san diego st

Here goes attempt number three of the season (I did not make a wallpaper for week one because BlueIndy already had it covered here.)  I did a couple looks last week and ended up with the bald eagle sitting in a large jail cell looking all dejected.  I struggled with taking the nations great bird and portraying him in a negative way.  

As I approached this week's wallpaper I had another internal struggle.  I had a hard time finding a tasteful way to place the Aztec within the grand scheme of Michigan destroying another mascot/school on the way to a B1G title and top ten finish of the season.  Maybe it is the pastor in me that hates to offend.  So I gave it a couple days to see if anything less offensive resonated with the creative juices.

I ended up thinking less along the lines of the mascot and more along the lines of this being Brady's last place of residents and how they must have felt about losing their coach.  I thought about something along the lines of Coach walking along the intersate heading towards Ann Arbor.  I considered him pointing instead of hitch hiking.  I ended up with a simple concept of what they must feel like when a coach that they have loved (after all we have quickly grown to love him) just vanished and left town.  As I said, it is simple but I am not a photoshop guy with a ton of time.  I tried very hard to get a head set in the picture that was just tossed on the ground but I could not get the right depth and lighting/shadowing.  This is all I have to offer.