Live Sketch Nights - Starts this Wednesday!

#livestream #art #customize #digitalart #comicart #comic #chibi #sketch #superheroes

EWG is happy to announce that we are launching a new weekly fixture, 'Live Sketch Nights'. Now every Wednesday you can come to EWG's livestream at 8pm EST to get a fast, high quality, on the spot art piece of the character of your choice. It can be fanart of a mainstream comic, animation, movie or video game character OR your original creation!

We hope to see YOU at the first event TOMORROW night and every Wednesday night thereafter!!!!

This will be great if you do not want to pay for the high-end publish-quality illustration work but are looking for some high quality fresh exciting character art for your hobbies and interests! All you need is $26 (for inked black & white) or $37 (for full color over inks) per character (sent through PayPal), and a solid reference picture. That's it!!!!

We look forward to seeing you Wednesday for the launch of EWG Live Sketch Nights happening exclusively at Picarto: https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=eryckwebbgraphics

More details:

● You have your choice of a black and white or colored ink sketch
● You can choose a normal or chibi form
● There are no backgrounds
● You must either provide an existing visual reference of the character 
    or be willing to use whatever interpretation the artist applies to the
    piece
● All changes made once your order is complete will incur additional
    charges. Changes may include upgrading to color ($30) or adding a
    background ($15 black & white, $30 full color)
● Payments are only accepted via PayPal
● Please do not pay until you have been prompted to do so
● Orders will be done one at a time and as many as possible will be
    completed in the given night
● In most cases the event will last two or three hours, but may be longer
    if necessary
● If, for any reason, an order is not completed Wednesday night, it will
    be finished by Friday

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Razorback Protecting Her Brood - Sketch Dailies Warmup

#IMAGINARYDINOSAUR @Sketch_Dailies #Sketch_Dailies #sketchbook #sketch #warmup #dinosaur

For sketch dailies topic today, 'imaginarydinosaur' basicaly create our own dinosaur. I ran with a triceratops-esque big horned 'razorback'. This momma is in a braced stance protecting a nest of babies underneith of her. Theres an approaching predator. Eh, was fun could have come out better but was fun.

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EWG Live Sketch Nights - New Weekly Event

#commission #livestream #sketchnight #sketch #liveart

Happy to announce the new format for EWG weekly livestreams. Now moving to Wednesday nights and reformatted to focus on live commission sketches. That's right, starting 1/28 you can come out, and get in line to watch some sweet digital art, that you just ordered, be drawn live right before your eyes. No 2 or 3 week turnaround for these bad boys. $26 inked character art sketches or $32 colored ink character art sketches. One at a time in order of received. Limit to however many I can do during an event. Will accept paypal only and payments for these events will only be accepted during the event by those in attendance. Black and white sketches can be upgraded with color afterwords for $15.00

Event is exclusively held at EWG Picarto site. Here: https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=eryckwebbgraphics

Look forward to having you out in one week for the first one and every Wednesday in 2015!

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Gnome Left Behind

#gnome #nomanleftbehind #sketch #inkscape #inkwarmup #ewgoriginal

A warmup this morning, spent more time on than should have but needed it. Got some page inks to do here this morning and my hand was JUST not warmed up ready to ink. So, with inkscape and the nib brush i worked out the kinks. I really do enjoy playing with exaggerated proportions a lot. Like wide nose bridges, big teeth, deep inset eyes, and big forearms. Had fun with some textures in this inking sketch as well, like the texture of the fabric of the scarf, the hair on the skin and the fuzzy of the hat. Started thinking of all kinds of gnome puns like instead of no man left behind, 'gnome man left behind' or 'gnome for the winter' or 'happy and you gnome it' and instead of garden gnome - 'guardian gnome'

Anywho, onto get those pages inked. Also fyi, the folks who visit this site and read these posts will hear it first, there will be a new format for evening Livestream events. Starting next week EWG Livestream Nights will be Wednesdays and in most cases be dedicated to discount live sketch nights. Stay tuned, get your pay-pals warmed up and look for the ad to post before the weekend.

In other news, I will be wittling away at things that are taking up time or not leading to any constructive improvement/ benefit. Will shed unnecessary art groups and other extra curriculars as well as getting my core clients in a row so i'm making what i need to make each month but not stressing over acquiring a lot of individual commissions all the time. All geared towards a less stressful lifestyle - work/ living coexistence hhopefully. Heading through the first quarter of the new year, I will also be reevaluating prices, and redesigning the pricelist. I have accumulated time sheet data over the last year that will go to more accurately compensating for the average completion time of a given job. Especially comic work. I believe, to do those as well as I can I have to spend a lot more time on them and when I do, I'm just losing money I should be making.  Character art and design are about right. But comic work is monstrously time consuming. So this will have to see some shift one way or another.

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Transform Your Selfie

#transformers #selfportrait #selfie #autobot #decepticon

Something fun I whipped up this afternoon. A profile pic for a blurb, which will be part of the 'meet the 2015 comic artists' feature in a future issue of Transformers Collectors Club Magazine. Don't know if anybody else has taken this approach to a profile pic before, but I thought it would be fun and different. Big Transformers fan, so its a lot of fun to be part of the 2015 creative team. I do the black and white art, then its sent off to a colorist and another person does the lettering.The magazine I believe comes out bi-monthly (every other month) if I'm not mistaken.

More on Fun Publications and the magazine can be found here: 

http://www.transformersclub.com/

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Garfield The Loaf - Sketch Dailies Warmup

#Sketch_Dailies @Sketch_Dailies #sketch #warmup #sketchbookpro #Garfield #Loafy

This morning I did a drawing based on an ol' fav cat o' mine named 'Loafy' - the most easy going, follow you around for a good head scratching cat I've ever known. I always thought he'd make a good Garfield so tried it on. Not my best drawing of a cat definitely but... worked to get the idea down and me all warmed up for work today.

The pic this was referenced from:
Miss you Loafy!!

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Martin Luther King Jr Day - Tribute Warmup

#martinlutherkingday #mlk #civilrights #freedom #warmupsketch #sketch #sketchbook #sketchbookpro #eryckwebb

Will let this piece I did for warmup this morning speak for itself, but wanted to do a tribute for one of the great 'renegades' of our time. Its a shame he got assassinated doing what he was so good at. Who knows what other crucial changes he would have made happen in this country and the world.

I also can't help but think of the Optimus Prime quote today: 'Freedom is the right of all sentient beings'.

Have a great week!

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Saiyan Sketch - Warmup

#sketchbook #warmup #sketch #dragonballz #goku #saiyan #supersaiyan #dbz #sketchbook pro

Didn't feel like doing too long a warmup this morning. Got work I need to jump on but took the time to scratch around in Sketchbook and draw some DBZ homage. Not necessarily adhering to accurate character design or anything just representing the show/ super saiyan characters in general. Continuing the trend of 'fav animes' homages this week in my warmups/ practice sketches. Big fan of the general idea and concept and time line of Dragon Ball/ Dragon Ball Z - but just have a supe rhard time getting past the juvenile dialogue and the slow slow pace. The movies are really where its at for the most part. But done right, could make an amazing movie trilogy. First one he goes super saiyan, second one he finds out he can go super saiyan 2, then 3rd one maybe he goes super sayan 4 or something. The endless training, striving to get more powerful and improve and the new power levels and new threats (challenges) is the coolest part of the show.

Alrighty, onto TnC and UTMNT rest of the day.

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From The N O Cometh - Warmup Sketch

#flcl #foolycooly #anime #warmupsketch #warmup #sketchbookpro #sketchbook

Today's warmup post lunch, getting ready to pencil some comic pages - this week I've decided the theme for warmups will be 'tributes to favorite anime'. Starting it off is one of the vivid images that come to mind when thinking of this awesome 6 episode anime. I even have the two volume manga which is a good deal different in story portrayal but equaly as original and awesome. FLCL baby.

About 15 minutes in Sketchbook Pro with Wacom Intuos 2 Stylus. Not trying to be accurate to model or the exact character designs of this scene just paying homage/ doing it my own style. Fun stuff.

N O was the energy that was used to create portals in naota's forehead and the pirate king atomsk.

If you haven't seen the 6 episodes of FLCL, you are missing something. And you should watch it several times over and over to catch things you missed previously, and to get all the metaphors laced throughout.

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Jelly Bean Lizard - Warmup

#sketch #warmup #jellybean #creature #monster #space #inkscape #digitalinks

Did this warmup while waiting on my computer to run virus/ spyware scans etc. Long over due so taking a moment to do that so it'll be running at max awesomeness. This was drawn in Inkscape start to fin. Its a fun exercise I'll have to do again. I basicaly whimsicly with no planning whipped out a circular wobbly shape (the basic outtershape of this critter) and then saw if I could make something purposeful out of it. This guy came out. I started with the eyes/ face sort of thinking of a whale and then thought of it as almost a space worm and added the small arms legs. This creature is cruisin through space to its next destination. Wherever that is. Fun random exercise. Onto some client work next hopefuly!

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