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Pics courtesy of my dawg Matt Warlick. Matt just sent me these and I'm super pumped! I didn't know what issue our pin-ups would be coming out, but apparently it's this month's issue of Astounding Wolf-Man! I'm over-joyed because I remember seeing the pin-ups in Invincible and other Kirkman books when I was in college and wanting to have something in them. It's just awesome to me. Plus, I got away with an old-school image sideways pin-up. Robert let me sneak it by. I used to love seeing the sideways pin-ups more often, or even the two-pagers back in the day.

Anyway, pick it up, it's a fantastic book, support Robert, because he's doing a great job of keeping the fun in comics nowadays. Also, it's a way of supporting Matt and I. Though we get no financial gain from this, it's a great way of spreading the word, especially for our studio.

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I hate it when the heroes let the villains go after something horrible, or they just send them to a poorly guarded prison. All in the hopes of keeping a villain for an ongoing series just because if they were to take the villain out it would remove a lot of story options. Since I don't exactly have to worry about ongoing story concerns right now. Rick's just going to kill the villain. It bothers me that Batman doesn't just kill the Joker. He'd be saving lives in the long run. But usually they have to show the moral high ground. I mean, Batman's already pretty insane, what's one murder going to do to him? I think it's pride and a continued sense of worth that keeps him from doing it most of the time.

Anyway, enjoy!

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Flexcruciating as it may be, the flexecution of these puns were flextremely important to this particular strip.

Yeah, I went there...

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Here's my entry for the Superman redesign over at project rooftop. Not sure when they'll put up all that stuff so I'm putting mine up now. I've tried before to send something to project rooftop, but it was after they'd already done a character, I don't know, but this is the first time I'll hopefully get something there, and hopefully people will like it. I went for more of a coat-tail effect because I thought it would look interesting in flight and even when he's just standing. I like it when things drape, but I didn't want to just go with a traditional cape. That's why I created this kind of tunic-y thing, not sure how it'd be classified. I have the little diagram up top how it works. But I figured it'd fold up pretty easily, and the rest of it is simple enough to keep with the iconic feel.

I was really sad that I didn't get to go to Heroes convention. Soon my friends that went should be getting back, telling me how awesome it was, and I'll be sad that I didn't get to go. Next year I definitely have to make it. Though it might be a good thing I didn't go, because I'm working on a sketchbook/artbook that is shaping up nicely. It's better not to rush stuff like that. I've been looking over pricing, etc. I'll probably do it through ka-blam, then I can sell it on indy-planet. That way you guys can order it online. It'll have a lot of new stuff, and the first collected version of Rick Dangerous.

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Quickly Rick is beginning to mimic my own life in terms of where he goes and the situations he gets into. I guess art imitates life and such. Oh, and saying "fudge rounds" is the way I trained myself not to swear because of my job. I replace words when in mixed company. Don't know if you wanted to know that, but whatev'.

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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.