Happy Halloween!

Just a quick vampire sketch in honor of Halloween before blacking out from Trick-or-Treat exhaustion...

Mike

Phoenix

This isn't a commission piece, but it's something I did to stay in practice. I try not to let a day go by that I haven't drawn something. I started dozing off tonight, but I got a surge of inspiration. The result was...Phoenix.
Mike

Hectic week!

What a week! The commission requests have been rolling in at an alarming rate, which I'm extremely grateful to the universe for (insert cosmic deity of your choice for the word "universe"). This drawing is another piece of Kevin Ryan's Americana. Kevin has a website on the web where he publishes stories and commissions different artists to illustrate the main action point of each story. Once I get the URL for his site I'll post it along with the other commissions for his characters as I finish them.
Mike

Cheesecake and Mary Jane!

For this commission, the buyer wanted this particular character eating and enjoying a piece of cheesecake in honor of her creator's birthday. Before I drew this I had never ever drawn someone holding a fork. It felt great to do something I'd never done before.

The other image captures a tender moment either pre- or post- coitus between Peter Parker and Mary Jane (censored, of course).

Mike

String Bikini Portrait

Here's the gist of this commission as per the instructions from the client:

"I'd like a drawing of my wife when she was in her teens, wearing a string bikini. Here's some reference photos of her face."

I nailed the facial likeness, but I made up the body, which was fine by him. He was so pleased with it that he wants more drawings of her in a mini-skirt and tube-top.

Mike

Brushing the Dust Off

The hulk sketch you see here was done in late '05 while we were staying with relatives in Bosier City, La for the aftermath of hurricane Rita (the forgotten hurricane of 2005).

The second image is from a comic I was working on for a guy the same year. It ended up falling through for some reason.

Enjoy!

Mike

"You know what" sells.

Well, not sex per se.
I'd never drawn a naked woman in my life until I saw that there was a market for it. The first two pieces have been doctored up to adhere to Blogger.com standards of decency. The're currently up for auction on Ebay. The final two are some commissions I did for a guy about a month ago.

Thanks.
Mike
P.S. See? I'm posting a little more often!

Reproduction Commission

This is a piece someone commissioned me to do. The original Jim Lee drawing featured the Black Widow instead of Psylocke. I started out not having any fun at all doing this piece because it's a reproduction of someone else's work, but I ended up getting some enjoyment out of it. The buyer was satisfied, and in the end that's all that matters.

Mike

Supergirl

This is a new Supergirl drawing I did to add to my listings. I was very pleased with how it came out.

X-Men Commission

This piece was actually the first commission I ever did. It was for a guy's brother for his birthday. My scanner wasn't quite big enough to accomodate the size of the image, so use your imagination and picture it as single shot. You can do it, I know you can!
Mike

New Commissions

It's been a long time between posts. I really need to fix that. Here are a few commissions I've done for some Ebay auctions. Probably the most bizzare request I've had has been the hummingbird warrior dressed as Thor standing atop two conquered hummingbird enemies. For commissions there's nothing out of bounds. No limits except the client's imagination.