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. 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.