A.DACQUEL

Second Installment

2011-11-20T16:54:00.001-08:00

I finished this image a little while ago but I guess I forgot to upload it. This is part two in a little series I'm doing on western influence on eastern culture and immigration. Hope you guys like it!

Process

2011-11-07T17:52:00.001-08:00

they ended up going with the fully hand lettered version.

Pleased as Punch

2011-11-07T17:39:00.000-08:00

A very good friend of mine commissioned me to work on her save the date! It was an honor! Congratulations! One lovebird to another!

Ten-Paces: Fan Art by ME!

2011-11-04T08:11:00.001-07:00

Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl sketch by Rachel Dougherty.

This was my first pass--just a really quick piece but I thought I could do better.

So I made this guy. Chuck Bass's face was IMPOSSIBLE for me to draw for some reason. His prominent features just eluded me which is CRAZY! BECAUSE THEY'RE SO DISTINCT! I had a really tough time drawing him. I stuck to it and this is what I ended up with. ENJOY!

Detail: Martini lady

Ten Paces: Fan Art

2011-11-04T08:04:00.000-07:00

My sketch for Cocorosie that Topher Macdonald went to final on.

CREEPS SUBMISSIONS

2011-10-22T11:23:00.001-07:00

These are the images I contributed to the second issue of the Creeps Annual Zine.

These lovely ladies were to be the base of an exquisite corpse idea that Nina Carelli came up with. They would have been disassembled and combined with other body parts donated by other creeps members. In the end it was decided that these pinups were strange enough to stand on their own.

Enjoy!

CREEPS II RELEASE PARTY!

2011-10-21T07:32:00.001-07:00

Last thing, a bunch of friends and I (Nina Carelli, Becca Bacon, Young Heller, Chris Wednesday, Pan Terzis, Keat Teoh and more) worked on this zine called Creeps Annual and we are having a release party for the second issue tonight! It will be held at the:

Causy Contemporary Gallery

92 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY!

It's from 8-10ish pm. Come join us for some wine and spooky business! Afterward you're all invited to hang with the rest of the mob. I believe we'll all be going to crifdogs and then the Woods!

Hope to see you there!

Morris Dancers 01-05 (The Dark Side)

2011-10-21T07:23:00.000-07:00

Dedicateed to Kyle Stecker.

Ten-Paces: World History/World Culture by ME!

2011-10-21T07:12:00.000-07:00

The sketch I got by Kerry Hyndman (which had no notes attached). Can anybody tell what these guys are? I felt very uncultured. I did a little digging and I found out that they are Morris Dancers which I would liken to English river dancers. Check em' out on youtube, you'll definitely get a kick out of em'. It was like reading The Canterbury Tales all over again.

Here's my final on it. I was having a tough time with em so I dug down deep into my soul--into my dark side to produce these terrors! It helped that Anna Santaguida called me at my time of need to grill be about why she didn't get invited to my imaginary party. As soon as I got off the phone with her I had a new perspective on the project and I drew these little guys up in 20minutes, had em' inked in less than an hour and was coloring the same night. I finished the next afternoon and tweaked them a little in photoshop and sent em' on their merry way. This is what I'm talking about "life" in my work. There's movement and character in them. I told Anna I could almost hear them making sound effects. I'll post solo shots of each character too. I think they deserve a little individual attention.

Enjoy!

Ten-Paces: World History/World Culture

2011-10-21T06:32:00.000-07:00

My sketch: "Cleopatra Comin' Atcha!"

Alan Dalby's final.

Presh Pup

2011-10-20T22:56:00.000-07:00

Now this is the other side of the entry. My sketch was put in a raffle that actually ended up going to Mare Odomo! How lucky for me! He went to final on my piece and I fell in love with it.

Here's my sketch entitled "O.K. Cupid" which features a lovely cameo by the one and only, Charlotte Taylor.

and here is Mare's beautiful final!

I died. Straight up shit myself on the bus to boston and died. (I actually saw it on shawn's phone on the fung-wa bus to boston...that wasn't a figure of speech, that was real life just then.) That was graphic...but necessary.

Mare, dude...you nailed it and I absolutely love it.

Draw!

2011-10-20T22:29:00.000-07:00

So I was recently inducted into this really awesome blog called ten-paces and draw that my friend Andrew Vergara introduced me to.

Basically, every other week (or so) by midnight on a monday you turn in a rough sketch on an assigned topic--then your sketch is given to another artist in the ten-paces community and you are given yet a different member's sketch (my tuesday afternoon). A featured artist is picked as the "inspiration" behind the theme and you can either choose to mimic that artist's style, or the artist who's sketch you have, OR use your own style to go to final on the sketch you were assigned. Deadlines are at midnight on the thursday of the same week of your assignment and all entries are posted by friday afternoon! ...it's not as confusing as I had worded it. Promise.

This was my first assignment which I think I botched. The topic was a 3-5 panel comic. This was the sketch I got entitled "Waiting for Sleep" by the incredibly charming Mare Odomo

and this was my final...

which I find a little contrived. No big deal, lesson learned. I also almost didn't make my deadline because I was fussing over it so much because by the end of it I just wasn't buying it. I decided from then on that I would have more fun with these project and the rest of my work because when I have fun with it--it looks fun. I can feel my work breathe when I get loose but I seldom do it. I get so wrapped up in trying to make things pristine that it gets stuffy and dies a little. I get so terrified to make a mistake that it's paralyzing and you can see the fear in the work. Or at least I can.

After this project I loosened up and made a few things I'm pretty proud of. I mad the little horseman and the portrait of me smiling and screaming.

I am also about to post the new submissions for this weeks ten paces theme! It goes up tomorrow and once it has, I'll be sure to show you guys :-) Young called it "festive."

:-)

P.S. Kyle, prepare for the reawakening of my dark side.

REEE-MIIXXXX (fog horn)

2011-10-20T21:44:00.000-07:00

A little piece I did about being "fresh of the boat" or a F.O.B.

more to come shortly!

The Littlest Horseman

2011-10-13T11:39:00.001-07:00

a little guy in my sketchbook that I decided to give a little more time to.

Website Re-Vamped

2011-10-07T15:58:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! I just finished redoing my website that I was already redoing. Now that it's all up and pretty I just noticed that it's a little big...so I may need to do more editing. While it's up you might as well check it out!

Again, it's ADACQUEL.COM!

Quick New Things

2011-09-20T11:51:00.001-07:00

here are some quick things I did in my sketchbook. I've got a couple more but they're not quite ready yet.

I plan on experimenting digitally on these so when I stumble onto some excellent technique I'll be sure to post it.

Come one come all to the Greenpoint Gallery!

2011-09-15T19:00:00.000-07:00

The Greenpoint Gallery is having its first fall show of the season and to celebrate, a salon-type show! Two (or three?) floors of art, live music, drunk folks, annnd an awesome dog named sky!

Come out and see some excellent work from many different artist, including but not limited to: Rachel Pontious, Andrew Vergara, Lisa Fiore <3, and Me! (I'm sure there are a bunch more but those are the only ones I'm certain of at the moment). Drop by and see who else participated!

Here's a link to their website! (@__@)

The address is : 390 McGuinness Blvd. Brooklyn, NY

Hope to see you there!

Post Card

2011-09-13T21:15:00.000-07:00

Recycled images for the mail out.

Lets Do The Damn Thing!

2011-09-13T21:05:00.001-07:00

So I just got my business cards printed (finally!). I know I'm waaay behind everybody but we all move at our own paces (I reassure myself).

Simple, clean, and direct.

Nicotine Magazine

2011-09-02T20:25:00.001-07:00

Featured in the first issue of Nicotine Magazine which can be viewed here! (www.nicotinemag.com). I had a lot of fun contributing to this zine and look froward to another collaboration with the editors. (and midnight, the husky)

Friday

2011-09-02T20:18:00.000-07:00

My submission to Illustration Friday's topic: Mysterious

self portrait

2011-09-01T21:57:00.000-07:00

Creeps Annual Zine

2011-09-01T13:32:00.001-07:00

Hey guys! I just finished working on a few pieces including a t-shirt design for the Creeps Annual Zine. It won't be out for a little while but when it is available I'll post my contributions!

Thanks for keeping up if you're following me. :-D I look forward to posting more work soon!

Happy End of Summer all!

Ode to Ricardo Cavolo

2011-09-01T13:17:00.001-07:00

This piece was inspired by the artist Ricardo Cavolo...who I am artistically infatuated with. His work is very naive yet charming, fun, and authentic. I'm a huge fan. I channeled him in this experimental piece.

Comission

2011-09-01T12:43:00.000-07:00

This was a wedding present that I worked on for a fantastic couple that I have the privilege of knowing. It is now hanging up in their beautiful new apartment that they bought together. I am glad it has found such a loving home. Congratulations you two! You fill me with hope!

Experiments aka my DARK SIDE

2011-09-01T11:56:00.001-07:00

These are some pieces I did for Frances Jetter's Experiments in Narrative class. I had to dig deep into the hurt and darkness and harness their great powers of evil to really get across my hatred in its most pure form. I found it very therapeutic and effective.

Great class! Jetter's definitely someone to experience.

Paintings

2011-09-01T11:39:00.000-07:00

Some paintings made for Joo Chung's fine art of illustration class. They can all stand to get a little more work.

Tattoo

2011-09-01T11:27:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the better pieces I did for Regino Gonzales' Tattoo design class. There are a couple more from the class that I wouldn't mind revisiting later on.

Pattern

2011-09-01T11:19:00.000-07:00

Samurai vs Ninjas

This was a pattern project for Marcos Chin's fashion illustration course. It didn't look like this when I turned it in but I reworked it a tad.

BP

2011-09-01T11:14:00.001-07:00

This was a collaborative piece I started in the wake of the BP oil spill. My very good friend Aemi Thorne and I will finish it...at some point and repost it.

Blue

2011-09-01T09:05:00.000-07:00

perks of being a wallflower

Senior Year...

2011-09-01T08:48:00.000-07:00

Was a bust. It sucked. I thought everything would pick up and I would find my footing but it all ended up becoming a smooshed up blur of insecurities and anxiety. A majority of the times I struck out but when I dug deep, I feel like I hit a couple out the park. This one was one of them. The project was to do an illustration based off of a title. Titles were drawn at random out of a hat and mine was:

The Difficult Secret

Hello..there..

2011-09-01T08:37:00.001-07:00

So this has been a long time coming and I don't really know where to start...so I'll just start.

This first image I made over the summer before the start of senior year. It was originally a trial run for a tarot cards series that I wanted to tackle. This was the Death Card. I took a lot of reference but the project sort of fizzled out. I would like to pick it up again and maybe do something a little faster and more colorful.

HOWDY-DO!

2011-03-01T19:30:00.001-08:00

It's as good a time as any to get started! :-) Stuff coming soon!