Fashion Illustration and some plans...

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.

"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.

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/

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!

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

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

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.