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Hi hi, been very busy.  Just uploaded a batch of pieces I had done for people that I hadn't gotten a chance to post yet, some are from quite a bit ago and have been sitting on the HD because I forgot for one reason or another.  Specifically, my crap memory.  Sorry, my bad.

More to come!

- Kris

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In the past few months or so, if you have sent me a note and NOT gotten a reply, please let me know.  I have had a few people come to me in the past while that had either sent me notes or replied to a note I had sent them and told me that they have not heard back from me and wanted to know if I got their messages, which it seems that I did not.  It seems that at some point there was a point in time when notes were just not coming to my inbox for some reason or another as I did not recieve them and as it was more than one person I have reason to believe there was some sort of problem at some point on my inbox end of things.

So if you sent a note to me any time in the past few months and didn't hear back, please let me know!!!

And uh, so, uh, happy new year and all that Jazz!  Here's to new and frequent artistic output from everyone this year!

- Kris

PS: I am so completely behind on comments (and a lot over other things), I will get those replied to this week, I promise n stuff.

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Just wanted to get a quick Halloween greeting up, I don't like missing out on 'em   I missed it one year and regretted it for the next 12 months   please enjoy the quick Halloween pic I'll be posting up in a few minutes

My apologies if I haven't responded to your notes or comments, I'm getting on that ASAP, been a very busy month or so in IRL land and I have lots of stuff to catch up on this week.

Alright, now go out there and eat as much candy as possible!

- Kris

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Okay, I'm gonna keep this vague as I don't really wish to start shit or get into any drama.  Without good reason, at least lol.

BUT!

Lets say "hypothetically" that there's an artist here on dA that for a large variety of reasons has given me a rather "healthy" feeling is probably a fake but I don't want to call this person out in case it truly is the real artist (but I doubt it, for again, many MANY reasons) or start any shit here on dA, is there anything I should do?

I normally stay away from things like this but for a number of reasons I'm getting a real vibe of fakery, but without SOLID proof and it's really bugging me as there seems to have been a huge glut of fake accounts lately pretending to be actual artists this week.

The main reason I post this is because I wonder if I'm not the only one who's thought this.

Chat me up in the comments, and be sure to check back and see other peoples comments and maybe we can talk it out and I can figure out if my gut feeling is right.

This probably makes no sense, sorry, quickly typed.

- Kris

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This is a confusing mess so I hope it makes some sort of sense.

Anyone out there have really weird or not of the norm methods to how you create finished pieces of art?  I'd like to think I do.

I don't so much "draw" as I "assemble".

This isn't all the time, but for complex pieces with lots going on, I do things this way.  I plan things out and do things in pieces based on the plan and assemble them all together into a coherent single piece.  After tweaking every aspect of things until it looks right.  I'm talking characters, props, you name it, all done separately at first.  Hell, sometimes I will do heads separate from the bodies just because I feel I can draw it better bigger than the body was already drawn (after meticulous planning, I assure you) and then it'll all be inked in Flash and looks like a coherent whole.  Oh yeah, sometimes I draw figures better smaller and resize them afterwards.  And THEN the heads.  Accessories and weapons?  Sometimes them too.  Depends on how its going while I'm working.  Sometimes done in one, sometimes in pieces.  Sometimes left alone, sometimes resized. Then its all assembled and inked and tweaked and coloured until it looks like a coherent whole.

Its an OCD-ish way of doing art for me.  I need to have control over all aspects of the piece so I can adjust and resize things when they don't look right and anger the OCD demons.  And Adobe Flash allows me to do it this way.

I've experimented with it a bit in the past, but I'll be pushing forward with it very shortly, but I will be using a 3D program to make mock up "templates" of props in order to make backgrounds that conform to the will of the OCD art monster.  Simple representations (not full out detailed CG models, really simple basic stuff) of things like buildings, cars, etc which I can lay out like a stage or a movie set and then move around the camera until I get the camera angle I want and that everything is in the place I need it to be (placeholder "standees" for humans as well) and then use that as blueprints to draw the damn thing.  Like composing a photo, except I have full command over nature and can move around entire buildings with my bare hands, lol.  I still have to draw it all afterwards, but it allows me to have everything exist in a 3D space and planned out so everything looks right to, again, the OCD art monster.

Over the years I NEVER got things done because something would just look wrong to me and I'd either not finish it or would abandon it even when completed because something wouldn't be the right size or I wanted to move something around but couldn't because it was already inked and I'd have to start over (which I never would) and just a mess.  As weird and unnecessarily complicated as my methods may seem, doing things this way and using Adobe Flash allows me to adjust things the way I feel I need them to be and work around the OCD art monsters demands so it all looks good and proper.  To me, anyways.

Well, that was still stupidly long, I applaud you if you actually read through all this mess without saying "what the fuck is this dude TALKING about, its all jibberish" and then moving on to something better, lol.

So, yeah, anyone else approach their art as ridiculously as I do? Am I a lone freak or are there others who do weird shit to get their art done?

- Kris

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Just looking for opinions, feelings, etc on this.

Now, its been stated that Hawk and Dove #1 featuring Rob Liefeld on art has sold out at the distribution level.  Now, of course it was going to sell great as it is part of the #1 collection this month (pretty much all 52 #1 issues are guaranteed to succeed), but the question I have for you is this:

Do you think it will continue to succeed or will it crash and burn within a few issues?

We all know Liefeld is a polarizing character in the comics field, lots of controversy surrounds him over the course of his career, and many places I've read around on the 'net have this series in a sort of "dead pool" of the series they feel will start to crash within a few months.

Personally my issues really center around one major thing:  Liefeld is infamous for never finishing things.  DC is very strict on deadlines for the relaunch and some of the new series have different artists month-to-month because of this (I forget which series, but one of them has a different artist for each of the first 3 issues, could it be Mr Terrific? I forget).  Now it may be different as he is not working on one of his many unfinished (or not even started) creator owned projects (for example, his recent Youngblood relaunch went well and on time for like 9 issues or so with an artist and writer that was not him, but then he decided to take over and got a whole ONE issue done and that was like 2 years ago) and has editors raining down from above on him, but I wonder whether or not he'll be able to actually keep going with it.  Even if he's ahead a few issues, he's fallen behind many a time before.  But could this time be different?  And will it sell or fail?

This is just my ramblings, but what say you?

- Kris

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I happen to have two of them.





...I think I need to sleep now.  Like NOW now.

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