The Doodlewall

Three in a row! (posts)

2011-10-05T17:03:00.000-07:00

I was just cleaning out my computer and I wanted to celebrate some good old oldies.

I just posted this one because i impressed myself....

Good Old Oldie numbah one: haha remember?

This is my favorite. I remember that I made it in digital art and for some reason every time i look at it i hear mcmahon saying, 'you should include the poop grade' he's talking about my portfolio. I just think it was funny that he liked this one because its so silly. but i think in my yearbook he drew a poop on a stick.

I have a test this friday in french. I hope i don't get the poop grade.

Allison again

2011-10-04T16:56:00.000-07:00

Presenting: the 2011 Extraordinaires poster! made by, me!

Yeah so yesterday Laura texts me and is like: we need the poster by today! But yesterday I was celebrating Dan's birthday, so I couldn't make it. Today I got home at 5, made dinner, did my (shit i forgot to get my laundry) laundry, and then cranked this out. phew. done.

Here is the line-work:

And then I scanned it into photoshop, did some sloppy coloring using the magic wand tool, and then i learned what 'overlay' is and I did that. I think that might have been what dakota's been doing for a while that I didn't know about.

Real doodles:

I remember hearing some speech my dad sent me given by Steve Jobs and he was talking about a class he took at Reed in calligraphy and how that helped him make different fonts for the first windows computer.

So one day when I was in class supposed to be taking notes I decided to try making some fonts. I wanted them to be interactive. Or definitive in some way. Remember in high school when I wrote the word 'Worms' using the word 'intestinal' over and over in the shape of the letters W, O, R, M, S?

I spelled tongue wrong...and I wanted to make the letters in 'kissing'...actually kissing but then it looked weird and made me feel weird so I stopped.

Final results:

Here's a doodle I did in class today while looking at the Madonna of the Long Neck

My second painting, its a still life (gahh)

This is dan's first art thing. He wanted to make a poster of Half Dome.

More doodles from class, very bored. Very weird doodles.

LOL this is an octopus eating an ice cream. Laura's response: That's either a really big ice cream or a really small octopus

COOL. Bye.

Allison. Allison. Allison

2011-09-07T22:18:00.000-07:00

BACKATSCHOOLBACKINBLACK

Well I had a wonderful lovely summer which I would love to tell you all about when I see you/call you/you call me. I live in a cute little house with 6 other girls who are all very nice. This place is super nice, we have two kitchens and wood floors this time. Anyways i have this ginormous desk in my room which is great for making art, and I also lost my Enter the Dragon poster and got sick of my Fight Club poster so I've been getting a little craftsy with my decorating.

Here is a view of my room as you walk into it. I have a receptionist's desk.

The card says "Allison Ong; Attorny at Law"

Obviously you need to make an appointment if you need to see me.

This is my bed. For the last day, I've been doing this new thing where i make it. I've found that it motivates me to sleep in it. You can see my Laura-made Extraordinaires poster on the left, under my Dakota-made envelope from Postman Porn.

Center is my Banksy cutout that i did today instead of doing homework, and on the right is my Dakota-made Extraordinaires poster. On the bed is Snowy, you all know snowy.

Here is the most important part of my room. My other, AllisonandDakota-made Extraordinaires poster, and the place where I keep my pictures of you guys! YAYAYAYAYAYAY

This is Laura's door. Its across from mine. Laura is (likes) anal.

The stupid people in my painting class threw away the big cardboard sheets that came to protect our glass palettes. So I collected a bunch of them to make decorative things. Here's one, there are four more so hopefully more to come. I put my gojira poster in the living room which I forgot to take a picture of.

Also I know none of you will be really super jealous except Dakota, but Dakota this month B.O.B.'s having a concert, (i like them even if you're not big on them) and then JANELLE MONAE, is coming, and then the EXTRAORDINAIRES are coming back and sleeping at my house because they don't have a place to stay, and then the DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS are coming, and so far its shaping up to be a pretty cool senior year in terms of music.

Over and OOT

ALllison

Oh, and tragic news. The reason why my ASHLEY-made batman is not sitting on my bed like he was all last year and the year before that and the year before that, is because i stored him in a box in this house and the basement leaked. Batman was in the bottom of the box and he was unfortunately soaked and consumed by mold. I was very very very very sad to see him go. I am still sad. I am so sad ashley.

Rest in peace batman. I loved you.

Summer art and Mei Magazine

2011-08-11T14:50:00.000-07:00

Hey, so this is just some fanart for Doctor Who, from this episode that was written by Neil Gaiman and was the fucking best episode of almost anything I've ever seen. After watching it, I just took like an hour break and just thought about it and was happy. It was called "The Doctor's Wife" and was about this aliens relationship with his spaceship/time machine and it was so romantic and sad and magnificent. I want to read everything Neil Gaiman has written.

This is different characters from the show, but it got weirdly popular. It got over two thousand notes on tumblr. I don't know if it's because of the simple style, or it's of a popular (straight?) couple, but whatever. (This show makes me go totally woozy over straight couples, so yeah).

And here is a lesbian couple from Doctor Who, from the last episode, which was the shit. They were an interspecies, victorian, cross dressing, detective lesbians. I was so in love.

These are some screenshots for the title sequence I finished at the end of the year and still haven't figured out how to upload. I'll do that soon.

This is from the show Sherlock, where new photos from next seasons filming came out where Sherlock Holmes and John Watson were handcuffed together. It kind of made my heart race.

This is a commission for Batman, Jason as Robin, and his later incarnation of The Red Hood. I kinda dug how Robin came out.

I just wanted to genderbend Power Girl to make Power Boy. Turns out Power Boy is a thing, but I'm not into DC's version of him.

Also, this is for a magazine for girls adopted from eastern Asian countries, (mostly China, Vietnam and Korea), and I emailed them about their logo and some other design elements I thought could use some improvement, and now I am doing some spreads for them. This issue is Chang O, and next issue is either Chinese or Vietnamese New Year, or all Lunar New years, if I can figure out how. Since Lei will be reading these magazines, and maybe Sasha in a couple of years, I would like to continue to do articles for them, so they think I am the coolest. And I can't think of much I'm more interested in then adoption, so doing stuff for a magazine for adopted kids sounds awesome.

Guest Post from Laura!

2011-08-02T11:36:00.000-07:00

Hey there everyone! This is Allison's friend Laura. I've been silently viewing your lovely posts for a while, and I just got back from an architecture study abroad in China, so I wanted to share the best of my sketches! These are all from Shanghai - we didn't do as much drawing once we were in Beijing.

This is a totally weird modern building in Shanghai. I think the architects thought that the whole world would look like the Jetson's, so they decided to get ahead of the game. There's no way to draw this building without having it look like a penis.

I think this was my favorite modern building in China - this museum is beautiful and I like the emphasis of the horizontal in the design.

Shikumens means "iron gate house" and they used to be all over Shanghai, but they've mostly been torn down and replaced with replicas. It makes the city feel like Epcot a lot of the time.

Perspectives are hard, and my attention span was short on this one.

This is a copy of the old-style characters. I wish writing still looked like this, although it probably wasn't very efficient. But it's so beautiful!

I did this rubbing at a temple that was built in the 12th century. I didn't have a crayon so I used a leaf. The character means spring, and it's a lucky character.

This is my attempt at Chinese calligraphy - it's my Chinese name.

Thanks for letting me post!

Some drawings in no particular order.

2011-06-25T17:07:00.000-07:00

Hey, I haven't posted in awhile, so here's just some of the things I've done in the past month or so. I'm trying to do a lot of commissions for cheap, to get some money, and also because it's kind of fun, like a sketchbook assignment, if sketchbook assignments were about guys macking on each other. So I'm having a lot of fun with them.

A commission for Jason Todd and Bruce Wayne.

Here's one commission I did of Red Robin and Superboy, who I've been wanting to draw for awhile. It might be strange to say, but I like the way Robin's butt came out, and his chest. Allison, have you seen 90's Superboy? His outfit was so strange, but I love it. I want to draw it.

So I bought the movie "Death In Venice," because I think it might be aesthetically my favorite movie, not even just because of the boy Tadzio, but the turn of the century clothes/architecture, and the colors of the film are stunning, and have changed the way I draw. And I can't stop drawing Tadzio. (Adam: Rufus Wainwright did a song about him called "Grey Gardens" which captures my feelings for him quite well).

The cover of my copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray is totally stupid, and the picture looks nothing like Dorian, so I thought I would make my own. I don't like when covers show Dorian's face, since I think the reader should imagine it on their own, and they so often have a masculine face with dark hair or facial hair, which is totally not how he was described at all. Whoever chose those pictures for the cover were NOT homosexual, I'm sure of that.

Um... I started watching Pokemon again. It is still amazing (but I am shocked at how little animation there is. Like 90% of the show is still frames).

Superman

I think this is my trying to get my circus obsession out, but it's still there.

Another picture for my fashion class. I did this after watching a shit ton of Betty Boop.

Genderbent Sherlock Holmes and John Watson

This is a character from the show Doctor Who. I was kind if trying different effects. I thin it looks kind of interesting, and I want to explore more with stuff besides flat colors on photoshop.

I did this after watching Death in Venice. I just want to draw dirty, turn of the century, beach erotica all the time.

Bucky, for my pin up sidekick thing. I was in a queer art show with my sidekick pin up drawings, so I added this one. I also have a Ron Weasley and Luigi that maybe I'll post later.

Again, trying to do something besides just flat colors. This one I did after seeing 101 Dalmations. That movie is actually very gorgeous. I totally crush on Roger, and the backgrounds are amazing. (Also I crush on Pongo, but whatever).

A headshot for my fashion class. It was inspired by Grace Jones.

Another fashion headshot.

Wolfie Girl and Calvin and Hobbes

2011-06-20T00:31:00.000-07:00

Bowl and Photos

2011-06-13T23:48:00.000-07:00

Yo YO YO! Adam here, got some new stuff for you. First up, this bowl that I made (Madelin and I took a glass-blowing lesson, more pictures of that on Facebook). Turned out pretty awesome.

Also I have some cool panorama photographs for you! I've been using this awesome program on my iphone called Photosynth, and it allows you to take pictures of the whole 360 degrees of your environment, and will piece them together to recreate it. I think the coolest part about it though is that for each one it also converts the whole thing to a single picture, which is what you're seeing. The first one is from this spot at Bard where someone built this platform up in the trees.

This one is one of my favorites, it's from a bike trail in Eugene, OR. The 3D version of this is also cool. Check it out here: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=935e1afd-ed69-4296-95ba-586c1256381d

This one is in the same place, but this time I tried taking the pictures while walking around and seeing what would happen. It's actually kind of hard to do anything too messed up, cause you kind of have to trick the program since it was designed to make it as accurate as possible.

These last two, I tried doing something more abstract, and I really like how they turned out. For the first one I printed up a black and white patter I thought was cool and just held it up at every angle and took pictures. For the second one, I took a picture of a small part of this painting I'm working on, printed it up, and did the same.

moving out

2011-05-27T14:03:00.000-07:00

i'm moving out of my apartment, and i found this.

Dakota, I drew this for you one day in class and never finished/showed you.

I love all you guys. Good luck with this summer!

ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM

2011-05-13T10:40:00.000-07:00

This is Adam. Here are the three latest paintings I've made for my class.

As you've probably seen on voyerbook, this is my self-portrait. It looks so much better in person. I gave it to Fred, and it is now hanging in his suite's living room. I think that's going to weird his roommates out.

This is my "outdoor painting." It's from this cool spot off of a Bard trail where someone built a platform between three trees overlooking the Hudson.

This one is of a nude model that we had in our class. It also looks much better in person. I'm really proud of everything EXCEPT the face! For some reason, I have a really hard time with human faces. It took about 12 hours of class time plus about 13 hours this weekend. It's the biggest painting I've ever done. I've attached another shot of it to show the relative size.

Wow, it's been awhile.

2011-03-31T08:27:00.000-07:00

Hey there doodlewall. I haven't posted in awhile, in part because I havent been making that much 2D art for school, which means most of my drawings have been VERY self indulgent.

These are two pages of a 25 page comic I made about a transgender kid, or at least questioning their gender. These are pages from some fantasy sequences that I liked.

Here are some sketchbook pages... my history of animation class saw the first colored animation called "Little Nemo" and I loved it so much that I drew nothing but these little Nemo inspired boys over and over.

I just copied this from a comic page drawn by Alan Davis who draws such cute Jason!Robin. I want to hug him.

From a photo.

More Nemo.

A drawing I made of Woody as a human... I actually kinda like it looking back. Maybe I'll do something with this...

I really like pigeons. And uniforms. And I have no better explanation.

There is this Bjork song called "Venus as a Boy" which is the sexiest sounding title I have ever heard of. Soooo I drew it. The lyrics are pretty sexy too.

Tadzio. God, I loved the book A Death in Venice so much, but I have to say, the movie had a bigger influence on me. It is one of the most aesthetically beautiful movies I have ever seen.

MORE Tadzio. Sometimes I just skim through the book and read a couple pages or even sentences because it's just so lovely. My favorite part of the book is when the man looks at Tadzio, and happily notices that Tadzio has a blueish tinge to his teeth, he will probably die in his youth.

I don't really remember drawing this, but I kinda like it.

Fanart of this character Reaver, from Fable III, which was a pretty meh videogame, but Stephen Fry voiced this pretty delightful character. I also really like the way the colors came out here... they are kinda my default colors, but this time they came out exactly how I wanted. And the boys outfit was fun to design.

From "The Sign of the Four" which is probably one of my least favorite Sherlock Holmes books. Not only does Watson get engaged to a lady, but the criminal is a South American pygmy. I rolled my eyes when I read that. I love those books, but they do have the pitfalls of a lot of 19th century literature. Arthur Conan Doyle actually wrote a story that was probably quite progressive for the time, in the Yellow Face, about in interracial family, but there are parts of it that make me cringe a bit today.

Sorry, trying not to nerd out. I just love these stories so much.

Genderbent Betty Wayne and Regina Grayson. I liked how Robin came out...

More of the Nemo-inspired boy.

I could not stop drawing him. These aren't even all of them... the neck ruffle and hair are just so fun to do. And little hands and cat eyes... I'm still kinda obsessed with the circus.

Genderbent Clara Kent. I really like 1940's hair/hats.

Commission for Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus. I liked how Venus' hair came out. And trying to do anime after so long was a good challenge, since from what I hear, I usually draw eyes smaller then average, and noses bigger. So I had to do the opposite. And making orange, dark green, yellow and red mix... Adam could probably do it easily, but I had to struggle with it, which was fun.

Another Sherlock Holmes illustration from A Study in Scarlet, which is my favorite SH novel. Holmes is so adorable and young in it, and Oscar Wilde liked it too. I think he and I both noticed the rampant homoeroticism. Also, half of the book is focused on this father and daughter story in Mormon Utah, and is SO GOOD. God that book.

Genderbent Holmes and Watson plus another character from the BBC modern show.

BBC modern John Watson and 2009 movie John Watson. Self-cest. That is weirdly becoming a recurring theme in my drawings...

I wanted to draw a foreshortened human at this angle... I think it came out OK. I wanna get better at foreshortening. But I am improving, and everyone has trouble with it. Also, I love the way mens chests pull up when they raise their arms. Specific thing I love.

For my fashion class I had to make a fashion illustration of shoes and handbags. I finished early so I made 2. Neither of mine fit in at all, since one was of mens shoes/bags, and the other was retro/of a murderer. My teacher was pretty happy with them though, which was nice.

This is my second fashion class, and I really love them. I think I like having to work around these rules, it's like a sketchbook assignment.

Another fashion illustration, just make a fashion figure. I made a hermaphroditic Dorian Gray character. It was the first thing I showed to my fashion class, and it kinda weirded them out. Also my first time using the program Illustrator, which I hated at first but now I love it.

Fashion headshot. We had to make a illustration showing a face and an accessory. Again I had the only male. I really like mens fashion, especially androgynous and effeminate mens fashion. This was when I started to really like illustrator.

I am making a "collection" for my final, which is like a series of clothing that goes together. I'm going for a Turn of the Century, Venice beach feeling. Kind of inspired by Death in Venice.

I like this one since it was the first of a new style I'm trying. It was really experimental and fun. You guys know I rely on lineart a lot, and coloring with flat colors. I like doing that a lot, and like how it looks. But here I made shapes, with some shading, and then put really loose lineart in afterward, just to define it better. Maybe that doesn't sound crazy, but not relying on lineart was kind of exciting for me. Also, I kinda like these clothes I designed.

This is the dorkiest thing, but I am REALLY into this BBC SciFi show, Doctor Who. It's pretty popular, there were a lot of cosplayers at the convention I went to.

It's been going on the air for decades, and it's about this time traveler, The Doctor, who regenerates (kind of like reincarnating) into a different person with the same memories/etc. The problem is, you bond (OK, I bond) with one Doctor, and then he dies and regenerated into this new guy who I'm then supposed to love.

I fell like ridiculously hard for the tenth incarnation of the Doctor, and actually cried when he regenerated into the Eleventh. And now I like Eleven too, and it's just too many emotions.

So this is Ten and Eleven. More self-cest, and working with the style of shapes first, then lineart. And I have to say, usually getting a persons likeness is really hard for me, and I'm NOT good at it, but Eleven (the one in the pink) looks JUST FUCKING LIKE ELEVEN. I am really happy with that.

(Dorky confession... you see the things they are holding? They are called 'sonic screwdrivers' and at the comic convention I bought a flashlight that looks just like Ten's screwdriver. And I love it so much).

Well this is just shameful...

2011-03-30T17:14:00.000-07:00

Dooods I have the last 3 posts? I know it's not really fair cause I'm just posting stuff that I did for class.

This is what I've been up to in the last month:

Also, in class we got to make our own canvases. We made the frame and stretched it today! Here's mine.

Adam out!

OilsOilsOilsOils

2011-02-28T16:20:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, wanted to share the paintings I've made for my class so far.

This is the first one we did. It's a still life using only black, white, and gray.

Another still life. This one we got to choose the objects. I decided to make it hard for myself by picking a book (the bible), watermelon, quarters, my wallet wrapped in tinfoil, all over a mirror.

The assignment on this one was to fill each square with a different color, texture, etc. so that none of them looked the same. It was more of an exercise in color mixing, but turned out cool regardless.

This one's painted on a gesso-ed wooden board. The assigment was to paint something entirely using a palette knife. I painted from a spot in the Bard cemetery. It took much time and frustration, but I think it turned out well.

This one I made just for fun. It's of space.

-Adam

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2011-02-01T11:29:00.000-08:00

I've been working on music more than art lately, but I got into a painting class this semester, so hopefully I'll have some presentable stuff from that. Until then, I wanted to show you all this sketch/acrylic I made on this journal cover. This Bard group I'm a part of wanted a few people to decorate these journals and we're gonna leave them in places for anyone to write in.
By the way, this is Adam.

Yes, I fucking love pipes and color-pollution.

Being home=making art

2011-01-11T21:12:00.000-08:00

I guess as soon as I get home I start making stuff. Which reminds me, the polenta should be on here but whatevs.

Amanda, Ashley, and I made some christmas cards here are some pictures of the fronts and some insides, you can guess who made what.

We got glitter everywhere :) which, according to fred, is the herpes of arts and crafts.

Spelled wrong on purpose!

So that's that.

Here's a picture that i got from laura of something old but she had the picture so i never uploaded it.

Remember that shirt i made for her? I took the stencil, which was actually some wallpaper-y design contact paper, and after I sprayed it laid it over some newspaper. It looks really cool with the newspaper, fading spray paint, and wallpaper design. Probs should click on this to see the full view.

I don't understand photography. is this considered art photography?

Then, my friend Julien came over and we made dinosaur shirts, this is the only picture i have of his t shirt.

Then the much more experienced mackenzie came over and we made super awesome t-shirts.

This is daft punk.

This is a narwhal. (front)

(back)

This is homestar runner.

This is amanda's christmas present (front)

(back)

this was supposed to be a Little Prince shirt, but turns spray paint doesn't always show on dark colored shirts.

This is my dino shirt.

you can't really see this but its another drawing at a desk in cornell. during my french final i think. she's saying 'that dope nose!'

Okay, allison art poo, over and out.

Circus Stuff and ACTUAL Sketches

2010-11-20T14:15:00.000-08:00

Here's some stuff from the circus zine I made.

Here's the cover and back cover, colored. I printed the actual cover in black and white, since it was less expensive, and when it was printed, it took away the hand made, older feel to it. But this was fun since I am trying to work on color schemes, since it is a weakness of mine, and this was good practice.

This is my Fat Lady/Bearded Lady Romance comic. It reads better in 4 page format then scroll down, but it was fun to do, making a cute fairy tailish comic without words.

A quick watercolor I did and forgot about till I found it today.

Character design I might use for a short comic

More character designs.

A character design for a longer comic I want to do... someday.

This is what my comic thumbnails look like. I think they are kinda fun. This is 8 pages of thumbnails, WHICH I HAVE DONE. I am so close to being done with my 26 page comic.

Plan for a drawing that I thought looked cool.

Character designs for my animation. A knight and a dragon.

They are both so fun to animate, the knight is fun and spritely, and the dragon is slow and heavy and SO HARD TO ANIMATE

A pin up of a contortionist for my circus zine.

I was a little nervous about this since the contortionist came out looking younger then I meant for him too, but a couple of people (including my comic teacher, which was a bit awkward) assured me it was OK.

My Clown spread, in color.

One of the comics.

Trapeze Pin Up

Clown lineart, which is was appeared in the zine. I was pretty happy with this when I drew it, and still am. This pen is just so fucking wonderful.

This was the first circus thing I did which inspired me on my whole circus kick. I did it after hearing Joanna Newsom's Monkey and Bear, which you should listen to Allison. The story and the way it's told blows me away, and the way she says stuff like the lines "But Ursula we've go to eat something. My love, I swear, by the air I breathe, sooner or later you'll bear your teeth." Her voice at that part blows me away.

I had to make a comic in response to Hellen Jo's "Jin and Jam" which is SO good. I love her art style. And the comic is basically a bunch of teenage girls fighting, which I never knew I craved until I read her comic.

I miss playing art games, so I went on this Sherlock fan site and said I would take requests, so I did a couple. This one someone asked for "fluff" where Sherlock and John are just relaxing at home.

This one someone requested I illustrate their story of Sherlock going crazy.

Somebody requested cowboy Sherlock and John, and I was like "OH MY GOD WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT"

Someone wanted Sherlock in lingerie, but they requested it after I myself said it would be the best ever, so yeah. Benedict Cumberbatch is just so gorgeous in such a fucking weird way.

This one I did myself, after watching Sherlock, the BBC Office, and the American Office. Martin Freeman (the short one) plays John Watson, and Tim on the BBC Office, and the dude on the right is Jim from the Office, who is Tim's American counterpart. So, yeah, this is a three show crossover.

MORE Office fanart, which means that I have now done more Office fanart then anyone in the world.

For the last season or so, Andy and Darryl’s friendship has been focused on more and more, and in more and more adorable ways. I told my brother they were a bit slashy, AND THEN THE LAST EPISODE.

Daryll: Andy, look, all I know is if I was a girl, and I had to choose between a tall dude who loved Asia, and a you lookin’ dude who loved sweaters and wearing sweaters… I’d choose you.

Andy: That’s really nice, thank you.

Daryll: And I’d blow your mind.

Oh, The Office, HOW DID YOU KNOW I NEEDED THIS?

Of course, Jim and Pam are my OTP forever.

TMI WARNING!

Actually, once I had this sex dream with Jim and Pam, where Pam was in a relationship with me and Jim, and we were competing for her, and I felt really intimidated since Jim is some stiff competition. Pre-dream I did not have a crush on Pam, but post-dream, I totally do.

I almost never have sex dreams. I've had like 5 EVER and never with people I want to have them about. Pam was the best one. I wish I could control this shit.

This was a project for class, where we had to take some dialogue and avoid drawing talking heads, and make it interesting with panels and stuff. I took my dialogue from Maurice by E.M. Forster, which is always in my favorite 3 books. The whole book encapsulates exactly how I felt figuring out I was gay, dealing with religion, growing up, and it was written by Forster in the 19th century but hidden until the 70's. It's so romantic too. Oh man.

I just wanted to draw something with Robin and Batwoman. HRMG I AM GAY FOR BOTH OF THEM

There is a Robert Downey Jr x Robert Downey Jr slash group on deviantart, and that BLEW MY MIND so I had to make this. Steampunk Iron man was fun, and still working with colors. I drew this with my new pen that I love SO much, and will probably post more about later. It's so fun.

(Edit, fixed the hand a bit, was going for foreshortening, but it was too big)

So I've been doing stuff...

2010-11-13T23:52:00.000-08:00

I don't have a scanner in my house that's big enough to fit these so I had to take pictures, and I hate the way they turned out. Ugh.

I've had this one sitting around for a good long while but haven't been able to finish it because I can't think of what to put in the middle panel without fucking the composition. Suggestions?

Back when I was running movie nights in the dorms I used to do posters and I thought this one was fun and kind of not my style for once.

Fun with origami paper and fashion photography!

I had such high hopes for this one...didn't quite turn out the way I wanted. Anyway it's one of my biggest girl crushes Marion Cotillard. Girlfriend has the most amazing eyes I have ever seen.

I could not for the life of me get a decent picture of this, so this will have to do for now. I was actually originally going to take out the tie but since Dakota liked it in the sketch I kept it. I was kind of winging it so proportions are off in some places...whatever. I'll be more careful next time.

It was a pain in the ass trying to finish it since I have family members walking around in the immediate vicinity. I mean, they're both basically completely clothed, but still...it's people having sex. I don't know why but I've always found erotic art sexier when the subjects are at least partially clothed. It's like, "I'm so hot for you I couldn't even wait for you to get out of your clothes. I have to have you right now, this second." That, and I like drawing fabric more than I like drawing skin.

Q and Matthew are like best friends now. It's pretty great.

Juneau hangs out with me in the garage while I'm working. He says hi.

test

2010-11-05T11:43:00.000-07:00

Instead of checking my answers after math test, drew fancy lady on table. left it there. some poor custodian is going to have to clean it up. Been doodling per usual, its all on my homework, can't post yet :)

Ninja!

2010-10-09T19:56:00.000-07:00

So, more stuff.

Another sidekick pin up, I did Spock, (and a bit of Kirk).

Just drew these after seeing all these cute girls walking around downtown. I wanted to draw skateboard girls, bright colors and a Shirley Temple-ish girl.

These next two I did after hearing a podcast about ninja...

I heard about this kid who let moths into a mans house, the moths covered the lights, and he snuck in under cover of darkness and killed the man.

Here's Prince Yamato, sometimes seen as the first ninja.

To kill his enemies he disguised himself as a woman so as to get close to them.

Basically, he Bugs Bunnied them.

I really wanted to draw pink cheeks/inner thighs, and these posed/foreshortened hands. Still working on color, and trying to keep it simple.

I actually have no way to explain this to you, without explaining like every episode of Sherlock. Just thought I'd post it. (Also, I don't keep posting art from this show to tell you dudes to watch it. I'm not sure you would like it. I actually feel you might actively dislike it...)

I can't believe it took me so long to draw crossdressing-Holmes, considering that shit is CANNON baby.

Also, I got REALLY into corsets for like 24 hours, where I thought they were the sexiest ever and was amazed at how changed the body became with a corset, and a even found stuff on male corsetting, but now I think I'm over it. It kinda spooked me towards the end, with the people who go too extreme. But I'm still mildly into it, just, the passion is gone.

P.S. More and more I am realizing I only like about 3 colors. Turquoise, brown and grey. Red is nice when it goes with turquoise. I think I am going to do some color play to get me out of this compulsion. I mean, I like these colors, and am OK with favoring them, but right now I feel like I HAVE to use them. So I wanna try some new shit.

Some Holmes/Watson fanart, where I am trying to avoid using cooler colors and turquoise, since that is all I use.

Some more Batwoman and Renee fanart. Good subjects for warmer colors.

For the Study in Lavender: The Queering of Sherlock Holmes book. They had a very specific image in mind, and I think it's a pretty fun idea. Since you guys might not know who all the Holmes characters are, Holmes and Watson are in one window, Mrs. Hudson and another lady (could be Irene Adler or Mary Morstan) are in the other window and out front is Inspector Lestrade and one of Holmes' "irregulars" who are like his little spies. This was pretty fun to do, and I liked their ideas, and was happy that the Hudson/Adler window was the publishers idea, especially since it is a publishing company focused on gay men. So that's pretty neat of them.

More Sherlock stuff, and more using warm colors. I miss blue and turquoise...

Anddd I just did this one. My friend asked me if I was into gore and violence about a month ago, and I said "No, not really." And I think I was telling the truth, but immediately afterward I have been desperately wanting to draw blood and violence. I don't know what that is about.

happy birthday mike liu!

2010-10-07T06:33:00.000-07:00

Collaborative effort b/t me, carrie, and padma.

Our favorite musi-clim-baker-masseuse turns 20!

Be sure to check out his super yummy baking blog

And as you're perusing, remember that I get to eat them sometimes.

Morrre sidekick pinups, and some Wonder Woman fappery (Added some Sherlock fanfart and Allisons Desktop)

2010-10-03T09:38:00.000-07:00

I have been doing these flat colored thing a lot, in part because I don't have much time, but am still really compelled to draw, and can only do it in class, in between class or late at night when I reallyreally need to be sleeping (usually then). But also, I am liking the design like, flat feel of these, and trying to do limited color schemes, since I think my color theory needs a lot of work. These are good experiments for that.

Another sidekick pin up, this one is of the BBC Sherlock show's John Watson. The actor who plays him, Martin Freeman, is ninja sexy. You have no idea he's a total babe, and then BAMF! You are in love with him.

This was from the last part of the last episode, where John is taken hostage and has a bomb strapped to his chest and Sherlock has to save him and OHMANITWASSEXY.

I actually like this one. I like the colors, and his face turned out like John's, which is good.

This one is just silly, since it's impossibly to make Kenneth sexy, I didn't even try. I wanted to do a pin up of the 30 Rock sidekicks, since after Liz and Jack, Kenneth, Dot Com and Grizz are my favorite characters, and they are all Tracy's sidekicks, so it works.

(Yes, I know I just named 5 favorite characters).

This actually super sucked to draw. I don't know if I got Kenneth's face right, I basically paused the show on his least totally dumb face and drew it, but I think Grizz and Dot Com are recognizable (maybe cause only half the face is even showing).

I realized I hadn't drawn women in awhile, and so I did a quick drawing of some butch ladies. Then I gave myself only a few colors and had to repeat them, and keep the color palette limited. It's pretty fun. I really like doing these exercises, and I think my grasp on color theory is getting slightly better, but I can see myself getting stuck in some colors, so I am going to need to explore other ones too.

Now I have two Wonder Woman pictures. First, I wanted to draw a badass and bloody Wonder Woman. Not much to say besides that.

Even though I don't like the song that much, I like watching the video for "Telephone" and Beyonce's little short bangs just KILL ME. (Unfortunatley, I decided she would be adjusting hertiara, and now my urge to draw her bangs are NOT SATED).

And I remembered there were rumors (like, 5 years ago) that she was in the running to play Wonder Woman, and I totally love that idea. I think she could be badass!

More BBC Sherlock stuff. This show really makes me want to draw. It's some fanart for a fanfiction. (THAT'S RIGHT I'M NOT ASHAMED). It's... really good. I love drawing these dudes. Their faces are so weird and I like trying to figure it out.

Update: The two BBC Sherlock things got popular on deviantart, like, fast. It's weird, cause I didn't know there was a big fanbase for this show. Awesome. That's pretty cool, since this show makes me wanna do fanart badddd, and it;s fun to be into stuff when everyone else is into it. Usually I come into a fandom a couple years too late, and everyone else is over it.

Allison, your desktop. I think my favorite times with you is when we are making things, like when we would just hang out and make puppets, or cards or shirts or stencils. I don't often make THINGS when I'm not with you, so I wanted to show you doing collage. I want to do it sometimes, but it's not really the same by myself.

Also, I don't know about likeness, you're eyebrows are hard to get down in a graphic style, since they aren't really dark. And I am making a face, since I always make faces when I draw. I kept making faces drawing this. And when I draw a person smiling or being angry, I often make that face, and sometimes classmates ask me what I'm doing...

As for the color scheme, I remember your red sweatshirt, and my favorite color with red is turquoise, so I went with bluer tones for the rest of the picture. Which I thought went with the meditative thing we can get into when making shit. But sometimes it's fun and exciting, so I can make a brighter one if you want.

I hope you like it.

More Pin Ups

2010-09-30T01:30:00.000-07:00

These are so cathartic. I did all of these today (except Watson), it's addicting. I am really liking doing flat colors with colored lines, and really simple. It's not even that I have TIME for this. I am scribbling this shit in class, or while doing homework. Are there support groups for this?

So, more sidekicks for you.

"Holmes, would you like some milk with your... Oops!"

Watson, the king of sidekicks. This one was fun, since I was trying to do something new with the colors, and using lighter, more pastel-y colors I don't usually like, and light line art.

I super love not taking Watson seriously as a character at all, and turning him into an objectified caricature. Not while reading the stories, but at all other times.

The Sundance Kid, and if there is anything the Robert Redford taught me, it was that I needed to open my mind, and my pants, to the idea of mustaches.

I used to think they were the lowest of the low when it came to facial hair, possibly because they are quite popular amongst my midwestern family, but they CAN be quite dashing.

Thank you Sundance Kid, Watson, and Westley. You have changed my life for the better.

Other things I am sometimes into: Sometimes I hate it, but I feel I MIGHT be able to get into body hair. Also, I am into union suits. I don't know if that is a real fetish.

Jimmy Olsen, in a myspace photo pose.

Thanks for this idea Allison! I was like "DUDE a teenage, ginger photographer. I know EXACTLY what I am going to do. Also, I posed for this, so clearly I am this sexy.

P.S. If you don't like gingers then FU.

Also, I felt bad, since I am SO into Abe Sapien, and his picture seemed kind of dull next to my others. I think I spent more effort on trying to figure out his design. So I did another. I still want him dressed super Victorian all the time. Also I am so into his amphibian chest. The fact that I have a crush on an amphibian... troubles me a bit.

Some comics and Sidekicks

2010-09-27T22:34:00.000-07:00

Hey, I think I am going to post more often, with less stuff, instead of those big art dumps. So, it's not really a big deal for me that you leave a thoughtful comment or whatever, don't stress. It just makes me happy that you see my stuff.

I was thinking about Oscar Wilde (a not uncommon occurrence) and was thinking how great it would be if Holmes and Watson could have gotten him off. Then I realized NO! While the trial and conviction were a tragedy, it would be just a different tragedy if he was victorious in proving he wasn't homosexual. I think his downfall really set things for GLBT people in motion, and was very important and probably did some good in the bigger picture. So this was me working out my ideas on the matter.

This was pretty fun to draw, I just did it kind of steam of consciousness, but I knew where I was going with it. I mean, I have been thinking about the Wilde Trial for almost 7 years.

Also, this got popular on deviantart, like, RAPIDLY. Faster then anything I've done. Within a day I think it got 100 favorites. And now it's at 127. My most popular piece was the Batwoman/Renee Montoya picture with like 150 favorites, and that accumulated over months. It actually kind of freaked me out, and made me think of taking my deviantart off the internet, but then I realized that, in the big picture, it wasn't really a bid deal, and good things are comic out of it, like artists I have admired for a long time are adding ME to THEIR watch lists, and that's pretty damn cool.

OK, this is pretty specific to the fandom it's for. I have been watching the BBC show, Sherlock, where they modernize Sherlock Holmes, and OH MY GOD. I love it so much.

But a bog thing that fans talk about is John Watsons fashion. His signature mustache is gone, and he always wears these ridiculously dorky sweaters, but they are so adorable. And Sherlock is a kind of cold bastard, but has not personal space (kind of like the cannon).

It's an OK show overall, with some major flaws, but there are certain details that just hit me right in the heart, and it makes me want to draw.

Another BBC Sherlock thing. One thing I really like about the show is the way the main actors look. Like, they are SUPER WEIRD LOOKING. I started watching it, and though "God, I am so not attracted to these actors, who cast this?" And by the end of the episode, my heart totally freaking flipped everytime Sherlock came on screen, and tenderness filled my heart every time John came on.

I mean, Sherlock has this WEIRD face, with a freaky profile, and super wide eyes, and long area from the bottom of his nose and top of his lip, and really intense cheekbones. I totally understand what Rachael was saying about freaky looking people. I love trying to solve how to put his face together. I didn't like it at first, and now I think, when he is moving on screen, that he is about the dreamiest thing in the world.

So I want to do some simple Pin Ups of sidekicks, since they are CONSISTENTLY my favorite. So I did these two tonight. First is Robin, and I seriously love drawing a super femmy Dick (haha) with his curvy legs and stuff. Also, I was using non-black lineart and more muted flat colors. Just trying to simplify.

Abe Sapien, and for some reason I really wanted to draw him in this old timey outfit. I think this is the kind of thing he wore before he became a amphibian, like when he was human. And I always thought of him as a gentleman. It's weird, but I kind of have a total crush on Abe, even more then Hellboy and Liz. I mixed the movie and comic design a bit for this. I think I'll change the background to a more simple dark blue, just to keep it simple, and fit with the Robin and future pin ups.

I am very excited for the Watson one.

Other possible sidekicks, Spock, Ron Weasly, Tonto, Bucky, Jimmy Olsen (good idea Allison!) and possibly Inigo Montoya.

Dreams

2010-09-27T21:26:00.000-07:00

Since I don't doodle as much any more, I thought I'd contribute by sharing some of my dreams, especially since you guys are in them. My thinking is that I'll start with ones that have you in them and then move on to ones that I just think you'll find interesting.

I chose this to be the first one because, although its definitely morbid, its mostly all about people you know. So you kind of have to be interested. Please don't be offended by any of this or take anything personally. So...this is word for word out of my dream notebook. I put the date down as 8/24 but no year...

'Some of this dream I may not remember anymore, since I had it about a week ago.

I am on a yellow school bus, sitting on the left side, second seat behind the bus-driver. The bus is pretty full and we have stopped to pick up some kids.

Instead of students, a terrorist gets on the bus. Another terrorist (his cohort) stand outside of the bus, I see him through the windshield on the left. The first terrorist announces, "I am a terrorist and I am hijacking this bus." He looks like a mix of Mr. T and Osama Bin Laden. Both terrorists hold machine guns. He turns his back on us, looking out the windshield.

Just then Dakota, running late, gets on the bus, unaware of the terrorists. She sits down in front of me. "Dakota, there are terrorists!" I tell her. She notices the guy, and thinking he won't notice, she gets off as quickly as she got on.

I whisper-scream to her that she can't just get off the bus. but as I see her walking away in the right side of the windshield, she turns and, still walking away (walking backwards) sticks her tongue out at me and gives me the finger with both hands.

The terrorist notices this, "You can't get off MY bus!" he screams. Dakota turns forward and continues walking away. The terrorist then shoots her repeatedly in the back with the machine gun.

At first she just stands there and doesn't move. I think to myself that it is a dream and Dakota can't be hurt by bullets. But then the blood starts soaking into her clothes. The back of her shirt now has blood all over it. She collapses.

I am at school. I have two messages in my facebook inbox. One is from Hanna Sender, the other from Ariel Knoebel. Each expresses their condolences and offer to 'listen' if I ever need to talk.

I go around telling people that Dakota is dead. They say they're very sorry, but they treat it like old news. As if a child told them they'd seen a bug die. To add emphasis, I say, "She was my best friend." But no change in their attitudes.

I tell rachael over and over. At first she acts like all the others. For a moment she looks like she's about to cry. But then she is okay again.'

ok. kind of sad. but interesting nevertheless, i hope. i think its funny that dakota is such a douche in this dream.

i'm a bad blogger

2010-09-22T22:52:00.000-07:00

quick post inbetween hw:

extraordinaires poster. collab bt dakota and allison

funny man i drew during boring lecture, for dakota.

I AM NERVOUS

2010-09-19T03:30:00.000-07:00

You guys.

OK.

You guys, if you are still friends with me after this post... well. You might not be. So, if that happens, then I want to say: It's been great knowing you.

Lot's of fanfarts belowwww. And a lot are more "colored doodles" rather then full finished pieces, so they are more for fun then trying to improve. These are my comfort drawings for when I'm bored or in a bad mood or something. So I'm not really looking for critique as much as to show you what I've been up to.

So, onward:

But first for the non-fanart. Still, it's kinda dirty.

70's from the decade series.

Eighties. Erg. I hate the eighties in almost every sense of the word. (Except shoulder pads).

I drew this in an oekaki, which I hadn't used in awhile. Turns out oekaki's SUCK. But this one was a "Nosebleed Oekaki" and people just drew boys with nosebleeds. I had to.

I like to call this "Boystown is weird, but not as weird as we thought." It really happened, and was a bit embarrassing. Also, my comic teacher really liked it. They were just the most phallic dog toys ever.

Some beginning character designs for a short comic I am going to start for my comic class. I am sticking with the man, and the girl on the right, but the others will probably change.

Ze Clark and Bruce for Rachael. I was going to do the cell shading, but I think I kind of like the flat colors.

Bruce and Dick. I want to be a superhero just for the sexy sidekick.

A weird idea I had that perhaps reveals the sadomasochism within me. (I was about to type "Dick turns me on" and then I realized how weird that sounds).

OK, this is the one that might be the breaking point for you, I fear. The Toy Story bondage fanart. I don't know how to explain it.

Seriously, I had to do this. It's a natural progression, I had a crush on Woody when I was a kid, so this had to happen.

Wait, I forget, does natural progression go:
Have childhood crush on animated toy->grow up->get over it
or
Have childhood crush->grow up->still feel your heart flutter in TS3->draw weird bondage fanart

I'm not sure, but I'm going with the latter.

I just finished playing Red Dead Redemption, and I freaking LOVED it. I love the story so much, and fell in love with all the women in the game. I wanted to marry them all. Especially the two that were not my wife, Bonnie the rancher, and Luisa the Revolutionary. Abigail the wife-ex-prositute was pretty sweet too though.

My first bit of Holmes/Watson fanart I did while reading Hound of the Baskervilles. It was so fun I knew I had to do more. And OH BOY DID I EVER.

A quote from Hound of the Baskervilles that I was like "Whoah." Holmes is so badass and I want to marry him. Even though he's a total ass.

Crossover fanart, cause Batman was partly inspired by Sherlock Holmes, so I thought it was appropriate.

I wanted to doodle Watson's scar.

I wanted to draw Holmes' back. More doodling.

Watched the BBC Sherlock show, which I did NOT think I would like, since it's Sherlock Holmes, but MODERNIZED EW. I mean, when had anything been good when you take the victorian aesthetic OUT of it. But it is good. It's so good. And Watson is so adorable with his sweaters and gun, and Sherlock is so beautiful.

I read a little bit about how some people have theories that Holmes was biologically a female (whether or not he was just cross-dressing for convenience or because he was a FTM transexual was undecided), but I thought that was a fun idea. I love badass cross dressing women of history.

O hai.

2010-08-24T14:24:00.000-07:00

Kinda going through a weird yellow phase right now.

I haven't watched "Kill Bill," but I was listening to Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang (You Shot Me Down)" while drawing this. Weird thematic/color scheme coherence ensued.

I realize the way I drew this one is pretty nondescript so it could just be two well-groomed guys, but it's supposed to be Bruce Wayne (left, heavy Christian Bale influence in case you couldn't tell) and Clark Kent (right).

Space CIty Video

2010-08-24T09:53:00.000-07:00

This song covers the operation of the goods. My grandpa made 8mm video from its own spacecraft. Translation party is awesome. This is my cover of a drive-by truckers song, "Space City." I made this video for it using footage of rocket boosters falling back to earth and short videos I made of my grandpa's old 8mm projector. For the best viewing, I recommend full screen and headphones. Hope you guys like it!
-Adam

Space City from Adam LaMotte on Vimeo.

Photoshop got me pregnant, it's a shotgun wedding.

2010-08-14T23:29:00.000-07:00

OK, there is a lot of digital art here, but it's not that I haven't been doing any traditional art. I am slowly plugging along at my comic, and doing self indulgent sketches. I'm just taking a photoshop class and want to learn the digital medium as much as I can while I have instruction. Also, it's really fun.

This was for my photoshop class. We had to make a magazine cover with certain tools and things that we had learned in class. I made mine like a spoof on gossip magazines. Butttt about stuff you have probably heard me talk about before. (Victorian fashion, Oscar Wilde, and sexysexy Prince Albert and his sexy hair and sexy weird mustache).

Here is a picture I made while listening to lot's of Nat King Cole, who is so suave and I want to rub my face on his face. He's just so suave.

Did this to see how to do a ghost effect thing, and as a quickie for a deviant art couple contest. Not crazy happy with it, but learned some stuff.

Did this quickie yesterday, Bruce and Superman.

Did this awhile ago. I just liked the idea of the Robin's relaxing.

These next ones are all part of this decade series I am doing, and the great thing about a series is that it makes you draw tons of stuff that is NOT in the series.

Anyway, this is the first one, the Aughts or Zeroes. There is no good name. I just thought of JC Leyendecker, who I think Rachael might like, cause he draws BEAUTIFUL aryan looking men a lot. So handsome. So handsome.

This is the Ten's picture. It is totally based on Tadzio from Death in Venice, which I have rewatched. The swimsuits and clothes and colors are so sexy. I wish those swimsuits were popular again.

The Twenties. I just wanted to draw drag...

The Thirties. An orange grove. I tried to draw this while on pain meds for my wisdom teeth, and Colton said "Is that Jim and Dwight?" (From The Office. That's not a compliment).

The Forties. This was a fun experiment that I don't really love the end result of. I was trying line-less art. But I love Navy uniforms.

The Fifties. This is the first picture I drew COMPLETELY DIGITALLY. Do you get it? This picture does not exist in the physical realm. Doesn't that blow your mind?

The Sixties. This was inspired by Stonewall, where Butches and Drag Queen were some of the first people fighting back, and I thought that was a great team.

minimalism

2010-08-05T15:30:00.000-07:00

Sooo I've been pretty much working full time so the arting has been low. Here are some doodles i've done.


I have a bad habit of drawing on myself. This one reminds me of some of the artists rachael used to follow. Not sure their names or anything, but it seems a bit rachael-y

Another weirdo drawing on my leg. Had to rub it off before teaching camps.

So one night I come home, its like 10:15 and I look at the paintings the landlady keeps on the walls and am just like, 'these suck, i hate them.' So really really quickly i made a spraypaint batman head.

It isn't the best quality, I did it in under 45min, but at least i don't have to look at the stupid pathway under trees anymore.

I was thinking the other day about how this website was supposed to be an extension of the doodle wall at sage which was supposed to be an 'everyone can draw, everything is art!' sort of thing, but now it has a lot of quality full art pieces. not that this is bad, just something i noticed. i will be posting more doodles once the school year starts. I also had an idea of bringing back sketchbook assignments (remember anthony neil?) since those were so much fun, but making them really low pressure. as in for a submission you could turn in a picture you took, or chalkboard doodle. no full compositions required.

-A

p.s. you should check out my friend mike (and bishop)'s (and laura too i guess) house cooking blog I GET TO EAT THIS STUFF!!!

I have proposed to photoshop.

2010-07-06T12:12:00.000-07:00

Hey guys. I have been practicing photoshop, and I have to say, it is a lot of fun. I am messing around a lot and really liking the results. My favorite thing about drawing is the lineart, but this is a fun way to color that, and really mess around, since mistakes can be fixed, things can quickly be radically changed. It's awesome for experimenting.

OK, I had SO much fun doing this one. I have always been super into the idea of Batboys. I don't know what would be better, to be a baseball player, and have a sexy ass batboy at my beck and call, or to be a batboy, and have a front row view of a whole harem of baseball players. And Ohhhhhh man pinstripes and the socks pulled up turn me onnnn.

Also, I had a lot of fun doing the colors to make it a little but old timey, like the dull blues/browns and stuff.

Also, yes, it's supposed to be SUPER gay.

Some drawing for the short period of time that I wanted to draw a background.

I was trying to create a older, browner feel here, and I did it while watching Rio Bravo with John Wayne, (which is just OK) and I was working on browns and dull blues and stuff, but mostly I was figuring out how to subtle-y use textures to make photoshop less sterile looking.

This is a panel I like, so I colored it. I like vertical compositions.

OK, so I have been listening to the Deathly Hallows on tape while drawing, so it was inevitable that I would end up doing some Harry Potter fanart. This is Grindlewald, which you dummies probably don't even remember. It's the dude Dumbledore had a short affair with when he was a kid, but then he turned out to be totally psycho.

I think that this picture is one of my favorites in terms of textures with photoshop. I mean, I learned a lot about it doing this picture.

And last but not least, my 13 year old self possessed me and drew some cheesy line art that I had to color. It's Sirius and Lupin when they were kids. I am basically a pervy old man, cause school uniforms totally turn me on. Also, sweater-vests.

I remember when I read the 3rd book when I was 13, and going "Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay."

Awesome.

raining on the parade? stealing thunder?

2010-06-21T13:24:00.000-07:00

Hey i know there have been a bunch of really good recent posts and i don't want to rain on the parade or steal anyone's thunder but if i don't do this now, i never will lol. DUUUUMP

So this is my house/apartment. Basically it used to be a house and then the landlady bought it and divided it up into apartments. So its weirdly divided inside.

front door/entry way

i'm on the first floor which is nice.

subletters. they're very nice and artists as well. yay. also, like 26 years old. older people! ahhh!

kitchen. is very small.

badly done panorama of my room. i'd fix it but am too lazy/tired/would have to spend time figuring out how...

office! this is my non-paying job. interning for cornell alumni magazine. today i interviewed someone, taped it, transcribed it, and tomorrow i will begin writing a short profile to be published. playing reporter is actually kindof fun.

intern desk :( sad desk.

in any case its a real 'office' so i feel pretty grown up. and my boss told me one day that i can't wear short shorts to work...so thats pretty grown up too.

This is what i do for my not very grown up job. There isn't a picture of me doing it...because its hard to take pictures of myself working zip lines but this is basically the job. thats my aunt too.

here's me. proof! my shirt says staff!

and while we're on the subject of reunion (thats why my aunt was zip lining at cornell), just for stacy here is a picture of my dad in college. he's pretty freaking adorable. i want to be his friend so bad. but its ok because i guess we're friends now... one night while my parents were here, they stayed up til 3am singing karaoke....

OK so dakota knows i still draw. its just that now i don't really have time to have projects and finished looking things. in any case here is an indie guy and some friend of my roommate's

now this is fan art. what happened was i went onto deviant art to look at dakota's stuff and got really REALLY (like go to bed at 4am) distracted and was just exercising my hand eye coordination by going around copying stuff other people did, so none of this is original at all, heads up. its not even original fan art, its like fan art fan art.

jamie hewlett rocks my socks

i mean, clearly not my style, but super cool looking

ok so THIS is original, and it is laura. basically one day we went to ithaca fest and she looked like a cool indie urban superhero because she was standing in a power stance and i tried to draw it later and this is what it is.

more airport pictures. pretty much every time i fly here/home i have like, a 3-7 hour layover. and i just creep around the airport drawing sleeping people.

omg these people were SO funny. at first i thought they were speaking some foreign language and then i realized they just had super heavy scottish accents. and there was this grumpy old man who was making jokes about champagne breakfast but he said champagne brrrrrrrreakfast.

i was drawing this white guy and was sitting next to these two asian boys and at some point they started talking to me. one was 9 the other 7 and that guy i was drawing was their dad. so i was basically sitting next to these kids and started creeping on their dad. aaanyways they were cute and wanted to know if i was korean and if i was going to be an artist and wanted to take a picture of me with my sketchbook.

i saw like five people at the airport wearing cowboy hats. i realized its because if you have a cowboy hat and are going somewhere on a plane, you have to wear it on the plane otherwise it won't fit in your suitcase.

over and out.

2010-06-20T14:23:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys, Adam here. I know it's been a while since my last post.Here is my latest painting. It kind of comes from the whole "color factory" theme, but this time shows inside the factory. I also tried to add some dimension to it by painting the sides of the canvas and having the color smoke leave through the painted frame. Hope you all like it.

Till next time,
Adam

Last Fashion Illustrations and some Photoshop

2010-06-08T19:10:00.000-07:00

Hey guys. More stuff.

This is the first thing I did in my fashion class. We had to do an illustration of a woman. Then at the end of the semester, we had to re-do the illustration. I was pretty happy with the improvement.

This was an illustration were we advertised something like makeup or shampoo. I cut out the advertisement in the photo. My main critique was she was too manly, but I like that. I did the hair like you did, Allison, in your Tadzio picture. (I do that with blonde hair a lot).

A watch advertisement.

The last thing I did for my fashion class. We had to do three figures, and one of the outfits had to come from our fashion center. The girls dress was taken from the fashion center, it was made in 1911. The other girl and guy I made up based on what I would want my opium den to look like. (Sexy boys with poppies, and butch ladies... it's an Oscarwildegasm).

I thought of the possibility of Batwoman fighting Poison Ivy in the future, and the sadomasochistic possibilities there are endless.

Sorry for this one Allison. This is Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent. Justice League makes me want to make Batman and Superman gay for eachother. I think Batman would be all cold to Superman, but Bruce would be his typical assholey self. Oh man, the possibilities make me want to read fanfiction.

More photoshop practice. I wanted to draw a fairy tale-ish picture, with a lady sailor. Why are those two little white stripes on navy blue so sexy? It makes my stomach flip. Also, drawing ships is actually really fun.

Photoshop is my new main squeeze.

2010-05-27T11:27:00.000-07:00

Not really, but I am having a lot of fun with it. I can color my lineart in a fun, semi-mindless way. I go into a really great art coma. I have more stuff from finals, but until I find a good way to photograph it, I'll post stuff I've done since coming home.

Ohhhh man Nightwing is awesome. And you know, Robin has been my favorite since I was in Kindergarten. I just freaking love reading about them interacting. So reading Red Robin and other stuff like that makes me make things like this. (This is Dick and Tim by the way).

More Batwoman, and Alice, one of her first villains. I just can't wait for her to start crossing over into the pre established Bat-verse. When she met Batman for the first time I squealed.

I wanted to do a boy boob. So I drew Abel in a slutty outfit. I am so happy to be getting back to the comic. I have finally finished the 2nd part, and at the end of the 3rd part, one of the brothers starts to have complicated feelings for the other. It's about to get awesome.

I'm reading this book, Stone Butch Blues, and it's so good. But even before that I had a strong desire to draw butches and looks at butches and be near butches and and and and I can't think of anything I wouldn't want to do with butches.

Also, I put this on deviantart and I was happy to see it's pretty popular. There are people have the same taste as me!

maybe i'll scan these so you can see them better...

2010-05-25T22:23:00.000-07:00

Birthday card for dad, there're some footprints and inside it says something cute about following in his footsteps

self portrait? i dunno, i had extra paper and made this. i think i really like cutting stuff out of paper.

p.s. ashley and i visited the studio today and mcmahon has TWO of my artstuffs hung up in the digital art room and dakota only has ONE. albeit it is a huge one. kimya has something too i think. (i know at this point rachael is thinking: oh god allison its not a contest) whatever, i win! (just kidding because dakota is at art school so she wins anyways :/ )

still not dead!

2010-05-23T01:53:00.000-07:00

Amanda and I made this get well card for her friend's dad who recently had a brain operation. cute huh?

Then i thought it'd be cute if we made bookmarks for each other (i've been using a coupon recently...) So I made a typical, nice looking bookmark and amanda made a kickass awesome bookmark. as you can see hers has a tail made out of a streamer that sticks out of the book. Mine is the boat one and amanda's is superman fighting an alien who is holding (kindof unclearly labled) in one hand lois lane and in the other red kryptonite. also labled although upside down is the 'kent farm'

On the back of mine i have an encouraging quote and superman's cape lifts to reveal his red undies.

making stuff with amanda is defffinitely one of my favorite things to do.

p.s. she heard the song tiny dancer the other day and i was telling her its elton john. 'do you know who elton john is?' I asked her. Her response: 'yeah, he's that puppet dakota made' -_-

Reynardine

2010-05-04T16:43:00.000-07:00

OK, done with my first movie for this semester! Should be done with the next one pretty soon. Hopefully by Tuesday, but I'm not sure. I'm pretty glad that I got this done in a month, while doing other school stuff and the other animation. I may make some small changes to the audio, but not for awhile, not I have to bust ass on my other millions of projects.

THE EDUCATION OF REYNARDINE

Inspired by, but not really based on, the song Reynardine, sung by Anne Briggs or the Fairport Convention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3RMut_8IxQ

The Liege and Leaf album always makes me want to draw so bad.

The Batmanest post ever. (Without any Batman).

2010-04-25T20:11:00.000-07:00

SCHOOL! IT'S ALMOST OVER!

But that is a bad thing, cause I have so much shit to do you guys. SO. MUCH. SHIT. To do.

So much that I haven't been doing much stationary art, but here is some of it.

First off...

OH MAN YOU GUYS BATWOMAN IS GETTING HER OWN GODDAM SERIES.

I am so excited. So I drew a picture of her and Renee Montoya. If I were Kate Kane I don't think I could get over Renee. Then again, I have a weakness for lady-cops.

I have been buying Detective Comics that feature her as they come out each month, the people who work at the comic store see me as I come in and say "Not for another week."

And it get's better. They started Batwoman with the artist J.H. Williams III who is a god amongst artists. He goes from style to style like a pro. Then they changed to some other dude.

But Williams is gonna do the art for the series! Yusss. So happy you guys. Probably will make more fanart.

[Edit: Did more fanart.]

This time Robin: who has always had a place deep in my heart, (Dick, Tim, whoever) and Nightwing, who I think is pretty damn cool. Still jizzing over textures., as you can see. I need to start collecting really great textures, but that means being crazy and taking pictures of concrete and walls and stuff...

[EditEdit: MORE Batwoman fanart. Or, Kate Kane Fanart.]

She showed up in a party in a tuxedo, and it was awesome. I don't know enough of her yet, but I wonder if she will make her alter ego Bruce Wayne-ish, like this. Or a different kind of personality change... Also, I want to see her and Bruce Wayne interact, maybe at a party, neither knowing who the other is. So much possiblilty!

I have been learning to use and manipulate textures, and I'm starting to really like it. I think this is a photoshop style that is working for me.

Also Calamity Jane fanart. I have the fanart bug you guys. It's awful. In the middle of the night, instead of sleeping, I think "what if I drew..." I really need to be working. But this picture is in the style of photoshop painting that I always wondered about. Turns out with a tablet that I borrowed from my roomate, it's not too hard. Just as hard as painting, really.

It kind of reminds me of painting on different panels of glass, then putting them together, because of the layers. I see why photoshop is addictive. It's fun, if you mess up it's fixable, and there are so many different things you can do. Every time you learn something new you feel like you discovered it. It's pretty cool.

I have been wondering about it for years, and I feel like in a week I have learned quite a bit. I mostly just took stuff I learned from toonboom and applied it to photoshop.

Anywho, Calamity Jane is my absolute favorite movie right now. I have watched it 3 times this week, and youtubed the songs, like, 1000 times each. Doris Day is just the cutest thing I have ever seen. This is how good it is. This movie has a LOT of lesbian subtext, and yet I think the straight romance is SUPER CUTE. WHUT.

Also, Calamity's outfits are the best. Even after her inevitable "feminine makeover" she still gets to wear this fucking awesome outfit that I probably will draw. Doris Day's voice is echoing in my heart.

Oh man you guys.

Welp, next up is some watercolors for my fashion class.

Warm up watercolor

Mah sisters for childrens fashion illustration. Had to rush it, but the colors of both of their skin came out OK, but less so in the photo... Honestly, I don't think I could handle a critique of this one, just cause of the subject matter.

I made the model look more femmy and gave him more red hair. My teacher made me promise to pay more attention to the clothes, and stop focusing on my ginger fantasies. (Not in those exact words).

Our model has great hair, which I have mentioned before. It kinda of pisses me off, cause we are allowed to change the model as we please, it's about the clothes, and EVERYONE but me changes her to a white lady with long hair. I'm not sure why, but that really upsets me. People have such typical and boring ass tastes in people.

A photoshop doodle done with the tablet. Me and my room mate have been talking about harems. Like, a lot. It always makes me picture, like Darius III and his harem of girls and eunuchs and stuff. I think it's cause I read The Persian Boy at a ridiculously young age. I am no better then Percy Shelley, Byron and all those douches.

And some pages from my sketchbook.

This boy is one of the side statues around my fav. statue that I often eat lunch in front of. (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/463651288_32c2b6b28e.jpg) I love that place.

Robin.

Designing kid Reynardine.

Result of reading some manga again.

This girl was weird to draw. I felt like I was going back in time, drawing something I would have back in high school. Kinda fun though.

Saw this dude by the library, and he looked so cool, I had to draw him. He had MANLY ass shoulders.

Cain and Abel doodles.

More Cain and Abel shiatttttt.

Also, this quick animation I did. But I totally stole this. I was watching Justice League and even though most of their animation is minimalistic, (like all television shows) they had some surprisingly cool moves, like this one where Batman jumped from some rafters. I wanted to see how they got the timing, so I did it myself, and I think I learned a lot.

I think I will practice this way with other movies. Maybe this is the key to figuring out how that DAMN Shadowman works. He's so great. Erg.

[Edit: The damn video is so light! Well, I'll upload it on facebook later maybe with a bunch of other quickie shit maybe].

This isn't all I have, but the other things are too big for the scanner and I can't get good photos of them. I'll upload them later.

-Dakota

Haven't posted for awhile...

2010-03-28T01:58:00.000-07:00

Sorry, was grossly busy. But I've made lots of stuff. This isn't all of it, just sketchbook stuff and some fashion illustrations.

OK, this was practice with photoshop coloring. I have been reading a lot of yaoi manga, (they have thousands of scantalations online! I never knew! My 13 year old self is weeping). But I always love the covers and inside art. Also, they often have fun engrish on the cover. I want to make faux yaoi covers, and this began as one, but then I actually kinda liked it and colored it, with that stupid touch pad on the laptop. I wish I at least had a mouse. So I got tired of it pretty quick, but the skin and hair of the one boy in the turquoise yukata came out nice, using layers. I'm gonna do more of these.

My teacher's still bumming on my about my manly chicks, but now she's good natured about it, seeing it's just my taste that she dislikes (the smaller eyes, thicker necks, broader shoulders, etc). I like this girl, she reminds me a bit of Hillary Swank.

My teacher was actually pretty happy with this one. She's kinda cute.

This is pretty close to how our model looks. She is so beautiful.

Portrait of a girl in my class, who has the hugest eyes I've ever seen, and was wearing an adorable pinstripe baseball shirt, which is a fetish of mine.

We had a boring looking model this day, so I drew different faces, making up chicks I would do.

Apparaently hook noses are a nono in fashion, but I love them. Also, I thought the pants we drew were fun.

Okay, this is stuff from my moleskine sketchbook, which I have been filling like crazy. It is so fun. The paper is really nice with ink and certain pens.

Trying to figure out this outfit Abel will wear like a hundred pages from now.

Girl and fox from my movie.

Jesus and John the Evangelist. Man, I love drawing these guys.

The one on the left is after a Pontormo, who's painting I love.

Last Supper Jesus and John. Eugh. Love them.

Cain and Abel, and early drawing of possible Reynardine.

Tadzio ideas for a terrible paint on glass animation I did.

Adult Reynardine. Not actually at all how I imagine him. I imagine him much manlier.

Movie

Tadzio and the other boy in their freaking outfits that make me crazy.

Satyr and Boy

Trying to figure outfits for a later part of the comic. Not done with it yet, but Abel's is inspired by Persian lady outfit. I'm excited for them to not wear rags.

Loosely inspired by Reynardine. I did this in 24 hours, which, I have to say, is ridonculously fast for me. I started it as a distraction for my Fox's Bride movie, but now I think I'll finish it.

[Edit] Damn, this doesn't have the whole video! Whatever, you'll see the whole thing soon enough.

Quick stop motion movie I made. I want to redo it as a longer movie, with more scenes, but I need to make these puppets better, and honestly, I am not super great at stop motion.

P.S. It's Allison's birthday or something whatev.

dead not sleeping

2010-03-19T14:25:00.000-07:00

[edit] just in response to rachael's comment about detail, for some reason lately i've been really into lines and texture-y things as can be evidenced by this french class doodle. theraputic. agreed.

Hey guys its me. I know i haven't posted in a while but here goes. I've been really busy and as today is the day before spring break i am done and can post. so here are some of my more completed doodles.

A mother:

"no i was not there, on the church stair!"

from the cover of the Bhagavadgita

kind of klimpt-y i don't like it that much but its completed looking

skinny cowboy legs

including this for the hands. i think they look pretty okay. not too rusty

frank miller style?

Roro Mendut is a legend from Java and a movie about it

Also, dakota was afraid that i stopped drawing, so here is a pile of the doodles that i have that i am not posting due to them being crappy

Love y'all and i am going on spring break! i'll be in kentucky!!

also the 'dead not sleeping' thing is from dr. horrible's sing along blog. just fyi.

also lance mackey made history this week by being the only person to win the iditarod four times in a row. he's a cancer survivor too. he's wonderful.

yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

2010-03-05T13:11:00.001-08:00

I had to finish this before midterms otherwise I wouldn't be able to concentrate on ANYTHING.

Anyway, this is a short 17-page comic I conceived and executed over the last two weeks. Inspired by a 19th century short story called "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, the graphic novel "Sin City" by Frank Miller, and a little bit of the Bourne movies.

Tell me if this doesn't make sense. I'm really digging this no-words thing right now but I'm not sure my visual narrative capabilities are good enough to sustain it right now. (Left to right, top to bottom, just like sentences in a book.)

EDIT: (re: Dakota's comment)

Here is the quote that I am going to put at the beginning of this when I finally put together a book.

“He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children. The water, touched to gold by the early sun, the brooding mists under the banks at some distance down the stream, the fort, the soldiers, the piece of drift--all had distracted him. And now he became conscious of a new disturbance. Striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith's hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality. He wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by--it seemed both. Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. He awaited each stroke with impatience and--he knew not why--apprehension. The intervals of silence grew progressively longer, the delays became maddening. With their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. They hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. What he heard was the ticking of his watch.”

--Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890)

This last image is a preview for my next project. It's also going to be pretty short with no words...but it has Christian Bale turning into a polar bear so I'm pretty excited.

Like 30 seconds of animation! That took all week...

2010-02-20T14:46:00.000-08:00

What's up you homos?

So I did these animations for my experimental animation class. I am learning voice sync for my sound and image class, but that probably wont be ready for a week or so. It's taking forever, but is really fun.

I just did this one on thursday, and it only took about an hour. It's my first time doing sand animation. Basically you take sand, put it on a glass sheet, light it from below, and animate with the sand. I thought that sounded totally stupid. But then it turned out it was a great tool for making rough silhouettes, which is something I struggle to do with drawing. So this was pretty awesome. Some of the movement is rough, cause I couldn't really plan it out beforehand, but I am still pretty happy with how it came out. And, as always, bears scare the shit out of/fascinate me. Maybe the rabbit symbolizes me. (It doesn't. I just enjoy animating animals).

This one is much more what I am comfortable with. Basically it's drawn animation, except I water colored the middle. It messed up the paper to make a haloing effect, but I kind of like it. This is the character for my upcoming longer film. except I have to make him more foxy, (shorter legs, bigger ears).

This was my second cover submission for Adams CD, Bedlam. Also turned down. I like it, but I totally get why. It puts some biblical baggage that is not in the CD, on the cover. His CD just makes me think of water. Possibly cause one of the songs, my favorite on the album, is called Sepulcher, and that makes me think of the poem Anabelle Lee, cause that is where I learned that word. Also, there are mentions of water in some of his songs.

This is the traditional redo for his cover. I don't know if it's been OK'd or not yet.

This is a coloring page for Brayden's birthday. It's from the story I tell him that he always liked, Snow White and Rose Red. He also likes when I tell him the Pied Piper, Tam Lin and oddly, a super shortened and much more PG rated version of the Illiad, where people get captured instead of dieing. He freaking loves that story. But I couldn't illustrate it, cause it's all fighting scenes.

More Fashion ladies. I love this chicks hair so much. I make it more pompadourish than it really is.

For these next ones, I got a new Moleskine Notebook, since it has always been my dream to fill one, and I never have. They just seem so artsy. Since my current sketchbook has only 13 more pages left, and it's mostly used for the comic. I thought this could be my doodle book, that is smaller and easier to take around.

The girl and the fox, from mah movie.

Watched Death in Venice, and jizzed the whole movie. I think the movie was 99% as good as the book. It was so beautiful. Oh Tadzio.

More of Tadzio and the other boy.

Oh man this happened in the movie it was adorable. But even more adorable was the reaction of the man, Gustav, watching them. He just smiled so sweetly, and kind of embarrassed. He looked how I feel when I see something adorable.

Another Tadzio. There might be more. Because I want a Tadzio so bad. Because Tadzio is not just Gustav von Aschenbach's pervy obsession. It's more spiritual then that. He is his muse.

I need a muse. Besides the vague idea of beautiful people.

[EDIT: Sunday]

More Tadzio and Death in Venice. I can't stop.

Tadzio, in his sailor suit. Ah man, I am a sucker for these.

More of these bathing suits I can't get enough of. I like the colors on this. They came out accidentally nice. Also, I am starting to appreciate horizontal compositions, which is good, since that's how film is. Usually I prefer vertical.

A drawing of Gustav. I imagined him really old in the book, but in the movie they made him surprisingly handsome (not like the drawing). He has an older man thing goin' on.

Also, mustaches don't bother me anymore. Sometimes I quite like them.

Moleskine's are so tits. I think I just like the idea of the notebook. It looks so pretentious, with the built in bookmark, and the band to hold it shut, as if there is so much great art in there, I have to physically restrain it.

I also like the yellow tinge to the paper. Niiice.

Fashion Illustration and some plans...

2010-02-15T20:51:00.000-08:00

Today in fashion illustration we did paper cutouts with a maximum of 3 colors.

My teacher said I should use this in my portfolio for my fashion thesis. I was so shocked that she thought I was a fashion major I just stood there, mouth literally agape.

I don't know if I should even tell her I'm not. I mean, I guess it doesn't really matter, but then she might get off my case about my girls being to masculine. I think that's why she likes the black and white one, the chicks legs are ridonkulous.

I like this one. I like the new sailor fetish fashion thing that's going on. One of my room mates has this sailor looking sweater that is so cute. I don't know why horizontal blue or red stripes are so fucking sexy.

Cutting out those stripes took forever.

Drawing of our model, who almost has Janelle Monae hair.

These next are plans for my animation "The Fox's Bride." My plans for the two main characters.

Early plans for characters.

The fox is just a silhouette, and I have an amazing plan for him that I don't want to tell you dudes yet but it is going to be so pretty.

Final plans for the girl. Also semi sailor inspired. It took awhile to choose her age. This looks 8 to 10ish, right?

Oh man you guys. This movie is going to be so visually tits. I am so excited. It's gonna be pretty computer-looking color, but hand drawn. I can't explain it. I hope to get 'er done by the end of the semester. And even that is a reach.

More comic pages.

It's funny that Allison asked if they were getting hotter. I think for Cain (long hair/nose) I like the first picture I did of him best... But I do think Abel is getting hotter. He is my Caravaggio-esque boy. Those are my favorite kinds. Cain is more fun to draw/write though.

I need to work on quality vs. speed in these... but when I try to up the quality... I just stop making them. To frustrated/bored.

Here's a panel of the comic that I liked, colored in photoshop.

And a collaboration between me and Rachael. She did the easy part, the art, and I did the writing, which is comparable to James Joyce.

I didn't want to write my essay.

2010-02-15T11:12:00.000-08:00

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here."

IT LIVES.

2010-02-07T13:54:00.001-08:00

I think my last post was before Thanksgiving...so here are some progress notes on the comic.

Ugh. I really can't stand the way these things look after they're scanned in. They look so amateur. Why can't I get mine to look like hers? http://jenwang.net/

2010-02-07T07:22:00.000-08:00

Hey Everybody! Now that I've been sworn in to the Doodewall, I wanted to post a music video that my friend Ben and I made a while ago. It's for the song Buildings and Highways (and it features some art I did as a kid).

Adam LaMotte - "Buildings and Highways" from Ben Seretan on Vimeo.

-Adam

First post of the semester!

2010-02-03T11:09:00.000-08:00

Hey guys!

... I have nothing to say... not a super interesting post, mostly just comic pages...

This is fanart for Goodbye Chains, my super favorite comic. I just realized a couple of days ago that I have been reading this for about 3 years. It's a western, it's homo, it's kinda communist, it's Irish. Dude.

Actually in the whole comic there is no homo kiss/anything really, which makes it surprising that I have been able to follow it dedicatedly for so long. I hope my comic doesn't last years with no hanky panky! How long will it take me...? At the pace I'm going... 6 more months before I draw the homo. More before I post it online. Erg.

These are from my new class I just signed up for and took today, Fashion Illustration. It's actually super fun, it is mostly life drawing, except you are supposed to idealize the figure. The only problem is the teacher does not have the same ideals as me.

My teacher said "You're girl is too masculine, her neck is too thick. She looks like a pretty boy." I thought that was pretty funny.

These are after I femmed her up a bit, but my teacher still wants her to have a skinnier torso and longer legs. I don't think I am going to do that...

Here is the basic plan for Adams album cover, but he wanted it less digital, which I get. So a new one should be around pretty soon. Tell me if the plane is a dumb idea of not, I don't know. I think it might mess with the composition somewhat, maybe I should put it over the buildings.

Sketches for this animation idea. I am going to animate a movie about this fox, but I am going to keep him an orange silhouette, like this. I'm pretty excited to start making this.

Eugh. More Cain/Girl stuff. Gross.

Just kidding. Maybe.

I started re-using a thin paintbrush here, instead of a black pen like I had been for awhile, and it makes a subtle difference. It's a bit slower, and I cant do it on the go, but I think it's worth using the brush as much as I can.

PAGE 77 BITCH!

I like the last panel. In the first panel Abel said something stupid, and now Cain is all "whaaaat."

I am almost done with this section of the story. Maybe 20 more pages. Once I get to the next section, it starts to get kinda gay. Only from one of the bro's point of view though.

Hey, I'm excited.

Smash Can and Ampersands

2010-01-27T17:18:00.000-08:00

Hey there! It's me, Adam, with my second ever post.
First thing first, myself and Madelin Siedler designed and spraypainted shirts for our newly formed band, Smash Can.

Madelin's design (it's subtle, but the hyphen-looking-thing is a bottle cap):

My design:
Also, I got my first ever scratchboard (which I really want to do more in), and I made some art for the upcoming EP of my band with Ben Seretan, called &&&&. Hope you guys like it:

dry spell

2010-01-25T13:30:00.000-08:00

So i know the semesters are just starting and we have little time for uploads. here is a little upload.

Amanda and i made more puppets for the polenta. i started with this idea for a cool guy in denim but ended with this. his name is cool cody but apparently he's a strung out drug dealer who lost an arm in the great drug war of '86.

First post with separate account...

2009-12-30T22:30:00.000-08:00

What's up? I made goggles for Brayden. He wanted a disguise, and I wanted to make something that was 3 Dimensional.
So I made this out of a baseball, some knuts and bottlecaps and an old shitty belt. It was pretty fun, and took like an hour. I would like to make some higher quality shit, but this was a fun beginning. And the screw opens and shuts to resize the head strap.

Remember the WWII thing I did. Well, I did a background. Just a quickie, but painting the tank was fun.

A painting for my lifedrawing class. It's a copy of this painting.
http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/23756/009_NeoRauch_DerNaechsteZug.jpg

It has reaffirmed the idea that I am not a painter. I didn't have much time, but even if I did, it proabably would not have come out any better, cause I kept getting so bored with it. I like the weird subject though.

These are some airport sketchbook things I did, after seeing Allisons I knew I had too. I have a couple of sleeping asians. They kept falling asleep in my line of vision. My line of vision must be pretty boring.

Also, more comic pages. This is pages 58-62. It took me awhile to get into it again, but now I am.

You know what fucking suck and I hate to draw. Cats. I need to stop making them up, and get references, but I feel like finding proper ones would be hard, and I want to draw my comic away from my computer. But if I had references the whole thing would be better... huh...

Whatever, my main goal is get 'er done.

I wanted to draw some sexay boy, so I decided to draw Abel instead. Unfortunately, he does not wear this outfit for a freaking long time. Not till the second half of the comic. But that helps me to keep going. I keep telling myself. "It will get sexy, it will get sexy, it will get sexy..."

Also, I like stomach pooch. I know it is not a popular thing, but I like it.

Guest post laura, allison spends 5 hours in an airport, and final project

2009-12-16T17:59:00.000-08:00

whoops, forgot this one. put it in the category of me being at the airport for five hours.

These are laura's doodles from our scottish literature class. I really like them, especially when i look at them all together. Laura and jeremy said it reminds them of this artist (i have never heard of) whose art is directions. He writes directions and then other people make his art. anyways i am neither the child of architects nor an architect so i don't know who that is. but it reminds me of mondrian. At the MOMA michelle (abstract artist friend) said that he was looking for purity in lines.

So this is the part where I was stuck in an international airport for 5 hours. Its cool because i drew the whole time and i think you can see me getting a little better as time progresses.

This appeals exactly to my sense of humor. I don't laugh out loud when i read it but it makes me so satisfied.

This is my final for one of my classes. Its supposed to be a visual representation of the frame tale. I'll probably end up explaining it to you and some point. i'm a little obsessed. I REALLY procrastinated A LOT so i did it all in one day. So i feel like i could have done a better job on it. But the concept is good.

Love you all.

Help me title stuff.

2009-12-15T23:03:00.000-08:00

What's up dudes?

Here is a quick photoshop thing I did, trying to learn more about photoshop, but I didn't really learn anything except that I still suck at photoshop. And I had to draw it with a mouse. I wonder what Tablets are like.

Anyway, this is good reference for their coloring, I suppose. I want the title of the comic on the black part, but I don't know how to make cool text in photoshop. And I don't know the title of the comic. Both those facts depress me.

Ok, here is my movie. It's also on youtube, here. (You should probably watch it on youtube, I just want to put it here out of faithfulness to the doodleblog, whom I love).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvxZQXX4yE

It's a little buggy from 0:10 to 0:16, I'm trying to put up a better upload...

So, yeah, I don't know if it even makes sense. I hope it does, but whatever. Practice is practice. I had to make it short and the characters simple, cause I only had like a month to work on it, and most of the work was done in the past 2 weeks. Hopefully I will get faster with the computer program (Toon Boom) as time goes on. The actual animating took less time the the fucking editing.

Help me come up with a title, and maybe some subtle music or sounds for the background.

This movie reminds me of Allison's "Mother/Daughter sandwich" story, but I didn't think about that till I saw it all finished yesterday.

I am a little amazed that I managed to make the grumbling stomach sound with my mouth.

Bees are nice, but Baby, this post is all about the birds.

2009-12-07T20:14:00.000-08:00

Hey darlin's, mama's got some drawings for you.

Here is a watercolor of a train I did. It looks better in person, as watercolors always do. I like painting machines, oddly. It's relaxing.

Here is fanart of a character from my favorite book getting onto a train.

A statue from the Art Institute. She is Jeftha's Daughter, whoever that is, and she has these beautiful little white chubby fingers oh my god she makes me crazier then any real girl oh man.

A picture of Robin the fabulous. Thanks Allison, for inspiring me.

I need to do more of those Daddy's New Roommate pinups, I just haven't had the time.

This one is inspired by those classical statues of Venus at the Bath and Venus in the Act of Undressing.

I mean, this is OK, right? Robin is 18? And butts aren't illegal. I mean, they show baby bottoms in art for grandmas all the time. This is not a sentence most good people utter, but I need to learn more about underage erotica laws.

OK, so this is a little messy. It's just some clips from the movie, not in order. And the chick looks like a creepy ghost thing cause in front of it is going to be the nest. I did it with the nest, and it looked good, but while editing I need it to be gone.

My favorite is when the mama bird is catching the worm. Probably cause that is the only scene completely done.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAKOTA

2009-12-05T08:01:00.000-08:00

Indian Russian Dolls

2009-12-01T22:17:00.000-08:00

Some more Russian Nesting Dolls. Since it was Thanksgiving I had my annual Indian interest revival that my family is so susceptible to.

So these are characters from Iroquois mythology. (Religion? Is it not OK to say mythology? Cause some people believe it. I mean, you don't say Jewish mythology or something. Hmmm). Some of these characters are from stories I was told as a kid. But I just learned about some of them, like the brothers and the doll.

Here is the turtle that is the earth. I know it's stupid, but sometimes I still picture it this way. I used to really think this was a possibility.

His butt.

There are two brothers who made everything in the world, on good, one bad. I like this idea, cause of my Cain and Abel love.

So this is a detail of the good brother, who made everything good.

He looks like a girl, but I like that. He's pretty. P.S. I don't know what Iroquois clothes look like, I think they are more cloth rather then hide, but they are like the first people, so maybe they didn't know how to weave yet.

The brother who made everything bad. Eventually, the good brother kills him (Reverse Cain/Abel)!

He looks lame. But It's hard to paint small. This picture is bigger then the real thing, so it looks way worse. Hmm. Whatever. The first two you need to see in person cause you need to turn it in your hands.

Coyote. He is always fun. I like how sometimes coyote is a person, sometimes he is a coyote, and the stories never explain which one he is. He changes back in forth in your mind as the story goes on.

Raven is the same as coyote. They are the most fun characters, cause they are kind of assholes.

Corn Husk doll. Apparently she was so vain that someone stole her face. (I forget who. The Great Spirit or something). I don't know who the Great Spirit is... a person? An energy force? The turtle? It's just as confusing as the Holy Ghost. What the fuck is that?