Rizian Art

Hi guys! It is been a long time since the last entry! As I announced on the Facebook Fan page the last week I did not update the Blog because I was really really busy working with the new Website for Béance, you can start reading this Webcomic by just clicking here. You can read the Webcomic in English and Spanish. We will see if I can work in a new avaliable language, let's see how it goes.

I want to start this topic by telling you this guys... Thank you, really thank you for the support and being awesome! If it was not for you reading what I write here, taking your time to look at my art and reading my Webcomic, I'm sure I'd have given up long time ago. I have no words to describe how grateful I am right now. Really THANK YOU A LOT! 

BECOME MORE PRODUCTIVE!

To many of us Inspiration is something that comes just in a while, then you feel like you have TONS of things to do, maybe you have to work, clean your clothes, the house, make Breakfast, lunch and dinner, that's fine, we all have that kind of activities, we are humans! But you feel like you don't have enough time to do all the things you want to, and you sleep less, you're really stressed, you want to be alone but at the end you can't stop complaining about time, money, life, children and other issues in life.

I really mean it: IT IS REALLY NORMAL TO FEEL LIKE THIS. But you can take advantage of this kind of things, what you need a little bit of organization and other some little tricks I'm going to show you below:

1. Organization is the basic key for success, for some people making a schedule is something that is against their own views, well, it is not like this, you do not need to do something like:
"4 AM Get up and make breakfast for the kids".
"5 AM Take a shower".
"6 AM Drive to work and leave the kids in the school"

HELL NO!!! Organization is not like that, all you need to know is what you have to do, then find a way to organize the activities in a way you can spend less time for it, for example, instead of drawing, inking then adding colour to a single draw I do like three sketches, then I add ink to all the three sketches, so I do the same with the colouring stage. It takes less time to do this, that's in my case, for some other people there are more effective process, but this is just an example.

2. Rest 5 minutes per each work hour, this is something really good, not only to rest up a little your mind, this is for your health, you need to stand up from the chair and walk or see trough the window, this will make any task you're doing more bearable. When I draw my comic I usually work for 8 or 10 hours in a single page, so each hour I stand up and drink some water, look trough the window or just "imagine".

3. Most of the people will say no to this, but I already did this some days ago, and it is actually working like a charm, and it is... Please, close that Facebook! That page stoles from you tons of precious time, just for nothing, and they're getting richer with your time! What are you winning? Nothing! I used to spend a lot of time on Facebook during a day, I was working on the comic and at the same time I was on Facebook, so look at this:

Time to complete a comic page: 10 hours
Time spent on Facebook per hour: 12-15 minutes
Time for drinking water, stand up and go to the bathroom per hour: 5 minutes.

Total Time on Facebook for comic page: 2 hours and a half. 

Make your count of time! You can see something horrible here! I'm not saying "stop using Facebook" or "Facebook sucks", I do still use Facebook, but on my free times, not when working.

4. Do not stay up late! I really mean it, I did this for 5 or 6 years, now I'm always trying to sleep at 10 - 11 PM. This is a fact: when you get up early you have more energy to spend in the whole day, another fact: when you rest at night your body rest a lot better than on the day, last fact: and this is more serious working during the night increases your chances to get Cancer. If you love your relatives, your friends, your dog, cat, hamster, I don't know, please, take care of yourself, your health is the most important thing.

5. Entertain yourself, life is not a punishment, with more joy in your life you can find easily more inspiration for working hard and do all the task you have to in a single day. If you worked hard, you MUST reward yourself in some way.

Well those are the most important advices I can give you for become more productive! I used them all for improving in my activities, my art and improving as person, this saved me a lot of time that I'm now spending with my wife and other activities like playing video games, go out and drink coffee or just to rest up a little. Now I'm giving it to you! I hope it was very useful for you! Thank you for reading and see you the next time!

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Hello! I feel I have been years since I wrote a new entry on the Blog, but since we have spent the holidays back to work and make our own, hehe. How have you spent in the new year? I hope this year 2013 are the best for you and all your wishes and expectations come true. Well, because we made a small wave can get into the issue, the issue today is not a tutorial, nor any classification of characters or drawing lessons, today I come to tell you about a personal experience in the field of drawing.

"Carlos, how ~ # @ # & * you did to improve so fast in 8 months? I've been drawing since two years ago and I do not see any improvement."

This question came from more than one person personally when I uploaded the image you see above to my Deviantart, my response was simply: "I do not know, maybe I was doing what I liked to do." But beyond that simple and easy answer, the question of "why some have such a drastic change in his drawings in such a short time and others not?" And the research I could find a better answer to the question that I have made some close friends. I will tell you:

I've always wanted to do a manga, but I was not drawing very well, in fact one of the things I did is what many who want to learn how to draw manga do, I sat at the computer, open the browser, and type "course to learn how to draw manga on-line", at first I will not deny, I kept drawing Naruto, Ichigo from Bleach or some characters from my favourite series, I enjoyed it very much, and I will not deny that I was feeling like "Damn, I'm a @#~^* god". Gradually I realized that this was not going to lead me anywhere and that if I wanted to draw my own manga I should make my own characters, and in fact I set the task to do, holy @#$~* that were horrible, I look and gives me a bit of nostalgia but also some laughter, I will not deny it, but I had the motivation to someday make my own history and I did not give up, so I thought and thought through my inspiration and things I could create from my mind after taking some spare time.

When it came time to do my first story I self demanded enough, but at the end I did not like what I wrote and it was archived as a reference, however this was not the first "slip" I had, I filed approximately four stories and more than 20 characters next to them, for some it is a very small number, but for me it is something that fills me with pride. But there is something that I always key feature quite the time to talk about "how to improve" or "create a unique style" ... those are the references.




Do you have an account on Deviantart? Well, actually there are many similar sites, I have a Deviantart account because I think it is a very complete Web with a large audience and also has so many artists that have helped me in different ways to become better each day. The importance of joining a social network is that you have the capability of upload your pictures, perhaps receive criticism, get some motivation behind a simple "Like" or "Favourite", also make references to artists you admire, meet new artists and techniques that can surely improve the one you're currently using, find another good tutorial and especially to define your style through everything you've seen.

When I took some references I found on Deviantart artists gradually felt the confidence to come up with something more, so I took a pencil and began to create, when I had realized I had my first "20 Watchers" in Deviantart then 100 and so on, regardless what to draw, I always tried to do better than before I did wrong line in a drawing, now was a perfect line, but can not draw scenarios were drawn today, could not draw women, also I can do, I have even learned a thing or two about colour, but none of these things are the work of one or two nights, it's hard work and perseverance, everything is learned in time, the style of each artist develops knowledge process itself, not knowing the other process.

When I made up my mind that I must enhance my own process, my own methods, that's when everything became easier and stronger, I held a more obsessive drawing, then I could say "This is what I always do" From there it was just self growth that took me some way to where I am now standing. Everyone has a different process, many take longer than others to adjust to his style, others take less time, and not bad either case, we are all different people and have different objectives, it is more than normal for these things to happen, especially on something as subjective as it is art.

"Patience, patience, patience ... know yourself, study your processes, close the book for a second and try to accomplish things through your own understanding, is my advice."

I hope you have enjoyed this post, I also like to know your experiences on this topic, do you have any skill to improve your next picture? Guides you any special technique? Any artists to share? Come on, do not be shy! With that I say goodbye, but not before to tell you I've been very active on my Facebook page, or Twitter, so I recommend you stop by there as I will also be sharing interesting things I usually find on the network, Greetings! Happy new year!

Many of us have drawn pages and pages of our comics and still ask "Where I'm going with this?" And there's usually no response, so and many people have stopped and we are still inking our dreams.

For many if us the situation of comics/manga is quite complicated, because in the places we live is quite difficult to find someone to finance our comics or just someone to buy it because our culture is quite hangout in the 9th art. Many see the comics as childish, which is for children and should be in most cases a humorous theme and nothing else.

There's a moment in life when you want to organize your life, find a job or study a career, for someone like us it would be something like: ​​"I want to draw comics for the rest of my life". We tend to stray from reality, but that we tend to neglect the cruel reality when we have a great result when you draw something cool, and blame everyone and everything when something goes disastrous. The reality is this: you can create your own destiny regardless of the external situation to which you're linked.

I saw through the little time I've spent on this, people doing incredible things or they manage somehow to get known or just sell one or two copies of their work. Many have relied on his comic put advertising to finance their project, others have tried to achieve foreign publishers and publishing a short story to begin, others have saved money to publish a small number of issues and today is the day that reached to sell over 2500 copies at the local fair.

Are you good at what you do? If the answer is yes, now ask yourself this: It makes you happy? If the answer is also yes, I will say this to you my friend, never let your dreams die because if you keep chasing your goals you will be rewarded in some way. When I started this I was not expecting too much, I had the world against me, had few skills and did not know people who wanted to do comics or manga, however over time I have been rewarded with simple things, but each one of those means a lot to me.

Now look at the other side of the coin, you're good at what you do but it is nevertheless something that makes you happy, I recommend you to try harder, I am of those who do not believe in this "natural talent" I rather to believe that there are people who have grown up and been influenced differently to achieve their own style in less time than other people. The effort and the joy of striving for what you do always brings rewards, your duty is to know and value them echo on them for your next victory.

People will always be lucky, and those who were not born with the gift of luck we have almost an obligation to make our way through life to find that opportunity or just struggle to create it and get to where we are going tomorrow. World is difficult but not impossible, we like to draw or write, love it as a challenge, this is one more challenge that you have to beat!

I hope you have been useful for my article, I would like to know your experiences in this field, I am always open to talking and meeting you. For more updates, articles and images can subscribe to my page on Facebook to stay tuned. Greetings! Arr!

The sketch is a really important process in drawing, painting or creating something, in my experience as an artist I can say that the sketch is part of the process in any artwork that matters most. Why?

The sketch is the part that gives the composition, character, even your own identity to the artwork you're doing as well as give you the ability to view and correct any errors in your piece. Beyond the reasons for its importance is also there's something I call "The power of the sketch" or "Sketch power". Among an artist is more developed in their ability to get out of his mind a basic sketch will have more ease of making parts with its own identity.

Finding sketch development is mostly a capability that is developing and identifying in each work that you made through your artistic career. For example, there are people that make a persons with models, drawing dolls and others tools, it's not bad, there are people who always starts to draw people with little circles and geometric shapes, the two are different ways to raise an illustration, but, does that really affects the future of illustration? My answer is yes, since basic guiding these lines in our brain in a way we can identify what we wanted to do at first can be a really useful base for achieving what we wanted in our minds.

It is difficult to take a sketch from another person and perform this work under their own concepts, our brain will feel quite uncomfortable and simply will create a barrier between you and the paper. If you are learning to draw I recommend you to force yourself and try to capture objects and bodies in your own way to draw, try to make simple lines, do not complicate, the drawing must be progressive, stylish and not something exact, is not mathematics.

For best results with "the power of the sketch" I'll give these simple tips:

1. Try to draw anything you have to look at and thus adapts to your own thought, have you tried creating a great sword from a RPG just seeing a knife in your kitchen? Have you tried to create a powerful gun just seeing a toilet paper tube?

2. Like fantasy? Have you tried watching people differently? Have not you tried to turn your best friend into a dwarf or a troll or an elf? You can guide you and illustrations of various creatures that have made others to create your own.

3. Once you take notice that something you liked or made you work simpler to make something you already have in mind should have it in mind for next time. For example: I do better when I draw the heads first as a circle and identify the position of the eyes from two cross-shaped lines.

4. Are you a retailer or just like the simplicity of the drawings? You can go for either of these two ways, but can give you the opportunity to explore the other side of your style, it will give you more clues to identify what you like and what's the hardest part to work on.

5. Draw, draw and draw, never stop drawing when you have time to do it.

I hope I have served my advice and my Blog post, soon I will be writing a new one, so be aware of my page on Facebook for an upcoming entry!

And tell me, do you like to be quite retailer or like to be a little easier when drawing?