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.

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.

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.

Hourly Comic Day 20X

20X. that's the probably-not-new way of saying 2010.

oh man you guys. i did some hourly comics this year for Hourly Comic Day. February 1st was the official day, but i'm pretty sure you can make any day Hourly Comic Day if you wanted. you can find out more info about it here at the OFFICIAL SITE. and be sure to read John Campbell's comics on that site, too. the guy is crazy dedicated that he does it for the whole month of January as a big lead-in to Hourly Comic Day. crazy. but really good. read mine and then read those.

here are mine.

it felt like a slow, long day, but it was still pretty fun doing these. glad i did it again. yepyep.

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.

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?

BANGARANNNNNGGGGG

my friend TK is part of this awesome band named Bangarang.

but when you go see them just yell BANGARAAAAAANNNGGGGGG for the full effect.

man, Hook was good.

and so is Bangarang, so if you are in Phoenix be sure to truck on over to The Modified Arts next weekend, November 28th to check them out. if you are not in Phoenix that just means you'll have to truck farther.

here is the flier i did for his show, chock full of more information to let you know what is up, who is playing, how much it'll be and so on.

to get a feel for Bangarang, listen to them here.

Iron Giant

hey, before i forget here's some recent art stuff. a few weeks ago The Labyrinth bookstore had a tribute art show for The Iron Giant. they kept getting all of these inquiries, asking if Art of The Iron Giant book was in, but one was never produced. so The Labyrinth took it upon themselves to have a show as a tribute to the amazing movie, putting on an instore display and as well as a cybertronic gallery up on the Iron Giant Project blog.

be sure to check it out! there's a bunch of cool stuff up over there.

and if you don't happen to follow the links, here's my piece for the show.

it's time to

it's time to update. thats. that's what time it is.
jeeze...a month? i'm sorry.
it's been a while so it would be good if i did. just to get some fresh content up, add to the little i have right now, maybe keep those who've sort of been following this a little interested to continue following.

here are things that i made for my final portfolio exit interview for the VisCom program at U of A, stuff i touched up for that, and something i did that wasn't part of that.

these are a few character designs i had been playing with for the last project in my senior capstone. i had some others (i'll try to post those later) but they didn't seem to stick together as well as this group did. so i colored them up and pasted them together in Photoshop. starting to get used to the program's basic mechanisms, but could still stand to learn more about it. finished this up to use in my portfolio for my exit interview.


this is just the colored version of the Heads for Sale guy i posted a few entries back. not much else to say, other than i like how the colors turned out.

OH, and if anybody is interested, i was talking with my friend and she manged to help me out with screenprinting some shirts of just the straight inks of Heads for Sale. So, if anybody is interested in purchasing a shirt, let me know.
i'll post more on this in another entry, hopefully soon? with a better example of the art and the placement on the shirt and prices and everything.
just saying so i can get people excited and possibly interested in grabbing one.

i was playing around with some Stabilo pens, just playing with circles and working on drawing straight to pen. the fancy, hip new scarves a lot of people seem to wear nowadays. or maybe just scenesters? maybe. i'm out of the loop on trends most times. just remember this asian kid wearing one when he came into the coffee shop.
the circles were pretty challenging. not too used to just doing abstracted doodles or patterns or anything like that. need to work on that some more.
i included this in my portfolio as well. thought it was a fairly good piece, which my professors agreed upon, but thought it a bit too rough, so it'll be part of my rough, sketchy, process examples then. i guess? yeah, i'll go with that.

this was the irrelevant, just for fun piece. this was for Harvey James' sweet meme calling for Cat Girls in Hats that he busted out at the end of the activity week he hosted on his livejournal. was especially cool cuz he was nice enough to extend the deadline of the meme an extra week, so i whipped this out later that night after i finished up with my exit interview. i think it turned out pretty well. would maybe redo it or pick another catgirl to work with. might do that too..hmm.
but if you haven't seen it, you should definitely go over there because a lot of people turned out some awesome catgirl reinterpretations, including Harvey James himself.

i'm hoping i will be able to make at least one post in the next month, but if not expect an update from me in July. reason partly being that i recently graduated!

YAY.

but...technically i'm not fully graduated....

huh??

yeah...i'm actually short two credits in an upperdivision VisCom course. most likely because of taking Japanese the past three or so semesters WHICH I DO NOT REGRET. just....sucks that i'm short these credits.
so i'm going to be taking a summer course to make up for it, specifically taking advantage of the Orvieto Arizona in Italy study abroad program. i will be making books and working on picture book development in Italy! will be tons of fun. i also managed to score a flight to Paris during the three day weekend that takes place during the program, and will be hitting the town with Angela. wooooooooooooo.
will definitely be coming back with fancy French and Italian things, along with plenty of comics and pictures.

like i said, i will do my best to update during the program, but if i fail to do so...expect another large lag in my updating..hahah...ehh...and i will be starting up a more consistent posting schedule in July.
so until then! have a good summer/winter!!

fixed spots

i fixed up two of the three spot illustrations for the juried VisCom show U of A had last week/weekend. it's an annual event that spans a week with 2 days for submitting pieces, 1 day for alumni lectures/same day for them to judge pieces, and then the opening of the show the next day, which also features an awards ceremony.
this was the first year i actually got something into the show, so that makes me 1 for 3 in submitting pieces to it. i submitted 7 but managed to get 1 in, so that's pretty..decent. yeah. good to think positive because some people didn't get in, so there's a brightside.
the piece i submitted also won bronze in character design so that was pretty awesome, too. hoooraay!

this year was kind of depressing for the event because it didn't seem like as many people from this year's graduating class cared about going to the lectures, the show opening/award ceremony, or the dinner that followed like last year's group of seniors did. very discouraging on my class's part. sad face all the way -> :C

anyhoo, here are the touched up spot illustrations, improved upon from last time.

the articles i used for this spot illustration exercise can be found here:
The President Will See You Now
Fetal Foreclosure
Stop Whining About Facebook's Redesign

Heads for Sale

wow. it has been way too long since i last updated my blog. i'm sorry everyone. i'm sorry blog. i'll do better this year, starting with this month.
and this image.

this is something i came up with for my resume for my illustration capstone. it's supposed to be like Caps for Sale, but instead it's "Heads for Sale". I've been drawing lots of faces recently and thought it would be best to make use of them this way. and here's an extra image i'm posting. was going to try and whip up a tshirt design for the Japanese Association at the university, but i didn't make the deadline in time. think i might try to reuse him for a shirt design or something. loosely influenced by Powerpuff Girls. y'know...that one episode where they had that giant mech and had to fight some monster similar to this. was a really awesome episode.