Artloaf

Standing Among Stones

2011-11-28T11:27:00.000-08:00

Another new piece for the January show, Vantage Point down at NCC in Naperville Illinois.
Enjoy.
Cheers,
-Micah

A Princess of Mars

2011-11-10T11:41:00.000-08:00

I might have overlooked this book had this challenge not arisen over at ArtOrder and WiPnation.
Thanks to Jon, for cluing me into this series of books. You can read all about it at either site, but essentially the challenge is to do an homage piece to the book, "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

If you're a fan of Han Solo, Spike Spiegel, Drizzt Do'Urden, Indiana Jones, even Captain Kirk, you'll enjoy this book and the protagonist, John Carter, who seems to live in the hearts of all these heroes.

So these are my works in progress so far. Image progress goes from top-bottom. I'll post more here, and more at WiPnation, a new developing community of critique and talent. Check it out.

Cheers!
-Micah

Illuxcon 4

2011-11-07T17:17:00.000-08:00

I noticed a theme this year in the talks, panels, and workshops that I didn't notice last year. It may have been due to the personalities involved this year, but the theme I noticed time and time again was:

"Viewers of your work will notice the technical mastery of a piece. But more than that they are engaged by, captivated by, and are moved by seeing and understanding (even on a subconscious level), that you give a solid god-damn about your work. "

When you are challenged by your work, in love with it, scared by it, frustrated by it, and you make your way through to the end to finish it off, the viewer can read that emotion in it, can feel the inspiration, and the striving of the artist as he pushes his art forward through this piece and into the next.

That must be an exhausting and invigorating way to create work. I've felt it a few times in recent memory, but not enough to consider myself solidly on this path.

This year, I learned it's necessary to produce lots of ugly work in the process, and a worthy amount of great work as a result.

I'll write more on what I observed and absorbed there later. Right now, I have to hit the drawing board. I attached a few images of the prints that I glommed onto this year. These were just a few of the hundreds of pieces that I would have loved looking at everyday in my own home. But we are all, at some point, slaves to circumstance (and pocketbook).

The pieces are, in order from top to bottom:

"AWOL" by Justin Gerard

"Saint George and the Dragon" by Justin Gerard

"Quiet Night" by John Harris

"Mass: the Building of FTL 1" by John Harris

"Obernywten" by Donato Giancola

"Jovah's Angel" by John Jude Palencar

See you next year at Illuxcon? I'll be there, I hope you will be too.

Cheers,

-Micah

Shadow Walk

2011-10-25T20:26:00.000-07:00

Final draft. Enjoy :)

-Micah

Shadow Walk WIP

2011-10-24T21:33:00.000-07:00

Here's the beginning of a work in progress. "Shadow Walk" We'll see how well I can meld faun and stone.

Faun

2011-10-18T19:09:00.001-07:00

Here is another new one. I was given some great advice from my buddy Nick about some light streaming in as slanted shafts to dapple the area with light and lead the eye to the hiding faun a little more effectively. I'm gonna try it out. I'll post it up after I've made the changes. I hope you like it!

Cheers,

-Micah

Lure

2011-10-12T12:56:00.001-07:00

Here is a top to bottom work-in-progress of my latest piece, "Lure". I'm especially proud of this piece. It was ispired purely by our little girl and her explorations of the rocky forested areas near our home. I hope you enjoy the process.

Cheers,

-Micah

Wander

2011-09-19T19:35:00.000-07:00

It's finished! I hope you enjoy the final barky results. Next up... huh, I hadn't thought of it. I think maybe something with cranes or turkey vultures. I'll have to mull it over.

Cheers!

-M

Lahmu heroes and a wip

2011-09-02T12:41:00.001-07:00

D&D comic!

2011-07-06T09:37:00.000-07:00

My Claypipe and Tinder strip recently appeared over at the Wizards of the Coast website, here. I'm super excited to see my stuff up on the site. Check it out, and check out some of the other awesome 'toons they have running.

Cheers,

-Micah

Salt Water

2011-03-02T11:29:00.001-08:00

Here is the last post on this image for a while. I may visit it again. I say that with every piece though, don't I? I like the way it came out, I think Apsu would like it, and that's good enough for me. Let me know what you think. Cheers.

-Micah

Tiamat

2011-02-23T09:38:00.001-08:00

Here are a quick color sketch and a finished pencil drawing for a piece I'm working on called, "Salt Water". It's an adaptation of the Sumerian creation epic. Or it could be, I haven't planned for more than this image so far. Another cover experiment is all it is so far, but I love the story, so maybe.

Cheers,

-Micah

2 new images

2011-02-09T11:43:00.001-08:00

From Painter.

Victor

2011-01-31T10:25:00.001-08:00

-Micah

reprise

2011-01-30T09:05:00.000-08:00

A look at the last year or so.

Yeah, I snuck those black and white images of the Snowshoe Company marine and the Tyrant's "Jawbone" guard in there even though I haven't posted them before.

Hope you dig 'em.

Cheers,

-M

news

2011-01-26T13:44:00.000-08:00

New stuff that is.

a color version of the Sorceror and an image of a child soldier, maybe in Congo, maybe Sudan. The horror is the same either place. I'll revist this material soon. It's worth scrutinizing.

-Micah

Some Arthurian Goodies

2011-01-10T11:26:00.001-08:00

These are from the current issue of read magazine. The images are copyright Reader's Digest. Read delivers really colorful and surprising material to their readers, and it's always a pleasure to collaborate with them. Cheers!

-M

New Sorceror Piece

2011-01-10T10:22:00.000-08:00

I got some good feedback from Jon about regarding the graphic elements necessary for a successful cover illustration. In "A Score of Empty Scabbards" I had some scattered swords a bit too low, that would be hidden by author and publisher info, and a moon taking up some prime real-estate up top that would likely interfere with a title.

I suppose I just took it for granted because it was my own design and title. When I've done covers for White Picket Fences and Graphic Classics I always had the template, I knew the parameters and could structure accordingly. Live and learn.

This Sorceror is designed as an interior illustration. So apart from an optional caption, there likely will be no copy on this image.

I hope you enjoy the progress, and please chime in if you notice I'm overlooking a flaw or interesting tweak. Cheers!

-Micah

CMYKilla!

2010-12-29T18:38:00.000-08:00

I head over to Muddy Colors to check up on what many of my favorite artists are working on, and how they do their art. It's always a pleasure. But sometimes, the insight is so sublime, the experience so universal, the post so poetic it moves one to tears, that I must share it. I would feel like a criminal for keeping it to myself.

Enjoy.

Link.

A Score of Empty Scabbards

2010-12-23T09:21:00.000-08:00

Final draft.

Cheers,

-Micah

one down, the rest to go.

2010-12-13T20:34:00.000-08:00

Here's a painting for the ArtOrder "Deungeon Delve" challenge.

I shall inflict more art on these internets soon, as my new image is developing. Here's a sketch. It's young, so don't judge too harshly.

Cheers,

-Micah

line dependency

2010-11-27T18:06:00.000-08:00

Hi, my name is Micah, and I am line dependent. When I stood with Jon Schindehette outside of the Heritage Center in Altoona, the setting sun painted the cathedral with a dusky glow, and the frosted cinnamon bun I had for breakfast was wearing off, he gave me some great insight into producing more painterly pieces, pieces that I could shop around to more publishers of fantasy and science fiction art, pieces that are closer to the works I imagine myself creating.

The techniques of color and light, contrast and texture, are techniques I remember from school, and from my own work before comics. But the assembly line nature, and tight deadlines, of comics led me into line dependency, where I could quickly map out shapes, environments, and characters and keep them all on model throughout the book, then add texture and color later. So I created some good comic work, but lost the craft of using texture and light to my advantage. I needed an intervention, and I got one in PA.

In order to move away from the line and back into the realm of realism I'm going to take Jon's instructions to heart. Warm and cool colors can not only move the eye forward and backward through an image but invoke real atmospheric distance in settings on Earth (or any fantastic place like earth). As fall becomes winter I find myself looking wistfully at the bare trees that make the forests and wind-breaks in this part of the world. The trunks must be made of browns, greys, and whites. But in the distance I'll be damned if I don't see blues, purples, and yeah, green (but just a smidge). Lots of atmosphere make the world blue. Rayleigh Scattering. I taught it to my toddler, but failed to absorb the lesson myself. But that's not all a pressurized blanket of N2, CO2 , O2, and Ar can do to a landscape.

Not only do the lines of real and unreal, symbol and literal, blur in a successful fantasy piece, but so should the ends and beginnings of the objects and environments illustrated. We view the world with a dynamic field of vision, focusing on some things, letting others stray out of focus. I'm going to let a little of that infect my art from now on too if I can manage it.

A couple more bits of wisdom feature warm colors making highlights pop, cooler color as diffused light brings other things to light, and keep the shadows cool to make the highlights really sell. I hope I remembered that right.

But when in doubt, I can study light in the world around me, with some new benchmarks to help my brain wrap its sticky grey lumps around what my vision orbs are picking up.

Thanks again Jon. I'll be back when I have made some finished arts. Until then, take 'er easy.

-Micah

Illuxcon

2010-11-17T11:53:00.000-08:00

This year I attended Illuxcon in Altoona, PA. What a fantastic show. I was four days amongst the best fantasy artists in the world. I was able to meet in person, Jon Schindehette, who has recently taken me on as a mentee to help me become the fantasy artist that I want to be. I met and had dinner with several of my favorite artists, Mark Nelson, Todd Lockwood, Lars Grant-West, Jeff Easley (sorry for the lack of link, Jeff. I think I must have the wrong web address for your site), and Cyril Van Der Haegen, whose work I was only familiar with in passing and has since elbowed it's way into a 9 inch space among my favorites.

I met John Jude Palencar (holy moly!), bought a drawing of his and we talked about Ireland. Later, while telling a horror story about an 8 track player left on overnight, he sang a few verses in the voice of Tom Waits. I was able to watch Todd paint, and hear him speak about composition. Donato Giancola gave an excellent talk on abstraction in realism. Mark also gave a couple talks about critter design, and inking over pencils. I learned a tremendous amount from all these goings on, and absorbed so much more from the other artists on the scene, Steve Prescott, Mark Poole, Justin Gerard, Ralph Horsley, Jeff Laubenstein, Tyler Walpole, Steve Ellis, Jordu Schell, Kara and Tom Kuebler, Pat Jones, and Lauren Cannon. It was utterly amazing.

I mentioned Jon's mentoring, and I'll get back to that in the next post, he had some excellent insight for me about becoming less line dependent in my pieces. And he had some praise for my work in Trickster, which really made my week. Cheers, Jon! But yeah, more on that later.

So I come home from Altoona, with a little more steel in my blood, and a hopper full of theories, insight, and the dampened sawdust that is usually up there keeping my hairs rooted in place. I got way more out of Illuxcon than I ever expected. I'll be going back next year. Take it to the bank.

Thanks for show Pat and Jeannie, you really know how to make it happen.

Huzzah!

an oldie but a goodie.

2010-10-16T12:02:00.000-07:00

Here is a short I did a while back. Jason Rodriguez who edited, "Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened", in which I illustrated Josh Fialkov's story, Homesick, asked me to help him with a pitch for a collaboration with blog, Post Secret. It didn't pan out. But the postcard Jason sent me inspired me to use one of my own secrets in the short. This is a half-autobiography about how I learned I had Crohn's disease.

I hope you dig it.

It's called, "As a Kid I Thought I Was Half-Robot".

Ranger final

2010-09-22T07:40:00.000-07:00

I think. Probably. Definitely. Maybe...Ok, Ok, I'll commit. It's done. unless...

Shoggoth wip

2010-09-18T16:38:00.000-07:00

From H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness".

Ranger a work in progress

2010-09-16T18:40:00.000-07:00

First I took some pictures of Jodi posing with some simply amazing rock formations up at Devil's Lake. Then took them home and began to transform them, and her, into a mountain ranger. Here goes.

color worm

2010-09-16T18:39:00.001-07:00

Here is the final of the Emergence of the Worm piece. Hope you like it.

Cheers,

-Micah

Here, fishy, fishy...

2010-08-25T13:45:00.000-07:00

A little bioluminescent bugger. Enjoy...

color

2010-08-18T11:23:00.001-07:00

Here are the colors. I think it turned out nicely. My first attempt blending digital backgrounds with penciled focus in the near-midground.

I hope you like it as well.

Next up, a couple critters...

-Micah

Take That Chicken to the Sky

2010-08-17T07:54:00.000-07:00

When an npc commoner get a hold of treasure meant for the players. He takes wing, to give his little hen a taste of the high life!

Cheers.

Art Order, neat and tidy

2010-08-16T11:24:00.000-07:00

Visit ArtOrder

It's the best of it's kind out there. At least I assume it is, I've never seen anything quite like it before.

Cheers,

-M

Self.

2010-08-04T22:23:00.001-07:00

With no mirror, I suppose this must be how I see myself most of the time.

Food for thought.

-M

Hey, Farritor! Like snowy obstruction much?!

2010-08-04T07:37:00.000-07:00

So, I'm cheapening myself by not addressing the ground, obscuring it with snow or mist. At least I'm not afraid of color...wait... Damn.

Cheers,

-Micah

Black and White vista

2010-08-03T20:01:00.000-07:00

Ahhh....A nice black and white vista. Hopefully, for your viewing pleasure. I'm kinda amazed how quickly it came together. I know, I know, most of the thing is obscured by mist. But hey, I wanted eerie or dreamy, and eerie or dreamy is what I think I got.

Cheers!

-M

digital sketches

2010-08-02T21:05:00.000-07:00

Here are two of the sketches I was working on tonight. Well, two version of the same sketch. It's coming along, slowly but surely.

I imagine I'll get the hang of this in a while, a year or so maybe :) We'll see.

Cheers!

Dr. Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships

2010-06-30T08:03:00.000-07:00

Here are my latest classics images. The good doctor fulfilling his wanderlust gets more than he bargains for. The surgeon finds himself the pivot in a deadly conflict whose origins can only be described as a catastrophic ovoantagonism. Hope you like them.

These images are copyright READ magazine and Reader's Digest 2010.

a couple more from the last few years

2010-06-23T08:55:00.001-07:00

Okay, enough of the retrospective. Back to the task at hand...a giant of a man, among a people as little minded as they are little in stature. Cheers.

-Micah

These images are copyright READ and Reader's Digest.

a few pieces of the past couple years

2010-06-23T08:38:00.000-07:00

Images copyright READ and Reader's Digest.

final?

2010-05-13T10:17:00.001-07:00

I'm going to let this rest for a few hours and come back to it for a fresh look. Lot of strands in the ol' duder's head...

Easter

2010-04-04T18:12:00.001-07:00

Easter, the feast of the year! This year's was remarkable. I took a couple new recipes for a spin, and a new beverage too.

Since we moved beyond mint jelly a long tome ago as an accompaniment to lamb (we now rely on basil pesto as a spreadable edible for lamb) I wanted to find another way to get some mint back into Easter. The aperitif...mojito. I enjoyed this so much that I forgot 'till the last minute to snap the photo. Jodi made a great salad of spinach, walnuts, strawberries, and raspberry vinaigrette. Very delicious, I'm sorry to say it disappeared before I pulled the trigger on this photomatic. A credit to my beautiful wife's talent with greens. Next, vegetable.

Asparagus in a in a dijon/mayonnaise sauce topped with the ubiquitous fried onions. This was a side I did last year, minus the onions, that I learned from Jacques Pepin's cooking show a couple years ago. Fast Food, My Way, is a terrific program. Which brings me to another great recipe and another great resource: Red potatoes with lemon zest, parsley, and feta, from Cook's Country magazine.

Genius. The garlic, feta, and lemon complimented the mustard in the asparagus, and reminded our tongues of the citrus in the drink and salad. And when the taters got in the pesto, and asparagus got a crumb of feta as a carry on, it was glorious. Then there was the lamb.

Sorry vegetarians and cute-baby-animal lovers, but some beasts were meant to eat. I feel good knowing that somewhere out there some other family is sitting at a table enjoying the other hind of this guy. Pierced and implanted with garlic, rubbed down with salt and pepper, browned in the pan then covered in the same dijon mustard from the asparagus sauce before roasting, this leg was simple and turned out like a dream.

We ate, we drank, we laughed and made yummy sounds. Then we brought out my mom's lemon chess pie, a pie that had a poem written about it (or at least the promise of a poem). Garnished with strawberries, the end of the meal harkens back to the beginning. Even chilled, it melts in the mouth. Buttery and sweet, tart, creamy, crunchy, it was all of these and more.

It would diminish the night to say the pie was the end of the meal. We kept having a good time and finding room to sneak more odd bites of pie, lamb, and potato, long after the main run through. Thanks to Jodi for cleaning up after, thanks to BearPaw and Nonni for making the trip out, thanks to Ella for being so durn cute and sweet throughout, and thanks to the whoever first distilled magic from sugar cane.

Have a great one.

Cheers!

ArtOrder

2010-03-23T11:49:00.000-07:00

Lately I've been spending a lot of time over at the ArtOrder blog. It's a community of artists set up by Jon Schindehette, Senior Art Director for Dugeons and Dragons at Wizards of the Coast. Check it out here.

Cheers,

-Micah

Behold!

2010-03-19T12:59:00.001-07:00

With the eyecapsule armor of a dinichthys, the chitinous jaw-claw manipulators, and mouth petals, glistening with surface toxin, the eight eye-tentacles may be the least of your worries. Say "hello" to the primordial ancestor of the common beholder! Now say, "Goodbye".
Cheers,
-Micah

The Last of the Spirits

2010-02-18T18:43:00.001-08:00

"It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud, there were ghostly eyes fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black."

Trickster

2009-12-06T19:11:00.000-08:00

Available for pre-order now at Amazon.com.
Just click here.

Mace

2009-11-14T20:53:00.001-08:00

Mace, the Cleric. He'll tenderize you and sear your flesh, just to keep your meat moist for the feast. All in name of what's right, of course.

No, your past.

2009-11-07T19:01:00.000-08:00

"Bear but a touch of my hand there," said the Spirit, laying it upon his heart, "and you shall be upheld in more than this."

Subterrantula

2009-11-01T18:44:00.000-08:00

Two doodles for a fantastic setting in which human blood is made into powerful magical crystals by way of an enormous unearthed mass of flesh and plant matter. The spires control the grizzly process.

A Christmas Carol

2009-10-16T17:59:00.000-07:00

The cover image for, Christmas Classics.
Humbug.
-Micah

Robin of the Hood with colors

2009-10-04T18:51:00.000-07:00

The same image after being run through the color-o-matic saturation machine!
Cheers, outlaws!
-Micah

Robin Hood

2009-09-19T19:32:00.000-07:00

The outlaw waits for the right opportunity...

Marley was dead: to begin with...

2009-08-23T14:52:00.001-07:00

"His body was transparent, so that Scrooge, observing him, and looking through his waistcoat, could see the two buttons on his coat behind."
Cheers.
-M

Big Fish

2009-08-20T15:18:00.001-07:00

This is an arctic-ocean traveling beast. It swims near the surface of the water, around and under ice flows, attracting large, fish-eating predators to the edge using its school decoy . When the polar bear, walrus or seal gets close enough or snags a fish and gets stuck on the barbs, it's dinner time.
Cheers,
-Micah

The Sulfur Keep and the Displacer Beast

2009-08-20T10:00:00.000-07:00

In the Valley below The Sulfur Keep, the old farmer tends his ancient orchard of one.

The Displacer Beast. It's hard to get them to hold still for a portrait. But if you jingle your keys you can get them focused enough to take a quick photo-reference shot.
Cheers.
-Micah

Skelemans!

2009-08-20T09:36:00.001-07:00

Skelemans. Oh yeah.
-M

Coral Sneak

2009-07-31T18:14:00.000-07:00

A few pages from an upcoming short story. The deep holds a powerful grudge. Ancient wrongs demand redress...

some-things new

2009-07-31T18:00:00.000-07:00

These are a couple images from, "A Christmas Carol". The upper image is old Jacob Marley's funeral. The next is the second page of the story, the arrival of George to the counting house of Scrooge and Marley, the old sinner being too mean to remove the name of his late partner.

Some slave revenge

2009-06-16T08:03:00.000-07:00

Here's another panel from a short I'm creating called Coral Music.
Spectral slaves have brought down a sailing ship. Hope you dig it.
Take 'er easy. Cheers.

Scrooge and a couple ghosts

2009-05-19T19:50:00.001-07:00

Just what you might excpect. These are still in the formative stages. And yes, the Ghost of Christmas Past does have at least two right hands. Dickens was very ambiguous in his description of that spectre. Cheers!
-M

Paladin

2009-04-22T14:40:00.001-07:00

To battle evil, to hammer one's foes, to bring light to the land, are the paladin's laws...

new page

2009-04-15T13:54:00.000-07:00

This page needs some post production work, but so far so good on this new project. Wish me luck. When I can tell you more about it I will. But for now, mum's the word.
Also, here's to Jason who did a bang up job on my carpet in the basement where I produce these pages. (sniiiiffff!) it smells mighty nice:) He's an Oxifresh partner, and a good guy t' boot. Look em up if you're in Madison and need a clean...
Cheers,
-Micah

Spell, spell, where's that damn spell?

2009-03-21T10:22:00.001-07:00

It's sometimes difficult to keep all your notes in order, when you tie them in knots of rope, rather than scribe them in clay or wax...
-Micah

Tiph again

2009-03-10T18:49:00.001-07:00

More of the gorgon, Tiph. Cheers,
-M

Oops!

2009-03-06T17:37:00.000-08:00

Yes, there are perils in wearing armor you're not familiar with. You might forget a critical portion here and there. "Here", being the left cheek, and "there" being the right. Still, she may be more dangerous without the whole suit...
I grabbed this approximate pose from a Witchblade cover. Kudos to the artist who put together a nice Maxim-esque cover for the Philly fans.
This baby was fun to play around with today. I hope y'all enjoy the sketch.
Cheers,
-M

Jathan

2009-03-04T18:44:00.000-08:00

Our shifter fighter, Jathan. Soul of a Jaguar, restless even in the weary, sweaty, breathless minutes after a skirmish...
Cheers,
-M

Tiph and Mace

2009-02-26T20:36:00.000-08:00

A couple more characters from the game...

Commishes

2009-02-21T17:22:00.000-08:00

Two recent White Picket Fences commissions. Have a good one!
-Micah

sketches

2009-02-20T09:34:00.000-08:00

Here are two little sketches. The Tusk-hog is an all digital painting (new territory) and the others are some sketchbook images of characters from the d&d game I'm a part of. Try and guess which character I play :) I'm still working on the tusk-hog. So please bear with me. But yeah, have a good one.
-M

Digital what?!

2009-02-02T16:46:00.000-08:00

There's a first time for everything. This is my first all-digital painting. Nothing complicated, and since it's not areal person, I don't know how successful it turned out. Overall, though, a neat trial run.
Cheers.

Thoth

2008-12-11T17:36:00.000-08:00

Here's a little drawing I worked up as a gift this year.

Thoth, his papyrus, his moon, and his baboon.
Later,
-M

Website Update

2008-11-29T16:25:00.000-08:00

Hello out there,
Little website update here: I've just thrown up a bunch of new images on the website. Check out new magazine illustrations, new comics published, and to-be-published. As well as a couple random, but worthy, efforts. Thanks for looking. By the way... if you have time, go outside, around dusk, and check out Venus and Jupiter in the southwest sky they're super-bright and close. You can't miss them.
Cheers,
-Micah

Old, Lop-eared, beardy

2008-11-11T10:39:00.000-08:00

Sketchy la-rou.
cheers,
-Micah

War of the Worlds

2008-09-22T07:43:00.000-07:00

Hi gang,
This is the color cover for a volume of Graphic Classics that I had the privilege to work on. I illustrated War of the Worlds, adapted by Rich Rainey. It was a ball to work on. I'll post more when I know a solid release date for the volume. Cheers,
-Micah

Angel of Death

2008-08-24T16:48:00.001-07:00

From Hellboy II the Golden Army. Sorry for not showing all those delightful eyes. Next time I'll try to stay on model.
Salud,
-Micah

some little ones

2008-08-09T19:33:00.000-07:00

For your pleasure...hopefully :)

BABY!

2008-07-30T12:30:00.000-07:00

Yup, we had a baby. Elizabeth Love Farritor aka "Ella", "Ella-bear", "Ella-pie", and "The Ellalator!" born on Sunday July 28th at 12:53 AM. 6 lbs 9 oz, and 18 3/4 inches long.
Thank the lord she looks like her mother.
Have a great one.
-Micah

Ink. Yeah, I know.

2008-06-18T21:27:00.000-07:00

This started out as a sketch of a helmet that was going nowhere. So I thought I'd ink over it, then I could blame the ink for not liking the finished project. But it kept growing, and now Ilike it. So I'm stuck now with some ink I like, and my next thought is...why not ink the next sketch? I'll have to see what happens there. Cheers,
-Micah

The Tripod and the Geisha

2008-04-24T14:04:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple recent offerings. I hope you like the tripod concept. The geisha and lotus are just practice, but I think they came out swell. Have a good week, folks, and I'll post more later.

Cheers.

a little more from Gaza

2008-04-02T14:10:00.000-07:00

Finally, some shots of Samson in action. Surviving hell-fire missiles, and facing down Delilah.

Cheers,
-Micah

A few pages from Gaza

2008-03-21T11:58:00.001-07:00

These are some dirty pages from an upcoming anthology. He's hard to see, but in the third page, fourth panel, Samson confronts IDF forces. He is Silhouetted against their spot lights. Then he launches the bulldozer. Yup.

Second Christmas

2008-03-10T09:17:00.000-07:00

This year, my family celebrated two Christmases. Dave was in Turkey, so he wasn't around for first Christmas. He brought me and Jodi back a great killim, a tradition in Turkey that really ties the room together. In short: this killim is for mothers, and children.
He also brought us back some Christmas tree ornaments, and he gave me a killer mersham pipe. Yep that's a labrador head, mouth closed gently around a duck. A great memorial to our late black lab, Papalo. Welcome home Dave and Merry Christmas.
Cheers,
-Micah

Here's to Thursday

2008-02-21T13:06:00.000-08:00

Here's to wives and sweethearts.
Here's to mothers and fathers,
Brothers and Sisters.
Here's to weddings.
Here's to friends.
Here's to those who we've lost and loved.
Here's to the brewmaster.
Cheers,
-M

Another of the machines

2008-02-14T12:56:00.000-08:00

yup.

The Creature's Pod

2008-02-08T17:54:00.000-08:00

This is a sketch for a possible pod design for an upcoming project. I'll post more stuff like this inthe future. Hope you dig it. Later,
-M

Io

2008-02-04T17:53:00.000-08:00

Ah, youth.

2008-02-02T19:24:00.001-08:00

Anyone else read these bad boys when they were young? I found these at a resale shop today, and snagged all three for a buck. Excellent.
-M

B&W and RGB

2008-01-31T09:24:00.000-08:00

For your benefit to compare and contrast. Like, no like?
I dig black and white usually, but this came out pretty sharp.
Your thoughts?
'sta luego,
-Micah

From the colored night on the mountain

2008-01-29T20:32:00.001-08:00

Some pieces in color.

Stingy Jack

2008-01-22T08:57:00.000-08:00

For no reason. Just cuz I love this kind of stuff. I think he's part of a Welsh or Irish fable.
Iechyd da,
Slainte,
-Micah

Humble? yes. Suspicious? you bet.

2008-01-21T08:46:00.000-08:00

Perhaps Humble has a little bundle of joy on the way. Not so much, a child, but a fragment of his soul, shaped fo clay and ash, incubated in manure, peat, and mandrake. Shadowy and fast, the Filcher watches his back, and keeps an eye out for loose treasures.

Sketchy LaRou

2008-01-20T10:53:00.000-08:00

Yup.

More of gods

2008-01-18T09:50:00.000-08:00

Okay, I seem to have lost you, so here are three more pages of Trickster. I like these pages, but htey are incomplete. I'm gonna be adding stars to the skies in post production where needed. Otherwise, I hope you dig 'em. My diurnal comrades in my office get a kick out of them.

Cheers,
-M

Old Man Coyote

2008-01-10T14:37:00.000-08:00

Aaah-oooooooooo.
-M

I gotta do what I gotta do.

2008-01-09T08:51:00.000-08:00

So here are two more pages from the Trickster story.
-Micah

Page two.

2008-01-04T15:54:00.000-08:00

I was thinking, I love putting these out there for folks to see; but maybe I shouldn't post all of the pages. Seeing as how the book has yet to be finished much less, published...Well, a couple more won't hurt. In this scene the night creatures make thier case to the Great Mystery.

test page

2008-01-02T12:19:00.001-08:00

This is a test page for a project I'm working on with a fellow Postcard's contributor, Matt Dembiki. Caddo nation story teller, Dayton Edmonds spun this yarn, and I have the duty to adapt it to sequential form. So here is a test for page one. Basically the nocturnal animals are gathering to council with the Great Mystery about thier lives. Lemmie hear it if you've got critique. I can see already I need to make the deer bigger...hmmm...
Cheers,
Micah

The End of my First Moleskine

2007-12-28T11:10:00.000-08:00

These sketches markt he end of the Moleskine. Lucky for me, my folks gave me two more for Christmas! Happy Holidays indeed. Here are Rabbit and Fox, and a little spruce there at the end.
Have a good one,
-Micah

Shapechangers

2007-12-27T08:30:00.000-08:00

A Coyote and a Raven. Also, I hope everyone out there had a wonderful Christmas. Or a wonderful Holy day, should your creed observe such days. I'm all about citing sources, so the model from whom I snagged the Raven's pose is Anyssa Yon, and the Coyote images are sketched from the book, Wild Dogs by Bauer. Credit where due. I hope to post more of this kind of thing in the next few days and weeks as this project comes together. I've had a good time with these, and hope you enjoy them as well. Have a good one,
-Micah

The Scion of Thoth

2007-12-14T14:53:00.000-08:00

Yup. Just a little morsel.

owls and a couple concepts in progress

2007-12-12T11:45:00.000-08:00

Here they are. For what they're worth.