled accordingly.  If you like this painting, do follow me on tumblr (I follow back almost every person that follows me for the sake of not missing out on potential inspiration), or for the latest, I run a mean facebook artist’s page and a musing-filled twitter.

“Color” -Close-up of Portrait Painting of Ed Maximus by Sam Spratt. Full Painting can be found here.

The first of my two Portrait Contest Winners. Though the selection was random, Ed turned out to be a phenomenal photographer and had a great black and white self-portrait that he wanted me to have my way with. Working on the piece, I could tell there were a million layers of bullshit symbolism I could easily slap onto this to give it pseudo-intellectual depth and meaning—but the reality is that it was simply a technical execution of painted color. And it is titled accordingly. 

If you like this painting, do follow me on tumblr (I follow back almost every person that follows me for the sake of not missing out on potential inspiration), or for the latest, I run a mean facebook artist’s page and a musing-filled twitter.

“Color” -Portrait Painting of Ed Maximus by Sam Spratt The first of my two Portrait Contest Winners. Though the selection was random, Ed turned out to be a phenomenal photographer and had a great black and white self-portrait that he wanted me to have my way with. Working on the piece I could tell there were a million layers of bullshit symbolism I could easily slap onto this to give it pseudo-intellectual depth and meaning to—but the reality is that it was simply a technical execution of painted color. And it is titled accordingly.  If you like this painting, do follow me on tumblr (I follow back almost every person that follows me for the sake of not missing out on potential inspiration), or for the latest, I run a mean facebook artist’s page and a musing-filled twitter.

“Color” -Portrait Painting of Ed Maximus by Sam Spratt

The first of my two Portrait Contest Winners. Though the selection was random, Ed turned out to be a phenomenal photographer and had a great black and white self-portrait that he wanted me to have my way with. Working on the piece I could tell there were a million layers of bullshit symbolism I could easily slap onto this to give it pseudo-intellectual depth and meaning to—but the reality is that it was simply a technical execution of painted color. And it is titled accordingly. 

If you like this painting, do follow me on tumblr (I follow back almost every person that follows me for the sake of not missing out on potential inspiration), or for the latest, I run a mean facebook artist’s page and a musing-filled twitter.

My quick take on the tumblr beast (tumbeast) If you like this painting, do follow me on tumblr (I follow back almost every person that follows me for the sake of not missing out on potential inspiration), or for the latest, I run a mean facebook artist’s page and a musing-filled twitter.

My quick take on the tumblr beast (tumbeast)

If you like this painting, do follow me on tumblr (I follow back almost every person that follows me for the sake of not missing out on potential inspiration), or for the latest, I run a mean facebook artist’s page and a musing-filled twitter.