Inktober Day Two

Enjoy!

Mike


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Celebrating the first day of Inktober

Celebrating the first day of Inktober #inktober2017 #Inktober



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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 23 process post

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

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Mike

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Deadpool mean muggin' it.

Link, just in case the video above doesn't load - https://vine.co/v/MBEeDZzHp3j


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Mike

Deadpool 22 process post

Process Junkies!

 As always, here is a pencil to ink comparison post of the current preview to Deadpool #22.

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Mike

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Process post: Action comics pencils to inks comparison

Process junkies!

Here are the pencils and inks for the 5 page preview DC released for Action Comics 23.1.

Enjoy!

Mike

PS - Don't forget to bumrush your local comic shop and pick this thing up this week!

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Deadpool 9 inks

Hey everyone,

Up late scanning pages, so while I wait on that I thought I'd post some of those pages I promised. You can see the final colored versions here. 

Best!
Mike


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Oms en Série visual diary XIV

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Mike

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Comic Twart: Panda experiment

Hey everyone,

Haven't done a process post in a while, so figured I'd do one this week for you guys.

This was my week to pick a character for Comic Twart. I wanted to stick with the theme of Latina characters in comics, and was going to choose Renee Montoya but decided on Panda Delgado from Body Bags. She's not as noble a character, but I figured she'd be fun for the fellas to draw.

Anyway, everyone has been talking about using Google sketchup for things like guns, cars, building, etc. I know lots of comic artists use it, but it still always seemed like cheating to me. (I know, I know... a tool is a tool. I know it's NOT cheating. Chill!)

I've used it as a reference tool, where I'd look at the thing on screen then draw it. The same way you might use a photo. But I never just printed images of guns out to ink.



I have this big collection of toy guns for reference, and take great pride in the fact that I've always acurately drawn guns by hand. Just see my run on G.I. JOE. All those guns were all done by hand, using a toy as a model.





But I thought I'd give Sketchup a shot for the guns in this piece. So I penciled the art, and left out the guns.

Then picked a 3D model in Sketchup, and dropped them into the drawing after scanning it into Photoshop. After that I free-transformed the gun till they were the size I needed, and I drew the hands around it.

Then I converted it all into a light blue, printed it onto a new board, and inked it.

After that I rescanned it as line art, and colored it using Photoshop and a Wacom tablet.

I have to say, although I like the illustration on a whole, I'm not really happy with the Sketchup models. I mean, the models are fine as reference, but printing them out to ink isn't working for me 100%. It looks Ok, I guess, but in the end I don't think it saved me enough time to justify the cheat. I'm also just not crazy with the look of it. If I'd drawn the guns by hand I would have adjusted it, "cartooned" it up to fit the drawing more.

Still, it can be a valuable tool for anyone willing to put in the time to use it right. My personal opinion is that if all you're gonna do it trace the 3D models then you're going to end up with a dead drawing. Try to learn to draw this stuff, get a feel for how it should look,then use these tools. Cartooning can be done with any tool, but tracing is always bad.

Again, no diss to anyone using 3D models well. Some dudes have it figured out,and I tip my hat to them. They're the reason I tried this experiment out in the first place.

Best,
Mike





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Heracles process

Just posted my Hercules, or rather my Heracles, over on Comic Twart. Never did quite hit the mark the way I had intended to. Not sure why, but such is life.

Here's a look at the process behind the piece.

best,
Mike


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Dizzy Cordova, from 100 Bullets, on Comic Twart

hey everyone!

It was my week to pick the subject for Comic Twart, and I chose Dizzy from 100 Bullets! Go check it out :-)

Best,
Mike

Hale soup - The drawing that made my daugther cry

This one needs some set up. My good friend Mike Oeming works for the video game company VALVE, and I got to see the fun stuff he was doing with a hysterical character by the name of Saxton Hale. So for fun I drew this piece of Hale making shark fin soup. If you know the character, then you get the joke.

Right?

Now, my oldest daughter is an animal lover. Won't even let me kill spiders in the house, I gotta release them to " be free!".

One day she walks into the studio when I was wrapping this up. She knows nothing about the character....and she did NOT see the humor in it. I looked at her face as I tried to explain and saw her eyes welling up with tears!

So, yes. I made my little girl cry with a drawing. I used my powers for evil, and I'm ashamed....

Kinda ;-)

Best,
Mike

Minimalist Dick Tracy

Hey,

Totally forgot to show you folks the piece I did for minimalism week on Comic Twart.



I chose Dick Tracy, and did it as a sketch card with ink and hand cut tone. Here's a pic of it to give you an idea of scale.



Might put this up in the Etsy store for sale soon.


Best,
mike

PS - No "little Dick jokes! ;-)

Queen & Country's Crocker

Here's a commission a bit ago of Paul Crocker from Queen & Country. I love that fans of the series are still so dedicated to it, and remember my measly run ;-)

In case you missed it, here's the last Queen & Country commission I did.

Best,
mike

Ghost Rider!

Got this commission which just so happens to coincide with Marvel week at Comic Twart. I had actually considered doing Ghost Rider for C.T., but decided against it. So it's funny to be asked to draw him the same week!

best,
Mike

The "almost" What if?

Before I settled on the two themes I'm going to do for Comic Twart's Marvel weeks I almost chose The Punisher. I decided against it since it felt too "on the nose" for me. Good thing too, since Declan went with Big Pun.

Anyway, here's a sketch I did when considering The Punisher.

Mike

SHAZAM!

I drew this Captain Marvel for Comic Twart's ketchup week. If I can find the time I want to color it.

Best,
Mike

Fear Agent 31 advanced preview

Hey everyone,

Rick posted some sneak peek pages for Fear Agent 31, so I figured I'd share them here too.

I've also heard 30 ships next week. Not sure why it's late, as it's been finished for some time, but that's life I guess.

enjoy,
Mike

SANDMAN by Mr. Hawthorne

Just posted my SANDMAN for this week's Comic Twart. Done with white ink on black paper. Had hoped to do something a little more elaborate, but have been under the gun deadline wise.

Anyway, hope you dig it.

Thanks!
Mike