John K., you're SKILL!

John K. is my hero. He sat at that toy show ALL DAY doing FREE caricatures! What a guy!... seriously.

This is Sean Kriener, Ryan Kramer, and I sittin' for John.

-=Redzer attacks!!! 3--(**^^**)--E

WTF?. a redzer post?

i know...

Gorax goes BERSERK!

Meet Gorax... Arni's most hated villian. He has had himself a little to much berserker potion... and now he's gonna kick Arni's ass.

For, Martin!

Cant imagine why Martin wanted to see THISSSSSS.... of all the cool monsters and aliens he could have chosen. He wanted to see an Asian girl with an oversized head get slaughtered. Cant imagine why....BUT... I have to cater to my fans requests, so.... here it is:

Her name was Yoshimi. She lived in Norway.

What.... didn't believe me?

I know i should be working on Arni. Don't think I've forgotten about him. Sometimes I need to just let things sit a while to find some fresh inspiration. Arni is still king... BUT... he IS going to have to fight monsters isn't he???

RARRRRRRR!

...I'm just gonna keep giving you monsters. Maybe someday I'll get into the monster drawing hall of fame. Working on a preschool show will make anyone start to draw evil things on their free time.

P.s.- Normally i go to the drawing club in L.A. on Tuesday nights... But, as some of you know: the bar has closed, there is a cover charge at the door, all the old models have left, no more fire juggling or areal acrobatics, the music sucks now, and it is not nearly the happenin' place that it once was.
...anyone know of any happenin' Tuesday night spots?

Monsters are cool.

You know, I hate scary movies... They give me the hee-bee-gee-bees and i get all spooked out... But for some reason drawing with different colors (other the human skin tone) makes me want to draw monsters, aliens, and other creepy looking stuff. It just seems to fit. So, yeah, here's another random sketchbook drawing.

GO SEE THE MOVIE "Sunshine"... It fuckin' rocks!

Color ROCKS!

Moleskine Sketchbooks and Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Brush pens are awesome.
I've Been checking out:
GUNSHO
Ed "BIG DADDY" Roth
Jim Phillips
Basil Wolverton
-=*RedseR*=-

1:19

W.I.P.

Work is crazy.

Blahhhhhh!

Sooo... I've been working on story for Arni. I'm not giving anything away, so you are gonna' have to settle for some sketchbook nonsense for a while... and maybe some narrative drawings... Anyways, enjoy!

ARNI IS KING!

Arni will rock your socks.
-Aaron

Who wants to see Arni slaughter this evil, one eyed bastard?

Gotta keep it coming,

Advertising poster: "CHECK!"
Everything else: "uhhh... this IS gonna take some TIME.."

Meet Arni.

Just a preview of my upcoming project.
-Aaron

Boo-yah!

That's all i have to say for now...

Pirates and Cowboys 3... (I figure i can have at LEAST three posts for one subject... After all, George Lucas made six Starwars movies.)

Some more hub-bub.

Yay!... I finally got my own Cintiq! Yay!

So... I always give my brother shit for little problems in his photographs, even though he takes the best pictures ever! I guess its just my way of getting him to come to my blog to give me shit too (which he does ever so often), so i will work harder! Anyways, you have to check out my brother Rob's photography blog. He travels all over the world taking the most awesome photos. He is in China now and in September we are going to Germany for Oktoberfest!

The link is:

http://blogs.bootsnall.com/RobertCPaetz/

GO THERE NOW AND LEAVE HIM A COMMENT! (please.)

Toodles.

Pirates and Cowboys 2. (Plus some of my thoughts on drawing.)

That top drawing is one of my most favorite recent drawings. Its so fun and exciting to create these characters with different emotions and attitudes. (Especially a whole series of drawings in only 5-10 min each.)

Emotions, attitudes, and acting, that's the fun stuff to concentrate on...But, it's so helpful to have a solid foundation in drawing, so you can clearly express what you are THINKING about throughout the drawing (other then making a nice drawing).

Thinking about expressions, attitudes and acting during your drawing will make it good. Because it creates the most entertainment for viewers.

This top one for example; The only way i was able to create a single drawing with such entertainment value is to ONLY focus on the entertainment value while drawing it... (no thoughts about "how does that elbow look," or "how big is his head," and so on).

The Walt Stanchfield notes are great for learning this kind of stuff. Search for them on Google to find them.

Thanks for stopping by! More to come very soon!

Pirates AND Cowboys! (A two fer-one special)

Okok.... yer next post is 'ear. Drunkin pirates an' *hicc* ... Gun drinking COWWWboys.... ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!

WHO YOU CALLIN' BOW LEGGED?!?

'E went tis' way!

Footrest?

Thanks fer'...**hicc*....droppin' by!!!

Just figures!

Figure drawing is the best way to improve your technical drawing skills... BUT, working in cartoons I am beginning to see that the idea is equally, if not more important then the beautiful drawing. So, i am once again starting to work on my own cartoon ideas. (Coming soon...)

Use the FORCE! (to draw)

^^^I Really like this one the best and it was drawn in under two minutes. Shows how important those first two minutes are.^^^


So, I've been taking this 'force' class with Mike Mattesi and it is pretty cool! He talks a lot about how the experience you go through during a drawing is what will make it interesting or not... and how the drawing is a by-product of these experiences. I totally agree with that and i think it is something every artist should realize... unless you want to come up with model sheet drawings every time you sit down to draw.

These are my highlights from a recent Drawing club workshop. Jedi style.

Western gals'

All these girly drawings are pretty realistic. Its so hard to make a girl drawing appealing (especially realistically), but i think i did a pretty good job on that top one... What do you think?

Is this how girls REALLY dressed in the old west? I see the history books left that out, eh?

And last but not least, an anime'ish style cowgirl... I guess i wasn't paying much attention to what i was doing.