tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:33:44 +0000portraitBaristasOriginalComicStarbucksacryliccanvasphotoshopsketchBatmanGirlsMuseTinted PaperinkpencilAnthologyMoviesTooth And NailthreadlessAcrylic InkArtBlade RunnerComicsCormac McCarthyCourtniDrinkingGrand Theft AutoHalloweenJoe MattJohn ConstantineMusicOmarPaintingPaul Thomas AndersonPornSalvador DaliSupermanThe WireThere Will Be Bloodcharcoalchocolate cafedouche bagdrawing jamforgetting sarah marshallgareth keenanjason segelkristen bellmila kunismirandared-face managerriverosketchbookt-shirt designunderpaintingwhite pencilhttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Adrian)Blogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-953414507794778549Wed, 19 Feb 2020 21:15:00 +00002020-02-19T13:15:37.872-08:00 I'm posting constantly on Instagram at Instagram.com/drytwist .  I have nearly 700 pieces of art on there.  That's not a joke.  And almost all of it is from the last five years.  So for regular Adrian in your life, that's a place to go Been a few years, huh.  Somewhere in there I just didn't want to share anymore.  Been a few years of that.  Life sucked, and http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2020/02/on-slog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-4938335702945942087Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:42:00 +00002016-03-17T01:27:15.746-07:00 Acrylic ink on gray tinted paper. I just turned 40.  I feel younger than ever.  Not just saying that.  I look it, and am having quite a life.  Not a life I'd be living outside of LA.  I went full mid life crisis.  Lived like a rock star(way too much booze and pot) with the wildest young lady ever, quit my job the day before my birthday, went full time into art http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2016/01/only-epic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-4806844305805895531Sat, 11 Apr 2015 06:01:00 +00002015-07-01T18:34:52.746-07:00 Links My art site is here: http://adrianriveroart.blogspot.com My buddy Chad asked me to write again because he liked this site.  When I moved to LA two years ago, I knew no one.  I decided to go to school, acting school, and sure I became friends, with my first partner, then roommates with my second, but Chad and me, we seemed nothing alike.  And that's me being http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2015/04/chrystalis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-167337238791365637Sun, 02 Nov 2014 07:57:00 +00002014-11-29T10:33:08.754-08:00*I edited lots of this way later so I just put an asterisk before the stuff I added.  See, I just did that.  You're already reading an edit, sucker.  No going back. *I should put a disclaimer or something that I try to write these things very thought like with as little censoring as possible.  So sometimes I'm crude and stupid, like we all are in the back of our minds from http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2014/11/pagliacci.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-6716293655495314430Fri, 04 Jul 2014 20:27:00 +00002014-07-09T14:53:11.236-07:00 Man, I've just been having the best and worst time ever.  Looking for work, then acting, then being busy all the time, then helping out on sets, then all over again.  If anything the ironic part is that I'm way thinner and have to look at boobs all day in my misery.   I did a week on a horror movie set.  That was fucking awesome.  I was paid, had room andhttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2014/07/refugium.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-5087473553962764729Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:36:00 +00002014-04-07T20:53:22.646-07:00 I've been doing commissions and character designs and fixing up storyboards for jobs while looking for more work.  That's to tide me over while work on developing my carreers(comics, movies).  Luckily I live in the right place(near a lot of the studios) and all that practice drawing hundreds of comic pages makes drawing storyboards and character design fairly easy for me. Buthttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2014/04/quill.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-8786171904423004270Sun, 23 Feb 2014 04:43:00 +00002014-02-22T20:43:35.029-08:00I've been working like crazy.  A bunch of different things like writing, drawing commissions, drawing pages for my anthology someday.  And at this rate I'm pretty happy, it's a good side thing and amounts to a bunch of totally different stories done in totally different ways.I have about eleven comic stories I want to copywrite and I figure the best way to do that is to do short storieshttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2014/02/frenzy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-8765564271503758559Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:16:00 +00002014-01-31T13:45:25.294-08:00 Life moves really quickly here.  I think that's obvious by my posts this last year.  A lot of progression and a lot of things happen.  I think I mention less than half of them.  So there I was complaining last post and like a day or two later I was having a blast.  If anything I am actually taking things a little slow.  But slow is still pretty fast over here. http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2014/01/velocity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-8026164967495179176Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:38:00 +00002014-01-23T04:31:41.589-08:00 Well, that took forever.  Trying to move, actually moving, unpacking.  At the same time my bumper fell off, my registration wasn't up to date(which was now a major problem without a front bumper). Plus, I had some screw up in my accounts which left me next to broke and unable to pay to fix my car stuff. And I had no internet because they were taking forever on that.  Oh and I http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2014/01/anachronist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-1970114840615858105Sun, 15 Dec 2013 04:55:00 +00002013-12-14T21:01:32.902-08:00 Busy I've been busy lately.  Finishing everything and starting my carreers.  I have to somehow sell my comic this month, reedit old scripts to possibly film, and get ready to start auditioning for things.  I've luckily assembled a wonderful circle of friends down here as well as some old friends.  Without them I couldn't do or wouldn't do most of these things.  http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2013/12/adulthood-beyond-adulthood.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-7651179730256038462Sat, 09 Nov 2013 02:45:00 +00002013-12-05T02:46:03.394-08:00 Edit: this is a photo after I did all the perspective I was just bullshitting in the older scan.  And it's about 25% inked(I still thought it might be a failure, but since I'm writing this after having finished it I'm happy with it).  I'll put up the finished one very soon. I'm in that really really frustrating two weeks finishing my comic and making corrections(or perfecting). http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2013/11/amber.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-3784417162293646312Sun, 13 Oct 2013 06:19:00 +00002013-10-12T23:19:17.420-07:00Loss is the air that I breathe.  Success is the water that replenishes.  I may be fresh out of the desert, with the trees all around me, being miserable about things, but death puts that all in perspective.  I lost my father this last month.  It's too personal to write about here, so I decided to focus on living, which feels ridiculously selfish, but I have been dealing with http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2013/10/antumbra.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-4250361269652112297Sat, 07 Sep 2013 16:11:00 +00002013-09-08T01:48:30.753-07:00An Annual Of Spin In The SouthIt's been a year since I moved south.  And it's been good.  Uncertain and stressful but good.  Actually more how I imagined and less like I realistically assumed.  But I have a weird way of being a realist, so there you go.  My Twenty Foot Tall HeadI was doing shorts and scenes for my reel, what I need to show casting directors when they http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2013/09/surreality.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-4959852797566901505Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:56:00 +00002013-07-31T02:39:16.114-07:00So the thing is,things are sort of great.  In a way that makes for both the best and worst stories.  Especially when your right in the middle of things you cant't predict.  Who wants to read the middle.  And when things are going good who wants to read that shit.  No. We want blood and guts.  And in reality there is plenty of that. But sometimes these good things. http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2013/07/rusted-gold.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-4052431973154830437Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:31:00 +00002012-12-31T18:31:57.961-08:00 Long story short, I was miserable, I moved, and now I'm not.  It took a while and a lot of work but I got here.  I had been trying to do this stuff for three decades so hard work and dedication and relentlessness and ignoring assholes was always the job.  And being really good was always the goal.  I have never prescribed to the idea of being just good enough and making a http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2012/12/unbound.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-3606372515993330187Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:15:00 +00002012-03-05T19:39:11.094-08:00The First Law I finished reading Joe Abercrombies The First Law Trilogy.  First off I loved it.  I think it's the best dark fantasy since A Game Of Thrones(And I read a lot of good ones actually: The Name Of The Wind, The Warded Man, Mistborn, Jonathan Strange And Mister Norrel, Perdido Street Station, the Scar, The Thunderer, The Etched City, Banewreaker and it's sequel, and others). http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2012/03/bloody-nine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-7382742639325819662Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:12:00 +00002012-02-09T19:02:04.447-08:00I was working on a painting today and I added some oil paint and then I looked at my "clean" carpet, covered in paint stains, and remembered I wasn't getting my security deposit back after they see those.  I then remembered back when I was doing most of my oil paintings back when I was losing weight and not leaving my apartment at all(I barely leave now, but back then I sequestered myself inhttp://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2012/02/labyrinthian-five-minute-mini-epics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-6913065468164675176Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:55:00 +00002012-01-07T03:08:34.297-08:00Muse"A good storyteller stabs you right in the heart.  But a great storyteller twists the knife afterwards." A drunken Christmas rant from me that probably steals from some better quote. I went down to LA for New Years and had a great time.  It is almost heartbreaking to me how different people treat me here.  They are very nice and sweet and women I am attracted to actually tend to http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2012/01/memoria.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-4987792598780765719Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:00:00 +00002010-06-28T14:29:23.774-07:00Acrylic InkCourtniGrand Theft AutoPaintingA little less than ten years ago I worked in a comic book store with my friend Taylor. He was still in high school and I was just given up on college. We would write down the inventory and our minds would dull and turn to jelly. For some reason the fact that no one came in and we had to do all this counting was mind numbing but I still have great memories never the less because I made such http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2010/06/its-all-about-makin-that-gta.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-5141842633361760253Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:50:00 +00002009-12-31T20:50:44.484-08:00MuseWhen I was about 11 or 12 my parents divorced. My dad moved out. Eventually since he worked with American Airline, he moved to their main airport, Dallas/Fort Worth. For quite a while I flew there every other weekend. I got to know Fort Worth really well. After a few years he moved to Miami. I was there the week that Hurricane Andrew hit. It didn't seem so bad until the next day. All the http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-blue-sky.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-7121839442679866697Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:20:00 +00002009-12-09T03:09:13.134-08:00ArtMuseOriginalSalvador Dali"The muse in her purest aspect is the feminine part of the male artist, with which he must have intercourse if he is to bring into being a new work. She is the anima to his animus, the yin to his yang, except that, in a reversal of gender roles, she penetrates or inspires him and he gestates and brings forth, from the womb of the mind." "Andrea del Sarto, an Italian painter born in 1486, was http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2009/12/muse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-5623982186797809297Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:15:00 +00002009-10-29T12:15:31.352-07:00GirlsHalloweenBefore the story: I have no plans for Halloween. I was invited to a few house parties but I wanted to be more social and meet new people. So if anyone knows of anything to do especially with new people or even if you don't know me give me a heads up. Castro is shut down this year(but I'd like to go to San Francisco) and I don't want to go to some ones house(although one of the house parties I http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-year-ago.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adrian)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-5905532460125746653Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:57:00 +00002008-07-05T00:19:59.772-07:00threadlessHow appropriate that I turn over Graphic Apparatus over to Adrian completely on the Fourth of July. He's now finally free of a blog contributor who rarely posts and who rarely says anything more than "This was drawn in pencil. Please tell me you like it because my ego needs the boost." So why are we parting ways on this blog when we were pretty much changing the art world with every post here?http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2008/07/riveros-indepence-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-2804390961947306023Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:57:00 +00002008-06-03T23:31:45.341-07:00acryliccanvasportraitrivero I remember wanting to give up on this blog a few months ago...or was it late last year? Not important, but this team blog needs Detective Rivero to report back to duty. I feel an ulcer growing in my stomach just thinking about what he's been doing with the gun and badge that we forgot to confiscate the last time he was at his desk.Is it just me or are we all imagining him hunched over a bar http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2008/06/time-to-start-posting-again-rivero.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33370261.post-2834911498709582421Fri, 30 May 2008 00:48:00 +00002008-05-29T22:25:43.570-07:00acryliccanvasportraitunderpainting Finished a quick self-portrait (posted on my other blog here) and then started this one because...well, I just need to paint a lot more and there were a lot of things that I would have changed with the first portrait of my niece had I given myself more time.http://graphicapparatus.blogspot.com/2008/05/started-another.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0