An interview, by myself with myself.

Name
David Rogers

Born
The same way I'll go. Kicking and screaming.

Year
November 1977

Astrological Sign
Middle Finger if you ask.

I just did.
Well here you go.

That was rude.
Well you asked.

Would Like To Live
Not in this world.

Nicknames
Alias - Mr. Rogers
Secret Identity - Super Dave, only when needed or deep in my work.



Interests


Technology

Advances in computers and related tech. I get a small kick watching prices stay the same but my computer speed and storage going through the roof. Other technology like vehicles improving, communications etc. I like the advancements but at the same time they scare me.

War
Things that go boom. Ever since I was a kid I have been into modern GI joe, jets, soldiers, guns, vehicles, on and on. All things military and the art of making war.

Website

I am very into my website. I plan on making it huge over a lengthy period of time. It represents all that I am and in some cases am not.

Creating Gaming Worlds
The look, the feel, populating with life, with misery, with love. It really is wonderful. The bigger the better.




Hobbies
My work. It's like a self created hobby.

Collects
Absolutely nothing.

Rather boring wouldn't you say?
Yes, quite. Now fuck off.


Entertainment
Movie:
Addams Family with Raul Julia or The Professional Uncut. Probably the Professional.

Animated Movie:
Beauty and The Beast

Anime:
Record of The Lodoss War (the old one, not chronicles)

TV Show:
The A-Team, I love it when a plan comes together!

Animated TV Show: King of The Hill.

Cartoon:
Tom and Jerry

Actor
Morgan Freeman with Christopher Walken a close second.

Food
Nacho FIESTA! Julios, a hole in the wall restaurant in san diego california, i have ordered one thing and one thing only since i was 8 years old - Large order of nachos, no guacamole, extra sour cream, and a coke please. they start with a base of fresh baked tortilla chips, on which they layer excellent refried beans, then they spread shredded beef soaked in juices on top, then they melt cheese on top of that perfectly, then they place two dollops of sour cream on top crossed with two long pieces of bacon. three layer heaven. every time we go there they have this cool waiter also who has been working there for over 25 years! this guy is awesome!

Drink
Heavy Nectar Fruit drinks like Kerns or Naked Fruit Juice thick with juicy goodness. Or Orange Juice. The more pulp the better. Coke and Mountain Dew as the classic nerd beverages. Anything with sugar and fruit. Hello type 2 diabetes!

Snack
Doritos during the day, M&M's at night. Chocolate is my enemy... and my friend.

Dress
It all started when a chick in high school asked me why I never wore shorts. I had just never thought about it, so by the next week I had 3 pairs of shorts and never wore pants again to school. Damn shorts are comfy. My daily, hourly attire now consists of shorts (dark, solid color), t-shirt (red, white, black or dark blue) sweat shirt, comfortable, with or without a hood and sandals. Sweat pants when the laundry needs washing. Rain, sleet, snow, funerals, weddings, always shorts.

Hair
Short. No fuss, no muss.

Season
Fall. Cold But not impossible. Colorfull but not hot. Homely but not stuffy. I hate good weather. Love rain.

Color
RED obviously... Or a faded blue grey. Prolly the blue/grey as it's not as hard on my eyes.

Number
I dont have one really. Im not a number man myself. If still not satisfied see astrological sign at top.^

Book/Writer
Lord of The Rings Trilogy & The Hobbit/J.R.R. Tolkien, and yes, a fan, 12 years before the movies came out.

Artist of All Time
Frank Frazetta

Favorite Comic Book
Body Bags by Jason Pearson

Others:
Wildcats (Jim Lee), Deathblow (Jim Lee/Tim Sale run), Battle Chasers (Joe Mad), Soul Saga (Stephen Platt), Apple Seed (Masamune Shirow), Hellboy (Mike Mignola), Punisher Warzone (John Romita Jr.) Arkham Asylum-Batman (Grant Morrison), Groo The Wanderer (Sergio Aragones).

Fav Car
A-Team Van made by GMC, any current van painted in an A-Team scheme would suffice as well.

Animal
Sea

Starfish - sitting and chilling

Land
Kodiak - eating and chilling

Air
Golden Eagle - flying and chilling

- Emphasis on chillin and occasionally killin.




Video Games

Multi
player

Myth 2:Soulblighter - Mac OS - Best Multi player co-op ever with great game mechanics and insane game play and replay.

Story
Metal Gear Solid - PSX - Unbelievable story and dialog in a game coupled with killer characters and fun gameplay.

Art
Ogre Battle - SNES - Awesome anime styled art, coupled with a fun battle system and style of game.

Classic
Jackal - NES - 1st game I ever owned. Great arcade type game, set me on the road to video game heaven. You never quite forget your 1st love.

Gameplay

The Legend of Zelda - SNES. Bitchin exploration and fun for its time.

Best Game Platform
Dreamcast. I was really surprised to see so many killer 2d games on a late generation console. Terrific! Too bad it didnt last.

Worst Game Ever

Ninja Clowns by Strata. A giant pile of crap. Unfuckingbelievable... It's not too often I condone public executions for crappy products.




Music
Fav 1st Band

Offspring

Shoot you in the face song

Rob Zombie, Dragula

Rocking like i was a teen again

Offspring, Self Esteem

Faggy love song
Eagle Eye Cherry, Save Tonight

Wannabe, gonnabe with nature down home country
Paul Gross/Ride Forever

Classically calming
Last of the Mohicans Soundtrack, Track 6

Disney, I wish WALT was alive
The Jungle Book soundtrack, The Bare Necessities

Thinking of family and holdidays, X-Mas
O Come O Come Emanuel

Tv Theme
A-Team! Magnum P.I. a close second! Sorry, I'm biased.

Anime
Escaflowne, First Vision

Most melodious meaningfull game music
Metal Gear Solid soundtrack, Track 13, Enclosure

A very redeeming Movie
Shawshank Redemption soundtrack, Free

Oldy but goody
Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode


80's Rock
Alice Cooper, Poison



Personal Quote
Too many coincidences are not.
Part time human, full time asshole. ©

Main Goal in life
Create whatever I want, however I want, whenever I want, retain the rights to it all, and get payed for it. Not asking much huh?

General Ambitions
Live debt free, financially independant, 1 wife, no kids, punch stress in the nuts, become a decent artist who inspires others, bring my creative works to the public, help people out around me and yes of course "do things my way". Take up the pipe at the age of 55, die of a heart attack by 60. Peace! And if you piss me off, WAR!

Super Power
Flight or immortality. The ability to escape it all and fly around streaming through the air at night under the moon would be the ultimate escape and freedom. Immortality would be neat so you could see where the world goes and how it progresses and actually live history. Its downside however is far greater than flights, so i say, fuck it and fly free!

Fantasy Character
Character:
Giggles The Red
Race: Human/Bastard Transmutational Were-Lion
Class: Berserker
Weapon: Dual Glaives, Dual Gauntlets
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral, or in poetic, Heaven wont take me, Hells afraid I'll take over. Or in plain english, a threat to all.

NPC Character - For those in the know
Character: Monkis
Race: Human/Monkey Man
Class: Meat Popsickle
Weapon: Flung Feces
Alignment: Neutral Good

Word to the wise
Ere to caution, ere to the wind, what we take for granted, haunts us time and again.




My Art
Style

Over embellished, beefed up, with a slight edge. Disney on crack hanging out in a dark alley.

Where I draw
Lying down in various places (floor/bed), or coffee table heigth desk type areas. Id actually like to just take a desk, and chop it down to a coffee table height, but keep all the advantages of shelves and drawers, that would be dope. Basically a coffee table. But I draw most lying on the foor.

Like to draw most
Anything fantasy art related. Soldiers, horses, barbarians, minotaurs, wizards, monsters etc. The bigger and meaner, the better. Then sci-fi, which im not bitchin at, but i like it over modern/historical art simply for impact of visualality and challenege of creativity. Im also a big fan of modern military art.


Tools of the Trade:

Traditional
2b and 4b pencils
, really dont use em much anymore.

7mm Pentel Mechanical Lead Pencil
with metal clip ripped off and taped off, its my sketch pencil because the lead is thicker so no breaky breaky. I've seen a 9mm drafting mechanical pencil. Tempted to try it out.

5mm Pentel Mechanical Lead Pencil
with metal clip ripped off and taped off, its my shading pencil, very fine, takes a while to shade in big areas, but very smooth.

Design Rubber Erasers

Magic Rub Erasers

Uniball Vision Micro
waterproof/fade proof pens - I dont ink shit, mainly used for making notes for taking over the world

80lb Bainbridge
cold press and hot press board, dont use them much anymore

Strathmore
14x17 100lb vellum bristol. Smoking for pencils but costly. Good size to draw detailed character art.


Digital
Hardware

Power Mac G4 Dual 1 Ghz 1.25Gigs of ram, bring it bitches. Classic OS 9.2 forever! 3x4in Wacom Pad.

Software
Illustrator 6 - Vector art, used to make line art and designing of any kind.

Photoshop 6 - I use it to make logos, graphics and all color art.

Dreamweaver 3 - Make my website with it. Easy point and click for artist. Although I also know mid level html editing.

NotePad Deluxe 2.2 - Perfect program I use to write and make notes and compile ideas. Doesnt do spell check worth a shit so I hand off text to people with MS Word.

Merriam-Webster Collegiate Computer Dictionary/Thesaurus 3.0 - Decent dictionary/thesaurus. A must when writing.

My Artist Perks:
1. Listen

If I say I dont want to talk to anyone while im drawing, I mean it. Short of the house burning down or the odd chance in hell to talk with God or Frank Frazetta, leave me alone. Sometimes, I need to be in my special little place. The artist HAZE. The artist haze is when you are doing something repetitive but not exact in nature. When listening to music and doing this for long periods of time your eyes begin to unfocus and you fall into a sub concious work mode where what you are working on is out of focus and you can actually focus on other issues entirely. It can really only be done with reptitive free form tasks that require motion with almost no thought IE something that comes naturally. Hours can fly by as you let your body take over well mastered routines. And you thought you needed drugs to do that? Dicks!

2. Tools
Touch my pencil, fuck with my pencil, breath on my pencil, you die. I hold my pencil one way, all the day. If I find the lead angled at a different angle other than what I left it at, someones going to die. Ive actually heard many other artists mention thier brushes and pencils, so i dont think im quite alone on this one. Hell, chefs even go bananas when you use thier private cuttlery.

3. Working over my art
NO. Some people just see a piece and want to add thier own special touch like it needs it. Well, gee, then its not MY art is it? Go fucking make your own art from the ground up. Then after staring at a piece for 4-24 hours, how would you like adding, "just a touch of this" or 'that". Fun, aint it fucker! :)

4. Fortune Teller
Trying to read a clients mind because they dont know what they want. ""Hi, I want a logo that looks like this persons logo, but isnt, but make it like the image I cant explain in my head, and when you come up with something badass, ill say no, because im light years behind the curve and have yet to realize any direction or feeling for art in general."" FUN! Working for yourself, FULLFILLING!




Dislikes:
%75 of the food ever served to me

Im not a picky eater, im just very basic. Okay, im picky as hell.

%100 of the politics ive ever seen
My sides better than yours. Thats what both sides want you to think so youll give a damn and feed their need.

%99 loud and or talkative people
Indoor voice mother fucker. I dont give a flying fuck about your business on the cell phone. Get your shit in order before you step out the door.

%100 of cheer leaders
I say get them all pregnant and let them go through child birth. That'll at least slow the spring in thier step.

%100 of very happy energetic people
There is only one type of person that genuinely scares me, and that is a truly happy person. I mean real happy.

%85 of the music ive ever heard
I like single hits. Why? Because they dont sound like the rest of the cd. Like shit.

%65 of people ive ever met
Just in general. Nothing against them, we just couldnt hang out. What am i saying, it's more like 75%. 85%...

%85 of everything on tv
Just pure shit. Just a out of control machine.



Mr Personality - More than you need to know but not so much you'll hide from me. If your under the illusion Im a okay guy, dont read any further!

Food: Some people think im a picky eater. Running joke at my friends house is for his mom to come in and ask me if I want to stay for dinner then she rattles off some nasty dinner item. hahhahah.......... it gets old the 50th time. Im not a picky eater. You people just eat wierd shit. I am a very simple eater. I will eat the shittiest quality food by the plate full as long as its simple. I dont like shit being mixed. I dont like chopped up tomatoes in my tacos. I dont like onions on my burger. I dont like chilis in my chili. I like all meals done very basically. Its really very simple. Appearantly the world has yet to catch on.

If I want to put shit like cheese and onion and tabasco and garlic powder on my shit, lemme do it, dont assume. True I dislike some foods. Mainly vegetables, tomatoes, green beans, squash, spinach, whole cabbage, beats, cellery, pickles, onions, chihlis, fish, liver etc etc, all that shit. Keep it real and simple. Dont put shit in my food.

Who am I: Im a bit of a introvert, and a bit of a bore unless you know me. Id rather stay home and stare at the wall or gab on the phone than go for a totally random movie on the town. Usually. Recently I have been obsessed with getting rid of any of my possesions that I do not highly value or use often. This has resulted in bags of goodies going to my friends with bewildered looks on thier faces.

Loud: I am actually quite verbal but will only be so around my very best friends and am semi verbal if around my friends and around a casual friend. When you combine two or more of my best friends I cannot be shutup and become unbelievably childish and demented. Add Mountain Dew to that mix and you best nail the furniture down!

Short: I do not drink, I do not dance, I have not a single std in my pants. But hey, anything could happen.

Maminal: I like animals but have allergies. Really sux. Im thinking I might be able to handle a bulldog or very short haired indoor dog but I just dont know. Cats are cool, but thier stuck up bitches, which is why their cool. But i dont care for their attitude so Im a dog person.

Crowd: I dont mind people per say but citys are a bit CLUSTERFUCKED. having lived in a sizable city my entire life, a change of pace will be nice.

4 Wheels: I am a very good and very aware driver. I drive according to the vehicle Im in. If its old, take it easy and slow, if its fast, step a little on the gas. You wont die as my passenger but protect your virgin ears to my incoherant slanderings of bad drivers. phrases like, "Venomous roman cock slut!" are quite commonly misplaced in my vehicular vocabulary. Pay attention to your surroundings, be considerate of others, and drive decisively. If your sporadic, jumpy, overreactive, or a woman driver odds are you cannot drive or meld seemlesy into a mass of fast paced traffic. Well actually, that was a bit rude of me, being a little sporadic never hurt anyone.

Sports: I dont like sports. I played soccer as a kid. Four years. Got a silver medal for placing 2nd (duh) in the southern california championships twice. Tennis is interesting but thats because me and a friend played the hell out of the two tennis games on the dreamcast. I dig volleyball but rarely get to play. We still have great disdain for all other sports. I have a slight soft spot for soccer still, even though it is unfuckingbelievably boring on tv. I just know when I played, I got to kick people in the nuts. As the ref yellow carded me for the 1st time and my step dad gave me a look of disproval I simply said, "He jumped on my foot!". Suffice to say we had good defense and the other team had no balls.

Personal: I am patient on some things and not so patient on others. If I see something I like on the inernet or a magazine I can usually wait months to see if I really want it or not. Or rather, I wait months and lose interest is more like it. However I must say that when I see stuff in person Im rather a impulse slut on the spot. I do better when I have something clearly in my head I'd like to buy rather then window shopping which leads to impulse shopping.

I am also short on patience when people tell me stories. 98% of people are fine, but theres a two percent that have to tell you, what the other person said, how they said it, what they were wearing, what they were doing, how you got to talking to them in the 1st place and how you got there from the very moment you woke up, then they have to retell you all of this just so you get it the 2nd time. If you do this to me, odds are I'll fuckin walk. This is why I do not let my mom pick me up to go somewhere. I always insist on taking my own vehicle. I learned as shes going on and on that jumping out of a moving car might hurt, so to avoid infinite bordem and possible pain I just dont put myself in that situation in the 1st place without a escape route. As said in the movie RONIN, "never walk into a place you cant walk out of."

Tingly: I take things so seriously my left arm started going numb while playing a computer multiplayer game. After that, the only multi I play is co-op. Yeah, i know, its just a game, thats what all my friends say till they are off thier game too, then the controllers fly, the keyboards are pounded, monitors punched and everything is "Gods fault". Couple weeks later my other best friends left arm started tingling when playing multi. After that, we enjoy co-op together. its only a game if you dont mind being a loser. LOSER. As Navy Seals say "2nd place is 1st place loser!"

Art: I just do what I do. I don't care where my arts going anymore. If I can finish a piece and not cringe then I move on.

Child: I have tried my best to remain a child in some ways. I have sadly lost alot of my imagination and dreaming. Of playing in my head. Luckily I have found that through music and art and am able to retain some form of heavy emotional imaginative dreaming that translates into fantasetical creativity. A very strong want to create to the point where I cannot do anything but.
Which is good cuz otherwise I'd go get a real job or something because of lack of self inspiration.

Boredom: I find myself becoming bored with anything and everything. Tv, movies, comic books, on and on. That is both good and bad. The bad means Im basically critical of entertainment in a way I never was before. The good means I want to make something better.

Anger: I have quite a temper as did my dad. and step dad. I do my utmost best to never start shit with friends no matter what. I think im just growing old enough not to give a crap anymore. Effort is something I now guard. The point of getting worked up and angry to change nothing is pointless so the effort is not wasted. You grow up thinking, man, why is this this and this the way it is? Trust me, when you grow up, you find out and finding out is not fun.

Be kind and persevere hoping those around you become a product of you.

Polite: I say please and thank you. At the very least thanks. If your a man I swing my arm back leaving store doors ajar, easier for you to open for you and or your lady friend. If your a lady and within 15 feet then I hold the door open for you. If you dont show a hint of ackknowledgement, shake of the head, nod, thanks, then thats cool, your just a mincy little faggot ball.

Create: I am quite a giver. I dont see fit for charging for logos or other art to help someone out. Half of it stems from me not wanting to make money off my art unless I am in full control. I do not want to be financially rewarded for something I could not impact in my own way because i think of it as incomplete or half ass as in your vision.

Half the problem is people see my work and like it, then expect i can do the same thing for them. The problem is, the only reason i did that well is because i had totall control and no monkey on my back letting me do exactly what i want, how i wanted it. If left to my own conscious i will one up or match myself. If left to someone not knowing exactly what they want or with diminutive expectations then generally the work comes out less creative, watered down, or with that corporate icky feel. AKA, ill be hella happy if i can make a living drawing what i like otherwise id rather be a blue collar worker anyday.

Shakes: I have a Phileal Tremor. For those of you out there who have never seen me in action dont be alarmed. Basically my hands tremble all the time. When im hungry or nervous or tired etc they tremble a bit worse. This always gets conversations going. How in the fuck do you draw shaky? With my hand firmly resting on a blank sheet of paper on top of my main drawing you hose beast. Actually my cousin has it also but not quite as bad. I had never noticed it in myself then one day I saw my cousins hands slightly shaking and thought, yeah that is a bit wierd.

You get used to it being around me but it never fails to pop up with new people. Especially when they think you could be on drugs or are nervous which is sometimes embarrassing or annoying. Dude I knew in my very short time in college had it so bad he has to take medicine else if hes carrying a cup of joe half of it would go everywhere.

Me: Im tired, Im pissed, Im hungry, Im wired, and slightly shaky, Im just me. I hope I make it. I hope we all make it. I hope somehow we survive the shit train known as life. Maybe thats just my perspective. Maybe thats just me.

oooo, look at you all gussied up in yur pretty pinks to read all about me. aint that the shit :0




Old School
Yes this is the same Dave DeMarr - David DeMarr - David De Marr standing on the Horizon in 1996.

Hope you are doin all right. For my website click HERE.




Rest In Peace
- For those who have gone on to the other side -

Some may think it strange to have a list of those you have known, now dead, on the web. I find it rather, human. When one dies everyone who knows them are affected to various degrees. It is an interwoven web of life that we live, with ramifications and effects felt throughout life's little ups and downs.

We know not when. Sometimes we know not why. Ultimately the only thing that matters is the time spent with those you care about. I have sometimes been shocked with the sudden abruptness at which those I know are taken. More so shocked sometime by how they were taken.

If you read this, I simply ask you to think about those you know, love and or care for. You never know when they will transcend reality and become a precious held memory.


In Order of Death
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Uncle - Uncle Art - Suicide

Dad/Step Dad - Dave DeMarr - Heart Attack

Caring Friend - Papa Joe - Age/Health

Aunt - Aunt Sharon - Cancer

Classmate - Michael Haywood - Murdered

School - Jake Faust - Manslaughter

Art Teacher - Rick Faust - Health

Best Friend - Mathew Scheer - Suicide
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