June 2007

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snuzzles playing their snozzles

June 20, 2007 in art, news by mike | 5 comments

this was a quicky for drawergeeks this coming friday. topic was aliens. not really sure where this idea came from though…..

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and with that i’m off to new york! i’ll be attending the MoCCa art fest this weekend, june 23-24. i’ll have cow & buffalo books, some postcards, the very last handful of seed minis i had made and i’ll probably be doing some drawing there too. also really looking forward to visiting some old friends, some more recent virtual ones and maybe meet some new ones while i’m there too. should be a blast.

after that’s it’s off to massachusetts to meet up with even more friends! so i’m really looking forward to this vacation. so many projects have tired my brain.

be back next week!

a songbird tutorial

June 12, 2007 in art, tutorials by mike | 12 comments

so every so often i get a request to show how i go about coloring my illustrations. i don’t usually comply with the requests, however, because honestly my approach differs from drawing to drawing- and often depends on the drawing itself too. but with this latest sketch, i thought i’d give it a shot and see how well i could explain myself. a friend of mine commissioned me to draw a red songbird for a tattoo she’ll be getting and here’s what i came up with:

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a bit more detailed then i originally intended, and to my fault as well since i discovered it’s going on her foot! so this won’t be the actual tattoo. i’ll draw that one another day. but to see how i developed this one, just click below:

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cinderelli

June 8, 2007 in art by mike | 6 comments

those evil step sisters! keeping poor cinderelli from going to the ball!

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yup, drawergeeks topic this week was cinderella. i came up with mine rather hasty and also ran out of time to give it any exciting color. but maybe the drawing’s better for it? the inclusion of red was a last minute, late night decision too. looking at it with a fresh eye this morning, i’m not really sure how i feel it works now. but i am glad i found time to submit something! it was tough last time missing the indiana jones topic…

what am i excited about this weekend? seeing BRMC on sunday! wooo!!

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