Dave Rapoza

Join us on Crimson Daggers!

2012-01-22T13:14:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody! Wanted to update and let you all know that I'm doing an interview for the Crimson Daggers with Danny Luvisi this Wednesday! Its gonna be awesome, talking about beautiful things.

If you don't know, Dan sold his Last Man Standing book(which sold out everywhere) to Paramount Pictures and is in the process of selling his next property. Hes got a lot of knowledge that people should absorb.

Bring questions! We're going to field him some so you get to know him but then we'll take em from the chat!

Aside from that, heres my entry to this weeks Bloodsports challenge! Its basically me as a Crystal Crusader... Ruby Robert <3! Check out the challenge form for more info!

Next challenge is coming this Friday!

Beastman Livestream from tonight!

2012-01-09T14:50:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody! Just wanted to drop the livestream I did tonight of my Beastman portrait. After this one is done I'll be offering the first set of prints for pre-order.

Aside from that I'm happy to announce that the Crimson Daggers website is up with links to all we got going on! We've also started up on WiPnation! So if you're interested, go check out the current challenges and state of progress from the group! We have tons of livestreams on demand between Dan Warren and myself.

Also our recent Bloodsports Challenge judging is up on YouTube right now as well as the Crimson Daggers outline video!

Heres the Beastman stream!

Watch live streaming video from fuckinartwithmrdelicious at livestream.com

Process! - Mer-Man

2011-12-21T11:39:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody! Wanted to post up my step by step of Mer-Man. Hope it helps somehow!

(right click and open in new tab, the image is pretty huge)

Mer-Man of Masters of the Universe

2011-12-18T14:31:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody! Finished this up over the past few days, lots of workin on the side of constantly workin D:.

Almost ready to offer up the first set!

Step by Step coming soon :)

Mer-Man!

Evil-Lyn of Masters of the Universe!

2011-11-15T18:25:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody! Worked this one up past few days, wanted to get it out before I left for the workshop massive black is puttin on.

So heres more Masters of the Universe fan art!

Evil-Lyn!

Trapjaw of Masters of the Universe!

2011-11-10T13:26:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody! Finished my Trapjaw today on livestream! Always good to finish a personal piece, especially with all the other client work I'm currently working on. Not to mention working with Dan Warren(BBFL) on our secret project for the Crimson Daggers Deathline challenge :D. Pretty pumped all around.

Anyways - Trapjaw, Masters of the Universe!

Ghost Rider break + Crimson Dagger plans!

2011-11-03T16:48:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! If you don't already know, theres been an announcement regarding the Crimson Daggers group! Its a year long better yourself thing that Dan Warren is running and its called the Crimson Daggers Deathline. The whole idea is to define goals for yourself and spend the next year taking monthly steps toward each one, breaking down what each goal means and how to achieve them. If you're interested click the link below!

Crimson Daggers - Goldenboy livestream w/Dan Warren(daily)

Crimson Daggers Deathline Initiative

Annnd heres a Ghost Rider thing I did today!

Skeletor - Masters of the Universe fan art!

2011-10-30T16:08:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Did this over the course of a few days between jobs. I posted up a livestream of it the other day, theres a few more videos now though :).

Skeletor!

Dark Souls and Skeletor Video!

2011-10-27T03:58:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Had to find a reason to update the blog so I did a couple sketches and started a Skeletor! I'm going back to my Akira series I just needed to do something quick tonight on the side of work. My current jobs are moving a bit slow so I wanted to do some fun stuff. The video has no sound as I had already done a 2 hour livestream with my friend Dan over on his livestream.

So anyways, heres some Dark Souls sketch stuff and my Skeletor video!

fuckinartwithmrdelicious on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

TMNT Print Giveaway!

2011-10-20T14:42:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! I finally returned from NYCC! Had a lot of fun at the convention, met a lot of awesome people and a lot of turtles fans :O. Really appreciate all the great people and support I received at the con.

As of the end of the convention none of the TMNT prints will be available anywhere online or elsewhere. But I did want to do a ender to it...

So... I've decided to do a giveaway! By Sunday night I'll be choosing 2 winners, one from Facebook and one from Twitter!

The two prints will be from either Series 1 or 2 of my TMNT prints :)

To enter just comment on my Facebook post - Here - and ReTweet my twitter post -here-!

Thanks for the support and goodluck to everyone who enters!

Tetsuo of Akira!

2011-10-03T10:45:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Finished up my Tetsuo today, or at least I think its done(it wont have the logo in the final print btw, and if somebody made that logo and hates me for using it let me know and I'll drop it haha). I usually fix it up a little after I do all the rest before prints. But yea, I really wanted to start on another series so I started my Akira set. Hopefully I'll be able to finish up 5-6 images and get that out. It'll be the same as before and I might have this one at comiccon if I can get it printed in time... Although I'm cutting it really really close.

I'll be posting up process pics tomorrow sometime as well! Anyways, I should be starting on the next Akira image soon as well.

Tetsuo!

Started Next Series!

2011-09-26T21:27:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Just started up my next series tonight with Tetsuo of Akira!

You can check out the progress so far on my livestream video below :)

fuckinartwithmrdelicious on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

TMNT Turtles Print Pre-Orders!

2011-09-24T08:42:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! I'm now taking print pre-orders for the 4 turtles. Before now I had them available to all the previous buyers and they all sold out. Thats why it took me so long to post this up, I didn't think that would happen so quick. Not that its a bad thing! Also, sorry to previous buyers who missed a chance to order from the first offered run, but feel free to place an order now :).

At the moment I'm only taking orders for the turtles in a pack.

Due to the high volume of work and orders I gotta process(not to mention comic con)

I'm only offering 40 sets of 4.

Please include your Name and Address with the order(I wont be chasing people for this info)

Please email TMNTportraits@gmail.com to place an order!

I use PAYPAL for all transactions, you will be sent an invoice after order is placed.
Also, if you have previously ordered do not automatically pay me for the prints, please wait to get a response.

These are 18x24 inch museum grade prints @ $160 for the 4 prints(40 each)

its $11 domestic shipping & $18 international

Please allow me 4-6 weeks before they all ship out due to Comic Con and current deadlines, I'm only one man so it takes me awhile :(.

Thanks!

Magic card + Sketches

2011-09-21T04:19:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Updating with a new magic card that got released and a couple sketches I started past couple days :).

Some New Magic Cards

2011-09-18T22:52:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Wanted to drop a couple of my magic cards from the new set that got previewed. Got a lot more comin throughout the year :D. But yea, I don't usually post work stuff but I figure I may as well add some variation sometimes!

Pretty old now though, but I'm glad I can look back and see difference

Turtles Prints Delayed for New Buyers

2011-09-07T20:24:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Just wanted to go over some stuff regarding the 4 turtles final print run I'm doing. Basically every time I do a print run I offer up the sets to previous buyers a couple days ahead to make sure they get first dibs. But this time the prints totally sold out(except for singles) before I could put them up on the internet for everyone else. So to make it fair I'm still letting all previous buyers get first dibs but am also going to offer up a limited set online as well.

The only weird thing about that is that I have to get all the prints done for these orders as well as all the prints done for my New York Comic Con table in October. Hopefully at some point between then and now I will figure a way to also offer them up to people who have been waiting on buying these online. That being said the wait might be a little long :(. Please be patient with me as I can really only handle so much packaging and planning as well as my current work from clients. Its been a bit crazy to juggle everything!

The last week of august I actually got stuck in upstate New York hiking during the hurricane(leaving NYC with my brother). We thought it'd be nicer as the storm would hit NYC and not us, but the exact opposite happened and we ended up in multiple towns that were being evacuated or totally flooded. After being stuck there for much longer than I planned I got home and immediately had to move out of my apartment into my new place as well as finish 2 deadlines. Crazy month in general for me, but I'm looking forward to everything maybe slowing down after Comic Con.

Anyways, just wanted to get that all out there! Look forward to meeting everyone at NYCC this year!

Heres a big mash up of all my TMNT work that I posted around!

Raphael of TMNT Fan Art!

2011-08-23T09:45:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Oh god am I really done? I can't believe it. I've been up all night working and its like 12 noon haha but I'm finally finished with the turtles! So pumped to move on. Totally overstayed my welcome with the ninja turtles. But I'm really happy that I managed to stay with it to the end and accomplish that big goal I set out to do 6 months ago. Now I can take a weekend off and go hiking/campin without thinking!

I'm going to post up the pre-order details in a couple days for the 4 Turtles prints so keep checkin back.

Anyways! Heres my Raphael to round out the group!

Thanks to everyone for following me on the TMNT front! I'll be doing an extensive process interview on Muddy Colors in a few days for anyone interested in learning the whole process. I'll post that up as well!

ZEN Intergalactic Ninja fan art

2011-08-21T01:35:00.000-07:00

Hey everbody! Working on my Raphael at the moment and also did a quick Zen fan art. Zen Intergalactic Ninja was a short lived comic from the 90s but I was all about the action figures when I was little. Always wanted to be able to try and paint Zen. Oldddd days revisited.

Raphael Video so far!

Watch live streaming video from fuckinartwithmrdelicious at livestream.com

Michelangelo of TMNT!

2011-08-16T19:18:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Been way too long. I've been really focused on client work over the past month but I've managed to finish Mikey. Took me way too long but I'm sure Raph will go by super quick. I've been waiting through the whole series to do my Raph interpretation so I'm glad its finally happening!

I'll try and get the process up for this and Donatello in the next couple days.

Also! I still have some Prints left from Series 2... These are people who backed out of orders.

Click HERE for purchase info!

Heres whats left of each -

3 Slash
8 Wingnut
2 Foot Clan
1 Baxter
2 Casey Jones

Michelangelo!

Michelangelo Video Process(Work in Progress)

2011-07-27T13:31:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Just wanted an excuse to update the blog since I've been away. This heat has been crazy and on top of that I've been really busy with work. Trying to regain some energy for the rest of the turtles. Last night I started back up again with Michelangelo and will continue to work on it during livestream sessions throughout the coming week. You can follow my Twitter for updates on the stream.

I look forward to getting back into the work and finishing everything up!

Watch live streaming video from fuckinartwithmrdelicious at livestream.com

Donatello of TMNT!

2011-06-27T20:36:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Just finished up my Donatello! Took me awhile to finish this one juggling work with shipping prints and everything else. Very busy month for me :). But onto more turtles! I'm so close to being done with this series I can't even believe I've managed to stick to it for as long as I have. Usually its super hard for me to focus on even one painting and maintain total interest but I guess this has been a lesson in self discipline.

Anyways heres the final Donatello! I'll post up the process pics tomorrow or the next day.

Series 2 Prints Are Here!

2011-06-08T12:28:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Just wanted to update everyone who pre-ordered a print and let them know that the prints are here and will be shipping out! If you haven't followed up your initial order with payment please do so now so I can finish processing orders :).

Thanks to everyone who purchased the prints! Just to let people know - Slash and Metalhead are sold out. The others are also running very low but yea. If you'd like to purchase any of the others please click the link below

Series 2 TMNT prints!

Leonardo TMNT Step by Step!

2011-06-06T11:45:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Wanted to post up my Leonardo process shots :). Hope they help!

Also, sorry the livestream videos of Leo are down, Livestream deleted them without me knowing. Apparently I went over my alloted livestream storage.

Paizo Lich Character

2011-06-05T17:53:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Thought I'd post some random non-TMNT related art up. Heres something I did for Paizo Publishing's Pathfinder series! You can check it out here - CLIIIICK

Leonardo of TMNT!

2011-06-02T16:46:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Just wrapped up my Leonardo on the livestream :). Still got the other turtles left but yea, had a lot of fun working on it. Look forward to getting the rest finished.

I'll post up some process stuff soon.

The prints will not be available until all the turtles are done