happy birthday mike liu!

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)

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

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

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

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

quick post inbetween hw:

extraordinaires poster. collab bt dakota and allison

funny man i drew during boring lecture, for dakota.

I AM NERVOUS

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.

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

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.

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.