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

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

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

Illustration Friday - Cars

My car hit 200000 miles over the weekend and it just so happens that this week's IF topic is 'cars'. So here's what I came up with as a little tribute to my car.


~Adam

Self Portrait

I was feeling weird.

~Adam

Digital Art Exercises

These are a few exercises I did in class tonight.







~Adam

Towson Wallpapers

My assignment this week for my digital art class was to create a Desktop Wallpaper for Towson. Here's what I ended up with :



Which do you think is best? And feel free to use them :)

~Adam

Also, a few different versions of the nighttime one here.

Art Nouveau Poster Show Poster

For those who haven't already seen it, this is the poster I've been working on for the past few weeks that I will be turning in tonight. I'm pretty satisfied with the way it turned out here, though, the prints ended up much much darker. (Thanks inept STAPLES employees.) Hopefully my grade doesn't suffer too much from that.

Girl U Want Flash Video

I recently had to make a music video for my Digital Art class. I used flash to make this. It took about 18 hours to do, animation is a slow process. I'm going to be working on improving it over the next couple of weeks.

Note : The timing got really screwed up when youtube compressed the video so it doesn't come out being nearly as cool as I had made it, timing the visuals up with the music was the whole point. I'm working on finding some better way to post these...



~Smash

P.S. Youtube sucks.

Urban Decay

I just got a Wacom tablet this is the first thing ive done after a few hours of playing around. I still need to work on the colors a bit, but I wanted to post since it's been so long.



Here's a few final versions. I can't decide which I like best. The first one is all just my drawing and colors. The second has a little bit of photo showing through to add details, and the last has all the photo references showing through.




~Adam

Ink Monster T-Shirts

My most recent assignment for my Digital Art class was to create a series of T-Shirt Illustrations with some sort of common theme. I had several ideas, but with time running short and some opportunites for my initial ideas already passed I decided to revisit one of my past favorite projects, ink monsters. I sat down for a few hours and drew up a bunch more and had some friends help me pick out the best ones to use for the T-Shirts. Here's what I ended up with.



The originals are all black and white, most on 9x6" bristol, in ink.

~Adam

Captain Hal's Followup

We're at the end of the semester so I've been pretty busy with stuff, sorry about the lack of posts. Here's my suite of items I created for Captain Hal's.

First, a flyer that you might find in a newspaper. I took the photo myself with a McDonald's fish sandwich and fries. I wanted one of those red basket things they use at some restaurants but the bowl was all I could get a hold of. Did a tiny bit of photo editing in photoshop then slapped it into the InDesign page I made and voila.


Here's some coasters. No explanation needed.


And finally a kids menu / placemat. The final version had a bunch of bubbles placed randomly on it to make it look more festive, but I forgot to email myself that file, so, whatever.


That's all for now.
~Adam
(oh, and just in case you were wondering about the "Captain's Shake" click here.)