1am; Take That To Do List!

So, it's a week later. Third post in; I'd make some disparaging remark about my consistency in updates and such, but I don't think anyone would notice to be honest. There is something kinda freeing in that. In the four years since I started tattooing, my friend list on FaceBlah has grown from somewhere around 70 or so people I actually knew to just a hair under 900 people, most of whom I've met once, if that. It's a good thing, mind you, as I make a fair amount of my living because of the site, and social networking in general. My tattoo shop still hasn't done too much in the way of advertising, so social media and word of mouth are exceedingly important to us.

However, as social networking has become more of a vehicle to keep folks abreast of the various things I'm fiddling with, I find myself posting less and less of my personal life. It seems like a work tool. Oddly enough this is too. But something about the slightly antiquated nature of an actual blog makes it seem like a more comfortable place to babble on due to the fact that you kind of have to seek it out. It's not the type of site that one would stumble on by accident, I guess. The posts aren't fed to any other social media other than the .com, which is also a bit of a thing of the past. Anyway

This week's been pretty busy. Getting set up for the Halloween promotion at the shop. $50 Flash sheets, and one of the rare occasions where we will do multiple executions of the same design. Mine are below, with much love to Del Toro, Supernatural, Rob Zombie, The Creature, and Hellboy. All of them are meant to be straight up line-drawings, but full color versions will likely be an option as well. It was enjoyable to draw some line work based portraits after all the full color photo-esq stuff I've been focused on the past few months. Immediately noticed a change in the initial sketch stages and general line weight choices.

Additionally, this weeks poster for the Uptown Theatre was an opportunity to draw a childhood favorite and the first name in horror; Freddy. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 is kind of special film, for a multitude of reasons (most of which are to be covered in a crowd-funded documentary ((I'll find and post the link later, if it isn't already funded))), so it seemed like a good chance to go back to a straight up portrait, especially after the more designed-based pieces for The Birds and The Shining.

Also, because sometimes I do things like this to help me keep track of what I've been up to, below is the entirety of the posters for the Uptown Theatre to date.

And lastly, for a fun, a close-up of one of the pieces I'm working on for the solo gallery show coming up next month. More on that as it develops.

So that's about it for this one. Time to que up Fargo on NertFlerxs and get back to work.

Not Even 2am

As per usual, I'm showing a large amount of gumption in the early innings of this blog sass. I'm still sort of floating around what ever the purpose of this blog is. So in addition to an actual sketchblog, I'm going to bite Kevin Smith a bit and make it a bit of a log how my time is actually spent.

Shop was getting prepped today for the gallery show this weekend, in conjunction with Second Hand Hounds. Aside from a few quote tattoos in the evening, the day was spent plotting out a full torso piece (mainly for fun), as well as some other flash offerings. Long day, lots of busy work and little things; but by no means a bad one.

Also on deck today was the poster for this weekends midnight movie. I've been working on and off with the Uptown Theatre here in Minneapolis, promotional posters for their Midnight Madness showings. It initially started as a nifty cross promo that allowed me to keep working on portraiture; which I was just getting into at the time. Coupled with an old familial tie to the establishment and my sweet tooth for poster design, seemed like a win/win. Now, I find myself spending an awful lot of time thinking about how to out due the previous weeks.

This weekend is The Shining by Stanley Kubrick. It's a favorite of mine, and an intensely rich visual flick. Having recently serial-rewatched a documentary on the underlying themes of the movie (re:insomnia), I immediately knew what I wanted to do for the poster. Execution was quick, and I'm quite happy with the results.

5 Years Later...

It's been nearly five years since the last post on here. They keep telling me that I need to keep up. Things are changing. Industries, interaction, media; all of it, changing. So quickly in fact, that it appears the only thing anyone seems to be certain of now is the change. And the desperate, feverish need to keep up with it.

Whatever

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Maybe it's being just this side of the fence from 30, but it seems like chasing waves, so to speak. And yet here we are. So, this is a bit of test post, to see how much of a pain in the ass posting photo's to this seemingly archaic form of social media will prove to be (I'm mean really, a blog?)

It's also, despite the Instagram, facebook, dotcom, and tattoo shop links located on the right of this page, the only place I think I'll be able to consistently post new work as well as thoughts and mutters about the damn kids dropping their smart phones on my lawn.

Anyway, here's a quick breakdown of where to find everything.

4POINTS BODY GALLERY: This is the official site of my tattoo shop in Minneapolis.

ADAMSWARD.COM: This has the portfolio/project gallery, links to music projects, the STORE, etc.

INSTAGRAM: Oddly enough, this is mainly tattoo videos.

Almost 4am. Time management is a shortcoming of mine. I'll leave you with the line work from one of the last poster designs for THIRA, prior to their 2015 hiatus.

Or not....

This photo posting thing is going to be an issue.