Illustration | Adrian Williams

February 25, 2018February 25, 2018

Weekly Wrap-Up 2-26-18

Lately I have been all over the place in terms of styles. When I start with a blank screen it either ends up being cartoony or a realistic style. I haven’t been keeping up the Olympics but some of the photos and stories in my newsfeed have been interesting to read up on. Of course I had to do a couple of Black Panther drawings. I need to pick-up the art book at some point.

At work during lunchtime I started filling up an old unused sketchbook. It’s an interesting practice the pages are thick and can take tons of abuse with an eraser. At first I tried using ink pens but the paper sucks the ink too easily a mechanical pencil and a couple 2b’s with a rough tip do the trick.

February 11, 2018

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Clip Studio on iPad has a pretty extensive brush set but I haven’t spent much time with their pencils. It’s very intuitive to use the pencils really have a rough look to them. I have been doing a few model studies to give a very natural media look to the illustrations.

Of course I did this months character design topic: motorcycle. The funny thing is all month I did a few rough sticky note character sketches and a few days before the deadline came up with a new concept and finished it all the same night.

January 28, 2018

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The last two weeks I have been doing quick nightly sketches on the iPad. I still need to start my character design challenge for this month plenty of time left before the month ends haha. I received a couple of request for small avatar illustrations besides that I need to get back to ink on paper very soon, it’s been a while.

January 14, 2018May 29, 2019

Weekly Wrap-Up 1-14-18

Glad to get my physical art book this week from Lulu.com. It’s 56 pages full color with a hardbound design. Besides that I have been going back to Procreate lately the pencil tool feels much better since the last round of updates. I still prefer Clip Studio but it’s fun to record my drawing session.

January 1, 2018

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So that was 2017 excited to see whats in store for 2018. During my vacation caught up on shows notable mentions to Stranger Things 2 and The Punisher. I sent off the final In Design file for my 2017-2018 art book it’s still super exciting to get the hardbound edition in my hands.

I didn’t do much/any daily sketches but I did complete a couple of larger illustrations I wanted finished for the book.

December 10, 2017

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With the year coming to and end I need to start scanning and clean up for my 2017 art book. I feel pretty comfortable with simple color illustration in Clip Paint Studio, the majority of the Frenden brushes imported perfectly. These illustrations were done on the iPad at 300 dpi still quite impressed how well it handles 20+ layers.

November 26, 2017November 23, 2017

Weekly Wrap-Up 11-26-17

The last couple of weeks I haven’t had the time to do much. These are mostly Saturday morning breakfast sketches and the small notecard drawings are pieces I do at work during lunchtime. One of my favorite illustration programs Clip Studio Paint recently released an app for iOS is’s amazing. My process for sketching on paper and working on the desktop feels so antiquated. I am going through tutorials and trying to figure out a process that works using the iPad version more.

November 20, 2017November 23, 2017

Weekly Wrap-Up 11-20-17

A couple of recent weekend illustrations. Lately reading up on a couple of design books for some ideas I have. Since last month it’s been strange to at least not get one quick doodle down on paper a day it’s a great feeling to have.

November 6, 2017November 5, 2017

Weekly Wrap-Up 11-6-17

I managed to print a couple samples of my Inktober 2017 art book. Learned a couple of things in the process but happy with the end result. My last illustration for day 31 was also a starting point for October’s character design challenge topic – demon/devil. I added some base colors in the scan and had fun playing with vibrance layers for this illustration.

November 5, 2017

Weekly Wrap-Up 11-5-17

Inktober – Finale really happy with how this years Inktober turned out. Definitely going off topic at the end of the night with an brush pen in my hand was fun. I am almost done with final layouts to print these into a small art book to remember how it all turned out.

24. Sentai transformation

25. Elephants cutting loose

26. The Queen’s guard

27. All summer she practiced

28. One swift strike

29. Practicing summon magic

30. This squirrel fights back

31. In a Halloween mode for the last day

October 23, 2017October 29, 2017

Weekly Wrap-Up 10-23-17

Inktober Week 3 – So far so good, I have a good handle on my illustrations the next few days. Going away from a particular theme esp. Halloween related like in the past was for the best. Some nights I look over at the clock and it’s past 1 AM, best part I still feel like I have so many fun ideas to try before the month is up.

17. Energy summon to destroy the orb

18. Never too old to skate

19. Crow mage

20. High altitude sky surfer

21. Lone priest ready to fight the undead

22. Good day for a ride

23. The forest archer prepares to strike

October 16, 2017October 29, 2017

Weekly Wrap-Up 10-16-17

Inktober Week 2 – After hitting a few roadblocks late night I realized it’s best to just draw whatever comes to me at night. I thought about trying to hit a theme each day but in the past I got tired of sticking to a particular topic or era. Somedays I want to do sentai stuff the next day fun animal characters.