Finally got some Pacific Rim fan art done. I was working on an animation that I put aside, cuz DAMN these guys are line-heavy! I hope to finish it still… Come say Hi in a couple days at CTN if you're around Burbank! Cheers!

CTN - Booth XT51

Hey gang. Just wanted to let anyone who follows this blog anymore know that I'll be at CTN this year, and I'll have printed my webcomic into a small tomb. Please come say Hi! I'll be in the New Talent section. Cheers!

By the way, if you wanna catch up on the story so far, the link is on the side, or here....   http://canofworm.weebly.com

Batman fan fic...

So I've been watching a lot of The Newsroom, which is an awesome show, and for some reason I thought of Batman. What with America policing the world again, or about to, I thought, wouldn't it be great if Batman did it instead? The guy's a paragon of virtue! So this is just a little fantasy I cooked up with totally half baked ideas about what he'd start with, and his attitude in such a case. My apologies to anyone this might offend, it is purely meant as a flight of fancy. (Which is what men in tights were designed for!)

Foxy lady!

Inkin practice continues....

Messin with my brushes some more.... I just started inking and I've never used blacks. It is Difficult! Great fun though, I recommend to anyone who likes to clean drawings to start drawing with a brush. It's so crispy! This guy's a vampire - incognito at the moment other than the pointy ears.

"Too High"

This was a piece I showed at last week's "Time of the Month" show in Toronto. It's based on one of my favorite rappers', "Lil' Dicky" songs, "Too High" - check it out!

Mongol practice..

Some loose character design practice... very inspired by Jesse Aclin's soldier characters...(link) and my faves are always the Mongols. Imagine back in the day, this guy was the F-22 of warfare. If you've never listened to the Hardcore History podcast about the Khans, I highly recommend.

Orangutans!

More people sketching...

More people that can be seen around here...

Queen W

Trying something a little different for a new project. Inked in brush. Colored in PS. Something I'm very interested in doing more of...

Also! I just started a Facebook page! Please stop by and "Like" my page to see new art in your FB feed!
*Link >>   https://www.facebook.com/artofadamtemple

Gotta stretch these design muscles....

Skeetchin..

Getting back into it

Too lazy to really finish this…May come back to the idea though...

Exploration

Old concept, new design exploration...

Motorcity animation

Motorcity Rough Animation from Adam Temple on Vimeo.

I'm about to start working with Titmouse again, and I haven't really had the chance to share work I did last year on Motorcity, so here's a compilation of some of the scenes I animated. I did rough animation in Flash, and it was really fun working with some of these characters.

Korra Kung Fu Test from Adam Temple on Vimeo.

Another piece of animation I did just last week was this bit of kung fu-tumbling. It was a test for Nick's Legend of Korra.

Comic tests..

Hey guys! Long time no speak! I just got back to work after a wonderful a hiatus surfing in El Salvador. These are some comic pages I did as a sample for a European publisher...sadly it hasn't been picked up yet. Soon! Hopefully....

DDF #25

I've been posting absolute shit since I came on holiday, but I always like this type of design. Thought I'd share. It's the heat man! Impossible to draw! I finally started putting a piece of paper under my hand to draw....never done that before as bad as that sounds.

DDF - 11

Just a little hedgehog hawking blood daimonds...

DDF - 10

Sooo today I was trying new things...trying to get this Mongol Falconer done for Ian Macdonald who absolutely aced one the other day. And he was kind enough to draw a character of mine you should def go check out. I tried a new brush or two, painted on filters, and generally noodled too much, but that's the image in my head! This falconer and falcon are a symbiotic unit in battle. I bet it goes for the eyes.

DDF - 9

I couldn't do the African animals and leave out the good 'ol Honeybadger!

DDF - 8

Rhino day! I swear I could do 28 more days of rhinos and be perfectly content.

DDF - 7

Today I tried to keep restrained, and I'm enjoying the results so far. This gangsta's a hyena, and I figure he's a joke a minute foot soldier, working his way up the ranks. He'll probably catch a stray bullet somewhere mid-joke.

DDF - 6

New series! Animal gangsters! This hatchet man is mostly just muscle, and fat. I kept thinking of the butcher guy from Boardwalk Empire. Anyway, just a glorified sketch because I could be bothered to ink it, and don't have the time to fully paint him - (I'm slow)

DDF - 5 - Maleficent!

Herro all you happy drawerers! Today's sketch is TRUE fan art! Maleficent scared the shit outta me when I was a kid, and we ALL know, that she'd of course become a high-ranking general in Hell, so there she is, all pimped out and badass. Seeya! Back to work :P

DDF - 4

Whelp... I hate my computer. And my scanner, and here's what has happened. This is my female lead from Can-of-Worms. That's right, I do fan art for my own shit! PAAAthetic. I'm actually geeking out more over Kevin Nelson's piece from a couple years ago : here. Try as I might, I couldn't find a more dynamic pose, so I settled on this. Hey Kevin! Let me draw under you! :)

DDF - 3

Another of Hell's Generals! This one has a penchant for Japanese shit! Then I got a little spikey, a little sloppy, and realized I'd better paint him. That went well, not. Fun practice though. I really need to get some brushes on this computer... Hope you guys had a good day 3!

DDF-2

Today's Daily Draw was inspired by matadors. I started drawing this demon and then wanted a decorative coat. I think it's kind of ironic that he's got horns and the coat...I think of him as one of Hell's generals, but ultimately I'm pretty unsatisfied with today's design. There's always tomorrow!

Day1 - DDF

Heeeeey, here's day one! I'm gunna post erry day this month. Maybe not this realized each time, but I hope to do some more designs that I'd like. It's gunna be a GRIND! Night :)

Midnight doodle

While watching Hellboy -

Influences....

I finally made one of these... an influence map, that is far from complete, really, but I'd need a lot more squares... This represents a lot of the biggest ones for me though. From top-left to bottom:

Hayao Miyazaki - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Bill Waterson - Calvin and Hobbes
Glen Keane - All his Disney characters and animation
Juanjo Guarnido - Blacksad
Emmanuel Klotz, boards, Albert Pereira-Lazaro directed - Lascars
Toshihiro Kawamoto, designed, Shinichiro Watanabe, directed: - Cowboy Bebop
Enrico Marini - Scorpion
Belladona - Pierre Alary
And last, but obviously more likely most than least - Milt Kahl, the grandmaster of the Nine Old Men, who animated and designed so much of the first golden age of Disney films - his sensibilities were imprinted on me since I learned to hold a pencil.

There's so much great art out there, these things are so unfair. Anyway, that's it. If you haven't seen all of these for yourself - get a move on!

Night:)

DDF Approaches

Hey guys! I don't know if you've heard, but it's almost February, and that means Satellite Soda is holding their annual daily-draw-february marathon. I'm going to try to post a drawing everyday. I'm holding off on continuing Can of Worms so that I'll have time, so sorry to anyone that cared! Come join in the fun! I sketched this up as more warm-up for this epic event!

Midnight Mongol

Just a late night doodle. I can never draw enough of these guys, hard as they are. I recently listened to all the Hardcore History podcast on the great Khans. Really interesting stuff. I imagine something like this when they cross the mountains into Europe to wreak havoc. Frickin bosses! Night!