Ungrounded Kickstarter Project

Recently EWG was commissioned to do some page work for Patrick Gerard on his project 'Ungrounded'. Well, those 4 sample pages are just scratching the surface. Its a fun book with lots of creative ideas and a lotta heart. Go support his kickstarter project so that I can draw more pages! :) Check out the pitch for the project above, featuring the art produced by EWG so far. And click the link below to check out the kickstarter drive!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pandemicmeme/ungrounded-an-expansive-comic-book

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Foreign Spammers

Due to the increasing number of foreign spammers on the EWG website commenting how great the site or article is and then requesting checking out their site (with a link), I am now setting comments to moderated. They will be allowed if you are legitimately commenting but may take a little longer.
1. This is annoying as I look forward to feedback and interaction with my site goers, so its a little disheartening to go 'ah sweet, a comment' and it was some European, Australian  Middle Eastern or Asian - based website spam.
2. Its in a way flattering as I guess these people have decided my site has enough traffic drawal to try to cash in on it. Thanks to all the regular readers for that.
Moderation-on. Or rather, I'll start with a word verification and then upgrade to full 'moderate comments' if that doesn't work.
Follow Up [5 Min Later] - Yep, works like a dream. Take that spam bots.

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Customer Order Tracking

Yes, a larger part of this week is eat up with Hospital stuff, but that takes priority over everything else. That being said, time in the waiting rooms has allowed some very inspired brainstorming and I even was impressed with the surgery lounge's monitor that showed basicaly a table chart of each patient's assigned number, and let people know in the waiting room where the patient was and what step they were on at all times. Seems like a simple/ obvious thing, but it has given me the idea to design a system like that for EWG customers. I have attempted something sort of similar in the past, but I like the way they did it at the hospital and think I will swipe the method too.

So this is just a bit of a note to myself in my EWG 'notebook' here. One of many improvements to come in the new year.

Along with the updated branding when I get the chance. Don't worry, time away from the studio means customer orders get delayed, and so does my own stuff. Right now I've got no rush orders (except one or two that are skimming on sensitive timing) or anything that can't wait a couple days. Life comes first. Thats the way it always will be. But nobodies orders slip through the cracks.

Of course if you JUST can't wait. Got yer refund right here, though I would prefer you be patient and wait as my wife and I can use all the help we can get with these medical bills.

Thanks!
~Eryck

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Quick thought 1/9/13

Also, what the heck is with these friggin stink bugs still occassionaly finding ways in in the middle of a frozen-over winter. The lil' buggers are unstoppable! That is all.

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Status Update: Second Half Of The Week

Long story short, lot of time being monopolized by hospital visits this week so some tasks will get pushed to next week. Nothing is dropped through the cracks or anything. Will all get squared away. Sorry for any delays get it to you soon! Essentially doing half of my usual work hours Thurs Fri and today was pretty much a bust. So working when I can. Thanks in advance to customers for their patience.

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Transformers on Livestream tonight

Will be doing a livestream session tonight @ 8pm EST featuring Transformers Generation1 characters. See if I can't get this badboy knocked out and out of the park while I'm at it.
Free signup for those who don't already have a livestream login, and hope to see you all there. Heres where the magic will happen:
http://www.livestream.com/eryckwebbgraphicsart/ 

Hop over there and when the show starts feel free to chat it up with questions and comments!

If it takes me a few minutes to get in and setup just sit tight :) Will get drawin in no time. See you then/ there.

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5 Heroes Tight Sketch and Color Concept

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Some serious character design from look to colors goin on. This is only first concepts. Officialy the last thing I'll really get to show of this project for a good while till it goes live on the clients site and all that. But having a lotta fun pushing the boundries of the box with these. Each character is on a seperate layer set. So they are all complete figures arranged as a group in this particular instance.
Anywho, definitly subject to form and color changes by the time its finalized. But yeah, will pop up links to the company's site when this stuff goes live for sure. Its gonna be very cool! Was told to come up with 5 characters, there were some nods to 'incredibles' as a starting point but i was given free reign, so theres influence from incredibles, fantastic four, secret saturdays and saturday morning cartoons from their glory days. Everything else, like the baby and the little details are from some crazy place in my brain, all having their own look but having a uniform theme with the logo and colors. But given just the palette of each character you can tell which one each one belongs to and also silouette design, where each has their own unique silouette which is really important in the land of character design.
Alright, fun stuff. Pending client approval to finish out or what not!

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Hulkin Warmup

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This morning's warmup sketch of The Hulk, pretty happy with how he came out considering its a quicky. Sketched, inked and gray shaded this far in 25 min. Kept it loose and fun, decided to use a different brush for this too, it was a more angled calligraphic style but I found it a blast, then coupled it with my signature black shades and grey tones and really pops. Might have to play with it more. Now off to client work rest of the day! All photoshop and wacom w/ 25 min timer

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