Day 7 of the 90 day challenge.

The day has come to post. Do you think that I made it? Yea, I wasn't so sure I was going to be able to make it either. As always a lot of things happened that tried to get me to fail right out of the gate. As soon as I posted about doing this 90 day challenge I got an email for Toys R Us asking me to do work. Of course I said yes, which meant that I really had to work my time management skills.

There is also some other work that I am doing for a couple of other companies. As soon as I can, I will show everyone what I have been working on for those other companies.

I did make it, just in case you were still wondering if I did.. I even did better than I thought I would. I was able to finish 10 cards in seven days. I might have been able to finish a couple more but there were things that were a bit more important to me than staying up all night to pump out more cards. Now next week might be a different story but I just don't know.

I think that is enough babble on to the cards.



This was the first card that I did in the week. I wanted to start off with something a bit easier. This one is called Bionic Legs. Nothing too advanced in concept just a pair of bionic legs. Once this card is activated the Hero is able to hit creatures with flying.

This is one of my favorite weapons is Dark Legacy thus far. This is the Boomerang Blade. This is the weapon that Oz uses. This is a pretty big weapon. It is a tree cutter if used right. The idea behind this weapon is that it uses magic to insure that it comes back in such a way that is won't cut you in half. The orange magic coming out of the handle is what make the weapon come back. It is like a very powerful magnet. Hey, I thought it was a cool idea.

This is the Enhanced Solider. I didn't want to over do it with the enhancements. This card isn't that strong so I wanted him to look more human than robot. I think that the character says fighter and still has a bit of an advantage over the people who are not enhanced.

This is the Necklace of Knowledge. This card allows you to look at the next card in your deck. Nothing to fancy but it could prove very helpful in a strategic move to end the game

This is the Psychic Motivator. To tell you the truth when I was creating this image I was thinking that there was a creature within the rock and that is its eye in the middle. So, the creature within the rock was able to talk to you telepathically and make you do things that will benefit the creature. Once again I thought it was a cool idea.

This is Ratakarna's puzzle. This one took longer than it should have. I was making it so that all the pieces can actually go together. So if someone was to really make this puzzle it would actually go together. I have to say that I don't know if it was worth all the time that I put into the thought process, but none the less I like how this one came out. And, knowing that it would actually fit together is just something cool that I get to say to people now.

This is Rock Form. Nothing to daring here. Just thought I should make the rock warmer instead of the normal cool blue rock that I have done in the past. I used some complementary colors to make it work better. I do like how the green pushes the creature forwards.

This weapon is called the Spider X-25. It has been a weapon that has been in my head for some time. I have to say that this version makes a lot more sense than any of the others that I drew out. The first designs were all about making a rifle that could split into two different guns. That's right I said split. What can I say I was young and thought that it would be awesome if that could work. Alas now that I am older I just don't see how that would work. So I made my version of an assault riffle with a M203 attachment.

Thermal Vision should have been easy, but after looking at a lot of pictures I just didn't think that I had it right. I actually had to use some of the filters that Photoshop has in order to get the effect that I wanted. I am not a big user of the filters, but in this case it just worked.

This is my Vampire card. This card started out as something completely different. Then I realized that I had already made that card so I did some tweaks, toned down the skin color added some fangs, that you might not even be able to see but they are there, and just tried be make it a bit creepy. I like this card, especially after it was supposed to be something completely different.

There you have it, my 10 cards for the week. I am very happy with my progress on the challenge. I hope that I will be able to keep it up. Thank you for looking and don't forget to come back next week and see what I was able to finish in the next seven days.

Thanks
Kaiser

Time to start posting

Hello Everyone,

I know it has been a long time and I keep saying that I am going to post more often. Well I am saying it again, but this time I have more to talk about. I am getting closer and closer to the release date of Dark Legacy. So I want to make sure that I put as much art out there as possible. Here is what I have in mind

For the next 87 days, it was 90 but I started three days ago, I am going try and finish at least one card a day, and every Sunday I am going to post on the final product of that week here. I am going to talk about what I did and  tell you any other thoughts I might have. For instance

Two weeks ago I was at MegaCon in Orlando. It is a con that I have been going to for 12 years straight. That's right 12 years and counting. I have to say that I had a good experience. Business was good. I was able to get some more interest for Dark Legacy and I met Stefan Price.

Stefan Price has a SFX and Prop building company known as Roundtable Productions. They have done prop and SFX for Disney and Universal in Orlando. He came by my table and was telling me about what he would like to do in the future. I was very intrigued so we talked for quite some time and then came up with an idea to make a replica of the sword that Tyoshi from Dark Legacy uses. You heard right he wants to make the sword of my tech ninja. Man I was like a giddy school girl when he told me that you could actually make the sword. I know that Stefan would love to make custom props for Cosplayers and anyone who would like something cool made that they have designed.

If you are interested in something like this check out his website

www.roundtableprops.com  or   Mechanical Oddities at Etsy.com

I think I am going to end it here. It seems as though I stopped at a pretty good point. I need to leave myself something to say on Sunday. Make sure you check back on Sunday evening or Monday morning to see what I was able to accomplish in a week.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you come back
Kaiser

Hello Everyone,

Today marks my 90 day blitz for Dark Legacy. I am going to be busting my tail within the next 90 days in order to finish Dark Legacy. I have no idea how much I am going to get done but I am hoping to finish up the project within the next 90 days.

So, for those of you who are actually watching this blog. There is going to be a lot more activity going on here within the next 90 days.

Thanks for coming by and be on the look out for more work.
Kaiser

Hello Everyone,

I know that I promised some updates on art. Here you go. Wait! Before we do that why don't we talk about the post I did a couple days ago on Facebook. I said that I will be working for Marvel. Well, I am going to be doing sketch cards for their new upcoming sets called Marvel Beginnings and Avengers the Movie. I was very happy when I was approached with this opportunity. I am still waiting on the actual cards to come in but my excitement is still very high.

OK on to the art.

This one is called aura boost. Simple idea. There is a little guy at the bottom and he his able to project his aura up into the sky. I am looking forward to finishing this one, it should look pretty cool once colored. 

This on is the unholy song. This one is going to look really different once it is done. I have a great idea for the finish, but I don't really want to tell you about it, because that would ruin all the anticipation for this card.

This is the wind spike. I had a lot of problems with this one. The pose that I originally had just wasn't working. I was trying to erase a hole into the image. My wife told me about myself and then I decided to start over and this is what came from that. A lot of this image is relying on color. So, come back and keep an eye out for that.

The mystery box. Don't know what to say about this one besides that it is a mystery and it is a box.

This one is called rewind. I have to tell you that it is really hard, or at least it was for me, to draw the idea of rewind. I started with the two triangles that you find on dvd players and well that just look boring. So I came up this. The idea that this grown man got reduced to a child and the only way we see the grown man in in the kids shadow.

Hello Everyone,

My once a week updates have once again fell off. This time at least I have a good reason for it. I have been working on a project with Elvin Herenadez. We have been working with Toys R Us on their new toy line. It is called True Heroes: L.A.S.E.R.  Here is a link to what we have already done.

http://www.toysrus.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=11682137#/page/1

So I have been very busy working on that. I have now got ahead of the deadline so that I can do some other things on the side. Last week I was able to do some Dark Legacy work. I will be posting that with my next blog post.

For some reason my images have been linking to the thumbnail. So I am going to try and fix that for the next round of image updates. So I am sorry about that. Even though that was going on I got a really good critique from an old friend. It was good to hear a real critique for once. There were good things and bad things, but in the end I felt as though I was able to grow a bit in my work. Speaking of growing. One of the pieces that i am going to put up later was critiqued by my wife. She made some very strong comments which at first didn't sit with me very well, and I am sure that she could see it on my face, but once I was able to understand what she meant by what she said I realized she was right. I was doing something with my figure work that I wasn't even aware of. So I have to thank her for that.

I am glad to know that I have a person in my life that is able to give me the hard facts about my work and when I get huffy and puffy, she doesn't just walk away and say whatever. She is awesome.

I guess that is enough talk. I just wanted to give you an update.
See you soon
Kaiser

I am going to have to do an image update after this week. I have been pretty busy. There is a project that I am working on that is going to be release the first section of it in two days. I can't tell you what I am doing yet until it is published. So stay tuned for that.

Next I got an offer to do some sketch cards for one of the major companies but I don't think I can say much yet since I don't have any of the cards or signed the contract yet. That is going to happen today. I need to call them about a few things and ask some questions, but that is also happening at the moment. As soon as I can put up some of the images that are going to be created for that I will.

On top of that I am still working on Dark Legacy. Man I tell you what I am very busy. You know what they say when it rains it pours, but in this instance it is a very good thing and I thank God for the many blessings that he has given me.

Thank you all who are supporting me in my journey to becoming more of a name in the professional world of comics. Thank you all, it means a lot to me.

Well I have to get to work. So I better get to it. Come back at the end of the week and I will have stuff for you to look at. Thanks again
Kaiser.

Better let than never

Hello Everyone,
I have been super busy as of late. I have just on a super tight deadline that kept me from updating my blog on a weekly basis. But, I finished it. As soon as the company posts the work, which should be around the end of the month I will post what I did. Before it got to crazy I inked some of the previous drawings that I did for Dark Legacy. I hope to continue showing the pencil version but time was a bit limited these last couple of days so I had to rely on the art I had from before.

Here is what I have thus far. I hope you like it.

This card is known as the casting box. This is a card that holds five casting points. The Casting Box will be a very useful card to all players.

This card is something that I brought in from a different project. It wasn't used so I might as well use it now. This is known as Hammer Fist, because of obvious reasons. This is an enhancement that will make the Hero stronger.

 This is the Health Regulator. This is one of the many cards where I only drew on half of the card and put in together in Photoshop. Due to time crunch I need to continue to work smarter and harder that is why I only drew half.

With some much Tech in the game it would be foolish of my not to have an EMP so that is why I drew this. This is really going to rely on color. Some really bright blues will make this image pop. Stay tuned for the final image.

Metal Colossus!. What can I say I wanted to draw a really big tin can. I think it came out ok. I am starting to realize that I am still trying to master the hatch mark drawing and well I know that I am not the best at it, but I do like how it looks in David Finch's work. Now I know I am no Finch, but I have picked up somethings from talking to him. I know that I am going to make a mix of his style and my style. It is starting to come together. I hope you will like it when I am ready to show you.

This is the casting vault. Everyone is going to want to have a couple of these. This allows you to hold twenty casting points. You can do a lot with twenty casting points.

This one is for my good friend Cisco Martinez. We were talking about this object for a very long time. It is know as the D.I.P. watch. Let me tell you that this is one heck of a card. Just wait until the card it done. You are going to want to have this card in your deck. Trust me.

The Keeper of Souls came about because there were too many soul reapers and soul harvesters in the game, and I still had this card that needed a name. So Keeper of Souls was created.

Extra Play is one of those cards that you don't want to see in your opponent's deck. This card could just change the whole outcome of the game. This card allows you to play two d20 for a couple of turns. Full details when the card is finished.

This is another card that I only drew half of it, but that half was fun to draw. I don't know if I would like to have to continuously have to draw this on someone's arm but at least for this single illustration I didn't mind. This card isn't as crazy at the brother to this card that is at the end of this blog post.

Simple but cool. I was happy to draw this one. It is known as Psychic Motivator. I really didn't know how to draw this card, so I thought I would put a like essence of a creature in the rock that would talk to you.

Got to draw another giant robot. Nothing but fun with this one.

 

Thermal Vision was one of the easier cards that I got to draw. This was a card that allowed me to stay on schedule. I should do more cards like this. Dark Legacy would be done by now if they were all this simple. Maybe not as cool, but at least it would be done.

 

This is the Hand of Power. This is an example of what the half drawing would look like. I know a couple of my studio mates who get upset when I don't draw the whole thing but I need to get it done, and I know that Photoshop will do a better job at getting the exact copy of one side better than I could ever dream of doing, so I am going to let the compute do all that work.

Well I am now all caught up. Hope you liked the images and come back and see what other cards are going to be created for the upcoming Dark Legacy card game. 

Thanks again for stopping by.
Kaiser