The Art of Adam Hartlaub

adamu your apparel/pattern stuff is really great! :O

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:41:19 -0500

Thanks!

So I found this lighting study of this kid at a campfire that I...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:21:37 -0500

So I found this lighting study of this kid at a campfire that I drew a while back. I really should start incorporating more lighting like this in my images.

This is a sketch I had on my computer for like 2 years, finally...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:30:05 -0500

This is a sketch I had on my computer for like 2 years, finally felt like painting it in photoshop. Really wanted to make it feel like the atmospheric perspective you get with watercolor, but with some solidity in foreground elements using acrylic or gouache. Except this is all in Photoshop.

I dunno I keep having all these story ideas lately about floating islands. Probably subconscious Sonic the Hedgehog nostalgia from when I was a kid or something.

I read Calvin and Hobbes on an almost regular basis. I saw this...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:14:23 -0500

I read Calvin and Hobbes on an almost regular basis. I saw this fan comic the other day about how Calvin grows up and moves on from Hobbes as the symbol of his imagination. It makes me wonder how we all move on from our imaginations from childhood, or if we hold onto them. I know I always tried to.

Original characters by Bill Waterson

This is my submission for Chris Oatley’s Portfolio Party on...

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:32:15 -0500

Children's Book 2

Children's Book 3

Betsy Bauer caricature WIP

Spooky Mansion Matte Painting

Apple Still Life

WIP Illustration for Legacy House Publishing

Baseball Kid Illustration

Footsteps: Winter Landscape created for a group gallery show

Children's Book 1

This is my submission for Chris Oatley’s Portfolio Party on Saturday! You all should check it out!!

Happy Halloween folks! :D

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:53:42 -0400

Happy Halloween folks! :D

Here’s a Halloween pattern I developed the other day....

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:28:55 -0400

Here’s a Halloween pattern I developed the other day. Gonna do some more holiday stuff to update my portfolio a bit. Enjoy!

So I had an interview with Black & Decker yesterday for a...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:15:40 -0400

So I had an interview with Black & Decker yesterday for a Graphic Design position (which I got offered the position today! Super excited!)

Haha, anyway, while interviewing them I asked about the different design departments they had there, and they told me about the team of Industrial Designers that actually designs all the power tools and stuff

And in my head I thought, “Oh man, I bet there’s a guy that just designs chainsaws for a living. I bet he looks something like this.”

But knowing my luck he’s probably some short, scrawny guy like me; or some little dainty girl. Hahaha who knows.

So I went to this Bach concert at a church down in Baltimore...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:49:29 -0400

So I went to this Bach concert at a church down in Baltimore with my girlfriend and one of her friends. They’re both music majors and super into classical works, so they very much wanted to go to this. And I have to say I enjoyed it as well. Very cool experience. Also there was this happy old gentleman sitting in front of me. He kept dozing off here and then, and then he’d wake up with this huge smile on his face. Hahah, I just had to draw him.

So I was commissioned by friends to design a T-shirt of one of...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:49:33 -0400

So I was commissioned by friends to design a T-shirt of one of my characters, and here’s what I came up with. Showed them a few color variations and they wound up choosing the one below. Pretty fun. YEAH BOY :D

Haha, my friend Betsy Bauer had some ridiculous photobooth...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:29:13 -0400

Haha, my friend Betsy Bauer had some ridiculous photobooth photos of herself on facebook. Those things are so ridiculous, they really produced great caricatured features, really great for inspiring different character designs. I did this quick painting of her earlier today. I may work on it more at some point if I feel like it, haha. The right is the original sketch I drew in my sketchbook, and the left is what I did to it after I threw it into Photoshop. I really recommend drawing like this sometime, it’s really fun! Haha!

Hot off the press! Freshly printed business cards! For my...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:16:02 -0400

Hot off the press! Freshly printed business cards!

For my excellent pianist girlfriend :)

I should know, I designed them.

Here’s a concept sketch of some of my characters from my...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:11:11 -0400

Here’s a concept sketch of some of my characters from my Middle Grade series titled “St. Aehr’s Academy”. The story revolves around these three main characters who attend a boarding school for monsters. Stay tuned as I will post more updates about this story in the future!

Happy October everybody! I hope you’re all able to enjoy...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:04:00 -0400

Happy October everybody!

I hope you’re all able to enjoy Autumn as much as this kid!

HI THERE! This is a greeting from one of my storybook...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:14:57 -0400

HI THERE!

This is a greeting from one of my storybook characters. A rather ecstatic concept of Allen as ‘Goat Boy’. More to come.

A rare personal doodle I was actually able to do inbetween all...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:11:17 -0400

A rare personal doodle I was actually able to do inbetween all the commercial work

Trying out a more animated style with vectors. Maybe do something with this? Maybe not? who knows. Anybody know flash?

Here’s another sample from the same story that I wrote and...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:39:03 -0400

Here’s another sample from the same story that I wrote and illustrated.

Sample page from a Children’s Book I wrote and illustrated

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:37:26 -0400

Sample page from a Children’s Book I wrote and illustrated

More patterns, of dinosaurs and guitars. Seriously, who...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:33:00 -0400

More patterns, of dinosaurs and guitars. Seriously, who doesn’t love dinosaurs and guitars, mirite?

Patterns of Farm animals and stuff. Cause.. you know, why not?

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:32:00 -0400

Patterns of Farm animals and stuff. Cause.. you know, why not?