illustration | Adrian Williams

April 18, 2016

Weekly Wrap-Up 4-17-16

It’s been a minute since my last post. The change of seasons brought on a sinus infection which changed over to cold/flu fun stuff. Prior to all of that I upgraded to the large iPad Pro/with Apple Pencil.

It’s taken a little while to get a decent workflow going forward. I still prefer to do quick thumbnails on paper prior. I am a huge fan of Procreate/ MediBang Paint and Autodesk SketchBook. For now Procreate is my default drawing app mainly because I created a thick illustration brush that imitates how I like to ink on paper. Although with Autodesk SketchBook the pencil lines feel 1:1 with real paper.

I still have some process steps to figure out. Below are my Procreate sketches that I don’t think are completely embarrassingly bad. It will be fun to look at these months/years down the road.

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January 13, 2016

Weekly Wrap-Up 01-12-16

Recently spent sometime getting familiar with Manga Studio/Clip Paint Studio again. Photoshop is my primary tablet interface but I wanted to see what changed. After installing the latest brushes from Frenden, I can say quite a bit. The new tips just feel more organic and the lag that was around with the latest OSX El Capitan update is now gone.

The first three sketches are from the weekend done using traditional ink and paper. Also, I just finished Into The Badlands this week so thus the flood of characters from that world will begin.

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Random warrior guy from Into The Badlands

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The Widow aka Minerva from Into The Badlands

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Chun-Li based on this awesome cosplay reference I stumbled onto here

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Quick doodle for Sketch Dailies topic “The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man”

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Quick cast of Into The Badlands sketch using Clip Studio Paint

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Can’t forget Quinn from Into The Badlands

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Sherlock and Watson based on the new holiday special

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Quick character doodle #1

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Quick character doodle #2

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Slowly making my way through Jessica Jones…Kilgrave wow what a monster…

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Tried out a couple of brushes on this, I try not to spent too much time on this reference photo it’s really good practice though.

November 1, 2015

Inktober Wrap Up 19-31 October 2015

My final series of drawings for Inktober 19-31th. I learned a lot about shaving my drawing time down. Thank you for all the feedback and positive support.

October 18, 2015October 24, 2015

Inktober Wrap Up 12-18 October 2015

The third week of drawings for the month of Inktober series 12-18

October 11, 2015October 24, 2015

Inktober Wrap Up 5-11 October 2015

The second week of drawings for the month of Inktober series 5-11

October 4, 2015October 24, 2015

Inktober Wrap Up 1-4 October 2015

The first set of drawings for the month of Inktober series 1-4

October 2, 2015October 24, 2015

Weekly Wrap-Up 10-02-15

For the month of October my digital work will be on hiatus. I am going to try and complete the Inktober challenge, drawing something each night for the next 31 days.

In the meanwhile the last of my digital pieces for this month probably.

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Young Red Skull

Reference model revisited

PowerPuff Girls Super Sentai formation

July 21, 2015

Weekly Wrap-Up 7-20-15

Busy weekend spent working on designing a friend of mine’s companies branding identity. I will have a slew of logo’s I will eventually post here when they decide on a final layout. Besides that I did manage to do a couple of for fun illustrations.

RIP Nintendo President Satoru Iwata. It wasn’t until his passing I really knew what an accomplished programmer he was.

Sketch Dailies weekend topic was Charmander from the Pokemon series. I wanted to try something Jake Parker has inspired me to do “draw people just having fun and being whimsical”.

During a bit of a drawing block stumbled onto Hellboy on tv. I did a couple of quick doodles earlier and ended up finishing this up. It’s had to draw Hellboy without thinking how Mike Mignola does his shadows.

July 13, 2015

Weekly Wrap-Up 07-12-15

I did a good chunk of sketches this week. Last weeks art road block seems to have passed for now. Really exciting stuff coming out of San Diego comic con, just a shame it’s tough to actually get tickets in the nerd is cool era.

Congrats to Serena Williams on her 6th Wimbledon Win, like Nike says “Just Do It”

Mid-friday the first cast photo of the new Ghostbusters hit the internet. I am counting down the days. Really interested to see what they do in terms of how does this relate to the 80’s Ghostbusters crew.

Can’t believe Invader Zim is back. Hopefully this will lead the way to a new animated series on Netflix. I did a quick sketch the day I saw the news the covers were released.

Just a quick model reference pose illustration. These are always fun quick doodles on paper. Ever so often I like to grab one and drop some color on it.

July 6, 2015

Weekly Wrap-up 07-05-15

A couple of drawing blocks lately, trying to get back into my routine again. I have some rough ideas for a small series to do I just need to focus on it…if only focusin existed (Obscure Simpsons reference). Good news is I picked up a new scanner my line work is much sharper now, so hyped.

Sam Wilson aka Captain America for the 4th of July weekend

Crash Bandicoot from the Playstation series

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May 24, 2015June 1, 2015

Weekly Wrap-up 5-24-15

Trying to figure out a proper schedule for posting blog updates. Much like the rest of the internet I am still in awe of Mad Max:Fury Road. Thus the beginning of a deluge of Mad Max related illustrations.

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