caricatures: susan boyle, martha stewart, slyvia browne

The caricatures are Sylvia Browne, Susan boyle, my Aunt Gayla who I drew after thanks giving dinner and Martha Stewart.

Random moleskin drawings

The guy with the big nose actually exists, he is in my ward at church. When I first saw him I was so excited to draw him, it's not to often you see a nose like that. The other two I drew out of my head.

More shower drawings

I am still seeing lots of random weird cool images on the glass around me when I shower. Usually I see a part of the image as I shower and I start to remember what I am seeing and as I memorize what it looks like I see more of the image. As I do this I am both discovering and creating because certain shapes I ignore and others I pay attention to. It's such an interesting way to create a drawing and one that never ceases to surprise and excite me.

more caricature practice

Oprah, Peter Patrelli, and Jim from the Office. The coloring with Oprah was my first attempt as oil pastels. I'm trying to figure out the best way to do color with caricatures.

Caricature post

Here are a few caricatures I have done recently, I have been trying out coloring methods, pastel and colored pencil. I think I like colored pencil better. If you are wondering who someone is the names are at the bottom under the labels.

Testimony drawings 2

Both of these drawings makes me laugh when I see them.
I came in late so I missed the point of his story where he cries into his soup but since I missed the explanation I found it funny.


The text I have written here is a summation of a ten minute story about pennies that he found all over his house and at school and then some other story about a kid who thought it was his dead dad who left pennies on the ground for him, all of that to make the above point.
This was in Priesthood, the drawing on the right is the Elder's Quorum President, I just liked the drawing.

Testimony drawings

I have started drawing people in church during testimony meeting. Some of these are exact quotes, some are quotes mixed in with summaries of the testimony and others are just summaries of the testimony. They are from when I visited DavenPort for my nephews baby blessing and from when I went to a friends ward. Oddly, none of these are from my own ward.

Comic Con 09 - Artists

I didn't take a lot of pictures of the artists I met but here are a few pitures. I really liked these oil paintings by Lark Pien, the colors were so amazing. I would have bought one but they were 75 dollars for one as they were originals.
I thought these little sculptures by Leslie Levings were awesome, they are called Beastlies

This is Hope Larson one my favorite cartoonists. I went to a panel that spotlighted her. There weren't a lot of people that came and so I sat in the front row and sat down next to Scott Mcloud (who made the book "Understanding comics) and her husband Bryan Lee O'Malley who is the creator of Scott Pilgram Of course I didn't reconize them and didn't realize who they were until Hope started talking about them and pointing to them.

Tara McPherson

Comic Con 09 - Costumes

I got back from Comic Con last night which was really cool. Usually when I go I get all excited about the panels with all the famous celebrities, the ones that take waiting in line 2 hours to get into. This year I had more of a focus and decided to go to the panels that would be more helpful in helping me get my career going and inspire me the most.
Anyway I didn't take a lot of pictures of costumed people or celebrities but here are some pictures I did take.



This Wolverine guy liked crashing pictures. He would see people taking pictures and run over and pose with the other people whether they liked it or not. I only had it happen twice to me but over the time period I was at comic con I saw this guy do it so much. He was the biggest attention whore I have ever seen at Comic Con and I find it pretty funny. If you look at the last one it looks like he is checking out the Cobra girls butt.

I thought the stringed instrument thing was pretty original.

The Sign is actually Gentle Giants I just found it funny to cut of the giants part.

Jesus drawings

When I go to church I bring my moleskin and I draw in it. I see pictures of Jesus hanging all over the place and since I got tired of people moving when I tried drawing them I started drawing Jesus. I am seeing how many different variations I can make of this Christ fellow everyone seems so found of. I scanned them and put them together into these four pages.

Shower Head experience

This morning when I was showering I decided to look for another image to draw and this time I saw a curved shape and it caused this image to pop into my head in color and everything. I drew the image and thought it was a little strange how this really clear image popped into my head and I hoped it wasn't going to happen to me or anyone I knew. Anyway I got home from work today with a really bad head ache and it made me wonder if my body was somehow warning me with a symbolic image. Perhaps I created a self fulling prophecy, who knows maybe I am just reading to much into this.

As seen on: the shower wall + a video

I have been seeing creatures on the glass of my shower wall, well really just shapes and I fill in missing bits and pieces and then create images in my head. I memorize the image and draw it out and that's what all of these images are from. I change little bits here and there and add stuff when it needs it. I love this though, it's gotten me excited about drawing again and I plan on making more.

My roommate Ash Ram is a fashion photographer and he lets me go to his photo shoots every now and again and so the last time I went I made a behind the scenes video.

Alexis Grace

At this point I don't expect anyone to know who this is unless you watch American Idol and even then I wouldn't expect anyone to know this girls name. Anyway, I was impressed with her singing tonight and I thought I would start drawing those contestants that I was impressed with. Maybe even as a bit of a predictor of who will do good, at least who I think will do good later on. Who knows, she may not even make the top 12 but hey it's good drawing practice.

A nice swim in the grass

I made this last summer, I worked on it for three months. I was waiting to post it when I got music to go with it and I still hope to get music but until then I figured I might as well post it.

Dinosaurs!

I made these illustrations almost a year ago for a friend who wanted to make a book about dinosaurs for her niece. She wanted to place pictures of her niece on the dinosaurs or somewhere near them. For example on the Triceratops she would be riding it like a bucking bronco. I gave the images to my friend, I don't know if she ever did anything with them though. I figure I might as well do something with the images and post them here.

Her morning elegance

I just ran into this video and thought it was so amazing. I have done some stop motion and so I appreciate how much work went into the animation of this

Wow it's been a long time

It's been a long time since I have posted at all. I decided to start posting again and just made a quick little sketch. It's not much but it's something.

Super Matt

Here is a quick drawing of my friend Matt I did just for fun. I'm trying to get shading down better, so this was a good practice piece.

Focus

I do really like the comic strip boards they making inking so much nicer, however bristol does the same thing and it's cheaper. I did have fun drawing all the little things in the background.
Does the last panel seem out of place with the flow of everything? I noticed it did I just wasn't sure how to fix it.

A few pictures from Comic Con 2008

I went to Comic Con in San Diego this past week. I saw a lot cool stuff. Here are a couple of my pictures.
Yes this is the man himself, the creator of the the image behind us.
I saw Jim Mahfood, I love his stuff.
Corey Feldman
Two of the actors from the upcoming movie watchmen.

Squirrel thing

I drew something similar to this awhile ago and thought I would draw it again.

My Stop Motion Boogie

It was a lot of fun making this video. It took about two hours to film and a lot of sweat and three or four days of editing. It was a little more challenging than I thought but I learned a lot and if I ever make another stop motion dance video it will be pretty cool.

playing songs backwards -"Time of my life"

So I have this strange little hobby of playing songs backwards and writing down the lyrics and posting it on youtube. The strange thing that I am finding is that when you play a song backwards it never really sounds like much, you may hear a few things but as you really listen over and over you can make out a lot of stuff. This latest video of David Cooks single I did simply because I am hearing about how hot he is right now and I wanted to see if I could leech off of his popularity right now. I had no idea if it would have anything backwards but sure enough it has some pretty funny and relevant stuff in it. So did the leeching thing work? Let me put it this way, normally with my reverse videos it takes a day or two to get a hundred views and then it winds down and I get like 20 a day on average, that is for the good ones. With this one I got two thousand views in the first two days and now in day 5 it is up to like 3200, my highest video is at 3600 but that video has been up for like 5 months.

Jeff Defying gravity

I like this new technique of stop motion, using a video camera opens up so many possibilities

Grave

Yeah this post is strange but as strange as it is it was fun to try and make something with symbols and hidden meaning and stuff.

Jesus Christ

I know Christ probably didn't have blue eyes as he was not from a northern country but I have blue eyes so I thought I would be like some black artists who make Jesus look African and let him share some of my attributes. I also drew his eyebrows to look like my own. I know I'm going to hear "But Adam your drawing would have been a spot on drawing of Jesus Christ if you hadn't given him your eyebrows". Well my response to that is tough! Sometimes in life you just gotta give Jesus Christ your eyebrows and this is one of those times so deal with it.

Bored on Friday night - stop motion

I have been wanting to experiment with some stop motion and so I made up this short little piece. I think a tripod would help as well. I tried to give the banana six legs and make it walk around but couldn't get the thing to stand up very well so this is what I pooped out.

Writers block

As some of you have noticed I haven't posted any comics for a couple weeks. Dealing with writers block I decided to write a comic strip about writers block.

Kristy Lee Cook

Okay I admit it, I'm turning into an American Idol whore, that's all I've been posting recently. I used to hate the show and even now when I watch it I feel really guilty and feel like someone should come over and slap me for watching it, luckly no one has done that yet, or maybe I would be lucky to slap some sense into me.

Micheal Johns from American Idol

Dinosaurs!

This is for a project my friend is making, there will be a picutre of a girl that the dinosaur will be interacting with.

David Archuleta from American Idol

I sometimes like to draw from the tv just for fun and practice and that is what I did as I watched American Idol tonight.

Caricature posts

The picture is from when I was drawing caricatures at a place called "Brick Oven Pizza" and I drew many of the girls on a traveling team of girl’s high school volley players. Unfortunately I only had my camera phone which didn't do a very good job of capturing the drawings I made.
Here is a link to some of the posts of caricatures that I have done in the past.
Company event
Steven
Five drawings
My friend Jenna
George Clooney
Dwight from The Office

Brooke White from American Idol

Brook White is so freaking hot, my drawings really just make her ugly. She has a light about her and just this energy I love and her music video she has previously made is growing on me a lot. Anyway, yeah I will be voting for her whenever I watch the show.

Yea for serotonin and oxytocin!

I did a little research to find out what chemicals were involved in attraction with the opposite sex, everything from hugging all the way up to the act of sex. Here are some of the chemicals that play a part: norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin, nitric oxide, and the hormone prolactin

A lot of these play major parts in other functions as well such as sleep and maintenance of hydration through out the body. Some of the chemicals are responsible for feelings of bonding with others and much of the feelings associated with love. I find that interesting that much of how we respond to others is based off of a chemical reaction with in our bodies. Granted our actions effect how the chemicals are released but still.

Is McCain a conservative?

This is my first stab at making a political cartoon, let me know what you think because I'd like to try and get some political cartoons published.
And one more thing, does anyone else get an uneasy feeling when he smiles? It makes me uncomfortable like he is hiding something and getting away with it.

Valentines day

Yes that is my heart I am taping on. Some times I feel like I stop caring as a self defense, thanks Valentines day for reminding me of that that, sigh. On the bright side this is the first time I have attempted coloring the lines, does it look okay? I guess I just need to mess around with line coloring more to get the hang of it.

Turtle Memory

Sometimes my memory just seems to be delayed for some reason. I don't know if you can tell as it wasn't drawn with much detail but the turtle is playing solitaire on the computer.

Code names

The Book Thief

I just got done reading a book called "The Book Thief" Well actually I listened to it on audio book in my car while I delivered pizza. Rarely does a book bring up such emotion and reflects on life and love and passion for the art and literature.

The book from the perspective of Death is a look into the life of a small girl named Liesel who lives in Nazi Germany. It may seem strange to use a time period and place of such evil and yet by using art and literature Zusak is able to show that great goodness and humanity can exist in even the toughest of times.
The book in a way was a tragic one because of all the killing that went on in World War II but unlike other tragedies this book left me with a feeling of love for the characters and a sense of awe at the writing skill of Markus Zusak.
I discovered "The Book Thief because I read a different book by Zusak called "I am the messenger" which was also one of the best books I have ever read. I would highly recommend both of these books as they are pure works of art that show how beautiful life can be even in tough times.
Rarely do I see a movie where I leave it and feel wonderful feelings of emotion and when I do these often become my favorite movies. Even more rarely is when I read a book that does the same thing and "The Book Thief" is one of those books.

Life questions

The Hourly contest

I made this for the Hourly contest this year. Basically the rules are you make a comic strip about your life once every hour you are awake on Feb. 1. I started off making one with two panels and in the middle changed it to one panel per hour. It was fun but I am tired and going to bed. Oh here is the link to the Hourly comic challenge

Phantom leg vibration

Does this every happen to anyone else where it feels like your phone is vibrating and instead it's your leg muscles creating this memory phantom vibration?

Lucy and her puppet

This is another drawing from a youtube video that I like. Her name is Lucy and she is also a super cool cartoonist.

Be Happy

I have a friend who sent me a text message that said "Be happy" when I was kind of down and even though it doesn't seem like that big of a thing it was nice. I made this in response to that. I didn't use her real name but I did take her name and did kind of a code with it. Let me know if you figure out the code.

People I know

Drawings from a short film

This is art inspired from the short little film I helped make last Friday night. Amores Secretos which you can see on my most recent post before this one. My apologies to Jeff and Hannah for any ugliness I may have bestowed upon the drawings of you.

24 hour film festival contest

Short Arms

Christmas newsletter

My mom was making a photo newsletter and thought it would be fun if I made a comic strip to go along, so I made this.