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.

Reverse sound of Lucy Knisley's "Procrastinatrix"

This song can be found at her web site

well the exact address is here
and that is the foward version. Check out her stuff she is an amazing artist!

Snow dog

Below are pictures of a snow dog I made last Saturday night. At first I had some difficultly making it and was about to give up this guy walked by and asked what I was making and I told him it was suppose to be dog peeing on a the fire hydrant and he laughed and said he really wanted to see it made. I had purpose after that and I made it. What's cool is seeing walk by and take pictures of it.

Ethan Zap the first 9

Every time I showed someone my comic strip the just started reading instead of starting from the begining and so I decided to put the first nine of the story line on one page to be able to read it better.

playing around

I was just sketching around and drew this squirrel like creature and I decided to try coloring it. It was pretty much just for fun, there wasn't any real point to it.

B.O. pizza

I work at this place called "Brick Oven Pizza" or the B.O. as some of like to call it. This comic strip is my commentary on how pizza drivers are people's best friends for about a minute until they get there food. And yes the last panel does seem a bit "fruity" but it makes me laugh so I am leaving it I don't care.

Grow

Animals evolve and who knows what they will envolve into next.

Cool boots

I found this folder on my computer which I made several years ago called "to draw" which has a bunch of photos of things I found on the internet that I wanted to draw. Since I never really drew from those photos when I made it I thought I would start today.

Caricature Posting

Masi Oka - Hiro on the Tv show 'Heroes'
Paris HiltonGeorge W. Bush
Steven Colbert
The Rock

I made these a couple weeks ago and I finally got around to posting them

Steven Spielberg

I decided I am going to try and do a daily caricature or portrait of someone, here is todays, let me know if it actually looks like Steven or not, it's okay to be honest I am trying to get better.

Nellie and Fairy from "Christmas Every Day"

Penster and the Magic Moonboots

I made this for a church event with the singles group back in the summer of 2005. It was called "The Mormies". It was for who every wanted to sumbit a short film. I tried to find someone at church who wanted to make a short film with me and no one was interested and so I created an animation. I also happened to win best in animation which is funny of course since I was the only one to have an animated short.

Raechal

This is another part of my on going series of drawing pictures of my friends this time of Raechal who I work with.

Lily Allen and Dwight from "The Office"

Quick sketch of George Clooney

I found this picture of George Clooney I liked so I drew it.

Genna

Here is another facebook illustration that I finally completed. I meant to get an illustration done for Genna back for her birthday back in May but I never thought what I was going do would be cool enough, tonight I thought I would see what I could do really quick, I'd say it turned out pretty good.

caricature artist

This past weekend I was a caricature artist for a company party for TAHITIAN NONI. I was one of six artists and we drew people for four hours, it was actually quite fun even though I was nervous at first. The cool thing was that I totally got in the zone and found myself discovering new ways of approaching my drawings that I hadn't thought of before. It helped that I was sitting next to this girl who had a really cool style and so I was able to look at how she approached the drawings and I was able to learn from her.

Runner

I like drawing people running, I'm not really sure why, maybe it's because I like to run.

Practice

I bought this book called 'Facial Expressions' which is full of people making faces, here are a couple quick sketches and my attempts at color marker which I haven't used in years and years. The bottom two sketches look like they should be saying "Gosh!"