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

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

Painting II Recap : Part 1

Well, I've done a ton of work over the past semester and have been mostly too busy to post any of it here, as you may have noticed by the lack of posts. So over the next few weeks I'm going to try to post more frequently with current work as well as the work I did while in school.

Here's the first painting I did. A still life of an apple and banana sitting in a bucket, and that's an egg over on the left edge. I thought it turned out fairly well, but my teacher only gave me a 'B'. He said I needed to apply the paint thicker.

18"x24"
oil on canvas

While we're on the topic of fruit I figured I'd post this fruit bowl alla prima again. (this photo is a little better) We did these paintings once a week as practice during the first half of the semester.

13.5"x9.5
oil on paper

~Adam

Self Portrait

I was feeling weird.

~Adam

Illustration Friday - Citrus

I broke out the old inks for this Illustration Friday topic.


~Adam