The Drawing Cheat Codes!

Hey everyone! 

I just launched The Drawing Cheat Codes, a new drawing education project for beginning artists.

Name your own price, and enjoy! 

https://gum.co/OOiDv

Happy Drawing. 

Best,

Mike

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Advice from people smarter than me.

Hey everyone! 

I posted these bits of advice on Twitter a few days ago and it seemed to have touched a nerve for a lot of folks. Reposting here:

I get asked for advice by students all the time. Often I just repeat advice given to me. Want to hear some of it?

"We can never show our face in San Francisco" from @IvanBrandon after I drew a SF street with no reference. Advice was basically don't fake.

Similar to the advice from @larryhama, "If you have internet you don't have an excuse to draw something wrong. "

"Stay on a book for a while" from @Oeming after seeing me hyper actively bounce around from book to book.

Without this advice I wouldn't have stayed on Deadpool this long.

"Make your writer look good." from @JerryOrdway. Sage advice right when I needed it.

"Sharpen your pencil." from my high school art teacher. Basically just keep your tools ready at all times, don't find excuses to delay work.

"You're drawing in shorthand." From @Remender after seeing pages I just rushed instead of loved up a little.

"It'll hurt less when it's finished." From @sarahstarlitt when I wanted to quit a personal project because it was emotionally taxing.

"Watch for lamps coming out of his crotch" from @karenpberger. I was wrecklessly allowing tangents on pages due to lazy layouts.

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"The fast artists are the first out of work" from @KevinNowlan (read it in an interview). Meaning put care into your work, it shows.

"You need to charge!" Advice I gave @tonymoore when he was giving away sketches, then he gave it back when I wasn't valuing my own work.

"I'm not in the business of holding onto property." rich real estate guy I knew. Had to rethink sitting on ideas instead of moving on them.

"Treat it as a debt of honor, & make a commitment to finish things, @ANNELAMOTT from Bird by Bird. Printed this on my pages for years.

"Draw, draw, draw! Above all else, DRAW!" from DiVinci (don't know his Twitter handle 😅). No idea if he ACTUALLY said it, but I don't care.

Last one for a bit (gotta get back to work). Talk to you later!

Best!

Mike

Link to my Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/MikeHawthorne

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Anatomy PDF is LIVE!

It's LIVE! Now you can finally get the 110 page Anatomy Lecture PDF, just go to my Gumroad page and name your price.

If you want to see more stuff like this from me, vote with your support. Not about dollar amounts, I'd like to gauge interest.

If this goes well, I'd like to do a series of PDF collection of my sketchbook art. I'd like to raise money to do a big print sketchbook!

Thanks!

Mike

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Anatomy PDF coming!

Hey, quick heads up! In a week I'll release a 110 page PDF of all the hand-out from my anatomy class on a pay-what-you-want model.

Folks who supported my @StorySupply get the anatomy PDF a week early for FREE, as a "Thank you" for supporting my sketchbooks.


In a week I'll make the anatomy PDF available via Gumroad on a pay-what-you-want basis. Sign up here- http://gumroad.com/mikehawthorne 


Best,
Mike

PS - If you bought my sketchbooks via Story Supply Co., you should get an email from then with a link to the PDF. Thanks again for the support!

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Making the Deadpool 30 wrap around cover, part 1.

Hey, process junkies! First of a two part post on how I make the cover to Deadpool 30. 

Enjoy! 

Mike

Old Man Login digital paint PT 1.

A quick digital painting of Old Man Logan.

Enjoy, 

Mike

PS - More videos over on my Youtube channel. 

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Quantum and Woody Must Die number 3

Hi all! 

The solicitations from Valiant Comics are out, and feature my cover for Quantum and Woody must Die 3 - http://www.newsarama.com/23015-valiant-comics-march-2015-solicitations.html

So, I thought I'd share some process pics for it. 

http://www.newsarama.com/23015-valiant-comics-march-2015-solicitations.html

Enjoy!

Mike

PS - for a more in depth process check out my Storehouse page - https://www.storehouse.co/stories/o4g0d-quantum-and-woody

Escape from the Danger Room!

Check out is process post for that "Escape from the Danger Room" scene in Deadpool 38. 

https://www.storehouse.co/stories/o9dr6-escape-from-the-danger-room

Best,

Mike

Deadpool 38 preview!

Hey everyone, 

There is a new preview for Deadpool 38 online, check it out here - http://www.comicvine.com/articles/exclusive-preview-deadpool-38/1100-150521/

And, here are the penciled versions for you process junkies! 

Enjoy!

Mike

Deadpool 37 preview and process post.

There is a new preview for Deadpool 37 online here. http://comicbook.com/2014/11/13/exclusive-marvel-preview-deadpool-37---an-axis-tie-in/

And, for all my process junky brethren, here are the penciled version of the pages. 

I gotta say, I loved drawing Zenpool using a frozen turkey as a weapon. 

Enjoy,

Mike

Oms en Serie 2 work-in-progress video!

Hey!

I've been working on my french comics, Oms en Serie II! Here's a quick progress vid.




This, and more, over on my Vine page. Enjoy!



Best,
Mike

Deadpool 27 process post

Hey everyone,

As promised, here is the Deadpool 27 process post for the preview pages Marvel released. Check out the pencil to ink comparison.

Hope you enjoyed this. Be sure to look for Deadpool #27 when it hits stands in April.

best,
Mike



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Deadpool 23 process post

 As promised, here is the process post for the preview to Deadpool 23.

Enjoy!
Best,
Mike

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Deadpool 22 & Action Comics 27 process post!

If you ventured into a comic shop today you may have noticed not one but TWO comics with my name on it. Deadpool #22 & Action Comics #27.

In keeping with the tradition of posting a pencil-to-ink comparison for my process junky brethren, here is a big, fat stack of pages from both Deadpool and Superman.

 

 

 

So, if you look closely at the pencil pages for Superman you'll noticed I tried out a pre-printed perspective grid for some of it. I heard of them from various friends over the years, and dug a few up to try out. I thought it would speed things up a bit, as I tend to spend a lot of time layout out the perspective on my pages, but I found that it really didn't save as much time as I would have liked.

I also think they're a little restricting. If you compare the perspective here to the perspective on the Deadpool pages below (where I did NOT use the pre-printed grid) you'll see that those pages just feel more dynamic.

In the end I think the grids can be a good tool, but don't take the place of just knowing how to draw in linear perspective and certainly does not allow for the freedom of doing it from scratch.

 

 

 

Don't say I never gave you nothin'!

best,
Mike


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