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Practicing my inking techniques.

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Geez, just found out tonight that Stelfreeze has an art blog. Bout time I say! The man is so talented, and it's crazy to get a glimpse at what he's thinking. I'd love to post deeper process pics...maybe someday, but I'm a fly by the seat of my pants kind of artist. I think on the move and that doesn't lend itself to documentation.

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In a way this is late, then again, it really isn't. I've been going crazy on pages the past few days. I've finished about 8 pages of various things in around 3 days (layouts through inks).

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So, here are some sketches I did with the new cintiq. I have to see if I can get a decent priced copy of Painter...though that's going to be tough. Reason being, I'm having trouble finding a decent brush in Photoshop for inking that has the right feel to it. I know that the scratchboard tool on Painter works outstandingly. I might just set up my old computer since it's got a full registered copy of painter 9 on it. Painter is much better in my opinion for doing digitally drawn pages, it's just a lot easier on workflow. What I may do is just set up the Cintiq in the other room on my old computer for drawing pages, then have the new computer set with the intuous for the time being...awww I don't know, I'll have to figure things out.

Anyway, I'm on break now for the summer. The day job is done for the year, and now I can focus fully on Art. Though I'll be going to hang out with my friend in Cali in July most of the summer will be spent on art.

I'd like to say that I'd be spending more time on my personal life and dating, but that's not the case. I've never had luck with that sort of thing, so my personal life has BECOME my art. All my passion and patience are put into my artwork. I can't say I'm done with dating, but sometimes it feels like that wouldn't be a bad idea. It feels like the girls I get along with and could actually see myself dating are always in a relationship. It's so frustrating that I've had to just cut that thought out of my head, so now I have a lot of friends that are girls, but no girlfriends.

I have a bunch of projects to work on this summer. I'd like to get one completely finished this week. The problem with these becomes the fact that I don't have much if anything that I can show. So pretty much it'll be Rick Dangerous with the few odd updates. I'd love to do more, but I'm already stretching myself pretty thin already time-wise.

I have to say this, I really enjoy the comic art community. I've really made some great friends, not from show-goers, etc. but artists, and true art lovers. It's fantastic to trade techniques and "secrets" with friends on how to step things up to the next level. That's what the true artists are doing every day, just hustling and doing what they do because they love it. I know I might never make it big, that's just what happens, but I love what I'm doing, and I love to share it.

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I just found out that the Cintiq I ordered is finally on its way. My BFF Sam should be getting his in today, he's lucky. We ordered it the same day through different vendors, but hopefully things turn out well. I'm really looking forward to ramping up my production through doing layouts on my Cintiq.

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"Episode" 10 of Rick Dangerous!!! I'll tell you, it's pretty amazing to me I've made it this long. You don't even know how hard it is to fit in sometimes. But I keep moving forward.

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Well, hopefully this'll cover us for the rest of the week. Enjoy!

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In most cases, holidays will push things back a day. In this case, you get Rick Dangerous #9 a day early!

I'm really having fun with this. I'm going to have to do something big for #10, but then again, every week is something "big"...that's kind of the point of the series. But I'll figure something out. It's just hard to believe that I'm already at 9 installments!

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Having some fun on my day off, hope you all are doing the same!

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Thought I'd practice drawing on colored paper. There's something inviting about it. Sometimes you have to fight the dullness of white paper, and then colored paper opens a whole new universe to you.

Did these in a new sketchbook a Fabriano Drawing Journal. I have to say, I've used Fabriano watercolor paper, and it's fantastic, so is this paper.

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Sorry about the infrequent updates. I've been trying to get to the end of a rough season. It's busy times right now. I am no longer with Cadence Comic Art. I am for the time being my own art dealer. My studio mates and I are going to put together our own original art sales page. But until that's all finalized, if you want commissions, contact me at evan.kaiser@gmail.com

Other than that, I'm still working on two top secret projects. I'll tell you, I've done more pages in this short portion of the year alone than I've possibly done in the past couple years. I never had the inclination to draw sequentials, they just weren't fun. But now I'm MAKING them fun. I also really feel that I have my own artistic voice now.

Anyway, I'll try to get some more sketches up over the next couple days. But for now, enjoy this Rick, I know this is only number 8, but it's my favorite so far.

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I've been busy. I can't even begin to tell you how busy I am. I'm doing so many things at once, it's hard to keep track of them. That's what happens when you're responsible and inventing. I'm doing pitches, work, sequentials, character designs...too much to deal with. But in a few weeks that'll be different.

So, the shoes, I did them for fun in a way. The first characters I remember are these two. My dad had a ton of their old comics, and it's what I grew up on, I'll love their characters forever. I'm so sad Matt Fraction is leaving Iron Fist. He renewed my love of Iron Fist.

Also, starting a new art blog with my friends Sam Ellis, and Mike Getty called Better Than Your Mom. We're doing new art on a regular basis. Art you won't see here on my blog. Ultimately we'll put up the art we do for the blog on ebay, and put together art books for cons. We set up different art assignments for each other, this one is two characters from different companies "interacting." You might be surprised as to what I chose...then again, if you know my brand of comedy, you probably won't be surprised.

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A new Rick, with the most talking ever...don't get used to that. Talking covers up art in my opinion.

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CAPE FALLOUT!!!

I have to say this first, all the pictures I show are from my friend Luan Luu. You can find even more here.

I started off with this picture from Friday night's live art show. This was my favorite picture by far of the night by Mike Huddleston. I'll get into talking more about how cool he is later, I just wanted to establish that his art skills are off the chart.

Another highlight of Friday...PEARSON!!!

Gorgeous, and huge as well. I stood there for most of the time he worked on it. He is very meticulous in what he does. I was lucky enough to be sitting behind him during Saturday at the con. I snuck many a peak at what he was working on. I hope my friend Matt scans in his Savage Dragon headshot from Pearson. There are no words to describe how beautiful it is.


This was the view I had for the day. Corner table, turned out to be a good position, though the wind was a beast all day. I put some 3M masking tape down and it held most of the stuff in place all day. I felt bad because my friends and I, along with Jason Pearson kept having to run and get things that were flying off of David Mack's table. But later on he was able to weight things down. Even with the fear of wind attacks, it was easily the most enjoyable con of the season, and a fitting way to end it. I'm still up in the air about Baltimore, which would be my first con of next season. My friends keep telling me I have to go, but it was a mixed experience last time. Mainly because of the situation I was in. Super expensive, getting lost in the WRONG WRONG WRONG part of town, and not even getting to eat seafood. Okay, enough talking, time for a break with a picture:
One of the multiple con drawings I did. Like I said, I LOVED THIS CROWD!!! Unlike some of the cons I've gone to this year, the people were all there for comics and for comic creators, local and big name alike. Sometimes I can't GIVE AWAY a sketch, and this time people were surprised at the price I charged. A few people said it was too low, but whatever, then they can get something from me at another convention. I loved talking to everyone. I even ran into my buddy from Atomic Age back in the day. He was the only thing keeping me going to comic stores for so many years. When he left, that ultimately lead to my path of only buying books on Amazon at this point, or at shows from the creators. Sketch interruption sneak attack:



There are a couple other sketches that I wasn't able to get pictures of because of various reasons. Like a Hulk picture I did that I really enjoyed, or the octopus picture where it's singing Electric Six lyrics, but I'm hoping they'll surface at some point. It's like the one that got away at Dallas Comic Con in January...the Poison Ivy picture that was awesome, but sadly I didn't get a picture of it...

Anyway, I said I'd talk about Mike Huddleston and all the cool people I talked to. My friend Kristian introduced me to Mike, and while talking to Mike I was also talking with Kody Chamberlain. Who is extremely talented and helpful. Uh oh, another picture interruption:

One of the main highlights (and there were many) was getting to talk to Robert Kirkman and Val Staples. I was scared going up to Kirkman at first but he was really nice after playing around with my obvious fear for a bit. He enjoyed it far too much. Val was SUPER cool to talk to because he helped me realize that I really need to find ways of learning the technical aspects of coloring for production. I need to hang around some pure colorists, or at the very least look at gutterzombie more.

I have to say, getting prints was really helpful. I was able to pay for them already, and get enough money for more prints, and I only sold a fraction of my supply. There were people that saw them that go to most of the conventions locally, so hopefully they'll buy some next time.

Ultimately, this was a great con, one of the best I've gone to outside of Heroes.

I'll keep you updated on any more fallout from the convention...oh wait, I nearly forgot, the Space Gun website is open. So check it out, we're still getting more features added on. My studio-mates would really appreciate it if you'd visit.

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At the CAPE convention this weekend, my friends know the folks at the Hero Foundry, a non profit charity organization.

We were asked to do pieces for their charity auction, so this is what I came up with. I had fun with it, but now I really want more of the tan mattboard.

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Kind of an ad for next week's Rick.