Adam's Blog

I originally set out to do a Ragnar kinda Bob Peak thing and I ran into a problem. The "problem" is called time. So far this COD is helping me think out my box but I can't allow it to take up too much time so I barfed this out. Looking at it now I hate the composition, but god I love drooling alien worm dudes.

Jonathan and I are going to do a Chick-O-Day Challenge. All that means is we're going to draw a girl a day for the month of December starting today. Not that I need much motivation to draw a woman most days... :) We may have topics sometimes but we're mostly just drawing babes. I haven't done something like this in a long time so this should be really fun. Jonathan's art has inspired me since high school and I'm looking forward to seeing what he does.

A buddy of mine, Christopher Sotomayor, will be teaching an intro to comic book coloring class over at Comic Experience with Andy Schmidt . But don't go because he's my friend, go because after 10 years of coloring professionally I still learn from the man!

I've still been starting my mornings with different gestures. The only reason why I posted one was because this one was the least embarrassing. :)

Done with a pen and an aging Copic marker.

Adding the markers to my repertoire has been nice because the mall isn't as busy in the winter so the markers give me something to do while I wait for more people to walk by.

Two posts in the same day? WTF?!? Did some scanning again to break up my afternoon. About a month ago I started using a marker in my live drawing so I did a few gestures one morning from photos. ...hence the nakedness.

I felt watercolory this morning.

I work out most days about 5:00AM. At that time usually you see the same people every morning and every now and then you'll see a different face. Especially if she's hot...

Scanned in a few things from the sketchbook this afternoon.

Almost there...

I always love the pumpkins that Paul Richards does every year. Instead of just sitting on the sidelines I decided to draw a few of my own. After a few attempts and even more sleep deprivation I decided to make a Spogebob theme. I did the color one first but I didn't like it. Here's both versions.

Ah, leave it to me to screw up something as pure and spiritually aligned as yoga. Actually I love yoga, I just don't do it often because it's expensive and because it hurts. I would tell ALL artists to learn some postures though. When I'm really busy (working 12+ hours a day) I stretch between pages and it helps me tremendously!

A BBWU of model September Cariño. I should have sticked closer to the ref looking at it now, but oh well.

No time for a digital "warm up" this morning. So I just scanned part of a page I did this morning and horsed around in Photoshop a bit. Probably should have made Dracula paler, but oh well.

I always loved some of the different Ice Queen/Maiden costumes out there. So this is my Ice Queen.

Today's warm up. I've been acting like this isn't the month for Halloween! My favorite time of the year... (mostly cause it's not so damn hot).

After admitting to myself I haven't been doing warmups, I guess guilt started kicking in. After discovering Dominic Philibert yesterday, I decided to do a head this morning.

A little Cap and Spidey action.

I realized I haven't posted anything in a while, and I'm thinking it's because I haven't been doing my warm up sketches lately. What I have been doing is more drawing in the field and sketching in my sketchbook before I get on my computer. So I may have to scan a thing or two and play with it--starting with this one. Just messing around between coloring pages.