My name is Adam Daniels and I am an art student at the University of Wisconsin Stout. This current semester is my fourth semester (2nd year) at Stout. I am striving to be a fun and relaxed artist. I don't like to do art that takes me a very long time to complete because the longer I work on one piece and focus on one image it begins to lose it's original value and reason why I began creating it in the first place. My style is usually a quicker, light, almost childish style( or so I have been told by previous instructors). I have gratuitous amounts of fun looking upon and creating art, one of the biggest goals I have when a piece is finished is that it looks like I had a fun experience working on the piece. Almost none of my inspiration comes from artwork I’ve seen in galleries or museums because when I was younger I never went to galleries or museums very often. I was inspired by comic books, saturday morning television action cartoons, picture books, video games and toys. Countless hours were spent trying to recreate every single “Thunder Cats” character or sketching ideas for comic book super heroes and actions figures. My main man of the comic book illustration world is Jim Lee. His illustrations are like miniature murals that I can never just glance over. When I see his drawings I’m drawn to every never-ending detail. The perfect style carries a certain feeling and attitude, different in all the characters he portrays in his books. My style is the furthest possible portrayal of Jim Lee’s style. Unfortunately I am not as talented and have not put in as much time as the great Jim Lee. My style is too sloppy and I feel that it’s not as exact and as well though out, as I would like it to be. All of my art conveys my life style. Somewhat laid-back, different, and enjoyable (to certain viewers). My goal is to become a more clean cut, more precise and detailed artist but still maintain my child-like style.
