Portrait Time!!! Just in time for Christmas!

Hello my friends. It is portrait time again. I normally start doing them this time of year so I get them all done before Christmas, but each year I get more and more. But I love doing them. One of the main reasons i do them is to bring happiness to everyday folks, that is another reason I do them so cheap. I want everyone to be able to have my art, not just the "Rich" buyers, so I do all variety's of things in different ways so everyone can have something by me that wants something. Go here to see my pricing and all

http://www.wickedkittystudio.com/http___wickedkittystudio.com/portrait_pricing.html

I've got the website looking good. If you got a minute or two check us out please.

I really want to hear want you all think. Did I do good? Do I need to fix something? Your opinion means so much to me, so please take a minute or two to help me out. Go here

http://www.wickedkittystudio.com

Today has been a good day, just very busy. I have so much to do. Tomorrow is printing out artwork for my portfolio and doing e-mails and phone calls to local companies. Have a good one everyone. Peace and Blessings

Website is coming along.

This is an older sketch that is featured on our website. I have been working on the site all day, and I am ready to call it a day. If you get a minute, stop by and see what I have up so far and let me know what you think please. Wickedkittystudio.com It is going to be a work in progress for a while to come, but I hope to have most of it done by tomorrow. But when it is all done and said, it will have podcast, video's on how to, blog radio to just to name a few really cool things. It will have feeds coming in and going out to over 50 different sites. It will be on Iphones and so many other things. In just a few short years, the world has become an open pearl to everything if you have the right toys. lol.

I know you all get tired of hearing it, but I am just happy as heck right now. To me this is a big deal. Until I meet Cheryl my life really sucked the big one. I can't think of any time in my life that I was truly happy. I guess that is where all the darkness in my art comes from. Trust me, the darkness is still there in a big way and I really don't think that will ever change. But at least now as a man, a human, a person I am happy.

Something really cool happened today. I had a fellow IM me, and he was a fellow artist. He told me he really liked my work and I checked out his, and Wow, this guy is amazing, and it turns out that he works of a major movie company! New line Cinema. He said he would show my work around. I was blown away. This guy was awesome. His worked rocked and he wanted to help me get more into the movie thing. I told him about the gig I had with Viper Productions, and he seemed impressed. I don't know if he will really do what he said, but just to have an artist of his level be impressed with my art just made my day. I'm gonna stay in touch with him, he really seemed like one of the good guys.

I saw a movie last night on demand that was really the bomb. It was called "Black Sheep" and it was a hoot. It was really well made, and it was campy, funny and scary all at the same time. It is one you really want to get for your dvd collection.

As far as I have seen everyone has been happy with the Viper Production Logo, and that is just fine with me. Later this week I will be starting the graphic novel "Mental Scars" I am really pumped up about doing it.

Well, it's getting late and Cheryl has already gone to bed and I'm unwinding. I think I will watch Black Sheep again. Peace and Blessings everyone. Thank you for stopping by.

Logo done, now on to the website!

Happy 4th of July everyone! Today is the day, we as a people declared our Independence from a tyranny that taxed us and worked us to death. Today is the day we said,"No More" It is truly a day to celebrate. But I put a question to you, "What has really changed?" We are still being taxed to death. Probably worse now than way back then. Our voice really doesn't mean much. I mean we can vote, but it's always like voting for the lesser of 2 evils. I think in reality that the only thing that has changed is the face of the evil. It's still there. But heck, at least they let us enjoy fireworks today, and beer! I've had great hope that Obama would change some of this and I haven't given up on him, but so far we are just a lot deeper in dept.

But the people of our country are what make this a good holiday. Cooking out is one of the real biggies, but most folks are happy on holidays and are out just having fun. That's the part I like, people smiling and people happy.

Last night Cheryl and I went out to a real classy club, and I had a blast. It was really a nice place, the people where awesome, the drinks where cheap and I got to hear my honey sing her heart out. Back down south I didn't go to clubs. Down there if you went to a club, you could count on some drunk getting in your face or someone hitting on your date. Before the night was done you could count on seeing several fights, watching people act like total idiots and dealing with the cops. A real fun night, if your an redneck moron. So, I didn't get out much. About the only time I went anywhere is when I would travel to conventions. Now that's fun! Conventions are usually a blast and the people are wonderful, intelligent (most of them) and talented. I haven't been to a convention in a couple of years now and I am starting to get the itch to do them again.

I am going to being doing appearances soon at comic stores in the MI area to start promoting my new work and Mental Scars. I am looking forward to that. I just ordered a bunch of paper to start running prints again. So all the new work you have seen from me this last year will be available when you see me and on the website. That's going to be my holiday weekend, working on the website and spending time with Cheryl and the kids.

You know, Cheryl has never seen the Rocky Horror Picture show. I think tonight is going to be the night! I know she'll love it. Tomorrow she will be singing "There's a Light" lol I"ll let you know how that goes.

I almost forgot. At the top is the finished Viper Illustration. The Lettering I put on the samples above is not the type that is going to be used in the Logo. I just did those for the website. Time to get busy! Peace and Blessings!

Logo, the sequel!

Hello my friends. This is part 2 of the logo design. My clients, Viper Productions loved the original design I showed you in the last post. But they made some suggestions, which is what you expect doing this kind of work. That is why you show it step by step to make sure you don't waste a lot of time. ( I got some letters from you all as well, and you made some excellent suggestions, and I thank you very much for that. But the trick is doing commercial work is creating what your client See's in their mind, and making it happen. Sometimes that is very boring and draining, so that is why you stick to a medium you love. When I did commercial work before, the mistake I made was that I was doing things I hated. But right now I ask myself, would I want to work for some idiot who drinks Monster drinks all day and pisses off everyone they work for, Lies to me, uses me, steals from me and make my life hell for a little money or would I want to use my talents to make something good, make 1000's a week doing what I love and be very happy? You don't have to be smart to figure that one out.)

Life is so good for us now. For instance, while I am talking to Viper Productions via IChat, and their just praising the heck out of my work, I have another movie company IMing me, trying to work out a deal for me to do the work that they need.

In the illo above, Viper wanted me to turn the cobra's head toward the viewer more, and show blood on the fangs. Not a problem, In the sketch above you see the head more turned, and I have to admit I like it. It real time, the illustration is done and approved, but I can't show the final on here just yet. Viper wants to premiere it on their website and facebook first. It is exciting to see a cleint who is excited about the work you have done for them. I will put the final up here next week, but in the meantime look for it on Facebook and the Viper website. Peace and Blessings all. Please have a safe and happy holiday!

I hope that all of you have a wonderful and safe holiday, and I pray that each of you have peace and blessings in your life. Be true to your dreams and work hard. Later!

Let's do a Logo!

Hello my friends. Thank you for stopping by and hopefully you will find this interesting. Above is the beginning of a commercial assignment I am doing for Viper productions. If you go to the link, you will see the original logo they started with. Now VP wants to update it and make it look more professional and usable for things like t-shirts, hat designs, movie logos and so on. So they hired me to do just that, and like all art, it starts with concepts, which is what I have posted above. From the concept, the client tells me what they like and don't, and then we move to the second stage which I will try to show you tomorrow night. I am showing you this so you can get idea of how commercial work goes. It is very different from just an Illustration, and of course it pays about 10 times the amount as well.

Now that I am a full time illustrator, I need to do about one of these a week to keep the bill's paid and much more. The illustration jobs I am doing are paying very large, but the paychecks are down the road, so we have to pay the bills until then (Plus I want to have a ton of money for when we go to Japan to really have a awesomeeeee time!) This week I am concentrating on getting a lot of my old and new commercial work scanned to put on the Wicked Kitty website. Things are in full swing now and are going to stay that way. They are going to be some major articles and interviews coming out about me with me in publications such as Fangoria. Yep, Fangoria. I am going to be on local and national radio and TV shows over the next few months and beyond with all the movie stuff going on.

But by far, the best thing is all the new friends I have made. All of these wonderful people are following my career and cheering me and Cheryl on. I do my best to share all of it with everyone. It wasn't that long ago that I was watching others and cheering them on. I remember feeling great pride for my friends that I had watched and saw their careers blossom. Now it is my turn, and I am going to do my very best.

I am going to adding more links soon to my clients and talking more about them. These people are awesome. I had a IChat meeting tonight that just made mine and Cheryl's week. We're going out Friday night to celebrate in a big way.

Speaking of Cheryl, (and she gets mad at me for giving her so much credit, but the truth is it is because of her all these wonderful things are happening. She believes in me and she stands beside me 120%. I was about to give up until she came along. So yes, she deserves a lot of credit) she is stepping up to help me make everything happen. She has taken a lot of pressure off of me taking care of things that I just don't have time to do. So she is my hero. Now and forever. I love you darling.

So my friends, I will see you soon. Peace and Blessings to all of you.