Warmup 15-30 min - Geoff Munn's Chuck from Kiosk: Life In Neutral

 

#webcomic #comics #kiosk #gmunny #warmup

This morning's warmup continues the 'FanArt of Other's OCs' theme - picked a character this morning from Geoff Munn's 'Kiosk: Life In Neutral' - something about the character Chuck just said 'ddood.... draw me.' So I did. Pulled out my Jay/Silent Bob and my Big Lebowski vibe for this one!

Fun stuff - stay tuned will be doing this probably through next week as theres too many friend's characters I want to do to narrow down to one week.

And if Geoff likes this sketch wants a copy, just email me at eryckwebb3@yahoo.com I'll toss it over bud!

Check out Kiosk here! http://www.kioskcomic.com

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July Live Commission Night

#commission #live #chibi #comicart #comics

This event is actualy a micro special. Spread the word, only available during those 4 hours, come order some chibis or normal character art. All full color. Will be working on some whilst, ordering starts July 31st 8pmEST ends by 12amEST!

Event has ended! The Paypal cart that was below has been removed!

Thank you to everyone who came out made this the best live commission night yet!

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Warmup - Plastic Robot

 

#warmup #sketch #comics #drawing

This week, I'm using the theme 'other's OCs' for my warmups. Each morning, my 15-30 min warmup sketches will be focused on other folks I have the pleasure of meeting across these interwebs. But more specificly, their original characters. This will allow me to do some fanart of other folks' creations when i otherwise might not have time or a chance. Today kicking it off is along overdue art of 'Plastic Robot', created/owned by David Mcdonald over at - http://plastic-robot-comic.deviantart.com/ - very cool character hope I did him some justice! David, email me at eryckwebb3@yahoo.com and I'll toss you a copy of this - no charge!

Onto the work day! Stay tuned to this site and the sketchbook section of the art gallery page for more installments. Who will I do fan arts of next? Stay tuned!

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New EWG Business Cards by Vista Print

@vistaprint +Vistaprint #vistaprint #businesscards #smallbusiness #smb #branding #logo #contacts
Vistaprint did an amazing job printing these matte finish cards front and back, they're trimmed exactly how I wanted them and the colors are rich and true. 
This is a new batch of Business cards with branding to match the current design of the websites, my t-shirt I'm going to be wearing to Steel City Con and more. The four colors of EWG - Orange, White, Gray, Black - displaying the brand and what it does on the front including how to get in-touch, and on the back a full bleed example of my work borrowing a cropping from my 25 character commission from last year. 
These will be great to toss in with mailings, hand to potential customers in public and share with folks who want to know what I do. Thanks Vistaprint!

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EWG Pricelist Is Once Again Live

Thanks for your patience as the pricelist on the EWG website has been down and in the process of being redesigned for a couple months. With the upcoming Steel City Con attendance and many inquiries from customers who had trouble finding the price list page, I decided it was time to get that finished up and posted. Well the page has gone live again and I believe its easier to read, understand and find just what your wanting to commission EWG for than ever.
So check it out, email for custom quotes and questions and remember, EWG is always available to help with your creative needs! Updates and modifications will surely be revised later but for now - its live and ready to use!

http://www.eryckwebbgraphics.com/p/commission-pricelist.html

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TnC Turns 1 Year Old

TnC celebrates 1 year of web-comic awesomeness! This week's anniversary edition of TnC is a special double sized strip! This week's episode continues the tradition of the same TnC humor readers know and love and also takes time to bow to influences both in other comic series and in pop culture.

Thank you to the fans and readers who have responded to the series with such positive support. For the last year it has been very well received, and the support continues to grow! Your support leads to greater inspiration and motivation in Cory's scripts and encourages me to push the art to be the best it can be week after week. Every week, your likes and shares help the exposure of the webcomic and shows us that you like what we're doing! Please continue to share, like and read the strip and let us know you are enjoying it for the weeks to come!

Thanks to Cory for having me on the series, its a lot of fun to work on and I'm very glad to continue being part of TnC. 

Go like the TnC Facebook page, and read the 1 year anniversary strip here:
 https://www.facebook.com/TNCComics

And on the TnC webcomic page
Tnc #52 1 Year Anniversary Strip

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EWG Steel City Con Tee - Good To Go

#zazzlemade #zazzle #tshirt #shirtgraphic #logo #ewg #steelcitycon #comiccon
Got new shirt in the mail today - Zazzle.com did an amazing job. The colors are exactly what I wanted, the orange is bright and rich the grays nice and solid. The whites bright white. The shirt fits great too and I will be wearing this bad boy both days I'm going to Steel City Con. Toting business cards and a portfolio of EWG's best works! Eryck gives the ol' thumbs up to this fine shirt printing!
Thank you Zazzle - very quick delivery too! (About one week from ordering)

Though other vendors may be cheaper, I needed a larger size than most places and Zazzle is very accommodating! Can't recommend enough.

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Thursday Night Livestream set for 7/22

Thursday Night Livestream scheduled for Thursday! - https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1065426/events/3196647/images/57312674 #Livestream #digitalart #MMORPG 

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Chinook Girl - Semi-Fin Pencils

 

#pinup #noseart #worldwar2 #chinook #pilot #army

Semi-Finished pencils of 'Chinook Girl' - inspired by classic WW2 pinup / nose art. She loves her job, she loves those CH-47s and is enjoying a nice fly over while cooling off after a long flight.

Incoporated as many elements that seem to be part of a chinook pilot's garb and also most importantly, chinooks throughout! 

For one of the two 400 Likes winners over on EWG Facebook! Get the second one penciled tomorrow nad if this one is approved finish it up next week!

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Tutorial Tuesday: Mark Brooks comic page digital pencils and inks

Always inspired by watching Mark Brooks work digitaly on his art. From his awesome detailed pencil work to his dynamic figures and then his inks. Takes him about 9 hours to do a page like this below. The video is only about 6 minutes. The results are awesome, and goes to show what quality you can get out of a page that takes 8-9 hours. I try to keep mine under a much tighter timeframe for budget/ deadline purposes but many of my best pages took a good 4 hours to completely fininshed pencil and then 2-3 to ink and another 2 or 3 for full colors so I can understand what goes into this stuff. Anyways, I generaly have a theme to post one thing each week. Mondays are for Ultimate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles webcomic updates, Tuesdays are 'tutorial tuesdays' wednesdays are my Webcomic Wednesdays, thursdays are throw backs, and glances at where I was in the past or case studies from jobs past, and friday is devoted to posting TnC comics promotions! Enjoy today's 'tutorial tuesday' installment, and enjoy many more over in the 'Reference' section of this website!

Enjoy studying this page that essentialy uses my exact same process of layouts, pencils as tight as I want to go then inks overtop for a finished piece. Under the hands of another pro on a whole 'nother level!

Original video over at: http://youtu.be/B0-wFGm-HG0

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EWG is GO For Steel City Con!

Its official, Eryck Webb Graphics will be in attendance to this summer's Steel City Con! The 3 day passes have been bought, confirmed and framed and hung. Look forward to checking it out. Will have new EWG biz cards, and a portfolio of my best work should there be opportunities to share it with folks.  Just walking around not getting a table or anything this year. Scoping it out as it were.

Will serve as research and creative fuel consuming all day Friday and go back to meet some of the celebrity guests on Sat. Taking the wife and her momma Sat to meet Dean Cain - I'd like to meet Levar Burton and Mini Me myself.

Supposed to be an insane amount of toys and collectibles at this show so looking forward to it.
Getting my feet wet, maybe next year setup a table do commissions.

See you soon Steel City Con!

http://steelcitycon.com/

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Nova - Fanart Slot Commission

 

#nova #marvel #comics #commissions The last slot commission for this week. Had a lot of fun working with him. Generaly familiar with him, the work I've seen on Deviant Art of Ed McGuinness's and from ultimate spiderman but never drawn him before, hope I did him justice!

Drawn completely in inkscape and then colored in photoshop. About 2 hours start to finish or less.

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Colby The Air Ace - 30-40 Min Morning Warmup

This morning's warmup, ran about 30-40 minutes. Featuring Colby from TNCcomics for no real reason. Though will be working on new TnC strips today. Felt like drawin a cute kid doin a little RATATAT in a stubby airplane. If boeing or any other airplane manufacturer wants to put sideview mirrors on their aircraft we can talk royalties...

Onto client work rest of the day. Can see the video from this warmup for a couple weeks before its taken down by Livestream (they only keep them up for about a month) over at:
https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1065426/events/3155863

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Winner of 400 Likes Give Away ReDraw!

Congratulations C. Cook! You are the winner over of the 400 Likes Giveaway re-draw held exclusively for Facebook fans! Email eryckwebb3@yahoo.com by end of the week to claim your full color, inked, one character commission for free! Any fan art character or original character of choice. Have it done in about one week from receipt of request! Congratulations!

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The Science of Improving Your Performance at Almost Anything

Master Roshi and the kids practice and train every day to improve themselves but theres many ways to do so that one might not think of!

Improving our performance is something we all seek to do. Given that we spend a lot of time doing things that we never get better at, I thought I’d share my “developing world class performance” file with you.

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Joshua Foer writes:

Amateur musicians … tend to spend their practice time playing music, whereas pros tend to work through tedious exercises or focus on difficult parts of pieces.

There is so much to how we practice and who we practice against:

Skill improvement is likely to be minimized when facing substantially inferior opponents, because such opponents will not challenge one to exert maximal or even near-maximal effort when making tactical decisions, and problems or weaknesses in one’s play are unlikely to be exploited. At the same time, the opportunity for learning is also attenuated during matches against much stronger opponents, because no amount of effort or concentration is likely to result in a positive outcome.

Feedback loops in practice play an incredibly important role, which explains why we tend to stop getting better at things at work.

You can work on technique all you like, but if you can’t see the effects, two things will happen: You won’t get any better, and you’ll stop caring.

You should work in chunks or pulses. (And don’t multi-task) Deliberate practice should be so hard that you can’t sustain it for very long.

The work is so great that it seems no one can sustain it for very long. A finding that is remarkably consistent across disciplines is that four or five hours a day seems to be the upper limit of deliberate practice, and this is frequently accomplished in sessions lasting no more than an hour to ninety minutes.

When practicing and playing there is a different mindset between average and top performers:

Average performers believe their errors were caused by factors outside their control: My opponent got lucky; the task was too hard; I just don’t have the natural ability for this. Top performers, by contrast, believe they are responsible for their errors. Note that this is not just a difference of personality or attitude. Recall that the best performers have set highly specific, technique-based goals and strategies for themselves; they have thought through exactly how they intend to achieve what they want. So when something doesn’t work, they can relate the failure to specific elements of their performance that may have misfired.

Aside from practice, sleep is the next most important thing.

In Anders Ericcson’s famous study of violinists, the top performers slept an average of 8 hours out of every 24, including a 20 to 30 minute mid-afternoon nap some 2 hours a day more than the average American.
The top violinists also reported that except for practice itself, sleep was the second most important factor in improving as violinists.

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So all of that is great for technical skills (like chess and music) but how can we develop the softer skills?
Speed things up. The way that Brazil develops its soccer players is fascinating. They use a game called futebol de salão, which creates a laboratory of improvisation.

This insanely fast, tightly compressed five-on-five version of the game— played on a field the size of a basketball court— creates 600 percent more touches, demands instant pattern recognition and, in the words of Emilio Miranda, a professor of soccer at the University of São Paulo, serves as Brazil’s “laboratory of improvisation.”

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We can also improve our writing.
Ben Franklin intuitively grasped the concept of deliberate practice. As a teenager Ben received a letter from his father saying his writing was inferior: “in elegance of expression, in method and in perspicuity, of which he convinced me by several instances,” as Franklin recalled.

Ben responded to his father’s observations in several ways. First, he found examples of prose clearly superior to anything he could produce, a bound volume of the Spectator, the great English periodical written by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. Any of us might have done something similar. But Franklin then embarked on a remarkable program that few of us would have ever thought of.
It began with his reading a Spectator article and marking brief notes on the meaning of each sentence; a few days later he would take up the notes and try to express the meaning of each sentence in his own words. When done, he compared his essay with the original, “discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
One of the faults he noticed was his poor vocabulary. What could he do about that? He realized that writing poetry required an extensive “stock of words” because he might need to express any given meaning in many different ways depending on the demands of rhyme or meter. So he would rewrite Spectator essays in verse. …
Franklin realized also that a key element of a good essay is its organization, so he developed a method to work on that. He would again make short notes on each sentence in an essay, but would write each note on a separate slip of paper. He would then mix up the notes and set them aside for weeks, until he had forgotten the essay. At that point he would try to put the notes in their correct order, attempt to write the essay, and then compare it with the original; again, he “discovered many faults and amended them.

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Here is a subsection I call the science of everyday performance.
To do our best work we need to focus.

One of the most effective distraction-management techniques is simple: switch off all communication devices during any thinking work. Your brain prefers to focus on things right in front of you. It takes less effort. If you are trying to focus on a subtle mental thread, allowing yourself to be distracted is like stopping pain to enjoy a mild pleasure: it’s too hard to resist! Blocking out external distractions altogether, especially if you get a lot of them, seems to be one of the best strategies for improving mental performance.

We all need routines or rituals, in part to make sure our decision making energy goes toward the hard things, not what we’re ordering at Starbucks.

A ritual is a highly precise behavior you do at a specific time so that it becomes automatic over time and no longer requires much conscious intention or energy.

The energy saved from routines and rituals gives us more energy to make better decisions. Some companies, like Google,  take this very seriously.

The formula at Club Med is to include pretty much everything in the price, activities, food, even drinks, giving you fewer decisions to make. Now I know the research on decision making, and how making any conscious decision uses a measurable amount of glucose, but I wasn’t prepared for how relaxing it was not having to think anywhere near as much, even about simple things. It turned out to be a remarkably restful holiday.
When you work at google, you get to save your limited mental resources for the most important decisions. As Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said, “Let’s face it: programmers want to program, they don’t want to do their laundry. So we make it easy for them to do both.

Mark McGuinness argues that you should move your creative or mentally intensive work to the start of your day:

The single most important change you can make in your working habits is to switch to creative work first, reactive work second. This means blocking off a large chunk of time every day for creative work on your own priorities, with the phone and e-mail off.

We also shouldn’t forget the importance of leisure. This, in addition to health benefits, makes us more creative.

What comes into your consciousness when you are idle can often be reports from the depths of your unconscious self— and this information may not always be pleasant. Nonetheless, your brain is likely bringing it to your attention for a good reason. Through idleness, great ideas buried in your unconsciousness have the chance to enter your awareness.

Oh, and you should exercise:

Just about every mental test possible was tried. No matter how it was measured, the answer was consistently yes: A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary. Exercisers outperform couch potatoes in tests that measure long-term memory, reasoning, attention, problem-solving, even so-called fluid-intelligence tasks. These tasks test the ability to reason quickly and think abstractly, improvising off previously learned material in order to solve a new problem. Essentially, exercise improves a whole host of abilities prized in the classroom and at work.

Some philosophers walked to think and others walked to escape. Kant combined walking and habit.

Like Nietzsche — although with different emphasis — (Kant) was concerned with only two things apart from reading and writing: the importance of his walk, and what he should eat. But their styles differed absolutely. Nietzsche was a great, indefatigable walker, whose hikes were long and sometimes steep; and he usually ate sparingly, like a hermit, always trying out diets, seeking what would least upset his delicate stomach.
Kant by contrast had a good appetite, drank heartily, although not to excess, and spent long hours at the table. But he looked after himself during his daily walk which was always very brief, a bit perfunctory. He couldn’t bear to perspire. So in summer he would walk very slowly, and stop in the shade when he began to overheat.

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