Bustinnnn’

Crazy week! Since starting the Crimson Daggers I’ve done a lott of work D:. Trying to juggle this with freelance and now its finally coming together… Got a good rotation going on now! Goes something like this -

Life Painting from Observation

Painting from photos(landscapes, portraits, nude figures)

Master Studies

Then whatever else I can fit inbetween, mostly just technical information on illustration and whatnot. It’ll be better to have the structure though. Other than that I got Zach and Andrew Domo hosting Crimson Daggers LiveStreams as well! Lots of really great work being produced!

Heres a study from my lifestream today. I do them @ 9am EST and they run about an hour, this one was an hour and 20 minutes.

Finishing up a good amount of deadlines between now and Christmas so I’ll see what I can post up here… But it’ll probably be lots of studies haha. At least for a little while.

Metal! Universe – ‘Stories from the Old Days’

Can’t believe it!

The Crimson Daggers have EXPLODED! These guys are so dedicated to getting better I can hardly believe it. Surely there are those that don’t update everyday and follow along with the studies… But the ones that have… They’ve already shown big improvement! And with the new addition of two more Crimson Dagger streams I can’t begin to imagine where this will take us! I really look forward to more studies and more improvement! I hope you guys do too.

Here are the links -

My LiveStream w/Crimson Daggers

Andrew Domomomomo’s Dagger Stream!

Zach’s Dagger Stream!

Follow the whole study group on our ConceptArt.org sketchbook!

Sorry I haven’t been updating my blog, just waiting for some pieces to get released so I can update somethin decent… In the meantime you can check out a Work in Progress and my studies from the stream!

Will keep you updated on cool Dagger developments!

Metal NoiseHunter – Rock Shower

Crimson Daggers

Hey dudes! Don’t got any new art to post sadly… But I got a good amount on the way that I’ll be able to show. Just waiting for it to get published. Other than that I’m workin a ton this month and got some pretty tight deadlines. So aside from the LiveStreams I don’t know what I’ll be able to put out.

That being said, I plan on taking the LiveStream sessions to the next level! Starting within the next couple days I’ll be doing hour long morning anatomy studies on LiveStream! Together we’ll all take on Loomis and as we progress through the streams we’ll move onto painting from life, perspective studies and all sorts of good stuff. They will most likely be at 9-9:30 am EST and run til 10-10:30 am EST. Hopefully I can get a good amount of you to really get into studying everyday so we can all move forward!

If you want to join, and be serious about it… You can drop me an email – rapozaster@gmail.com and I’ll add you to my mailing list! Let you know the times and hopefully in the future move onto assignments we can all complete. Anyways, I really look forward to getting this all started!

This pumped group will be called the CRIMSON DAGGERS. You better be ready to soak the competition in blood, to conquer lazy thinking and procrastination! Be ready to take hold of everything it is that you want out of your work and scream to the god of the Crimson Daggers that you crave Crimson blood, sweat and power!! D:

its gonna be awesome!

Look forward to seeing you all there!

Metal! Flames – ‘Made in Hell’

Live Stream Tonight 5 pm EST!

Hey everyone! I’m a little late posting this, my puppy had a big problem and had to go to the vet so I haven’t really had time D:. But I’ll still be doing the LiveStream tonight @ 5pm EST!

Hope to see everyone there! No limit on viewers this time .

Metal! – Spitfire – ‘Lead Me On’

New Work from Dragon Mag

Hey everyone! Woke up this morning to some really nice words from Jon Schindehette about my Wizards work so far . Really happy they like me over there. Been working on Magic and having an awesome time as well, the whole experience in general has been nothin but great.

Jon just released this piece on his blog Art Order! Look forward to the rest getting released !

Gif process

Also just a reminder that my next LiveStream is on Monday 5 pm EST! Look forward to seeing you all there now that theres no limit!

Also Also Also, if you’ve sent me an email regarding questions or feedback on the streams it may take me a bit longer to respond as I had no idea how many emails I’d get D:. I’m going to try and designate a pocket of time during the week to address these questions on my LiveStream.  Does that sound like a good idea? I just don’t want to have to respond with the same general answers to every email if I don’t have to. Really pressed for time at the moment. Just let me know if you think that’d work best. You never know who may benefit from the same things you yourself are curious about.

Heres an older piece I did for Wizards that I never posted as well !

Metal  - Flames – ‘Beloved Dead’

LiveStream Limit Lifted!

Hey everyone! Hope you guys enjoyed the livestream yesterday, I had a gooood time :O! And I’m super pumped that they finally let me know that my LiveStream account was worthy of the limit lift. Now I can have UNLIMIIIITEDDD people watchin! Its gonna be good!

So yea, check it out next Monday at 5pm EST! I’ll also announce it an hour or so before hand on this blog, deviantart, and my twitter pages. Look forward to seein you all there!

Heres what I did up last night… Obviously not very serious, took a good break from my normal work . Did this one start to finish on the stream, almost 4 hours.

Again, thanks to everyone for watching the stream last night!

Metal – Running Wild ‘Marooned’

LiveStream tonight @ 9pm EDT!

Hello everyone! I’ll be doing my LiveStream tonight at 9pm EDT! I know that 5pm EDT won the vote, but I had a lot of work today so had to make do with what time I had left… Anyways, I’ll be doing a 5 pm EDT show next monday and will rotate every other monday like this. Hopefully later on I’ll have a lot more free time and will be able to fit 2 Streams every week… But until then I’ll try and find a good balance. I’ll keep you posted for sure if things change!

 

Look forward to seeing you all on there! Or most of you… until they deem my stream worthy enough to not have a stupid size limit. Just write them an angry email or refresh if you can’t get in D:. You can always watch all the previous streams On-Demand as well from the link above.

Metal . Wolf – ‘I Will Kill Again’

Self Portrait Day!

Hey evverybody, today is Self Portrait Day on ConceptArt.org! So I took a couple hours out of the day to work on mine . Its a great activity to take part in since most dudes don’t ever draw their portrait or any real studies from life(not that mine is haha). Anyways, hopefully some of you do it!

As far as LiveStreaming is concerned…

I’m yet to find a good balance! The votes are pretty much equal between 5pm EDT and 9pm EDT… How do you guys feel about an alternating schedule? I could do 9pm this monday then 5 the next? Let me know what you think as I still don’t wanna leave anybody out D:. Hopefully we can compromise here and I can start to get organized! I look forward to painting tomorrow night and hope to see you dudes there with some questions… So I don’t just talk about my fabulous body all night :O.

Exciter – “Stand up and Fight”

 

Best LiveSteam Monday Time?

Hey everybody! Quick question for you dudes! I know a lot of you are European and whatnot so when I start my streams I’d rather not exclude you… So I was hoping I could get the best general time outta this poll. Please vote and let me know which time suits you best(you’re gonna have to figure the time difference though ).

(Click here to Figure the time Difference… I’m in Boston’s time zone)

Also, big plug for my girlfriend Chelsea Bloxsom’s awesome toys! Shes a great designer and hopefully I can help her reach new people ! So if you haven’t checked it out click the image below!

You can also check out her full gallery of designs on her Deviant Art.

and as always, some metal.

Scorpions – Dynamite

Thanks Bobby Chiu and Mike Mignola!

If you don’t already know, Bobby Chiu of Imaginism Studios hosts a weekly Live Streaming series called the Chiu Stream! He just finished up his interview with Comic Legend Mike Mignola creator of Hellboy (which you can rewatch on the stream)! Every week(or I think its still weekly) he hosts a contest with a subject from the artist hes interviewing and everybody has to draw their interpretation to get voted on… The winner of this gets a free sketch from whoever hes interviewing! Its a really great thing to be apart of and really fun. So if youre an artist you should give it a shot when he announces his next interview .

So, this week my Frankenstein image was chosen as the winner by Mike Mignola! I’m super pumped to get my original sketchhh, gonna get a nice frame mmmm. So yea, its totally worth it to participate! Although I do think I’ll be bowing out of the whole thing for awhile do to a massive workload looming on the horizon D:.

But yea, thanks again to Bobby Chiu and everyone at Imaginism for this awesome opportunity! And again, if you can you gotta participate! Just follow his twitter and he’ll probably announce the next one soon.

I should have a lot of stuff to post up soon! Good stuff I hope D:.

I’ll also be hosting my live stream on Mondays from now on(unless Bobby’s Streams are monday, in which case I’ll change it because I wanna watch em hahah)!

Thanks everybody!

more metal! Overkill – Wrecking Crew