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I was honored to be asked to be one of the participating artists for the 2012 Fangirl of the Month Calendar created by the fine folks over at panelsonpages.com. Have you been to panelsonpages.com? Well, they provide the official video from the New York Comic Con, do cool things like post the ENTIRE AVENGERS PANEL from NYCC, and they are an awesome source for pop culture (hence the name) from comics to wrestling, television to… well, you name it. They also have a network of podcast shows which are great entertainment, and from time to time you can hear me as a guest on Tuesday nights with my own take on things.

My good friend recently relaunched his website at jasondmoore.com with a focus on graphic design. Jason is an amazing photographer, web designer and graphic artist who also does video production, training and more.

He has also started a podcast called Graphic Talk Radio which is "an educational audio podcast dedicated to graphic design, web design, freelancing, and the tools that help us do our work." I’ve recently made his podcast my top link to the right.

I had the pleasure of talking with Jason on the third episode of his podcast. We discussed my history with graphic design, what it was like when computers really took over the scene, working with clients and bosses, and more. It was a great time.

Click here to listen to Eric Maruscak on Graphic Talk Radio.

The other day I spent some time with a few hilarious guys who REALLY know their Star Wars stuff. Bob Crissman, Dan Westbrook and Gary Boughton live and breathe Star Wars, and I had the pleasure of being a guest on episode 46 of their podcast which is called…

THE GALAXY CAST.

Hey everyone, just wanted to put a quick post up because I know a number of you are looking for the time lapse video of my Star Wars Celebration Clone Wars chalk mural from last weekend. Well, the video is edited together and done… and it looks great. I am super excited and so happy with how it all came out, I am now just waiting on permission to post the piece which will hopefully come very soon!

So as many of you, most of you, or perhaps even all of you already know, I appeared at C2E2 a few weeks back. I had been asked by the show to make one of my chalk art mural reproductions of the official C2E2 poster artwork. This was a fantastic painting made by none other than super-artist Alex Ross. It featured Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, and a very small Ant Man and The Wasp practically hidden in Hulk’s hair.

My second time lapse video blog. The sketch for the C2E2 chalk mural. A recreation of the official convention poster by Alex Ross. I also provide an answer to one of my more frequently asked questions at conventions. Enjoy, and as always let me know what you think.

So I’ve made a new purchase, a Ricoh GX100 digital camera. This awesome little piece of equipment is going to allow me to do something I’ve wanted for a long time… take time lapse videos of my chalk mural creations from start to finish.

Recently my friend Melanie, who is an art teacher at a local school, told me I was entered into their “Art Madness” competition. This is basically a bunch of artists going head-to-head in a “Final Four” type bracket to figure out who is the ultimate artist (in the students opinion of course.) Neither time nor location has any bearing on who battles who to begin with, so you can imagine my feelings when I learned I was randomly up against Michelangelo in the first round.

You may have notice some minor shuffling around on the site. I have moved some elements, changed my archived posts to a drop-down menu, but most importantly I have added an Artwork Galleries section to my left navigation panel. Being one of the slowest people with HTML in the world means this was no small feat for me. It also means there is now quick one-click access to a bunch of my art in nice, organized categories. My posts will still be as entertaining as ever, especially when it comes to convention appearances, but now you can go through a whole bunch of images in these galleries if you just want to look at some art without all that reading.

Today was my first experience with paintball. Sure, I play Halo and Call of Duty all the time, but my friend Sean kept telling me that paintball was a fantastic experience. He also assured me that it doesn’t really hurt too bad to get hit. He was right, but it sure does leave a hell of a bruise!

For my first post I thought I would take a few moments to talk about the materials I use. The materials fall under different categories depending on the type of work I am doing.

CHALK ART:

Since I am mostly know as a chalk artist, and for my street paintings and chalk murals, I’ll start with the overview of my carry-all bag.