Adam Schmidt Illustration

2012-01-14T12:19:00.001-08:00

quick practice from a photo I did before bed, and part 2 from the previous black and white image.

2012-01-11T21:46:00.000-08:00

portraits, portraits, i love me some portraits

2011-12-14T06:38:00.001-08:00

I've always been interested in drawing faces

some photo study

2011-09-08T16:05:00.001-07:00

been a while, here's a little practice from a photo I did today

now in color

2011-05-06T21:16:00.001-07:00

2011-05-06T15:43:00.000-07:00

some warming up today

horse head

2011-02-19T17:24:00.001-08:00

here's a quick sketch from today

cartography line art

2011-01-05T07:45:00.001-08:00

here is the line art for an upcoming map for Dark Skull Studios. Check out all the new content for New Gods of Mankind, the Bloodfire territories are host to an awesome adventure - www.darkskullstudios.com

forest gate

2010-12-30T22:47:00.001-08:00

something i did a while back that i can show, now. Mostly done in Art Rage with a little photoshop touch up.

for Cosmothea RPG by QT Games

figure drawings

2010-12-19T08:55:00.000-08:00

2010-08-27T19:38:00.000-07:00

edinburgh castle practice

2010-08-25T08:17:00.001-07:00

castle in the fields

2010-08-20T16:47:00.001-07:00

tribal

2010-08-13T18:40:00.001-07:00

some art rage warmup, as always of late

friday painting time

2010-07-23T19:39:00.000-07:00

little still life for today

2010-07-16T19:18:00.001-07:00

beech seen

2010-05-14T19:28:00.001-07:00

art rage madness.

playin around with some AR

2010-05-10T19:18:00.000-07:00

t-shirt logo

2010-05-08T19:33:00.000-07:00

I made a t-shirt logo as a present for my nephew's birthday

weekend sketch

2010-05-07T21:55:00.001-07:00

we call him Yai Yai

2010-05-03T17:33:00.000-07:00

bat boy

2010-04-30T19:32:00.001-07:00

weekend sketch bat boy

thanks for the comments guys, I haven't figured out where the 'reply' button is on here yet.

more oils

2010-04-25T20:32:00.000-07:00

update on the oil painting, another hour and change into it.

I'm a wannabe oil painter

2010-04-16T21:36:00.000-07:00

I always loved painting in oils, but am way too lazy for all that cleanup.

2010-04-09T17:44:00.001-07:00

some blah doodling

underpainting

2010-04-08T21:53:00.000-07:00

started an oil painting tonight, haven't done one of these with real paint in months. this is about an hour into it, just the drawing/underpainting.

back to the basics

2010-04-04T18:23:00.001-07:00

art rage doodlin

i've been turned

2010-04-02T23:19:00.001-07:00

I have discovered Art Rage.

life drawing

2010-03-30T20:18:00.000-07:00

illustrating the process

2010-03-23T08:54:00.001-07:00

WOrking on a personal illustration, this is my typical process. Sometimes I will skip the sketch phase and just enlarge and refine the thumbnail, but most of the time it's a good idea for me to make a more polished drawing first.

more sketch

2010-03-14T17:15:00.001-07:00

photo study with a twist

more rocks, less river

2010-03-11T19:35:00.000-08:00

Just some stone study

naked ladies

2010-03-05T20:48:00.001-08:00

Another life drawing, about an hour

river and rocks, exciting!

2010-02-26T20:12:00.000-08:00

quick studying, about an hour. Landscapes are one of my weaknesses, so I should do more!

life drawings

2010-02-15T17:44:00.001-08:00

Every now and then I draw from life, these are between 60-80 minute sketches.

when paintings go bad

2010-02-03T08:47:00.000-08:00

This is a sketch I did some time ago in preparation for an oil painting. The painting has clocked over 20 hours and I just realized that the sketch looks better.

Also I would like to say thanks for watching to the new followers!

2010-01-24T13:01:00.001-08:00

I now have followers; thanks guys! I'll do my best not to disappoint.

getting back into the swing

2010-01-09T10:11:00.000-08:00

holidays are over, I didn't get as much done as I wanted, but had lots of fun and caught up with family I haven't seen in a while. Here are some new things to look at for now.

more sketching

2009-12-10T20:04:00.000-08:00

some more doodling in photoshop.

night time warm up

2009-12-06T21:11:00.000-08:00

Some quick sketching nonsense.

digital inking!

2009-11-07T21:38:00.000-08:00

Here are some quarter pagers:

thumbnailing

2009-09-28T20:00:00.001-07:00

here's a thumbnail for a painting that I've been kicking around in my head for a while.

some sketches

2009-09-23T16:46:00.000-07:00

Some sketches. I have stolen a bit of Patrick McEvoy's process for the shapeshifter. Check out his blog here : http://megaflowgraphics.blogspot.com/

some life drawins!

2009-09-10T16:33:00.001-07:00

some sketching from life

2009-08-23T11:22:00.000-07:00

". . .So Ruin was their cohort, and it was the name of a creature the height of three men. A loincloth of skin, perhaps human, covered his penis, though pumpkin-sized testicles dangled below the edge of this garment. His skin was reddish orange, and sprouted tufts of coarse black hair. Ruin's head, however, was bald. He carried a tree limb with a steel blade lashed crudely to one end, something of a scythe, which he swung before them, carving swathes in the ranks of any advancing enemy."

fanart of Toothless by J.P. Moore. Highly recommended audio book. www.jpmooreonline.com

2009-08-19T17:58:00.000-07:00

sci fi

2009-07-18T10:22:00.000-07:00

some sci fi concepts.

Kayden Alexander

2009-07-03T20:21:00.000-07:00

Since it's international portrait month, I decided to draw a sketch of my son who just turned 1 year old. He sat on my lap with a pencil and slashed away at the paper while I drew his portrait. It was a neat collaboration, his first drawing and self portrait. He had so much fun that I'm certain we'll do this again in the near future.

art order submission

2009-06-28T09:26:00.000-07:00

I found out about this black and white contest yesterday and since I've been reading a Pyle book, I felt compelled to create a drawing for the contest. The dimensions were a challenge to find a good composition.

Welcome to my blog

2009-01-31T07:07:00.000-08:00

I have decided to jump on the bandwagon and make a blog. Hopefully someone will enjoy looking. Here's some work I've done to introduce myself.