Adam Ford

2010-01-22T13:56:00.000-08:00

Driving into the city yesterday was REALLY neat. Because the clouds had come down so low it almost gave this look of the whole place being shorter. I mean, this was a REALLY thick fog so all could see was building-cloud.

Alot of fun getting to see that. And certainly if you were someone lucky enough to see the city from afar it was JUST as cool. I mean, it was all but vanished from the outside.

Oh, and yes, I went and just made up what it looks like inside the city...sorta.

2009-12-30T09:10:00.000-08:00

So there was one thing I'd skipped over entirely, that being Christmas. This year it wasn't entirely that terrible (that's a lie, my holidays are never that bad). But this year did have one difficult portion, that being my friend's holiday party. To much eggnog. You'd think I'd learn my lesson from previous times drinking sugary-liquored drinks but no...not at all. So many hours sitting in bed, staring at the ceiling and REALLY wanting to purge a bit. The problem being of course, I hate having things come OUT of my stomach. So instead, I toughed it out and finally fell asleep around...4? 5? Something like that.

All in all though, still a great holiday season.

2009-12-28T09:34:00.000-08:00

Not Usually one to "drop" anything (Names, Dishes, F-bombs, the like) But sometime over the weekend I saw a promo for "Adventure Times" on cartoon network start in 2010. I've been waiting on this show for awhile now so you can imagine when i saw this I called up the 3-4 people I knew would be just as excited about as I was/ am.

Needless to say it's the best present I could have gotten this holiday season.

2009-12-22T20:48:00.000-08:00

So I hadn't even thought about it but a few people were asking me "Adam, what are all those pictures you're posting up?" A "few" namely being Joe at some point in conversation. In any event, i needed to think of something to draw, so I thought "why not just draw what I'm doing" so that's pretty much what these are. Just little snippets of my day in general. What I do, What i did, that sort of thing. Figure it can keep my hand moving if nothing else.

This latest one comes from my trip up to New York to visit with family. It was a simply little moment. A bag had gotten "stuck" on the belt at baggage claim in the Airport and was just sorta jiggling for a good couple of minutes. I found it hard to not notice though i'm sure i was only one who really took the time. I guess it was the movement of the bag along the belt that sorta made it seem more like "dancing" that caught my attention really. Lame reason I know but it thought it would make for a fun pic from the weekend.

2009-12-17T11:13:00.000-08:00

2009-12-16T14:16:00.000-08:00

Up at 4...had to do something.

2009-04-10T01:03:00.000-07:00

Pluto: I'm sorry for your loss...

2009-04-07T20:54:00.000-07:00

014

2009-04-04T13:18:00.001-07:00

013

2009-04-02T21:57:00.001-07:00

012

2009-04-01T14:12:00.000-07:00

011

2009-03-31T00:07:00.001-07:00

010

2008-07-19T00:44:00.001-07:00

This I just took FAR to long to finish this one up.

If all you're doing is talking, why not help out?

2008-06-29T11:31:00.000-07:00

Hopefully I can finally make some time today to post up some new things now that I'm done with the first weeks of setting up for my classes and summer camp (for those of you who know what I'm talking about...But really i wanted to take a moment to point this out. It's...pretty amazing if it's happening the way they make it sound. Take some time, send some messages, earn money to help out people. Especially if all you're doing is chatting about is stuff like hotdogs and fairies.
Make a Difference

So much Fun.

2008-06-18T19:04:00.000-07:00

009

2008-06-18T01:38:00.000-07:00

008

2008-06-12T23:19:00.001-07:00

illustration friday:forgotten

2008-06-07T01:12:00.001-07:00

006

2008-06-06T01:32:00.000-07:00

005

2008-06-03T22:58:00.001-07:00

sorta japanese.

2008-05-23T23:40:00.000-07:00

I can't be sure if I find this funny or just...really...something

samurai epic-004

2008-05-20T20:06:00.000-07:00

samurai epic-003

2008-05-15T22:36:00.001-07:00

samurai epic-002

2008-05-14T22:32:00.001-07:00

Samurai Epic-001

2008-05-13T23:29:00.001-07:00

Maybe I'll be able to do it this time.

2007-11-12T21:41:00.000-08:00

Hopefully this is just a start of me adding some new content here soon...or maybe I just felt like sharing this with a few folk. Enjoy.

wednesday afternoon.

2007-08-08T13:31:00.000-07:00

So alot of people have been on my case for not updating my blog in awhile (you know who you are). Though they're probably right...anyway, I got sick over the weekend and just today finally started feeling like I mite be able to stand up quickly without feeling like I'm about to pass out...so let's hope THIS weekend turns out right (weather wise).
I'm still trying to find something that I feel like I could do faster and easier...mostly faster. I mostly borrowed this from Oren here. This person is SO awesome, just the way they use so few strokes and still be able to get something so...I never have the right words for this sort of thing. Anyway, it's great to look at. I'd suggest it to anyone.

Mr. Potter...

2007-07-13T16:20:00.000-07:00

Well, I got to check out the most recent Harry Potter movie last night and I gotta say...still not at all as good as the third. the movie had a couple of nice parts but still...ah, at the least it was alot of fun. The strangest thing in my mind is that although the movie is STUPID long...if felt like it moved way to fast at times. But, the most disappointing part had to be how they did not do justice to the death of Sirius Black. He will be missed.
This picture came about from a conversation we had in the car along the way to work today...and since I had an hour before work was over I thought it'd put something together for it.
I think i mite put some colors to it later...just doesn't look finished yet.

illustration firday:geeky

2007-07-10T14:21:00.000-07:00

Of course this a subject I know quite alot about, so I figured it was a good enough reason to get back into putting stuff on my blog. Sadly, all this does is remind me that I won't be able to check out Comic Con AGAIN this year. Last minute plans, not checking with friends...no one to blame but myself really. Hopefully though next year will be different and perhaps I'll have something to show by then..?
It could happen.
Meantime...I did this...tried something a bit more like Elio.
If you haven't seen his stuff, you should, it's SO much fun.

friday afternoon.

2007-06-15T14:58:00.000-07:00

So I ended up drawing another school girl...

thursday afternoon.

2007-06-14T13:41:00.001-07:00

Not sure what I was going for with the backgrounds but...ah well. It's been a long week, I'll think up something more intersting later.

illustration friday:cars

2007-05-25T16:32:00.000-07:00

So for one thing, it's been forever since I did something in vectors and I gotta say, I'd forgotten how fun it is. Simple shapes saying a WHOLE lot. Great stuff. So more then likely this seems like it would fit more with something along the lines of "travel" maybe...but...oh well. I had to do something before the day was done. Hm, though I think it's a little small perhaps?

fair weather rememberings.

2007-05-24T15:34:00.001-07:00

So once again i find myself back in atlanta and busy with work, and when I'm not busy with work i'm exhausted from just being back from my trip; course I figure that excuse will only last me until the end of the week, hah. So I haven't had to time to all that muchin way of drawing things but I figure I needed to make alittle time to do something...
With it being so close to convention season i couldn't help but remember back to some of the more interesting things that happen at certain cons. Misunderstandings, great meetings of "minds", all that sort of stuff. One of the things I'm the BIGGEST fan of is "old skool" verses "new skool". I can't remember when but I remembered seeing the BEST "Kamen Rider" costume I'd seen since th actual show at a convention...maybe back when i was in highschool. It had mostly hit me because I'd just been turned on to a band called "animetal". They're apparent "thing" is taking anime shows and "remixing" their opening/ ending songs into rock ballads. Not the worse concept and it's always fun to see my childhood get a rock overhaul. So of course, i happen upon the opening for "Kamen Rider Black", a show that reminds me of my younger days living in florida with my mom who would always bring back tapes and toys of this sort of thing cause she knew I was into it. Sometimes I wish I'd held onto some of those things cause I mean...hell, those are still what inspire me most of the time today.
Ah, it's good to look back.
Anyway, the weathers great and I feel like getting back to work. Let's hope I will, hah.

It's nice to be back.

2007-05-22T11:15:00.000-07:00

So, I'm back and really...I'm feelin great.
France? Gawd, what a place, very beautiful. I can certainly see now why so many people make trips out there. Sadly though I think I should have taken more advantage of the coutry-side but...that's how it goes I suppose. I'll be back on there sooner or later, so I suppose so long as France doesn't sink to the bottom of the ocean or something it'll be fine.
I also got to check out a bit of england which was pretty alright, weather wasn't all that great though. Needless to say, if there was one thing I would suggest to anyone I knew at this point...it would be to travel. I did do a little bit of drawing while I was out there so hopefulyl I'll get those posted up sometime soon but in the meantime I figured I'd just share something quite fantastic that I found as soon as I got back fro my trip. One of my favorite newzealand folk bands is getting their own show on HBO; Flight of the Conchords. If you don't know about 'em then you're nuts cause they are ALL sorts of the awesome.
Flight of the Conchords - Robot Future
This is just a little something I pulled from their website and I gotta say, if this is the sort of funny we can expect...nah, who am I kidding...nothing fantastic ever last on HBO, hah.

illustration friday: remember

2007-05-01T14:54:00.000-07:00

Sometimes it feels like this is the only thing I could do if I want to remmeber important things.

Oh, forgive me Interweb.

2007-04-26T12:39:00.000-07:00

Lately my job has been a little ridiculous with the late assignments and such so i haven't had alot of time to post as of late. Which is sad cause I probably won't be able to post for a long while anyway as I'm going out of town for a bit...where you mite ask? France of course! I got in touch with some old friends who moved back over to the land of crepes and such and...the rest is history. I'm certainly not one of those people who works NEARLY as hard as others but I still feel I need a break from everything I know. And actually, I've NEVER been outside the country...which is a shame cause I keep hearing how nice it is out there. I mean, when all you know can be reached by car, it sorta put things in perspective that there's areas that have to flown too. Anyway, i'm excited...and so are all my friends who apparently are eagerly putting together their list for the comics I'm going to have be picking up for them. Can't blame them though...that's probably the COOLEST part of my trip anyway, haha. So I'm rattling my brain about that...finishing up a few things here and there...and I'm still just lazy.

So that's pretty much why I haven't posted in a good long while...yes I know, I'm a terrible liar.

art jumble

2007-04-10T11:54:00.000-07:00

I never really appreciated Archie Bunker but now that I'm older...I still don't appreciate him all that much.

illustration friday:Green

2007-04-09T14:16:00.000-07:00

Sometimes i just go overboard on projects.

monday afternoon.

2007-04-09T12:40:00.001-07:00

monday afternoon.

2007-04-02T14:06:00.000-07:00

Personally I think I loose out on how "cartoony" I was trying to keep this guy towards the bottom, but...that doesn't mean I don't like it.

monday afternoon.

2007-03-26T13:43:00.000-07:00

Thursday Afternoon.

2007-03-22T14:37:00.000-07:00

So another pretty slow day, and although I could have finished something for I.F. and Art Jumble...I figured I would jsut doodle something.
So here's a couple of angry looking gents...and a cute girl walking away.
Good Times.

Wednesday Afternoon.

2007-03-21T13:45:00.000-07:00

Ah man, what a suck day...well, not really. It was slow and nothing exciting happen but I was drawing pretty well today..sadly though...I DIDN'T SAVE IT~!! Argh. It was terrible. I'd gone away for a second, forgotten it wasn't saved and started drawing over it...next thing I know...gone.
Luckily though, today isn't all bad. My friend from England was on T.V. with her band and apparently they rocked the socks off everyone there (from what I've been told). Hopefully she remembered to record the event so I can check it out later...So I'mlooking forward to that. In a small attempt to say congrats I figured I'd draw her a little something.
Rock it hard my friend, rock it hard.

illustration friday: Communication

2007-02-28T10:20:00.000-08:00

So I'm a little late with this one but I needed something to take my mind off of work, so I went and threw this together. I gotta tell yah though, my body is dying on the inside. I was up most of last night moving into the new apartment ,so just about everything hurts. It's a bit smaller but it's a threebedder, which means new roomate...which also means less money I have to pay for rent (which is nice).
I'll have to take some pics of the new place sometime...it's pretty classy.
Anyway, it's a great looking wednesday, I gotta be moved by thursday evening...and I still have to work my 9 to 5.
Yeah, the rest of this week is gonna be great.

old chessnut...or something

2007-02-26T15:46:00.000-08:00

So recently I've decided to devote a little more time to an older project that i haven't had much time with but has really gotten alot of my friends interested. i don't know for sure if it has enough play value to be something "good" but at the least it mite be fun. the only thing that makes it difficult is that it requires alot of robots...ALOT of robots.
So I've been wasting most of today just thinking up robot designs...most of them are knock-offs of ones from famous and not so famous robots from other cartoons. I'm not I can come up with enough designs that the ones that are obvious rips won't be SO obvious.
Anyway, it's still a ways off before i think I'll have somehting that's all around good. Grumble.
Sometimes I wish I knew a few more people who felt like working on stuff for fun instead of it NEEDING to be a "hit" idea. Ah well.

thursday morning.

2007-02-22T08:42:00.000-08:00

I worked on this one a little later in the day and decided to post it. Course now i think I'm pulling alot form Ashley Wood. I don't mind but...He's just not for me. Gotta keep working on it. Also i think I'm missing out on something that the other ones had before...I think I'm trying to hard to "blend" everything.
The others looked better when there was still a sorta...quick brush look to them or something.

tuesday afternoon.

2007-02-20T13:08:00.000-08:00

Not sure if they're getting better or just...something.

Monday Afternoon.

2007-02-19T14:36:00.000-08:00

Man, can't believe i went so many days without doing something.
Oh well, I still think i've done ALOT better at keeping up with this here blog in the last couple of weeks then ever before. I suppose when I've just got SO much it's stupid then I'll be able to say something.
Anyway, I've never felt that i'd really gotten down how to do "painterly" type stuff on photoshop.
mostly i'm talking about those amazing concept pieces that you see movie books that look like paint but then you read they were done in digital...blows my mind.
So for the longest I've been trying to get that look done....it's a slow slow process unfortunately.
This is looking pretty good though, hopefully i can repeat what i did here later, if I'm lucky.

Tuesday Afternoon.

2007-02-13T14:56:00.000-08:00

I figured I needed one more something before the day was done. i think my "idea well" is starting to run out though, it took me forever to think of SOMETHING to draw. Oh well.

Twilight, night-night.

2007-02-13T07:00:00.000-08:00

It seemed like everyone and their grandmother was drawing a picture of Midna so I decided to give it a try...but now i think the helmet is on backwards. I really wish I could find a "good" picture of her though so I could get the tattoos down.
Also I could have just spent more time on the image itself, hah.

Box your Ears.

2007-02-12T12:28:00.000-08:00

This is a old, old idea that came from me and couple friends talking with a professor in college. Se he came from a rather interesting part of south america called Caracas ( Just from the name it sounds exotic, right?). He would regale us with stories of his childhood and some of the most absurd "doings" that happen in his beloved homeland; something to do with cowboys that I can't really talk about...it's weird, i'll put it that way. Anyway, as a laugh I just started blurting out all the "things he would do as a youth" until I blurted out something stupid...which was the idea of "Shark Boxing". At first, it seemed REALLY stupid but then...Come on. How manly and awesome a sport would that be? Think about the type of person it would take to challege a shark to box.
That's TRUE grit.
Anyway, I hadn't thought about it for a good long while until this morning, so I thought I'd just do something up as it's terribley slow at the ol job today. Enjoy.

illustration Friday: Crash

2007-02-12T09:00:00.000-08:00

Lookin good.

Thursday Evening.

2007-02-08T14:01:00.000-08:00

Suppose I'm getting in the holiday spirit.

Wednesday Morning

2007-02-07T08:04:00.000-08:00

This one I don't think came out as well as the last few but I think I'm gettin something down that doesn't look to bad. More practice.

Tuesday Morning.

2007-02-06T07:32:00.000-08:00

illustration Friday: Sprout

2007-02-05T09:41:00.000-08:00

I figured I hadn't done one in awhile and this one was fun and quick to try. Not original but, oh well.

Raising of the Nose

2007-02-05T08:45:00.000-08:00

Apparently I've just become "to good" for this blog because I just don't seem to be adding anything new recently. I suppose that's how it goes when you don't have make the time to just draw up some stuff and scan it. Well, let's see if 2007 and the coming of my birthday will change a few things. A whole year older and alot more willing to draw.
Rock the Casbah.

Can don't.

2006-11-28T10:39:00.000-08:00

So I was going through my computer at work trying ot make room and I ran across this stuff and I figured "why not post it up"...As I'm usually hard up for things to post.I don't know why I never finished these guys, but...Why again are they on a pink background? Just some faces I did while trying to work out character designs, I was really taking alot from Denis Bodart, if you haven't seen this man's work, man are you missing out.

Good Stuff.

2006-11-13T12:01:00.000-08:00

You know, I've always wanted to post this but never got around to it, figure now's as good a time as any. This short is just SO good though...Something about those French, they just "get it". Anyway, this was done by a studio called CUBE and directed by Louis Clichy. You can check them out at http://www.cube-creative.fr/html/nt/nt_lc/akoa.html

Illustration Friday:Smoke

2006-11-08T10:59:00.000-08:00

I'm always jumping in on a wednesday or something, I need to try and get this in a little earlier or something...oh well.
Again, playing around with some stuff just to get the "juices" flowing.
It didn't come out as nice as I'd hoped, but...I'm happy withit at least.

Like I said...

2006-11-06T22:34:00.000-08:00

I need to keep bloggin...right? These were actualyl just some tiny little thumbnails I'd put together awhile back to gather some ideas. I'd thought to try making them larger but...I was on a role so I just kept drawing and forgot to do anything with them. Happens I suppose.

This one really had alot of my friends squinting to figure out what was happening, I think it comes off alot better blown up and by itself.

what can I say really? I still love pirates...

Wow...

2006-11-01T15:33:00.000-08:00

Have I really gotten THAT lazy?

I apparently need to get back to work.

One in the Hole

2006-09-11T14:32:00.000-07:00

Okay, so it's apparently been THAT long since I posted anything. But, as I usually do, I have an excuse...I've been working. That's right...working. A couple of weeks ago some of friends of mine, Joe and Ryan, came to me with a project about hobos that they wanted to do for a certain network that shows cartoons. I'm not gonna give to much away as I've been sworn to at least SOME silence...obviously not much though. Anyway, I've been drawing alot of stuff but I can't post it just yet. We're waiting till it's done and happening. Also...while that was happening...I was in california. Let me tell yah...I loved it. Best trip I'd taken in a long while. Anyway...I'm here for a bit while work that doesn't involve me gets finished...so I thought I'd draw just a lovely lady...as NONE of the designs I've been doing for this show concept are lovely in the least.

Look forward to this year folks, cause it's gonna be interesting.

Illustration Friday:Play

2006-08-16T10:52:00.000-07:00

So it's been a good while since I posted something so I figured I had to put something up. This is just something I put together real quick seeing as I missed out on the last couple of Illustration Fridays'...I do have a note from my parents though. I've been a bit under the weather as of late and things have been sorta busy. I'm helping put together a pilot with my friends Joe and Ryan and I'm still trying to spread myself thin with the comic and a game concept that ANOTHET group of my friends wants me to help with. I wish I could draw faster...and better but that would probably just make me slower. Grumble Grumble.

ALL KIDS OF "AMAZING.."

2006-07-17T12:13:00.000-07:00

About a year ago I'd remembered a professor telling about the book, AND about how there were talks of a television show...and now Mike Mignola's "THE AMAZING SCREW ON HEAD" has a PILOT!...at the moment, sci-fi channel is just showing the pilot on their website and getting feedback from folk to decide whether they should continue...oh LORD please say enough people will praise this show for the bit of fantastic it is.

If you don't already have an excuse, you have one now...go to the site, see the pilot and decide for yourself whether television is ready.
The Entire Pilot

Illustration Friday:Skyline

2006-07-13T11:03:00.000-07:00

I'd never tried one of these before...but i think it's pretty good. I tried out alot of different tools this time..some I'm happy with...some I'm not. Maybe next time it'll turn out better.

Nice...REAL Nice.

2006-07-09T23:09:00.000-07:00

For anyone who's ever seen the Sony Bravio commercial with all the bouncing balls...you mite get a kick out of this one. Of course, it's terrible to think that this commercial is already "that old"...and able to be made parody, how time flies.

GNAW AT YOUR FACE!

2006-06-21T12:40:00.000-07:00

I'm always so late with finding out about certain things...movies...comics...break-ups...and music...but MAINLY music. I just found out about this Danger Mouse and Cee-lo project Gnarls Barkeyl...MAN, is it awesome. If you're late in finding out stuff like me, I definately suggest checking them out.

This was just something I did to eat up some time at work...I'm still not great at getting the likeness of a person down just using these simple shapes though...ah well.

Odd Couple.

2006-06-20T14:41:00.000-07:00

Although I've got ALL these great pictures and things to post up...I have yet to get around to it. I'm terrible about that sometimes. Anyway, this is something that I'd been messing around with at work and just thought I'd put it up.
I thought they were neat cause they're sorta the two "extremes" i take my drawings alot of times. Still though...I could have sworn the colors looked alot different before I made it a jpeg...CURSE THIS LCD~!!

Hopefully I'll load some more stuff tomorrow.

Man, that's alot of walking...

2006-06-07T21:31:00.000-07:00

So, I didn't get to post it as soon as I'd hoped but here's the stuff I did on my rather short "sketchcrawl" around atlanta. As I figured, everybody ended up canceling...whimps. Anyway, I kinda like how some of them came out but I think I need to start useing more pain on my brush...everything still looks really washed out.

I thought I was doing pretty good at this point, but I still think I was trying to get to many details and not enough mood...or something.

Honestly I wasn't trying the whole pen over watercolor thing at first but when I'd finished this one with the city scape and I couldn't tell WHAT the heck I was drawing I figured I'd try it out...I'd seen a couple of other people work this this, namely Alina Chau, course I'm not nearly as good.

By the end of the day I think I'd been walking around town for about 7 hours...I was sorta lazy to of been around for that long and only done THIS much drawing. I think next time I need to pick a better section of town that has more stuff to catch my attention.

What's all the Fuss about?

2006-06-06T15:43:00.000-07:00

So, this post is two things...one, it's a lesson to me that I need to find a way to calibrate my monitor at work before it's to late...my colors are coming out ALL wrong...and two, I just figured I'd post up something. These are two popular fellas from two different shows that are probably going to be the talk of many a "fan-boy" as to who could beat who. If you don't know who they are I won't bore you with details. Anyway, I always felt it was funny that they oddly enough look alike...just one's older then other. Oh well...

This is going to be one FUN weekend...I hope.

2006-06-01T11:37:00.001-07:00

I'm SO excited for this saturday...actually, this whole weekend (including Monday, oddly enough) is going to be so exciting. Saturday is the start of what I hope will be a long running of "SketchCrawls" here in Georgia. I'd finally talked a couple of friends to joining me out to just walk around town and draw. It's going to be hot, it's going to be long...I'm hoping it's going to be a blast. I'll admit, the fact that this isn't San Franciso will probably make it less then AMAZING as very little happens in Georgia unless it's planned well in advance, but...who cares?...It should be fun all the same. I'm hoping to have batteries and a bigger memory card for my camera for saturday so as to have a couple of pictures of the whole thing.

Course, I'm sure ALOT of people are going to cancel last minute as usual.

But that's okay, cause if saturday doesn't go as well as I'd hoped, Monday will make up for it. Jetix is apparently premiereing "Oban: Star Racer" and I can't wait. Originally it was a concept show that a french studio called Sav! The World (http://savtheworld.com/) came up with...and I'll tell yah...when I say what they show was ORIGINALLY going to look like I was drooling all over my keyboard.

Sadly, as it happens sometimes, the concept was far greater then what was possible. The studio later decided that making the show 2D would save money and time. Of course I can understand but...DAMN, what a let down. Oh well, I've been waiting to see if the show is actually at all any good and if they can still blow my mind away even without everything being 3D (now only the vehicles and backgrounds during the races are computer generated)...

I tell yah what though...it STILL looks pretty good from what I'm seeing.

Oil Painting...what a beast!

2006-05-26T16:42:00.000-07:00

A little while ago me and a few friends took part in a class to learn how to use oil paints and let me tell yah...MAN that stuff is hard. I'd walked into the thing knowing it was going to be a bit different but I had NO idea apparently. The way we were getting taught was apparently the "traditional" method that involved layering. I can't remember the whole process now but I do remember that the REAL bitch was that we couldn't lay out the picture with pencils first...Elio, who was the one teaching us, felt that working with paints for the entire process would really teach us something.Looking at the final results, I can't argue.

Anyway, these are just a few shots taken on last day of class when everyone's pieces were REALLY coming along.The Guy to the left is Joe, his piece probably looked the worse at the beginning of the class buy by the end I think he got something REALLY awesome.

Jeff here to the right had decided to not come on the some of the most important days of the class so his I don't think got totally finished. But as usual he still managed to pul a good piece out of his ass.

Now this guy here, I probably hate the most...Nex to Kevin(whose piece I didn't get anyshots of) Brain here probably took the MOST chances and just came out with a GREAT piece.This is what his turned out like...I think his cloth came out the best though.

I think this is Jeff's below...like I said, even though he missed a class or two he was still able to pull a REALLY good painting out. I'm especially a fan of the how much "dark" he put into his painting. It really pops that figure out

Unfortunately there a few paintings that I didn't get to get a picture of cause ther weren't finished when I brough the camera. I suppose I'll have to get a shot of them sometime, but I think Kevin and Elio are planning on putting their pieces in the show they want to put together sometime this year, so I mite to get a shot then. Joe put his on top of a book shelf in his apartment...

And Mine, which is the one at the beginning I ended up giving to my dad as a gift...Probably should have held off though and given it to my mother for Mother's Day. OH well, next time.Which should hopefully be soon actually. Elio plans on putting together another one of these and I gotta say, if the looks as good as it did this time...it should be awesome.

A bit of Fun and Action...

2006-05-09T00:17:00.000-07:00

So for anyone who actually checks out my blog, you mite remember a little while back I had loaded the opening of an anime that was directed by Anno hideako.
Now I will be the first to admit, I'm certainy not that much of a fan of anime, but this guy...is fantastic. His work is just so chaotic and fun...I can't stop watching. For anyone who is just a fan of animation I would certainly suggest him to you.
This here is another opening he'd done for a video game, Namco X Capcom...
Frankly, the game...REALLY awful. What they should have done was just package this opening video cause this...is pure gold.

So, I wanted a picture...

2006-05-08T14:38:00.000-07:00

Alright, so apparently in order to put a picture up with your name you have to have a URL set up for it or something...the interweb is a crazy place. So, I'm gonna post up this so I can use it in the mean time...it's an alright one, a little, blah. but, it'll work, right?

Heads Up.

2006-05-03T14:31:00.000-07:00

So, a friend and I have this idea for a show concept...it's nothing I don't think either of us is able to commit alot time to but I figured the first thing would be some ideas for characters and such. I started putting down just a bunch of different head designs for one of the main characters...I was supposed to going for a teen guy who could live in lagoona but was obviously from out of town. I figured the first thing i needed down was the hair. It's all about the hair. Evidently I got REAL bored by the end of it...they start looking alot less..."attractive" which is something that was part of the profile. Anyway,I like some of the heads and I think I'll start posting more stuff on this project as it comes around.

For anyone who wants to know...all we've really gotten for the concept is: The OC, but with Robots. Wrap that one around your head for a bit...

John and Mi

2006-04-28T12:47:00.000-07:00

So, I had some extra time and started drawing some random people...and then I came across these two...they looked a little different before they made it here, but...I was filled with this idea that they looked kinda familure...

Oh yeah...John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki...what a pair they make.

Actually, the one that I thought looked like Miyazaki looks less and less like him...Lasseter's sorta there. Really I need to work on my charactures of people. I'm gettin better but it's still not there.

Alot of where I got the look for John was from another artist who works at Pixar, Ronnie Del Carmen. I love this guy's stuff...don't care what anyone says.

He too has a blog if you want to check it out, which you should anyway...even if you don't.here

The Grey Coats...

2006-04-26T20:47:00.000-07:00

So, it's been a good while since I had something I felt that i wanted to post on this here blog...and I still don't think i have anything THAT amazing to show...but I gotta put something.

So i've been trying to think up some better designs for characters in the comic I finished up...give em a bit more of a cartoony feel and more prominently speaks of "my style" rather then something obviously Darwyn Cooke.

I'm kinda happy with this but it's still not quite there...it's close though.

Ithink I'm going to have to start pullin out the Alex Toth and try something else...
Anway, these are them...I rather like the beard on the chubby guy...very fancy.

I tell yah, it is hard stuff working on a comic though. Alot of fun but...sheesh. The the good news is that today we had a meeting with the people at the comic studio and they seemed to like it for the most part...but we got pushed back to the fifth issue.

That sucks the big one.

But all is not lost...the only means we're slotted for the fifth. Should any artist no come in on time or just straight don't do their work...we could be bumped up. But I'm not holding out...chances are it won't be something we get to bring with us to San Diego...but who knows.

WHAT A LOAD...

2006-04-25T11:54:00.000-07:00

Damn, has it really been that long since I posted anything new on this thing? Well, I could make alot of different excuses but I think the only one I'm happy with is that I've been working on the comic, which FINALLY got done. I think next time I'm definately going to have to work out a better regiment and have it done alot sooner and alot faster cause there were a few points were I seriously thought the writer, Joe, was going to murder me something fierce. But in the end, it turned out pretty nice and I'm not totally discgusted by it at least. Course now it's up to the people at the studio to decide whether they can put it in the 3rd issue of the series like we'd hope to do. Which would have been awesome seeing as that mite have meant we could take it with us to San Diego in July...how cool would that be?
If nothing else, I've now got the time to work on a sketchbook for Comic Con and try to put together a few pieces of animation for a new portfolio...we'll see how that turns out if at all.
Mean time I haven't got anything on me that I'd want to post but the work day isn't done...should have something later tonight. If not, definately tomorrow.
Figure I gotta start puttin this blog to use for once.

Though I did get excited cause now I figured out how to post movies on my blog...so now like alot of people I can put up pointless stuff that I didn't have any part in except that I think it's really awesome.

By the way, this the opening of an anime calle RE:Cutey Honey. I think it was a anime from the later 60s but then remade twice before getting this version by Anno hideako.

If you're an anime fan, you've probably seen his stuff once or twice.
I'm usually not a fan of anime but I gotta say...this thing was awesome. To bad it was so short.

Big Times and Big Tops

2006-03-15T13:21:00.000-08:00

So things have been pretty busy lately. I'm moving, I have work, and I'm finishing up the comic is just around the bend...but shouldn't I have time to work on my own stuff? Seriously, I don't know how people do it. Working so many hours of the day on other people's stuff takes alot of you and then you have enough to still just draw?
...impressive, most impressive.
Anyway, I did make enough time to just do something that wasn't work related at all but just fun in my eyes. I'd been seeing alot of people do circus performers and...well, I'm certailny not one to not follow a trend that's as cool as circus folk.

Amor 3

2006-03-06T15:53:00.000-08:00

So it's been a bit of crunch lately to get the comic done by the 3 week in march which is possiblebut still...damn. So, I haven't had much time to do anything else but I did make time to mess with photoshop to try and get my hands working on somethning else.

I'm not usually one to just do the quick...sketchy...type stuff on photoshop but I'm finding more and more that it was MADE for that.

Anyway, I actually only drew one piece of armor starting with the red one and then just made come color changes for the other two. They're not great but i think they're alright.

All this time and it's just words?

2006-03-02T12:07:00.000-08:00

Poor poor blog, i've nothing to add to you in so long

I'm afriad it's just been really busy lately for me and I haven't had a chance to drawing anything that wasn't related to inking on top of something else. That's right, I'm still inking the comic. If any of you know me, you know I'm terrible at keekping a schedule but it's coming together and it'll be done by the end of march, which is so cool cause that means that we'll have it released by july and THAT means we get to take it to san diego...i can barely believe that it sometimes.
But I don't want to jinx it. But, I'm hoping that with that gap between march and july I'll start drawing up some stuff cause i want to take more then just the comic to san de-ah-go.

Keepin my fingers cross.

Which is she is?

2006-02-14T15:12:00.000-08:00

...So I did some more faces. I don't know if I like these nearly as much as I liked the last ones but these are still pretty nice. The toughest one was the "grandma"...she's just looking a little to manish still. Hopefully no one will notice and be able to pick up that it's a older woman, we'll see.
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Faces.

2006-02-13T15:58:00.000-08:00

...it acutally wasn't that slow at the office today, unlike usually. There was stuff to be done and places to be. The "places to be" was probably the high light for the most part, my new room mate and I may have found our new digs for the next 12 monthes...let us hope. I tell yah, I certainly don't want it to end up...day before I have to move and no place to move to but back into my parents place.

One very cool thing is that I had heard from some of my friends who work at a gaming studio here in atlanta that some of the higher ups were talking about me again (again because, well, it's a long story), which is good. I don't know anything will come of it but it certainly would be fun to be doing concept work again.
Here's hoping.

Love, in a comic book?

2006-02-07T17:54:00.000-08:00

...No, not at all actually. I too was almost knocked out of shoes upon seeing these two books seeing as I haven't seen a teen love comic on the stands in...ever. That's not to say that there isn't a hint of the ol "true heart" in either of these, but they're still not a throw back to the 50s of box of chocolates and class pins. Really though, none of this is why I picked up either of these books. If you ever get a chance to look at the first book, really take a look at who the artist are...Palmiotti?...Kirby?...BUSCEMA? But all all of this just made way to what the book really was...a spoof. Apparently someone got it in their head that love comics were just silly and so they decided to go even farther and just made them...hilarious. The second book...well...it has Marcoe Martin and he's always fantastic.
Anyway, getting nerdy about comics I actually did some drawing. It started with trying to draw a few of the people I work with and then it just turned into a bunch of faces. Wel, I thought I should post something so I put this...maybe one more drawing. Something from a drawing session with a couple of friends. Good times with tthat charcoal.

A Funny thing happen...

2006-02-02T16:26:00.000-08:00

(Looks like practice really DOES help.)

So I thought I should start actually putting stuff up on this blog but I know most people usually put the newest stuff they've done that day so that it stays fresh. Well, i haven't got much that's new and fresh at the moment.
I did/do however have a few things I'd done this weekend past that I REALLY liked. I mean, I've done alot of life drawings during my time at school but I don't think there were ANY that enjoyed nearly as much as these two, and it felt good to have some pieces finally come out how I wanted them (the early ones were looking terrible).

Anyway, this was a fun night because it was some sort of "college night" that the High Museum had put together. Pretty much it was a bunch of kids from Atlanta College of Art there to put their drawing talents to the test. And I usually wouldn't talk down about people but one event really had me laughing on the inside. At one point a gentleman who I can only figure was assisting with the life drawing was walking around giving pointers to some of the other artist. Pretty standard stuff but it was apparent that he had only learned this stuff the day before. Anyway, he looks over at me and my friend Elio (who's amazing) and starts walking over.
"This is gonna be fun" was all I could think.

(It was pure magic with the charcoal this night.)

Sure enough, he opens with something like "So you guys must be animation people, right?" He was then about to recite what he'd been saying to everyone else until he saw that we really didn't need to much help...he recovered pretty well saying that he just wanted to take a look at what we were doing.

Maybe it's a bit mean to think that it was funny...but it was. And I'm sure at least a few animation folk out there have been in the same situation where someone mite not think you could actually draw if all you do is cartoons. I guess I should feel bad that I didn't have bugs bunny or underdog on my paper. It was still a fun fun night though. Got to draw, had some laughs and was really pleased that alot of teenagers were visiting the museum. But they really need to update the new parts of the museum because...damn. If any of you ever get the chance to visit the High Museum and see the new areas they built you'll know what I mean...pretty empty and what they DO have there...terrible.

A nice way to start.

2006-01-31T12:29:00.000-08:00

So, I couldn't help but put something up before the day was over and since I'm allowed alot of time at work to mess around with stuff I decidedto do something in tribute to one of my fav interweb bands at the moment; Flight of the Concords.

If you don't know about them then you've beenmissing out. There the best thing out out of New Zealand since Lord of the Rings. Actually, they're even better.
If you'd like to check them out you can find out more info at:

http://whatthefolk.net/

Let the good times role!

2006-01-31T08:51:00.000-08:00

Wow, my first blog.

I think it took me so long because i really wanted to finish my website but in the end...I'm lazy. It's only gotten worse now that I haven't much time to work on stuff for myself. So any projects I mite have wanted to do I'm probably going to put on hold.

It's a shame too because I think I bought my space for another year thinking I'd have it done, guess it'll have to wait another year.

Anywho, now that I have a blog I'll probably be posting some stuff soon. I love to draw and draw alot. Not all of it's good, and not all it's bad, it's a happy medium I think.
Anyway, look forward to that and don't hate me if I take awhile to get new stuff up.