raulfigtree

Taurus eclipse of the heart

I think I’ve said it before on social media that Taurus is my favorite astrological sign.

More than any other sign , including mine, it’s either at the center of a project or related in some capacity.

My love life has been , historically, almost consistently intertwined with Tauruses. Every formal relationship I’ve ever had has been with a Taurus moon or a Taurus sun. Is it a choice? Hardly, but it most definitely is a pattern I’ve picked up on. So the romantic relations...

Spider-folk

I was looking for something to watch

Kind of mindlessly scrolling through the streaming channels. That thing where each icon, when ya hover over it , it goes “continue watching x” or “just added”. On the Disney one it showed Amazing spider-man, which made me think for a second “oh ok they got the sony ones” and I thought I could watch spider-verse. Well I was wrong, fooled into the Disney+ den. Out of the corner of my eye (the corner being me scrolling endlessly looking for ...

Trunks Boxer Briefs

• The android/cell saga is by far my favorite of DBZ. Is it the best written? No. Objectively there’s other Sagas that beat it but it’s my favorite.
• In large part my love is because of future Trunks and the androids. They’re almost a box set, so similar in their appearances that if you told me that they’re all related I would believe you. Their clothes aren’t related to any martial art or warrior uniform. They’re punk, with pierced ears, damaged casual wear, and Jean j...
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Wrinkles on the head

Im taking a lil break of practicing drawing cars to share a lil scene where I drew a different car. Why did I task myself which so much car drawings?? For me? It’s up there with horses and bicycles in the list of torture. Sometimes I say it’s a way of training like yeah gonna give myself things I struggle drawing but no it’s masochism is what is!

Anyways.

This chase scene is from a comic pitch I was working on with a writer. He wrote it in so I clear my name , in...

Thats low Batman

The lil two-face Batman comic I drew a while ago and decided to revisit. I think I had shown a lil update a while ago but didn’t follow up on it.

I’ve been re-reading Robin: year one and just remembering how much I love Robin. It’s also been helpful in regaining the mood/want for drawing since it’s been a lil absent lately.

More to come at some point in the future lmao

Self portrait and self perceptions

Last night while working on some pages for a comic im collaborating on with another artist i sketched up a lil self portrait. It’s probably the first self portrait I’ve done in a lil bit and a lil less ‘cute’ as I’m become accustomed to. I think the reason I usually have gone with a cute approach has been because A) I don’t take myself seriously I mean ya get one look at me and it’s hard not to say I don’t look cartoony, B) it’s just more fun outright to simplify yourself...

Sirens and rivalries

I’ve gotten a lil rusty so I’ve been trying to get back into the hang of things with some DC comics sketches and drawings I’ve been meaning to do. Like a to do list with no deadlines, just things I wanna make my way to. I make those (personal projects) sometimes to have things to turn to when I’m in a creative slump.

In school they tell ya to steer clear of fan art, and while I think you don’t want it to be your only “thing”, I do think it’s actually pretty helpful. I�...

Over the Garden Wall - Mad Love

Last year I did a series of illustrations surrounding ‘over the garden wall’, it was called “Over the Garden Fall” bc who doesn’t like a good pun. I didn’t get to all of them so I said I would finish them this year. Well as you can tell , or have been able to tell, I didn’t get to all of them again.

I did pick up where I left off, this is my least favorite episode but that doesn’t mean i don’t like it! I love this episode! I think it’s just my least favorite out of a...

The Bear on FX and memories long past

I think there tends to be a lot of overlap between the art community, the music scene, and the culinary world. Every one knows someone in a band, everyone knows someone who does art, and everyone knows someone who works in a restaurant. Go in a couple layers to each profession and you tend to share a space with the other two. Most artists I know tend to have a bunch of musicians in their friend circles and every cook/chef I’ve ever met has multiple artist friends. They all overlap. They all...

San Expedito (full issue and background prose)

Hey guys!

Raul here! Dont know why I clarified that when its my Patreon but whatever. So I finished the first chapter of San Expedito! Below you'll find an attached hi-res version with all 52 pages.

I'd say there's still stuff ill want to go back and correct or tweak but Im pretty happy with what I got done! Its the first time ive drawn or written anything longer than a few pages so I think its ok to feel a lil proud in this moment.

Thank you guys so much for your support an...

San Expedito 40-52

Here we go folks ! All done! I’ll be posting the full comic as a pdf download in just a moment but for now I’ll be posting the remaining 22 pages in two separate posts! Unfortunately I can’t post more than 10 images in one post!

That’s a wrap on issue one! Now the real fun begins!

Road trip time babyyyy :-)

SAN EXPEDITO pages 30-41

Here we go folks ! All done! I’ll be posting the full comic as a pdf download in just a moment but for now I’ll be posting the remaining 22 pages in two separate posts! Unfortunately I can’t post more than 10 images in one post!

Lost in Cult // final image

I finished drawing my last editorial drawing for Lost in Cult. They should have their crowdfunding up and I’ll be sure to come back and add a link.

The final image was for a piece about being a dad and a gamer. How handhelds let someone do both.

I used a picture of me holding my four legged son as reference and my friends GBA which I’ve had since I drunkenly said I could get her every evee evolution on Pokémon red mistery dungeon. Spoiler alert: it didn’t happen and now I...

San Expedito (no lines)

While messing around with one of my pages and trying to find on what layer I left a little mark i realized that you can still read most of my images without their line work. They kinda have a gouache feel to them and I’m a little fascinated by how much I like them like this.

I’ve been planning the next issues and steps and one thing I’ve always had in mind was that I want each issue to be different and have a bit of its own visual language. So who knows. Maybe I’ll come back to...

Lost in Cult

Been doing some illustrations for “Lost In Cult”s upcoming book with different op-Ed’s revolving around the history of handheld gaming.

Ive captioned some of these with the premise of each one!

Just to elaborate a little more, the first image was centered on how with the Nintendo DS (at the time) came a time of possibility with games and activities that ranged from dating games, mean girls and McDonald’s employee training in Japan. So I created one of my most chaotic imag...

Thumbnails and thank yous

So I wanna say thank you for a few things.

1. Thank you for being so patient with me and my progress on san expedito. I recently finished thumbnails for remaining pages, as well as ‘inks’ for half of them (quotation bc it’s digital). So hopefully I’ll have it all done by July! Im, for the most part, taking a break on commissions and limiting other projects to focus on this and freelance work. I’m really happy that some aspects of my very short career are picking up but I’m ...

Need for speed

Working on a piece that includes a bunch of motor bikes. So I figure I’d work on some sketches of different bikes. Some real some not so real.

It’s funny, growing up motorcycles were one of the things that were off limits for us. Y’see my uncle died riding one. It was hardly a bike issue though he was hit by a drunk truck driver. No weed, tattoos or motorcycles. Broke the first couple rules but I always thought the last one went double for me since i was compared to him so much, ...

Oh but dear the sky is low watch

I think I’ll leave it as is.

Any more and I’ll ruin it.

Dory ,Drew, Dory, Chantal, Dory, Portia, Dory, aaaand Elliott

Unfinished business

Yknow last time I posted an update I said I would circle back after finishing Search Party season 5. Well I still haven’t, but in my defense it’s not my fault. My gf wanted to watch it and I said sure why not, I’ll rewatch it (after all I love this show a lot) but ever since I started living with my girlfriend in July, we don’t finish a single show. It’s actual torture. That’s the problem with starting a show together, ya can’t really just finish the show without your partner b...

MOONLIGHT at El Rio

Made a poster for a friends event at El Rio, an iconic bar in San Francisco. Lots of amazing memories there and lots of amazing people are collaborating on this celebration!!

It was a blast to work on I got a little too caught up in details but Whaddya gonna do

Also decided I gotta get better at drawing people getting down bc it’s essential…how ya gonna call yourself a good artist if ya can’t depict people throwin ass ??? It’s impossible

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Store blurbs

Sometimes when there’s downtime at the store we write little “blurbs” with reviews or summaries on some of our picks! Some are new and some are classics. They’re all bangers though.

You can find them all on Silver Sprocket’s site if you want one of ‘em!

The Batman

I could talk about this movie a bunch and make a lil mini essay on my thoughts bc it’s Batman so I have a lot of thoughts as dumb as it might be

But it’s 2 AM so I’ll just say I really liked it, it was so funny at times and it was nice seeing a classic detective story

So eres a sketch I did to unwind a lil bit!

Here we go

Coming up on the last pages of the first issue of San Expedito and the adventures just getting started !

I love Goku

I know I’m always blabbing about how much I love vegeta and vegeta this and majin vegeta that etc. Or how much I love trunks because let’s face it I love drawing people in jackets, it’s all someone’s fault and I’m gonna go ahead and blame him because he has a sword. ANYWHO, I love goku a lot and I think he’s really cool. I reread the namek saga, the later stages though right when they beat ginyu, and right now I’m in the Android saga. I love him.

San Expedito pgs. 29/30

Alright so maybe it’s not smooth sailing from the beginning

“Spicy”

Since working at silver I’ve been tasked to make some signs for sections of our books or Mibni collections.

Here’s one I made for our NSFW section

who was flickering the lights

Trynna find the balance between goofy and terrifying on this one

Paranoir

Yknow right around the beginning of 2020 I thought of revisiting the comic I did in my senior year at Cca

But then 2020 happened and I just kinda lost interest but it might be fun to do so at some point

Okay butt hear us out

This was all drawn so I could draw Nightwing’s butt

Something I don’t often do tbh

Families amirite

Goth dad tired of his goth children