People Are Strange

We made a handful of music videos using flash in my digital art classes. This is one of the later ones I did alongside with my cuz, Kate.





~ I'm going to be posting more of the old flash stuff, but I need to go back and edit some of the original files and add a 'play' button. Otherwise when you load this page you'll just have 15 flash animations screaming at you :D

Post 100! FLASH!

It's been about 2 years.... gah! Time to get back into the swing of being creative. I put out an ad to maybe get involved with some other artists or something. And I'm really going to try to push myself just to start drawing or painting or doing something again. But until I get something worth posting up here, I've got something else to entertain...

I made a bunch of little flash projects while I was in school that I was never able to get posted up on the web very well. But now I have a friend that's allowing me some hosting space on his website so I can start putting them up here.

Starting off with a simple example of a flash menu system that I made up to fit the style of this site and work as a gallery of my art.




~ Looks like I'll have to put some time into rearranging the layout of the site a bit to accommodate to some of my flash files. Check back later to get a better view of this.

Senior Exhibit

The Senior Exhibit is opening this Thursday at my school. This is what I submitted.

I've done a bunch like this over the past few months. I'm not sure how much I really like them.

It's Been Forever

My addiction has taken hold again.

For some reason I have an urge to post something here today. This is still a work in progress.

Non-Denominational Winter Holiday Card

Just like the title says, here it is:

"Warm Holiday"
4" x 6"
Digital

Dream Factory

I just arrived at a stopping point on my first assignment for Digital Art II this semester. The goal was to create and interesting cross-section of a real or imagined person, place, or thing.

I was going for somewhat of a Dr. Seuss style, though I think I may have ended up with a little Simpsons in there also. It took about 8 hours to get to this point between creating and sketching the idea, drawing it and then coloring it in Photoshop. It is print ready for 11x17.


Dream Factory
Digital
11"x17"

Illustration II : Farming

I'll get around to photographing my paintings eventually. For now here is the final project I did for Illustration II. Two digital illustrations of farming. The second one is probably the best thing I've done so far, but it took forever.


Tractor Field
Digital
11"x17"


Plowing
Digital
11"x17"

~Adam

Illustration II : Projects 2 & 4

Order? Who needs it. Here's some digital work I did for my summer Illustration class.

This was inspired by the offbeat news topic "Baltimore Police Run Out of Pants." It speaks for itself.

11"x17"
Digital

And this is an illustration of "Greed," an attempt at a personification of the sin. You can see an earlier draft here.

11"x17"
Digital

Hope you like.
~Adam

Illustration II : Project 1

I'm taking Illustration II over the summer. It's with the same teacher I had for Illustration I and some of the projects seem a little similar, he likes things a certain way, I guess.

Here's the first thing I did. I worked on coming up with the idea while I was on my recent trip to Las Vegas with my friends, hence the subject. The assignment was to illustrate a metaphor.


Cat and Mouse Game
18" x 24"
Acrylic on Canvas

~Adam

Dancing Duck

This is funny. I found this site where you can draw a character and they put them in this scene to dance.



~Adam

Painting II Recap : Part 5

Here's a few self portrait Alla Primas I did while in this class.

13.5" x 9.5"
oil on paper

13.5" x 9.5"
oil on paper

~Adam

Painting II Recap : Part 4

Ah, abstract painting. That good ol' excuse for not knowing what the hell you're doing. Well, this time I had to plan exactly how I was going to do whatever the hell I didn't know what I was going to do... right. And here she is :


36" x 36"
oil on canvas

Well, I had a lot of fun doing this actually. I just a bunch of different techniques and the exploration was kind of neat. This painting got the best grade out of the 4 I did for the class, so I guess that means it's pretty good? Who am I to judge?

And here we have the not-so-abstract. If you hadn't guessed already, I'm an old-school nerd. This is one of my favorite paintings so far.


13.5" x 9.5"
oil on paper

~Adam

Snow Trooper Sketch

A digital sketch I did of a snow trooper based off a photo I took at a con.

Painting II Recap : Part 3

I've found that figures are the subject I have the most trouble with. These are a couple paintings I did that I struggled with. The first was done in painting class with model. It looked really bad after the first two sessions but I made some drastic changes near the end and sort of recovered it. I was happy with the direction it was moving, but overall it was probably one of the worst in the class.


30" x 26"
oil on canvas

This is a painting of the Death of Iphitus done for my Digital Art class. I did the painting originally in oil, then photographed and digitally enhanced it, you can see before and after shots here.


18" x 24"
oil on canvas


Digital

~Adam

Painting II Recap : Part 2

Here are a couple more of the alla prima practice paintings I did early in the semester. The one's with shoes and pastries did not end up all that great, especially the pastries. Everything was too similar in color and I had a hard time defining where they each object began and ended. But it's all just practice and I learned a bit from doing it. I did however make a conscious attempt to apply the paint more heavily and succeeded on that front.


Vegetables
13.5" x 9.5"
oil on paper


Baked Goods
13.5"x9.5"
oil on paper


Women's Shoes
13.5"x9.5"
oil on paper

~Adam