Adelia: gazing

Adelia on a cliff...I tried to come up with better titles for this one - but they just struck me as incredibly lame (Adelia: Contemplative)...so Adelia: Gazing it is.... This pic has nothing to do with my current story - but I did a thumbnail of it and wanted to see it to completion...It's a little different than the other pieces I've done in that it has a light source coming from the back of the drawing (the giant purple moon thing)...so I've really tried to work with lighting to make it work - I have another similar drawing that I'm going to paint in a few minutes that takes it back to the lightsource behind the camera and up to the left (as I usually do)...

Illustrations: specs for a job

I've had to put the Adelia Project on hold as I do some other freelance work. These are just a couple of drawings I did - completely developed on Adobe Photoshop and then placed into Adobe Illustrator and redrawn and colored (seeing as how they color is so flat, I couldn't really call it painting). But it was fun doing something more realistic as I've been doing cartoony work for so long...

Adelia: The fight with the balloon

This is the second drawing I did after I saw the movie 300 - In the movie the little Spartan boy is sent out into the wild to fend for himself...and there's this scene where he squares off against a large mountain lion (some sort of cat creature with big teeth)...So...when I got home I drew this...and it's taken me this long to get around to painting it - I've been incredibly busy these last three weeks doing freelance work for the Simpsons.

Adelia - Finds the string

I might as well not have colored it - I just dropped in the base colors I use (the blue and the yellow) without tweaking it any...but I just wanted to put something up because I haven't done so recently...I've been working (just a bit, don't worry) and today I'm going to spring training (to watch the Oakland Athletics) so there won't be more posts for a while...and probably no new drawings until next week at least.
Anyway - this is a scene in the later part of the book...

Adelia - No Room At the Inn

This has nothing to do with the book I'm working on - but I was doodling in my perspective drawing class at the Animation Union (a class I'm taking because I want to better my storyboard skills, not because I'm still in school)...and came out with this drawing...I didn't learn anything that day - but I did come away with a sketch I had to draw...

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Adelia Plays Ball

I was in Spring Training in Phoenix this last week. No, I didn't play - once again I had to turn them down...but I went to watch the Oakland Athletics play (watched 4 games...against the Royals, the Padres, the Mariners, and the Rangers)...anyway - I was doodling a bit during some down time and drew several pictures of Adelia playing baseball...

These are just three of the drawings I did (there were a couple of her running down a ball, a couple of her batting and/or swinging)...I really liked the one where she looked apprehensive about catching the ball...so much so that I had to clean it up in illustrator and finish it up as a painting. I thought it would be appropriate as Baseball season starts (finally!) next week!

And no need to say it's fitting that she's missing the ball because she plays on the A's...if that's all you get out of this picture then maybe you don't deserve to look at it (or maybe you're an Angels fan...and in that case you have worse problems than mocking my silly little pictures)...

Adelia: in tree

I did this piece off of a sketch I did last night. It really doesn't have anything to do with my book - but I liked the piece enough to finish it off by painting it.

Adelia: In Tree

Adobe Photoshop

Adelia Sketch: on tree

I did this sketch thinking of those little birds that hang off the side of a tree...and I tried to imagine how Adelia would look...I think it still turned into a cute drawing....so I'm posting it here...

Adelia Sketch: on tree

Adelia sketch: surfing

I didn't have access to my computer last night - so I put my book drawings aside (which I'm currently cleaning up in Adobe Illustrator) and I drew this. It really has nothing to do with my book - but I currently enjoy drawing Adelia so everything ends up with her in it...

Adelia Sketch: Surfing

Adelia: Walking away from bed

I've done another one - This took me all day to complete - mostly I was frustrated at how hard it was to draw the bed looking cartoony enough. I was at odds with making the perspective correct that my first few attempts ended up looking like boxes (or like the futon I used to sleep on...very hard)...I decided to paint this the same way I did my last one - using Adobe Photoshop. I have to say that I quite enjoyed it...and even though the bed ended up looking like a giant candy cane (a color I might change, as it distracts from the balloon), I think it turned out quite well. As with before, I did a sketch which I scanned into my computer - cleaned up my lines (and corrected my perspective mistakes) with Adobe Illustrator - and then transfered my lines at 300 dpi into Photoshop where I painted it.

Adelia: walking away from bed

adobe illustrator

Adelia: Walking Away From Bed

Adobe Photoshop

Adelia: going sledding

This is actually a drawing that will end up in the book. I might change the hands a bit - but it will look pretty much like this. I've decided to do all my drawings in illustrator so I could have really nice clean lines. I liked this one enough that I had to color it - I started off thinking of doing it as solid colors (without any shadowing) but the more I worked on it, the more I wanted to color it stronger. All in all it took me 20 minutes to clean up my original drawing in Illustrator and then another 2 hours to color it in photoshop.

Adelia - Going Sledding

Adobe Photoshop

Adelia: scary stories

This drawing doesn't fit into the book I'm currently creating - but I was sitting in the living room while my girlfriend watched Dr. 90210...I was inspired by the horrors of cosmetic surgery to draw this pic...which I then dropped into illustrator and cleaned up (and colored).

Adelia: telling scary stories

Adobe Illustrator

Adelia: Telling Scary Stories

Adobe Illustrator

Adelia: More sketches

These are just some of the sketches I did of Adelia over the weekend. Something might come out of them but mostly they were just fun little drawings.

Adelia: sketches

I've really gotten into this character. I've been doing a ton of research on how one goes about publishing a childrens book. I'm going about it both ways (getting it published through the regular channels - so I'm in the process of making a 'dummy' book - and the second way is to self publish. I'm going to finish all of the drawings and then paint and print them. I've even started thinking up ideas for my next book!...and yes...it too stars Adelia the Adelie Penguin)

Here is a sketch! This might end up as a pic in the book, but probably just a little idea and nothing more...

Adelia: in snow - sketch

Adelia: riding on the sled

Here's the latest piece I did. I was also reworking the "Adelia: Painter" one, but ran out of time to finish it (I'll probably have it done by tomorrow). This one has Adelia and her balloon sledding down a hill. I'm currently working on the drawing that shows what happened once they get to the bottom...we'll see...

Adelia: Sledding

Adelia the Painter

I finished this last night - but wasn't terribly happy with it. I think I need to redraw it and then repaint it - make bits of it messier and fix some proportion problems I didn't see until I was transfering it from my rough to the watercolor paper. Since I had already 'wasted' the watercolor paper by having my pencil lines down already, I figured I'd better paint it (just in case it could be saved with paint...hide my mistakes and such)....but to no avail...it look okay, but it could be better...and it will be - once I redraw and repaint it.

Adelia: The Painter - first attempt

Adelia: balloon with a racket

That's right. I painted this today. That's all I did. I painted a balloon attached to a tennis racket. And yes, I did think it was a good idea. So now what?

Adelia: playing tennis - finished version

This is the final version of Adelia playing tennis - done on Watercolor paper (as usual) with Dr. Martin watercolor inks (as usual).

Adelia plays tennis

Adelia: The Balloon playing tennis - color comp

I thought it'd be fun to show Adelia's balloon playing tennis with her. This is the color comp, done in the same way I did Adelia (with color pencils on tracing paper)

Adelia: balloon plays tennis - color comp

Adelia: tennis rough...

This is another painting in my Adelia series - I want to do a couple of paintings based on the idea of how she perceives herself, and how she actually plays. This one is her tennis pro imagination at work. This color comp was done on tracing paper (over a sketch I did in my book. This time around, instead of cleaning it up in illustrator, I just adjusted the head of Adelia in Photoshop and printed it out at the appropriate size I wanted to work with).

Adelia: tennis - color comp

This is my original drawing - note that the head is much smaller than in the final version

Adelia: tennis - original sketch