soaked

It's been a pretty sad season, everyone.

I drew him this past week, was aware of what the theme was for Illustration Friday beforehand, but wasn't consciously drawing this for the theme. It fits though. soaked inside and out.

Makes me think of that Ernest movie where he's standing in the rain crying, singing "gee, I'm glad it's raining, so no one can see me crying." I think that happened in an Ernest movie...been so long since I've watched one.

Also, the texture used in this image was found at Lost and Taken, a marvelous site.

Easter's coming.

Which means chocolate is coming...

I should probably start running, too.

cakeparty sugarbuzz

Hey, Everyone. Time to start blogging more regularly again.

Here are some flyers I did for an event that happened at the beginning of the month. It was for a dance club at Mercer College (Tennessee) that was holding a charity benefit meant to help out Peruvians in need of homes. The event was all about Dancing, Deserts and Dating it up with many a fine ladies and dudes, so I tried to convey that best with the flyers showcasing cookiedancing and cakebeats.

The thumbnails.

The promo flyer.

The informational flyer.

And the images sans copy.

The info flyer looked good as a black and white image, but I decided to color it up recently, just to see it colored. I was going for something bright and flavorful, with a sweet pop.

I'm thinking I'll use it for a postcard. Thinking this would look pretty sweet under a blacklight, too.

I'm also posting the lines for the promo flyer, too, just because I thought they looked nice.

late autumnal reading

Two posts today! CRAZY.

A bit late since it's probably snowing for most. Maybe it'll remind you of when it wasn't so cold.

Thought I'd try out a textured brush, see how that faired.

Original linework is belowww.

frilly pearls

This was another fashiony piece I did around the same time as this one. I remembered it a week or so ago and finally got around to finishing it.

lookin' blue

Something that's something because it's something.

bloopadoop

Hey, it's November and this blog is in dire need of an update, so here's some unseasonal drawings.

Angela recently sent me a package filled with love, inspiration and awesome crayon drawings. Here is my attempt at using crayons. I drew the figure and didn't know what to dress her up in, so she ended up with a future-y plug suit-type get-up. Didn't intend for it to look like Samus in her zero suit, but it also sort of doesn't look like her. So that is fine by me.

And here's some chick topless in a letterman jacket. I get rusty at times so I'm doing my best to iron out the kinks in my anatomy understanding.

Froggy

By way of Twitter, I ended up over at Kris Anka's blog and saw this fun video he did recently set to a variation of "Froggy Went A Courtin'". So awesome. The rest of his blog is really awesome, too, so check out the rest of it.

I'd never heard that version of the song, so it made me think that it was based on a folk story or something. It is. Looking at the Wikipedia entry, it says that it's based on a really old Scottish folk song. You can check the rest of the entry for more info on it. Pretty interesting and fun.

Thinking about it some more made me want to do some two painting series or something based on it, but make them more realistic like I did those swing cats I did for the Misses Ellen Sunday poster.

I'll do something for Miss Mouse, too, as well as probably do a quick study of cutlasses, belts, boots and bandoliers for a finished piece.

Drawings, The Way To Wear 'Em, and News

Here's the last of some of the stuff I've been sitting on. There's plenty more that's unfinished and will be posted down the road, so until then, you can sit tight with of these drawings and things. An assortment of inked linework and marker tomfoolery and a comic or something.
Plus, I'll mention some news bits down at the end of the post.

This is a journal comic that I did about a year ago. It was an assignment for my Illustration 3 course where we were supposed to take a piece of bristol or whatever material and had to illustrate what our day was like on August 27, 2009. The piece could be however long you wanted to be but was restricted to being 3 inches wide. Angela has her's posted over here. This is from Japanese 201. I hadn't studied enough over the summer, so..yeah.. it showed. Also, click to make it bigger so you can actually read it.

Just messing with some markers. They're Prismacolor so they didn't lay down to well. Or maybe I'm still not doing it right. I guess I should really start using that blender... Tried playing around with negative shapes, making her dress lineless.

Just a drawing of a skinny girl.

I drew this while still going to the U of A. I was looking for books that had period fashion and other bits on clothing in the 20th century and found this awesome book called The Way To Wear 'Em. Such a good book, if not for the awesome clothing it showed, the cartoons and drawings in it are phenomenal.

Oh wow! I was just looking up a link about the book, an image or anything, and discovered a copy on eBay. I guess the book was full of cartoons because it was a piece on the satire of fashion published by Punch, the British satire/humour magazine. Huh, very cool.
Anyway, I saw this one cartoon about these bohemians and their attire and decided I should probably get down to drawn before I spent more time poring over the book so I drew him. He was supposed to be bohemian but he looked like the Colonel with a crop.


ALRIGHT! NEWSTIME!

It's not life-changing news, but informative updates to keep you in The Know.

So Angela and I made badges for our Chu Chu Chums blog. Little profile badges that you can read and learn things about us, and then click on and be whisked away to our respective blogs.

Speaking of Chu Chu Chums, we're still doing our exquisite corpse comic WHO NEEDS 'EM??? I finally posted the latest installment after...much thought and meditation on where to take the story. Yes.

Here's the latest one.

Be sure to follow through to the blog and read from the beginning if you're just jumping on. It won't take too long to get caught up.

ALSO! SPEAKING OF ANGELA! She has her Chum Bears for sale up on her Etsy. If you missed out on picking up one of her Bears at the Phoenix Comicon or saw them on her blog and have been dying to get one for yourself, now is your chance! Now is your time! Head on over to her Etsy and check out them Chums now! Y'know..before they're gone again.

And it looks like she might take custom requests, too? Huh! If you're interested in that, I would definitely contact her.

That's all for now!

ADAM

Hey, Everyone. Kind of a let down. I know.

Well, it ended up that I was going to try and post stuff before going to Angela's awesome group art show (you can see her new pieces up on her blog HERE) but I didn't. And then try to post stuff last week. But I didn't. So. Oh well. I'll do my best to make up for that. So here is a post today. I would say look for a new post this Friday, but I don't want to get hopes up again. If it does show up, then it'll be a pleasant surprise for everyone! And I will try to continue the Friday posts then.

For now here are some drawings and things.


Some inking practice using a crow quill. I like the colors on this one.

Another lady in shorts. More could have been done with the background probably but I just ended up laying down some simple colors because I didn't want to post the black and white lines by itself figuring it'd be too boring or lacking.

These people were drawn around the same time as the gym people, but I just colored them up recently. Again, I colored them up rather than posting the linework, and posting them together in a single image makes me realize I didn't have nearly as much extra un-posted work as I had thought.

A gritty self portrait. I was feeling kinda ugly and down so, there you go. This was inked with a crow quill, too.

Little Bigfoot. I had a lot of fun playing with the trees, texturing them and the like. This was drawn with a crow quill

More crow quill practice, along with playing with coloring and layers. This one was pretty fun.

Also, I'm an Adamaholic.

a few things

Ok. It's been a while, so here's a quick break down of some thoughts before I post some images.

It has been a while since I've posted to my blog. I know...I've neglected it pretty badly. I'm hoping I can keep up a Friday update schedule. There's a bunch of stuff I've been sitting on, so there may be a few more posts in-between this and next Friday's update. Other than that, expect Friday updates for now.

Also, just an FYI: sometimes I post things to my Flickr before I post it to here, I think because I feel I don't need to include as much text with the image? And because it's a nice little holding hub for my work? Either way, be sure to check that out, too.

With this and each subsequent post I'm going to try and get back into the habit of capitalizing letters at the beginning of sentences, as well as the letter "I". Probably not too important for my art blog, but I think it's something I need to work on and get back into the habit of doing.
Perfecting the art of the written/typed word.

Another thing that I need to work on that pertains to this blog and my writing skills and what have you: blog commenting etiquette.
What's the word on that?
I'm not talking about "Don't be brash and rude and out of line when commenting on people's blogs" or things of that nature. I'm more interested in how to go about replying to comments left behind by people. Is it best to reply to them in your own comments, denoting when necessary which person you're responding to, or should you comment back to them on their blog? Or...email them back saying thanks? Or just let it be and acknowledge that someone commented? I know I'm pretty guilty of that, so I want to change up my methods.
I've seen a few different things, people replying in their own comments section and other people not responding at all. I...don't really know which would be best to do. I guess the former considering I'm still trying to build a following, so best to act all proper, right?

And now on to the central part of the post: IMAGES!

I tried to do a journal comic a few months ago, but fell behind on it...and just kinda stopped. This is the only day I've inked so far. Inked it with a crow quill. I was a bit rusty with that and it took a bit to get back into...so I'm thinking that's why I fell behind on them? I like how Napoleon turned out. I should probably start this up again.

This is a figure ink sketch I did a few months ago and just finished coloring today. At that moment, I was into drawing women with the heavy eye make-up and making them all fashiony looking.

Feedback on the coloring would be greatly appreciated. I usually use a cell shading method when coloring, but I thought I should try to be more painterly, understand how that works. This one of the first few sketches where I messed around with different opacity levels on the brush. It was fun and cathartic but I felt lost the whole time, which I guess balances out.

And for those who don't know, Angela and I started up a Chu Chu Chums blog a while ago!! We have an official Chums Phoenix Comicon recap on there, plus we've recently started posting a collaborative comic story which is being done all Exquisite Corpse style!

Here are the first two panels (Angela).

And the second set of panels (me).

Check out the blog for more of the comic as well as other Chu Chu Chums updates!!
And the twitter, too! RSS feeds are cool but if you have a twitter account, be sure to add us Chums! That way you'll get updates on when we post new comic panels and about other Chums stuff that goes down.

chummin' it up at Phoenix Comicon

Update time!!!!

Much..much needed update time...yes.

Guess what's coming at the end of May!! Memorial Day!! No...wait. Yes, it's Memorial Day, but it's also PHOENIX COMICON!!!

And guess who's going to be there?? Levar Burton!!! READING RAINBOWWWWW!!!

But that's not all...Dave Baker and Eric M Esquivel, too!!!!! WHOOAAAAA!!!!!

And also me and Angela! YAAAYYY!!

Angela and I have teamed up to form the awesome conglomerate that will hence forth be recognized as Chu Chu Chums!!

This is the sweet header that Angela and I worked on together (mostly Angela on this one) for our new blog, which you can view over here -> CHU CHU CHUMS

Chu Chu Chums will be the moniker for all of our collaborative efforts, with the blog acting as a place to show off our efforts. The blog will also act as an "inspiration engine" for the both of us as we look to inspire each other and help rev up our creativity.

We will also be doing weekly themed works that we'll try to post every week. It might get shaky in the big lead-in to Phoenix Comicon, but we'll do our best to post regularly. If you pop on over right now, you'll find our most recent posts seen below.

My mermaid.

Angela's mermaid.

And now some words from us Chums:

"Hey everyone, Chu Chu Chums are finally online! Woo! Party time, right? Yeah, well, for us, it's getting-ready-for-Phoenix-Comicon time! AH! EXCITING! Phoenix Comicon (May 27-30) will be our first time exhibiting our work. There will be comics, pins, bears and things... We will do our best to update with our progress as we get closer. We look forward to seeing you at Phoenix Comicon! Fun times!"

YUP!

Tickets are still are still available, so be sure to pick those up ASAP!! I'll also add that we well be at T-134, so be sure to look for us there! WOO!!! Excitinggg!!! Despite all of the hoopla-let's-git-er-ready leading up to the con, I'll try to post more regularly to get you me and everyone who should be reading this blog psyched for the convention!!

noodley doodley doodley

figure i should post before too long.

nothing too special to post up yet. but i will hopefully soon.

till then, here are some noodley doodley drawings i did a while ago with some colored pens. pretty fun drawing with the colorsss.

can't sleep

yup. can't sleep.

i didn't want to draw myself looking all sleepy so i drew someone else.
felt like drawing ladies so i drew up a lady.
just messing around. nothing too serious. just sleepyserious.

gonna go try and shuteye now.
overdue for posts, so i will share more soon.

Cat's Don't Dance

THEY SWING!!!!!

MUSIC for your EARS in the NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Misses Ellen Sunday And Her Fantastic Cats will be swinging round The Trunk Space to rustle up some good times, some trouble and some fun!! they are a sweet Acoustic/Bluegrass/Crunk/Western Swing band hailing from Baltimore!!

this'll be happening on Monday January 4th IN THE YEAR 2010!!

but if you are reading this and are chilling in Tucson, they will be hitting up Dry River the day before, January 3rd IN THE YEAR 2010!!

and if you're somewhere that is not Arizona!!...you'll have to check their myspace to see where else they will be playing on their tour...sorry. :X

also playing at The Trunk Space that night will be local acts Haymarket Squares and Tierra Del Fuego!!!

for more info, check out the poster i did belowwww.

or maybe this pocket-sized, portable flier instead?

and some sketches for funnn!!!

NOW GO SWING SOME!!!

O PIONEERS!!!

showshowshow

here is another flier for another awesome show that is happening this awesomemonth. it is on December 22nd at The Trunk Space here in Phoenix so there should be plenty of time to truck on over to check them out.

the headliner for the show is O PIONEERS!!!
according to their myspace page, they are an eclectic fusion of folk and hardcore. CRAZY. but not really because they sort of sound like Against Me!...maybe? that's what came to mind when listening to O Pioneers!!! so if you like things that fuse or folkhardcore fusion or Against Me! or just plain old having fun listening to live music, you should check them out!

also! my friend TK's band BANGARANG will be playing with them as well!

for more info, check out the poster below!

or maybe this flier!

or if all else fails, these sketches for the flierposter will work, too.

marker time

Prismacolor markers are some pretty powerfully potent things. pheww... i wanna mess with them some more, but i think the next time i do, it'll be with an open window and a fan going.

this is a marker piece of a character from yet another project i am trying to work through. her name is Winnifred, but she goes by Freddie. i almost didn't finish this because i thought i was getting a bit overkill and directionless in the coloring, but i'm glad i kept on keeping on and finished it up.

this is just a long tall lady. i tried working with negative shapes first and then went in with a Stabilo pen to do the details up pretty like. kinda tall, her head hit the top of the paper.

Tall Tales!!

oh man, more shoooowwwsssss, you guys.

i have not seen Tall Tales before, nor have i heard of them before i did this keen flier for their December 5th show at The Trunk Space, but after having heard of them i went on over to their myspace and gave them a listen. and they are good. they are like a....feistier Cat Stevens?

i am not sure, but i do like him. if you disagree with my music comparison let me know, because i need to increase my musical comparison skills for better recommendations.

anyway, here is that poster i made up for his show at The Trunk Space,

as well as a quarter page flier i whipped up right after for easier access.

and maybe some sketches to interest you?