Join my Patreon!
Announcing my Patreon launch today. Been working on this for a bit and Clara Meath and I have finally gotten it polished up and launched, as of today. One simple tier for all Patrons, and they will have access to sneak peeks of current projects, weekly videos of me demonstrating and explaining techniques, and discounts on all of my merchandise.
Curious how or why I do something in my illustrations? I will answer all questions, along with making a corresponding video showing/explaining my crap!
Like my art enough to want it on a shirt, prints, hat, sexy handbag, sticker, etc.? Well, all Patrons get 15% discount on all of my merchandise! Any artwork in my library (outside of Wild Blue Yonder) is available for a plethora of merchandise options.
Voice of Cassandre Mixtape
www.mixcloud.com/greggringo/za…
This is the type of tunes I listen to while drawing and creating my books - Enjoy!
Zach Howard Artbook Vol. 1
We are proud to officially announce the Wild Blue Yonder Intel Realsense experience featuring Gerhard Butler. Newsarama did a wonderful write up on it - please enjoy and spread the word.
We'll be releasing the trailer, and sneak peeks here on Facebook as the next few weeks go by, right up until the launch date of the product. The trailer should be up shortly!
www.newsarama.com/28410-gerard…
In Response to the Self-Absorbed
This is brief thought I wanted to add for the weenies that seem to have a problem with what Neil Gaiman wrote.
Here is the article - hjournal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05…
Having no intention finishing something is far different from being late - please make no mistake. I can tell you that it's zero fun to work 65 hour weeks to have some turd yelling at you for being a week late (Something that people who don't work for a living doing anything they are passionate about will never understand). Puts me in a rough mental state when humans are up my ass. This situation can create a terrible feedback loop for me - one of the reasons I try to stay away from interviews and forums.
I tell stories that I want to last, not ones that are "on time". Artwork for this takes time. If you desire a good story, you have to wait. If you want mental fast-food, you have thousands of titles to choose from a month. Randomly walk down the isle of most American comic book shops with your eyes closed, randomly reach your muscle-less arm out, grab a book and chances are it's a pile of shit. The American comic book industry has always leaned full steam this direction. I find that disgusting, and I want no part of it. If you wish your books to come out like clockwork, read Batman. Multiple shitty, thread-bare-no-character-arc stories for you every week there, humans.
Cookie-cutter artwork and writing can be done monthly. Good stories are a bit tougher to fit in that time frame.
Many people will disagree with Neil's points by "agreeing" and then going on to nuance their opinion so they can bash creators again. There are many reasons for this, and that is another conversation entirely, but it's hypocrisy none the less. If you are going to critique a creator in comic books, bash them for reasons that deserve bashing - a good chunk of the trash you humans celebrate are in need of it. This industry is chock full of very unethical people, they employ egos that fucking Elvis would be ashamed of, they lie-steal-cheat, etc. Bash them for that, not trying their best to deliver a good piece of artwork.
I am a storyteller and an artist . I try to bring something special to every project I do, and I work obsessively on achieving that. I don't owe you a fucking thing. And if you feel differently, suck a dick.
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