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From my last Journal, you may know I did a speedpaint tutorial video for a few classes I was teaching in Hawaii.  I was very happy with the result and the kids in the class seemed to really enjoy it.  Alternatively, I really enjoyed doing the video part as well.  I liked adding music and titles, transitions to the video once I had it compressed into 6 or so minutes.  So to further my understanding of video editing I decided to do another one.  Because this one wasn't going to be used for a training video for students, I went a little more "racy" with it.  Basically, bottom boob!  Any way, the video is up and I would truly love any comments that you could give.  Whether its here or on youtube doesn't matter but I am dying to know what you think.  I really appreciate your comments.



Also want to continue to pitch my speed paint video of Supergirl.  Please visit the video on You Tube (click below):



~TheSpaceCowboy




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Hey Folks,

Thanks for filling out my survey on why you watch me, much appreciated!  I wanted to take a moment and talk about a small hobby of mine.  As many of you know, I am a huge Supergirl/Superman fan.  I really love drawing Supergirl and I am constantly trying to get better at doing so.  In my quest, I've gathered quite a large collection of Supergirl reference images.  I've started sorting them into the best illustrations ever (in my opinion) and I'm throwing them up on a Pinterest board.  If you'd like to see what I've got so far check it out here: The Best Supergirl Illustration Board.  This board has a high level of scrutiny but I'm also noticing that I'm throwing up a lot of pieces.  If you have a drawing of your own or would like to submit a friend's drawing or just your favorite Supergirl illustration please message me, or email me from the pintrest board.  I would love to include more work.  Also if you like the board, pass it around to your friends.  I want this board to be THE spot for the best Supergirl Illustrations ever, including professional work and fan art.

Also want to continue to pitch my speed paint video of Supergirl.  Please visit the video on You Tube (click below):



~TheSpaceCowboy




The Tumblr Link |  Twitter | The Best Supergirl Illustration Board

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Supergirl Speed Paint Video

Mon Mar 4, 2013, 8:05 AM
Good Morning Deviant Art.

In the next few days I am going to be flying out to Hawaii for some family stuff.  While there I was asked to give a few presentations on comic books and production processes.  I've been preparing my presentation over the last few weeks and in doing so, I was able to make a speed paint video.  My audience for this presentation is high school students and I wanted to show them all that goes into making a cover for a comic.  I recorded my screen every step of the way while I painted a faux Supergirl cover.  I ended up with 18 hours of footage.  Because I don't think the school will give me 18 hours for my presentation, I compressed the footage down to 7 minutes.  This was the first time I've done a speed paint video.  I was nervous and you can see where I go back and edit some pieces in the video.  All in all though, I am very happy with how it turned out.  I would love to share this video with you guys and if I could, please please please, comment and or favorite on you tube.  It would mean a lot to me.  So if I can figure out the requirements for placing a video in a journal, here's the video:

hmmmm . . . doesn't look like I can embed the video into this journal entry.  Please visit the video on You Tube (click below):



~TheSpaceCowboy




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Powergirl from CallMePo: Process

Mon Feb 4, 2013, 1:40 PM
Hey all,

Here is my process from my most recent Powergirl piece (Originally drawn by :iconcallmepo:.



"My father believed, that if the world found out who I really was, they'd reject me.  He was convinced that the world wasn't ready, what do you think?"
















































I can't believe this trailer, its amazing!  I took the time to screen cap each scene break from it and every picture is a piece of art all to its own.  I know I am bias because I love Superman so much but I think even the average person has to admit this is a beautiful trailer.  I am super excited!  I bought tickets to the 12am showing of Hobbit so I could see this trailer, ugh I wouldn't have if I knew it was going to come out early.  Oh well, still awesome.

~TheSpaceCowboy




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"My father believed, that if the world found out who I really was, they'd reject me.  He was convinced that the world wasn't ready, what do you think?"
















































I can't believe this trailer, its amazing!  I took the time to screen cap each scene break from it and every picture is a piece of art all to its own.  I know I am bias because I love Superman so much but I think even the average person has to admit this is a beautiful trailer.  I am super excited!  I bought tickets to the 12am showing of Hobbit so I could see this trailer, ugh I wouldn't have if I knew it was going to come out early.  Oh well, still awesome.

~TheSpaceCowboy




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What's on my mind:

Tue Aug 14, 2012, 10:54 PM
"You will give the people an ideal to strive towards, they will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun, in time you will help them accomplish wonders." ~Jor-El





























"You're not just anyone, one day you're gonna have to make a choice, you have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be, whoever that man is, good character or bad ... he's gonna change the world" ~ Jonathan Kent

~TheSpaceCowboy




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Hey everyone,

To those of you lucky enough to have made it to Comicon, welcome back!  I am so jealous of you all.  For us normal mortals, last weekend was spent watching live tweets from Comicon or trying to survive the national heat wave striking the country.  For me, it was a usual Seattle weather weekend.  Cloudy, highs of 60+ degrees etc.  I did however finish moving into my new house finally.  It has been longer than expected but when it comes to moving you tend to expect to go beyond expectations.  The house is brand new, never been lived it.  I feel quite blessed and fortunate to have my first home owner experience be in a new home as well.  I've lived with my girlfriend for a year before this but she and I now own the home together.  Its been a wonderful relationship building experience.  

On top of getting a new home, which in its own right takes months of hard work, my girlfriend and I decided that wasn't enough stress.  We adopted our first dog together as well.  He is a white German Shepard named Yuki.  My girlfriend tells me this is the Japanese word for snow.  He is a bit of a handful but he is coming around to our way of life.  He was adopted from a shelter where his previous owners were rumored to abuse him.  This has made our training a bit more difficult but rewarding.  You can see Yuki below.



With all that is going on, I am just now getting back to working on my new book.  Its been months since I've made any progress.  Which led me to the title of this post.  It may take me longer to produce this story than I originally thought.  I'm ok with it though, the whole purpose was to do this as stress free and professional quality as possible.  They say that you can only have two of three of the following when creating something: Done Fast, Done Cheap, Done Well.  And as they say time is money, I am opting to let time be the variable in this project.  

I have very little to update people on so I thought I would share an answer to a question I've never been asked but always wanted to share.  "Eric, what does your work station look like?",  Well I'm glad "no one" asked.  Because I just moved it I have a whole new set up to my studio.  Check it out below:

As you enter the room, you are greeted by a 42inch tv and all the video gaming systems.  Very necessary for when the brain is stumped:



To the left of the TV is the sliding glass door to our little back yard:



Going further to the left is the Wall of Computers.  This is my girlfriend and I's computer set up.  I am on the left with the corner desk:



Back to the door you can see our little love seat for sitting when playing the video games.  Also my comic book collection is in there too:



On my desk of course is my collection of Supergirls:



And oh what's this, something I am working on tonight.  I wonder what it could be . . .



Well that's all I have for now.  I hope you guys enjoyed the update.  I'll be commenting more on photos when I can!  Great work and I'll touch base soon.

~TheSpaceCowboy




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The Brief Korra Intermission

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 11:19 PM
Hey everyone,

Many things going on in life as I'm sure is true with all of you.  Since I last updated everyone, I left you saying I was going full tilt on my new big project.  That hasn't slowed by any means but life also picked up as well.  In short, I bought a new House, a Dog, and started playing hockey again.  More on all that later.  I do feel bad that I have gone against my promise to take this year and focus on my new personal project but if I was going to take a pit stop for anything, it would be The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra!  I am LOVING this show!  Its tremendous and much more to the point.  The age of Korra makes the themes easier to relate to, and frankly the romance something to route for.  I had to take a moment to do a fan art piece as I begin a new phase with my personal project.  So with that said, here is Korra, please do comment, and I'll be back with more life and personal project updates soon!

Have a great weekend

~TheSpaceCowboy




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Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is.

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 3:33 PM
Good Afternoon Deviant Art,

So this last few weeks, I've been putting my money where my mouth is.  I mentioned in my last update that I was going to shut down all of my convention plans, free time illustrations, fan art, business building etc. in favor of giving a true effort in developing my next comic book.  Well I can report, that is exactly what I've been doing.  At least an hour a day (after a full day of work), I break out the pen and paper and start working out the details to the story.  This is definitely the most difficult part of the process for me.  I have MANY ideas that are big picture kind of ideas but getting the details between each big idea is taxing.  I've been studying a lot of writing techniques like asking questions of yourself, working through beginning middle and end, and making an extensive timeline with giant whiteboards and sticky notes.  All techniques have been effective but I hunger for more.

Do any of you know any good story development techniques out there?  I would really appreciate all ideas.

Working this way so far has been successful but of course there is a twist.  This isn't a book for reading, this is a comic book.  So really, what I am trying to accomplish is getting the whole story flushed out event after event.  Once that is done, then there is dialogue, character development, story-boarding and revision, all before actually drawing the thing.  Comic books are proving to be a devil's mix between story-boarding for movies and writing a novel.  The hardest is that there is a large mystery aspect to this story and I know how it ends but I can't let the reader know that.  I have to give clues and examples without revealing the end mystery.  What is very important to me is that the story develops and reads very organically.  I want to give the reader enough of the puzzle to keep guessing without revealing the end.  I don't want this to be an episode of Castle where they give you the facts you needed to solve the mystery at the very end so you couldn't solve it to begin with.  

Do any of you know any good mystery story techniques?

Any way, I just wanted to check in and say, I'm still here and I haven't given up on my one year hiatus of conventions and fan art and so forth.  I plan to have The Black Flame ready for its debut at ECCC 2013.  It'll be a long comic novella but it has the ability to be a stand alone so no waiting for next issues like Artemis.

Any further thoughts or votes of confidence are greatly appreciated!

Have a great weekend

~TheSpaceCowboy




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Hello DA!

I've been away.  no art, no updates, very very few comments.  I am sorry.  Two main reasons for this, one is my schedule has been crazy!  I am designing a very ambitious project at work that has shifted a lot of my free time priorities toward learning more jQuery and sharpening my coding skills.  The other reason for my absence is . . . Star Wars: Old Republic, I am ashamed to admit.  For about two months I have been crushing Jedi scum online and I couldn't get enough of it.  It wasn't until last week that I was able to put it down for more than a night.  That said, this brings me to some sad news.  Convention season is upon us here in the Great Northwest with Sakura Con and Emerald City Comic Con coming up in just two weeks.  I usually am at both conventions displaying new art and talking about new projects.  I even have a table at Sakura Con, which for anyone that has tried to get a table at Sakura Con, knows how hard that is.  Unfortunately I won't be attending either this year, at least as an artist.  

I am at a real turning point with my hobby/labor of love Hypergate Studios.  I have a great idea for a rather expansive comic book that I want to do, as well as a how-to book.  I also want to re-brand HGS and HGS Comics and bring them under one roof.  I think I am under no misunderstanding as to where my company and my progress as an artist are anymore.  If I really want to have my own comic book label, I need to have material, and good material at that.  I need to up my game and I need to produce work that I am truly proud of.  With this realization, I've decided that from now until the next Emerald City Comic Con (2013), I will not be attending any events or conventions as an artist or teacher.  I want to take some time and get everything where it needs to be.  I want Hypergate Studios to be re-branded as the company I want it to be.  I want design a new website and blog.  I want to get back into the pod-casting scene.  I want to make a one-shot stand alone comic book that is worth purchasing and has more than 40 pages of real content.  I want to put together my tutorial book and training CD.  Frankly I don't think that I have any business being at these conventions if I can't provide work that I am excited about, and lately I just am not producing the quality I expect from myself.

So with that, I imagine I will much more active on this site, and equally and just as suddenly not active at all.  I am going to continue to depend on the great instruction I get from this community to help my improve my skills and hone them into what I want to make.  Alternatively, I'm going to play a lot of this close to the chest.  My newest comic will be revealed when the time is right, and most importantly, when the quality is there.

Thank you all for your continued support and know I appreciate all the comments I get though I can't get to them all every time.

Wish me luck!

~TheSpaceCowboy




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Good Evening Deviant Art,

Tonight I come to you with some exciting (and secret) news.  I am working on a new comic book!  Its a pretty ambitious project but I am excited for it.  It'll be a one shot issue and thus a rather LARGE issue.  There isn't much that I will say about it now but I can tell you the working title is "The Black Flame".  It takes place in our world and during our time (very different from Artemis).  From there you'll just have to read on.

So what does this mean for Artemis?  Just on hold still.  She will be coming back once the rest of the story is finished.  We had to pump the brakes with her because we were getting way ahead of ourselves with her story.  So slow and meticulous planning is still moving forward.

In the mean time I get to work on this project SOLO!  First time I'll be writing and illustrating a book.  So now on to the good stuff,  I won't be saying much about this project on here until I am much closer to finished with it.  With that in mind, I have a special treat for anyone who is a fan of my work and actually reads my journals. I am going to share a secret tumblr account on here that will show my progress on the book!  I've put the first hinting image up already.  Visiting the tumblr account will let you see my process for art so much more intimately.  I am showing all the notes, the doodles, the photoshop screens, all of it!  So if you are interested then PLEASE check me out there and COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT! I feel very exposed doing it this way but I figure, if you read my journals then you are interested in seeing all parts of my art and are most likely willing to help constructively.  So without further ado, here is the link:

The Tumblr Link

Also, for updates on my lunchtime drawings at work, check out my newly reformatted twitter account.  Following me on twitter will also give you some benefits to my new book and certain lunch time drawings I'm not sharing on DA.  That link is below:

Twitter

Wish me luck!

~TheSpaceCowboy




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Hey everyone!

Happy Halloween!  I'm sure you've heard this all over but "be safe and have fun out there tonight".  Today I will try and keep things brief.  I want to talk about three things that are upcoming.  The first is already out there, my third attempt to try doing a Supergirl DCNU cover.  This time its the 7th issue.  I kept a lot of the pose from the previous cover because I wanted to incorporate all the great feedback I got from you guys.  I focused on wrapping light from behind a character, fabric folds, and shoulder placements.  I really am happy with how this piece came out.  It was actually an impulse thing because of the great feedback I got about the second cover.  It didn't get a lot of my attention in the beginning because I have a new project I am working on (which I will get to next).  However, in the end, the piece came out great.  Much thanks to my Girlfriend who helped me with the lighting.



Next up is a new project!  I am going to be working on this for probably the next half year.  It is my goal to have it completed and ready for debut by Sakura Con 2012.  Its funny, because I feel like a Hollywood Producer, I have the idea, I have most of the details, but it isn't a fully formed project yet so I find myself squeamish talking about it.  I guess for now I will say, if you don't see as many "Well thought out" pieces from me, its going to be due to this project I'm on.  You will, however, get to see my lunch time drawings that I do at work at least once a week.  They aren't that impressive because I really only have 15 minutes a day to work on them, but they are much fun and working with my co-workers on challenges makes it a blast.

Finally, its my birthday tomorrow.  I had a thought in the car on my way into work today, am I getting too old for this fantasy life I hide in sometimes?  . . .  My answer was no, lol.  So here's to another year of drawing, creating, and trying to break into that comic book world!

~TheSpaceCowboy




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Looking forward

Fri Oct 21, 2011, 10:02 AM
Well I've received the response from the moderators and out of the 6 deviations that were tagged, only 2 will be removed from my gallery and I can understand why.  It will hurt to loose one of them, it was my most popular piece with over 200,000 views and 30,000 favorites.  That aside, I feel like the moderators were kind and fair in their judgement and I am looking forward to moving on from the issue.  So with that said, I'm looking forward to the future and am very excited about continuing my work here on Deviant Art!

Thank you all who commented and shared your thoughts with me, I believe that I was able to respond to you all but if I didn't I'm sorry.   I really appreciate the support I've received and you all have continued to show me that the best part about Deviant Art is it's members and community.

~TheSpaceCowboy




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My Friends:

:iconacegallagher: :iconlady-blackwings: :iconabnormalchemistry: :icongrifdaddy: :iconnoborux: :iconrobokop:

Artists that inspire me:

:iconartgerm: :icondaggerpoint: :iconganassa: :iconomar-dogan: :iconryankinnaird: :iconwolfhyde: :iconyumedust: :icondominic-marco:

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I've calmed down a bit now

Thu Oct 20, 2011, 7:15 PM
Well it seems that the great Naruto character piece removal seems to be slowing down now.  I first want to thank everyone for your support!  I will be responding personally to your comments shortly.  I have been doing research into the problem and I have been working the DA to determine the fate of my pieces.  So far I've been promised that one of my pieces will be returned to my gallery with all its stats intact.  As for the fate of the rest of them . . . it is still undetermined.  So for now I will share what the mod has said and my response to the mod.

------------------------------- Moderator Response -------------------------------------------

    Hi there, thank you for contacting deviantART, I will be assisting you with your support ticket.

    I've checked the records associated with the deleted works and I can see that the reason they were deleted was due to the fact that the characters depicted come from an established series and in that series they are primarily portrayed as being under the age of eighteen(18).

    Our rules prohibit established underage characters from being depicted in any sort of nude, erotic, "sexy", or sexual manner and all instances of these depictions are removed immediately as they come to the attention of the staff. There is no kind of aging up, alternate universe, mature content or artist comment that makes the submission of this kind of material acceptable to deviantART.

    This includes, but is not limited to, the character being depicted: in underwear, revealing clothing, nude but censored, with enlarged breasts/buttocks, posed so that the main focus is the breasts, buttocks or genitals, or engaging in acts of sado-masochism and bondage.

    You can find more information on our restrictions for the use of these characters at the FAQ located here; [link]

    I have restored [link] as it is currently acceptable, however the other images are outside of policy.

    If you have any questions please let me know.

    Regards

    Dom P.
    Copyright & Etiquette Administrator.
    deviantART, Inc.
    [link]

-------------------------------------------------- My Response to the Mod -------------------------------------------

Thank you for your response.I appreciate you taking time to help further explain the removal of some of my work from this site.  With that said, I would like to gain further understanding, as the result of this removal is having an extreme negative effect on my gallery.  The protection of underage children on the internet is a paramount concern which I wholeheartedly agree with.  To that end, illustrations, film, sculpture etc forms of media should be subject to review.  Though Deviant Art has shown some works that I personally found to be pushing the line, it has done a wonderful job in filtering as a whole.  All that aside, I feel that your rule for FAQ 248 stating: "Attempts to portray a fictional underage or child character as an "adult" in order to avoid these restrictions will not be allowed under any circumstances." is written in bad taste is stifles the creativity of your members.  A blanket rule like this does not allow for your members to creatively explore a future for their beloved characters.  You have talented moderators who can review pieces with common sense and clearly know when a rule is being circumvented for the sake of exploitation.  My pieces do not intend to circumvent FAQ 248 nor do they show anything beyond what the industry owned story is putting out there as official artwork (please see attached file).  According to your generalization of the FAQ above, my pieces can only be guilty of "revealing clothing".  How is that an offense when the show and manga itself provide images like this.  I have even tried to age the characters, despite DA's feelings that this is unacceptable.  But it is here that I ask you to utilize your wonderful moderator staff and make judgement calls.  My pieces were illustrated to show a fully mature body, not under-aged characters with breasts for the sake of exploitation.  Since its upload to Deviant art in 2007, "Hinata Sexy" has received over 200,000 views.  My entire gallery put together barely meets that.  I would be happy to remove the word "sexy" from the title and to that end add a mature content filter but removal of this piece after 4+ successful years on your site is simply ludicrous.  Deviant Art has been a wonderful place for me to learn and share my art and I can honestly say that I've grown as an artist because of it.  However, if Deviant Art can't grow with me to accommodate my creativity to age characters then I feel Deviant Art may be falling behind its user base.  Please simply explain to me how the rule "Attempts to portray a fictional underage or child character as an "adult" in order to avoid these restrictions will not be allowed under any circumstances." was arrived at, and how its meaning doesn't hinder my creativity as an artist.  If the end goal is to protect the exploitation of under-aged characters, then isn't the attempt to age the characters in a realistic fashion enough to cancel that exploitation?  I suppose in short, I feel like I haven't submitted any work that isn't equally "scandalous" available through official merchandising.  I think a second look at the work I've lost will reveal no deliberate attempt at under-aged character exploitation, but instead show a creative look into a fiction future of some of DA's most beloved characters.  As DA says on its about page, "deviantART was created to entertain, inspire, and empower the artist in all of us."

Despite today, I have truly loved my time here on Deviant Art.  Thank you for your continuing support in this matter.

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So that's that.  Thank you again for all your support everyone!  I'll keep you all apprized of how it turns out.




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Artists that inspire me:

:iconartgerm: :icondaggerpoint: :iconganassa: :iconomar-dogan: :iconryankinnaird: :iconwolfhyde: :iconyumedust: :icondominic-marco:

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DEVIANT ART WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!!

Thu Oct 20, 2011, 10:11 AM
I am horrified and truly angry for the first time at Deviant Art!  I have loved the Deviant Art community and all the lessons and sharing that can be gather to become a better artist here.  But after today, I don't know what to do.  I am furious at Deviant Art!  They have removed two of my deviations for claims that they are too erotic, specifically:

"A member of staff has reviewed a report concerning this deviation and has determined that the characters depicted in a nude or erotic fashion are established as being underage."

The two deviations in questions? My most popular deviations featuring Hinata from Naruto.  

The first deviation has been here since 2007 and has had over 200,000 views.  200,000 VIEWS  In fact if you do a google search for "Hinata Sexy" you will see it as the first result on image search.  To it's credit, its been stolen and featured across countless blogs and website galleries.  The "Hinata Sexy" Piece has been a linchpin in gathering new watchers to my gallery as well as fresh opinions.  In the 4 years it has been on this site it hasn't once received a complaint.  As to its content, the picture is a beloved character from Naruto wearing a bathing suit.  THERE ARE COUNTLESS PICTURES OF HINATA IN A BATHING SUIT ACROSS THE WEB, LET ALONE THEY HAVE HER IN NEXT TO NOTHING ON THE SHOW ITSELF!  If the deviation requires a "possible adult content" label then so be it, but there is nothing about it that contributes to any Adult content especially compared to some of the borderline vulgar content I've seen posted on this site.  I don't draw nudes, and I don't draw erotica and to be accused of this is simply infuriating.  I have been apart of "scandals" on deviant art before.  People have stolen my art and claimed it was their own, then had the gal to report me as if I stole it.  But this crosses a line.  Someone had to actually report this deviation for it to be removed.  The jealous sub-culture of needy, immature teens on this site is appalling.  We are supposed to be able to grow from one another here. When these bull shit cry baby teens get on this site and realize they can't draw as good as you because they have not the passion nor devotion to better themselves; they simply report and steal art and that is unacceptable.  The first piece in question can be found below, as it remains on countless other websites and poses no "concerns" to any erotica:

<img src="[link]"  height="259" width="200" />

The second piece is even more infuriating.  The title itself illustrates FUTURE!  If the problem is that there is some level of "underage" illustration, then this very deviation showcases the character IN THE FUTURE  Where she is clearly older and more powerful.  She is wearing more clothing than the previous deviation and has taken a fighting stance.  There isn't even a "sexy" pose.  It was simply in the title.  The administrator who removed this is a FOOL.  Did they even bother to read about the deviation or the credentials behind it?



I have been a valued member of the deviant art community for many years now.  As soon as they offered the paid user accounts, I purchased their membership.  I've been a paying member for as long as its been an option and to be treated like this is inexcusable.  Its not like I am drawing pictures of Kim Possible naked with a dildo coming out of her (yes I've seen that on this site).  God, I'm angry about this.  I will be protesting the measure and following up with a deviant art staff member shortly.  I want an apology, I want my deviations returned, and I want the people who report this shit to grow up!

~The Pissed Off Space Cowboy

Update: This is a copy of the message I sent to Deviant Art:

"Two of my deviations have been removed due to policy infringement according to your moderators and I wish to protest this removal.  I believe that the moderator acted wrongfully in accordance with your policy procedures and didn't give the two deviations the appropriate attention and context before removal.  Also, the deviations in question have had over 200,000 views in the last 4 years and never a complaint nor violation has been found.  This long standing and incredible statistic further stands to the credit of the deviations and should also be taken into account.  I have been a paying member of this site for as long as the "premium membership" option as been offered.  I would like to have the deviations returned and their statistics restored.  If this is not acceptable to you, then I would suggest you open a dialog with me or you may loose a customer of your website.

Eric Johnston"

Update 2: Further removal of deviations

So their response has been to remove three more of my deviations:


A this is what I wrote about the deviation: "So here is a picture of an alternate reality Sakura from Naruto. She is much older and looking off into the sky/future."  Notice the MUCH OLDER part



Here is a simple holiday message drawing.



This is what I wrote about this deviation: Another addition to my never ending quest to merge realism and anime styles. This is Aku no Sakura. I have a friend who studied in Japan for a year and is amazing at Japanese. He told me that Aku no Sakura ruffly translates to Evil Sakura, or the Evil of Sakura. I took an artistic license with this picture too in that I jumped time forward even more from the current Naruto show. In this picture she is 22 years old. Thanks!
In this picture she is 22 years old.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MID-DRIFT IS NOT CAUSE TO REMOVE A DEVIATION!

Who the hell is reporting my deviations?!?!?!?!?!?   This is driving my crazy and I am so angry!  I can't believe this is happening.  The moderators aren't even bothering to read up on the deviation.  They have no context to remove these!  I am going to battle about this!

Update 3: Further removal of deviations



I will continue to post the removed deviations so they may be viewed on this site.  If this has happened to you, or if you have any in-site on this matter PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE comment or contact me.




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Supergirl Featured on Blog

Fri Sep 16, 2011, 1:12 PM
Hi everyone!

Just wanted to let you all know that my Supergirl drawing was featured in a blog about alternate DC comic covers.  I would really appreciate any views and comments that you can give on that site.  I think it might boost my cred with professional artists.  Thanks very much!

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~The Space Cowboy




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Kumori Con

Wed Aug 31, 2011, 9:06 PM
Hi Everyone!

Good news!  Hypergate Studios is going to Kumori Con this weekend!  We are very excited to be going.  Kumori Con did us the honor of inviting us down to demo some of Wacom Technologies new products as well as teach a few courses on digital illustration.  I have three classes that I am teaching and I couldn't be more excited.  I'll be covering "Tips and Tricks for your Wacom Tablet", "From Paper to Pixel - A beginners course in digital illustration" and "From Paper to Pixel - Advanced techniques and Shading".  All of them are going to be a blast.  I actually had a really nice time preparing the course work.  It forced me to bring out the paper and pencil again.  I took a drawing from concept on paper to completely digital (inked shaded and colored).  I hope it will be very beneficial for people to see the COMPLETE process!

On that note, if you are interested in the training course materials but won't be able to make it to Kumori Con this weekend shoot me a message.  Hypergate Studios is in the process of creating a tutorial book with this information and MUCH MUCH more!  

Any way wish me luck at Kumori Con and I hope to see some of you there!

~The Space Cowboy




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The New Supergirl

Wed Jul 20, 2011, 3:06 PM
Alright here we go.  I drew the new Supergirl Costume so I could get to know it better and I've really come around to it.  I think it could be really cool and this has totally re-invigorated my excitement for the DC reboot.  I've noticed my Supergirl Gallery is getting pretty big.



The progress from the first and last one on the list above is comical.  Its fun for me to see them all in a row like that.

Have fun at SDCC everyone!




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DC Reboot and Costumes

Fri Jun 10, 2011, 4:31 PM


This is the new Supergirl costume for the DC reboot.  I don't know what to say.  When I first heard about the reboot I was actually pretty dang excited about it.  An opportunity to bring these characters into the 21st century sounded like a great idea.  But once I started seeing pictures of the characters I started to get worried.  I don't know how I'm going to feel about the new Supergirl Costume but my initial reaction is not good.  In fact the main theme I'm seeing across all the characters is that they all looking like they have spacesuits added to their costumes.  A blogger brought up the point that they might be looking at Batman Begins' or the Dark Knight's success with a more realistic armored suit but that is very VERY unnecessary for the Super Family.

I think what has gotten me the most is the JJ Abrams principal.  For those of you who aren't familiar with the JJ Abrams principal its pretty simple (by the way, this is something I made up not a mainstream phrase, lol).  As a writer you create a situation for your audience that forces them to fill in plot holes with their imagination.  For example, in Alias, we always wanted to know more about the Rinaldi stuff.  Or Lost, everyone wanted to know what the Island was.  But in the end, that answer that you, as the viewer make up is always going to be better than the real thing.  This is the ultimate success and fail of Abrams.  He makes the user excited to see what it is that he hides and and so the user creates answers on their own.  But when the truth is revealed its never as good as the answer you thought of.

Side note: Abrams and M. Night should do a film.  M. Night could pull a fast one on the audience and Abrams could get them thinking about it all the way up to the twist.

So with that, I believe that I stand JJ Abrams'ed with the DC reboot.  The ideas and designs I had in my head for these new characters are way better (to me) than what the artist are coming up with.  It'll simply be a matter of time until the costumes become accepted as mainstream again, and then it will probably bother me less.

For the record though, this will always be my favorite Supergirl Costume,



The Michael Turner one.




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Smallville

Sat May 14, 2011, 2:32 PM
More to come soon, for now, enough said!



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