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What else do I do??

Mon Jun 22, 2009, 6:54 PM
  • Mood: Joy
For those of you who care (and i know there aren't many of you out there) you may ask "well Erick, what else do you do?" if you thought i was a bum that carried a laptop and took advantage of free wi-fi from Starbucks then you are very close to the truth.

Anyway, something I've been working on recently is that I've gotten into doing custom graphics for motorcycles, MX (motocross)bikes to be precise.
It started as a one time thing for one of my brothers who rides in local race circuits so he asked me if i could design something for his Kawasaki. From there I've gotten a few more requests from friends of his (fellow riders)and as a favor i only charged them modestly since all I'm doing is designing the graphics, I'm not printing them out, if that were the case then I'd be making in excess of $100 US Dollars for every custom job, it'd be good business if i had my own plotter, companies that do custom graphics sell full kits anywhere from $125 - $150 bucks, just do a search online for "MX graphics" and you'll see what I mean.

With the hopes that one day this graphics thing becomes a moderate business for me I opened this temporary website

[link]

If any of you are dirt bike riders and would like to pimp your ride, let me know ;)

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Dont want to get too personal (stuff on the net can come back and haunt you :X ) but basically i'm a self taught artist, been drawing since i was like 5 or so.

My parents got me a how to draw book featuring Woody Woodpecker and some other cartoon characters; y'know how you're supposed to build up your drawings by first doing the stick figure, then adding the circles and cubes, cylinders, etc to get the shape of the thing you're drawing? yeah well i cheated and traced the finished drawings, HA! Only years later (like 10 years later) when I discovered the How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way book that i realized "$#%* I do have to draw the stick figures... and cubes... and cylinders".

At school I was always one of the go to kids for any particular drawing assignment (fellow deviant Emanuel "emrock77" Macias can back me up on this, he's a long time friend of mine and was also one of the "go to" kids, check him out [link] )
that's probably the only thing i was known for at school and the only time i would be popular, heh.

As a kid i wanted to be many things, when Top Gun and Iron Eagle were popular I wanted to be a fighter pilot, when i realized that wasnt gonna happen I wanted to become an animator seeing as how I liked to draw but never in my aspirations did i think of wanting to be a comic book artist, that is until one day it just hit me and i said to myself "I want to do a Spider-Man vs Batman comic" problem was i didn't know where to get comics! luckily i remembered that a nearby school supply store had a magazine rack and lo and behold they had Spidey and Batman comics! so i finally had my research material and that began my quest to get into this damn field of comic books.

I've literally spent over 2/3 of my life reading comics but i didn't consider wanting to get into comics until i was in my mid teens, meeting other like minded friends that sparked my imagination and creativity.

And here I am, still trying, honing my skills till one day, i'd like to attend a comic convention and be on the other side of the table.

Late

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Tijuana, Mexico
  • Favourite movie: Scarface; all Star Wars movies; many others
  • Favourite band or musician: Metallica
  • Favourite genre of music: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
  • Favourite artist: Jim Lee; Marc Silvestri; Stephen Platt; Dale Keown; Frank Cho; Steve McNiven; Adam Hughes; many more
  • Favourite game: Madden NFL Football
  • Favourite gaming platform: Sony Playstation
  • Favourite cartoon character: Batman

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:iconcomicwriter486:
~ComicWriter486 Oct 24, 2009, 6:49:22 PM
Hey, I know you're probably way too busy, but I love your artwork and I'm actually working on a comic of my own. But I'm having some issues with my drawing. Wondering if you would be interested in doing some work for me. Obviously you would get part of the profit when it's published. The only thing is I can't pay you until then. Thankyou, and please consider.
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~ErickCruz Oct 25, 2009, 6:15:31 PM
Hey ComicWriter486

I appreciate your offer but you are right, im kinda busy with work and i have virtually no time to draw, and the free time i do have i use to unwind and relax. i dont even have time to work on my own art now a days.
:iconalphamalezulu4:
*alphamalezulu4 Aug 14, 2009, 6:26:23 AM
Hey brudah. Your comic was sent out a few days ago, finally. Yeah I know... lots of problems up here lol. Anyways, I threw the sketch in there, I'm hoping you enjoy it. It IS Ms Marvel... but the um, outfit is hard to distinguish that it's really her. Hope you enjoy it.
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~ErickCruz Aug 14, 2009, 6:46:32 PM
thnx, man. i'll look for it sometime next week
:iconmrcynic:
Mood: Dumbfounded ~mrcynic Jul 12, 2009, 6:04:32 PM
Hey homie,
Long time you see. Gald you are up on devart. Your work has skyrocketed.

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"...because the other three are figments of your #$@!ing imagination!"
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~ErickCruz Jul 13, 2009, 8:53:23 PM
Thnx man.
But im glad you're doing much better. Health is primary. Now you need to make up for lost time.
:iconmrcynic:
~mrcynic Jul 15, 2009, 3:12:03 AM
make up, probably not. but move forward for sure. Hunter and I have been working on getting my book cruising again. We could use a Cruz. Its too much for me to draw.

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"...because the other three are figments of your #$@!ing imagination!"
:iconjulienhb:
~JulienHB May 3, 2009, 2:43:04 AM
HEy! Thanks for the watch!
:iconerickcruz:
~ErickCruz May 3, 2009, 3:47:36 PM
no problem. As a penciller i appreciate what great inkers can do to enhance the pencil art. If yo usee anything in my gallery you like to try let me know.
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