Spaced

Hey, nothing finished to show, but I'd still like to hold up to my promise of an entry a week. Maybe I should scan things from my sketchbook...

anyway, here are some W.I.P.s of 2 digital pieces I'm working on.

First, The progress I've made on the "LAST MAN" picture:


And second, the lineart for the next project in my Digital illustration class. The assignment was to make a tabloid cover or illustration based on one out of a list of weird tabloid headlines. The one I chose was "Kiss your Asteroid goodbye!", and I'm not doing a typical tabloid page because those are hideous.

It feels nice to draw Lilith again.

Its got that new god smell

Hey, what do you know, I actually finished that image from yesterday. That's oddly... productive of me. I may have gone overboard with the glowy stuff though...

Anyway, I'm turning the assignment in soon, but here's the (for now) finished image. I'll tweak it if the teacher suggests anything, and for any/everyone reading, please feel free to critique it and suggest things too.


Here are some Detail shots:

Krishna WIP

Hey, not much progress has been made on the "Last Man" image since my last entry, but I promised to make a post a week showing something...

So here's some W.I.P on another image for another class. The class is general digital illustration (that's not the name of the course though... the actual name is kind of dumb and misleading.)

The Assignment was to take a myth (out of a pile of random ones he provided) and make an illustration in photoshop using a hand drawn lineart to start. (Not a problem for me, since that's how I usually work anyway.) The myth I selected was something about the god Krishna kidnapping a woman at a fountain surrounded by birds of paradise... I don't really remember the rest, but it wasn't required for the illustration to be a literal interpretation of the myth.

Here's the progress I've made with coloring it. It's been a long while since I've seriously attempted digital coloring, so I'm a bit rusty. I'm trying some new effects, while also brushing up on things I've kind of forgotten...


And here's the lineart (drawn over two pieces of Bristol board (I wanted to work larger than I usually do)

Space girl, colors, thumbnails, and etc...

Hey, I'm sorry for disappearing again, Blogger refuses to keep me logged in, so its a bit of a hassle to sign in to check updates and post my own entries...

College has been keeping me more than busy so far. I hardly have any free time, let alone any time to work on non class related art. I've mostly been working on my Thesis comic project . The theme for my year is "Modern (Greek) Mythology", and I've chosen to do a futuristic steampunk adaptation of Prometheus. I'll post some of the character designs some other time after I'm done writing the script.

For now though, I have some other art in progress. Its from my Sci-Fi Illustration class, taught by Donato Giancola. The Assignment was "Last Man On Earth".

These are 6 color studies for the final piece. I'm still working on the lineart parts, but I'm trying to decide on how to color it beforehand. 2 was My first idea I had while doing the sketch, but now I'm leaning mostly towards 1, 3, 4, and 6. Please fel free to leave an opinion if any of these 6 stands out to you. I'd love to hear any feedback on this image.

This was the Preliminary Sketch. He didn't like the skull-robot in the back being centered, so he asked me to go back to what I had in the thumbnail where there were 2 of them. At this point he also suggested I change the lightning from the hands to wavy spirals of energy, as seen in the color studies.


These were my thumbnails. You can see which one I chose to stick with, and what elements from the other snuck their way back into the one I chose, but I may make one or two more of these sometime in the future if I find the time. I tried to avoid the obvious zombie interpretation for this assignment.

I'll keep updating progress on this image, as well as other assignments, continues. Hopefully I'll manage to make a post a week!

Time and Space prt.2

Hey, sorry to anyone who actually wanted to follow my progress on the Shaun of the Dead comic. I was having trouble uploading photos from my camera... so this is way late.

From my last step, I opened the scanned thumbnails in photoshop, upped the contrast to make the pencil lines much darker, then printed them out the size of a 8.5x11 page. Then I lightboxed them roughly and continued to tightly pencil over the roughs;




Its all inked, lettered, and even printed now, so the only thing left to do is maybe fix up the cover and submit the pages online. But I think I'll do all of that after San-Diego Comic con. I leave for it in 2 days now, and I'll have a number of copies of this Comic as well as the latest Lilith comic. If you find me walking around somewhere, stop me and I can maybe give you a copy of either for free.

Follow me on a journey through time and space...

Sorry, this entry has absolutely nothing to do with the Mighty Boosh. Though I do really wanna draw Howard and Vince. But I'll have to do that some other time because I'm busy as hell right now...

First of all, My website has been down for a while, and I need to renew it... For the time being, the Domain name MikeLuckas.com will redirect to here. Whenever I do manage to get my website back up, I'm thinking of editing the layout of this blog to use it as the homepage.

Second, Ive started another comic! Because of some problems with SVA that I dont want to get into right now, I'm currently taking a summer class to make up some missing credits. The Class is about the Horror Film genre, and theres absolutely no work besides the final, which is to make a piece of art related to the horror film genre and our major.

So I chose to do a comic obviously (and maybe some extra covers if I get the time). And I decided to make the comic an excerpt from one of my favorite horror/comedy movies, Shaun Of the Dead! (I know theres a full comic that exists of it, and im trying to steer away from copying it, but there are going to be some similarities that are unavoidable...) And I thought I'd share my progress here, step by step, since I dont update this thing nearly enough.

Step 1;
I grabbed a photo off google and tryed sketching Ed and Shaun. I'm very happy with how Ed came out, but I really think I need to work on Shaun. Which surprised me, since I thought it'd be the opposite. Shauns hair throws me off though...
Step 2:
Then I decided on a scene; The one where Ed and Shaun throw shit at the zombies in their backyard. Always worth a laugh. I popped in the DVD and watched the scene a few times and ran some panel layouts through my head and thubnailed them out. I was pretty satisfied with what I layed out on the first or second go, which is very rare for me... so this is much cleaner than my usual panel layouts are (plus I only drew in one of the panels because the images were clearer in my head). The pages came out to 6 (ugh ive got less than 2 weeks to get this shit done.)
Step 3:
Then I drew up my 'real' thumbnails and began tweaking the layout and thumbnailing the content inside the panels. I had to freezeframe and screencap the scene a LOT to get these how I wanted them. Page 5 has 2 layouts. I think I'll be going with the 2nd. Picking what to include, what to omit, what to abridge, and what to make look like a shot right out of the movie is difficult... (sorry if you cant tell what the hell is going on in any of these. My thumbnails are sloppy)

Since I spent a decent amout of time on these to make sure they're exactly what i want, the next step is to print these out full-size (about 8.5x11 is the size ill be working at) Then I can lightbox the roughs in and tight pencil the rest from there. I have no idea if I'll get all the way through inks by the time this is due.... but we'll find out as I update some more. At the least Im aiming to get the tight pencils done. Those could be reproduced.

thanks for reading!

--MIKE!

Grand Line!

So.. One-Piece fanart. Why? I don't really know. I was just doodling and it turned into Nami. Then I made a Nico Robin to go with it.

I havent read/watched One Piece in a while. I've been meaning to catch up though. Its one of those animes that drags on and on, but its still pretty great. Oda is insane.

here it is at wallpaper size:


Anyway, I have a ton of other things in progress at the moment, and I took photos of a lot of it, but I cant seem to get my camera to connect to my computer... so, I might just have to scan them.

Oh! And San-Diego Comic-Con is soon! I cant wait!