fantastic family foto fun

oy! busy, busy, busy… so sorry for the lack of posts. i’m afraid this might be the norm for a while as i’m busy working on freelance, my parable story and some cow & buffalo ideas. i did manage to get a fantastic four drawing done this week though for drawer geeks. i struggled at first with this one, especially with the thing (he has no ears! why does he have no ears!), but i like how it finally turned out. the coloring was fun. i tried to go for a very “comic book” look with a bunch of primary colors.

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11 Responses to “fantastic family foto fun”

  1. jshamblin Says:

    Looks awesome, Mike! I love how you drew the Thing and Johnny.

  2. mike Says:

    those two were the toughest for me to get down. i’m glad you think they turned out okay. :)

  3. Trade Says:

    Awesome Fantastic Four. The Thing with oven mitts looks great. And I love the bold colors.

  4. Bryan Says:

    It turned out really great. Yours had the most story to it of anyone’s as well. Nice!

  5. mike Says:

    trade- thanks! i was kinda cheating with the oven mitts. like i said, i couldn’t wrap my head around the thing and his huge square digits were part of that. it worked out though. i think the oven mitts are kinda funny.

    bryan- man there were so many awesome ones this week! yours was one of ‘em. i have a hard time drawing an illustration if i don’t have some sort of story to go along with it. that’s probably why i like drawing comics. ;)

  6. Sarah! Says:

    Yeah… he doesn’t have ears, does he? How did I not notice that? I even drew him without ears and didn’t notice…

    Thanks for the comments on my blog by the way! Hurrah!

  7. mike Says:

    i know, it’s so wierd. how does he hear?

    your work is awesome, sarah!

  8. ali Says:

    Wow! you say you struggled with this one?? It looks effortless!! LOVE IT! ;)

  9. mike Says:

    thanks, ali! yup, i had a hard time with it and i still see all sorts of problems. i’m glad it doesn’t show, though!

  10. Mac McCool Says:

    Pretty darn amazing!!! Have you read Unstable Molecules? Your cover reminds me of people like James Sturm doing great takes on the Fantastic Four!!

  11. mike Says:

    hey, christian! no, but i want to. i think craig thompson did the covers for that series too.

    thank you!

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