Re-Watch the Cryptcrawler Interview!

Re-Watch the Cryptcrawler(Brad Rigney) Interview below!

It was awesome! Thanks to everybody for showing up and asking some awesome questions and huge thanks to Brad for giving us so much time!

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Cryptcrawler(Brad Rigney) Interview Tonight!

Hey everybody! Just wanted to let you all know that tonight @6pm EST I'll be interviewing Cryptcrawler Live on Crimson Daggers! Feel free to ask questions and I'll relay them to Brad as the interview goes on. So bring some good ones!

Cryptcrawler(Brad Rigney)

Live Interview Tonighhhhtttt!!!!! @6pm EST on the Crimson Daggers LiveStream!

- NOTE for European Viewers -

For those of you who have watched before at this time gotta know that we've had our daylight savings last sunday(europe isn't for a couple weeks) so this interview for you guys will be one hour before the usual time. 

Click to see more of Brad's work!

Spread the word and get some questions ready :)!

Cryptcrawler(Brad Rigney) Interview Tomorrow!

Hey everybody! Just wanted to let you all know that tomorrow night @6pm EST I'll be interviewing Cryptcrawler Live on Crimson Daggers! Feel free to ask questions and I'll relay them to Brad as the interview goes on. So bring some good ones!



Cryptcrawler(Brad Rigney)
Live Interview Tomorrow night(3/18) @6pm EST on the Crimson Daggers LiveStream!

- NOTE for European Viewers -

For those of you who have watched before at this time gotta know that we've had our daylight savings last sunday(europe isn't for a couple weeks) so this interview for you guys will be one hour before the usual time. 

Click to see more of Brad's work!


Spread the word and get some questions ready :)!

Daarken Interview Tonight!

Hey everybody! The new interview is tonight! Plus I got a post of my enviro studies... Which isn't very exciting soooo... New interview tonight!

Live Interview with Daarken tonight @6pm EST on Crimson Daggers! - Click! - 


- NOTE for European Viewers -


For those of you who have watched before at this time gotta know that we've had our daylight savings last sunday(europe isn't for a couple weeks) so this interview for you guys will be one hour before the usual time. 

 Daarken is a Freelance/Concept Artist working fulltime(probably literally) @ Mythic Entertainment and on various other projects including Magic: The Gathering!

Heres my environments from the past week... minus one crappy one D:

Coming Interviews!

Hey everybody! I know I've been all over the place and not updatin lately... That will change after my deadlines are up but will be like this for the next week or so. Hopefully I can pull through!

In the meantime though... I wanted to updated with all the awesome interviews that are comin up on the Crimson Daggers LiveStream!

Interviews! - click the names for links :)


Scott Altmann! - Friday @6pm EST on Crimson Daggers

Daarken! - Tuesday - 3/16 @6pm EST on Crimson Daggers


Brad Rigney(Cryptcrawler)! - Thursday - 3/18 @6pm EST on Crimson Daggers




Hope you check it out! 

Tonight & Tomorrow!

Hey everybody! Still finishing up my deadlines and whatnot.... But! Tomorrow is the interview with Trevor Claxton. Just called him a minute ago and everything is runnin smoothly. Should be good.

Please spread the word about it if you can!

Interview! Trevor Claxton - Senior Concept Artist @CCP Games -Tomorrow, Tuesday(3/9) @9am EST on Crimson Daggers! Click for more info!

Also, Daarken is comin up next week!


Anyways, aside from those things I'm still fighting with some work! Trying to get things right and collecting inspiration for the times I'm not totally feeling it. Sort of going through a weird time in my work. Trying to bring everything to a level of finish that I'm having a hard time attaining. I just know if I stick with it I'll pull through... But this seems to happen from time to time, trying to find the very basic problems I'm having with certain images. Hopefully it'll all work out!

Tonight I'll be doing my 6pm EST Character Stream!

If any of you have suggestions for video tutorials/guests for the Crimson Daggers/or general questions... Feel free to drop a comment below and I'll do my best to answer and accommodate :O. 


Woooooo!


Metal! Grim Reaper - "Night of the Vampire"

Lack of Updates Lately

Hey everybody! Just wanted to update on my current situation. Haven't been updating a whole lot lately... Been pretty absorbed in my current deadline, trying to wrap up everything I've been working on! Got a lot coming up though... Just did an interview with CGPad.org and have a workshop in IFX that I gotta start on... Hopefully I can just get through all my work and still stay focused on Crimson Daggers/interviews/downloads and the rest of the projects! so much to do!!!

The days gotta get longer real soon or i'm never gonna be able to see the sun again :(.

but yea, just checkin in for now... Should have something to show soon!

Stuff thats coming up -

Trevor Claxton - Senior Concept Artist @ CCP Games - Interview on Tuesday(3/9) @ 9am EST on the Crimson Daggers LiveStream.

Daarken - Freelance Illustrator/Concept artist @ Mythic Entertainment - Interview on Tuesday(3/16) @ 6pm EST on the Crimson Daggers LiveStream.

Interview! Concept Artist - Trevor Claxton! Tuesday!

Hey everybody! Just got news from my buddddd Trevor Claxton that he'd be down for an interview on the Crimson Daggers Stream this Tuesday @9am EST(3/9)! Should be a lot of fun! So heres some samples of his work, hes an awesome dude!

Interview -
Trevor Claxton! - Senior Concept Artist at CCP Games! This Tuesday(3/9) @9am EST on Crimson Daggers!


Trevor is currently a Senior Concept Artist at CCP Games in Atlanta, GA. He's also worked on many role playing games as well as Magic: The Gathering. Trevor is a huge BBFLx2000 and its gonna be really awesome to have him on!

Heres a whole bunch of his work!

And... Another Interview! On the following Tuesday(3/16) I'll have Daarken on @ 6pm EST. Daarken is a Freelance/Concept Artist working fulltime(probably literally) @ Mythic Entertainment and on various other projects including Magic: The Gathering!

Metal! - Ozzy - "Fool like you"

Monster Plush GiveAway! - Suggestions for next Guest?

Hey everybody! Wanted to bump this for 2 reasons...

Number One! My girlfriend Chelsea Bloxsom(Love and a Sandwich) is doing a Monster GiveAway on her blog!

To Win this Monster post a comment on Chelsea's blog with a background story about him :)! It can be about how he was born, where he came from, a story from his life, anything! As long as he's the main character.


(Click the Image for more info)


Pretty awesome, and easy if you got a minute to write a cool story! I'd do it but I'm already surrounded by her stuff in my house D:. We're both working from home and I get to watch her make cool stuff all day and she helps me with my work as well :). Pretty goooood system. But yea, if you'd like to see more of her work then just check out her blog at the link above and click her Shop on her top banner. Support the Chelsea, buy her awesome things haha.

Also, I'm planning on having more guests on the Crimson Daggers... I've sent out a few emails to people and some private messages. But while I wait I figured I'd ask you guys what you think.

Who should I contact to be my next guest artist?


Just leave me a comment with your suggestion and I'll look em all over :)!

Monitor Calibration!

Hey everybody! As some of you may know from the LiveStream, I talked about my monitor troubles. Over the weekend my friend Devin Platts came over with his own computer setup. He owns a mac and also a IPS Dell monitor. The IPS is awesome for viewing your works at different angles and providing better colors in general... Which is helpful for larger screens like mine where you may end up viewing the wrong colors as you view the top and bottom of the screen...

So basically what happened was Devin finished an image and sent it over to me. I then realized that my image was waaaay lighter than his. Also that mine was obviously the one that was off.

What I ended up doing was running my X-rite EyeOne Display 2 for 5 hours. I tried multiple monitor profiles but nothing helped. All were either too light or too muted... Not sure if the Spyder calibration units are better but I haven't used any others besides my EyeOne. So heres what I did...

First of all, I used these as samples to help me best calibrate my monitor! These links also have some instruction as to how you should calibrate your display...

Give all of these a read through if you haven't before.

ePaperPress.com's Calibration Tool
Lagom LCD Monitor Test Pages

Samples to run it by
Calibration Tool
Calibration Chart

Once you get started you can use your actual monitor's brightness and contrast to adjust. But that will only bring you so far. What I ended up having to do was go into my graphic card's settings and manually adjust my monitor using the images provided above. I'm not sure how it works with all cards but I'll show you how I used my ATI Radeon card.

Heres how you get to this file(using Windows Vista 64bit)

>right click desktop
>click 'Personalize'
>click 'Display Settings'
>click 'Advanced Settings' in the display window
>click 'ATI Catalyst Control Center'(or whatever graphics card you have, there should be one for nvidea and others as well)

At this point you can adjust the Gamma, Brightness, and Contrast using the provided links above as reference. Make sure you get a smooth gradient. Also pay attention to the levels to make sure theres a distinction between the brightest and darkest tones(as mentioned on the ePaperPress website).

I had to manually adjust my monitor this way for a little while. But the change was worth it. If you're having trouble locating your card in that advanced settings section you may need to install the driver again. Which is what I had to do when I couldn't find the means to adjust it.  Then theres always Google Search if you really can't figure any of this out. Thats basically what I did to figure out how to fix my setup :).

OR you can cut out all the terrible crap and just buy an Eizo monitor(super expensive) haha or an IPS display. Dell sells a pretty decent one that a lot of people I know use :).

Anyways, hope that was helpful! If I learn more on the subject or if you know of any other info just drop it in the comments and I'll update :).

My continued Master Study -

Metal! - Blind Guardian - "Majesty"

Today's LiveStream with Jana and Hannes!

Hey everybody! Gonna do a post a little later on about monitor calibration. But in the meantime I thought I'd let everyone know that the interview/general discussion I did with Jana and Hannes(algenpfleger) is up for watching on demand!

Click here to Watch!


Was a lot of fun! I'm hoping to get more people on in the mornings!

Tomorrow and Good Tips from an AD!

Hey everybody! Just a reminder that tomorrow I'll have Janaschi and Hannes(algenpfleger) on Crimson Daggers! Should be a lot of fun! Bring your questions and we'll try to get to as many as possible.

Click here for more Info (or just scroll down to pervious post haha)


Heres some stuff I thought would be useful. Couldn't have said this stuff better myself! If you don't already follow Jon's blog I'd highly reccomend it as he always updates on the weekdays with content. Not to mention all the great challenges!


Check out ArtOrder's Tips on Dealing with Clients and specifically Art Directors!


How to Lose a Client


How to Build a Great Art Director


I love reading all Jon's entries! So much awesome information. These really stood out to me but you can always look back into the archives for more awesomeness.

Also tonight @6pm EST I'll be live working on a character illustration!


Just follow the link from the Banner above(Monday night stream)!


I'll be taking input from the Chat and creating a character from all the suggestions!


Study from today!

Metal! - Ozzy - "Breaking all the Rules"