Lar's All Request Art Special Podcast

As I'm sure all of you have noticed, Sohmer and I have planned a very busy summer convention schedule to do our best to meet as many of our readers as possible. As it stands currently, here's where you'll be able to find us in the coming weeks.

• San Diego Comic-Con, July 22-26 (San Diego, CA)
• Connecticon, July 31-August 2 (Hartford, CT)
• LICD Summer Meet, August 6-10 (Montreal QC)
• GenCon, August 13-16 (Indianapolis, IN)
• FaneXpo Canada, August 28-30 (Toronto, ON)
• DragonCon, Sep 4-7 (Atlanta, GA)
• Vcon, October 2-4 (Vancouver, BC)
• Baltimore Comic-Con, October 10-11 (Baltimore, MD)

Now, unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months, you'll be asking yourself "but Lar! What about your weekly show over at Ustream.tv that runs nearly every Friday evening starting at 8pm ET and runs for hours as you entertain us by drawing live and answering our questions and comments live from the chatroom?!" (Here's the link.)

Well with the coming convention season, as well as other summer adventure plans, tomorrow night (Friday July 3rd) will necessarily be the last regularly scheduled show until September rolls around. This is not to say I won't try to Ustream as I can, but it's going to be, out of necessity, more spontaneous until I stop gallivanting all across the countryside. That being said, I wanted to really make tomorrow night's Ustream special so I'm throwing it open as an ALL REQUEST ART SPECIAL. If there's something you've long wanted me to draw, here is your chance to ask me to do it AND to watch me draw it live, as I do my best to take questions from the chat room and answer them live.

Here's the catch, I'm not going to take your requests from the chatroom. Things are fast and furious enough there so if you have a request, I'm asking you zap it my way via Twitter (my twitter handle is @lartist). No guarantees that I will draw your request, and I highly doubt I'll get to everyone's but I will do my best to conglomerate the most popular and most interesting (to me) ideas. All artwork will be posted after the show in Teh Art Forum (over at www.leasticoulddo.com) for folks to enjoy. I will also try to answer and demonstrate any twittered questions on how I work, photoshop techniques etc, while creating the sketches.

So there you have it. I will take your twittered questions from now till tomorrow evening at 6pm ET. The show will begin broadcasting at 8pm and continue on towards midnight.

I hope to see you there!

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Richard Will Keep You Warm

Because it wouldn't be a convention season unless we had some piece of merchandise that was rather on the unique and special side, we didn't want to disappoint.

We've been working on this thing for the last 6 months, and they're currently sitting in our warehouse, waiting to be unpacked and sorted. While they won't be on sale until next Monday, July 6th at 12:00 AM EST, I thought it best to give you a little sneak peak:

Indeed, we put together a Richard, Sooba and Bunny blanket. The whole thing is made out of fleece, and is ridiculously comfortable. As I said, it'll be on sale next Monday, while supplies last.

- Because I Can.

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Stage Fright?

Hey friends,

So it's another Friday night and once again I'm going to be leaping online in a couple of hours to while away my evening on Ustream.TV. This has been a pretty regular occurence for me and I gotta say it remains an enjoyable one. I hope you'll grab a friend and bring them along to be (hopefully) entertained with my art on my weekly broadcast starting at 8pm, Lartist At Work. (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lartist-at-work)

Live Streaming by Ustream.TV

Some folks have asked me how it feels to have so many people watching me work, and the truth is it is flattering as hell. I'm also really grateful for the opportunity to interact with our readers outside of a convention setting (only because cons tend to be all lumped up during the summer and then few and far between the rest of the year). What I do isn't a secret and if I can answer a few questions or even inspire someone else to overcome their own fear of exposure to get drawing, then that is just a huge bonus. Art is a 'do or do not' kind of thing. And the 'do' is WAY more fun than the 'do not'.

See you around 8!

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