Mikero's Artflows

[Mikero]

Mittens And Crumplehorn is a book I'm illustrating for a birthday present. It is a story about a shark and a shrimp and their coming of age tale.

[ASR]

Love it. Love the shark's teeth.

[Abominator]

Yeah, looks cool as.

Mittens is a good name, but Crumple Horn is not.

[preventerWIND]

Haha, this looks great. Love it Mike.

[MOX]

Great coloring and line art. I like the colors a lot.

[Chron]

I hope to see this on store shelves.
Children must be read this book every night.

[Mikero]

Heh heh well it's children's book style but it's gets a bit adult near the end so I don't know about that! I'm actually still not sure how some pages will look.

Love it. Love the shark's teeth.

One of the central plot points.

Mittens is a good name, but Crumple Horn is not.

I didn't write it so I didn't like the name at first either, but Crumplehorn eventually grew on me.

[ASR]

It almost reminds me of Morg's style.

[Mikero]

Yeah, kind of, but his is way more defined and confident. I don't really know what I'm doing with these types of character designs yet, I haven't really drawn much stuff in the art direction I'm going with this book before.

Also that Crumplehorn is shrunk down. I originally drew him almost the same size at Mittens, so I'll upload that later so you can get a decent look at him.

Posted on:  5 July 2008, 18:52:55

I plan to shade this and add a proper background later (and in a bit higher res), but I've no idea when I'll find the time for that. So for now, and for purposes of the jam, here's preventerWATER.

Hi-Res Crumplehorn and some sketches tomorrow (maybe).

[ChaosVortex]

Comparing between your artwork and mine, I need to work on wrinkling on clothes and hands. That's a fantastic job. I dig the look.

[MOX]

The arms will probably look better once you add shading.

Haven't really seen you drawn your character often, liking the design and background.

[ASR]

Positively kickass, Mike. Great work as usual. Slick design, great colors, great job.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Mittens needs a space helmet.

[preventerWIND]

Hot damn thats amazing. C+P everything ASR said.

[AlexThePenguin]

I LOVE Mittens' design. It's adorable. I want it as a pet. <3


Crumplehorn, too... I'm quite interested in full-size Crumplehorn.

[Johncarllos]

Preventer outfit is SICK.
Just look at those thighs!

[ASR]

THEY ARE KICKIN THIGHS

[preventerWIND]

JC and ASR like Mike's thighs.

[ASR]

THEY ARE PRETTY KICKIN

[Mikero]

And that's what I use 'em for!

Thanks y'all. I had to basically redraw the Preventer belt buckle in photoshop, 'cause the drawing wasn't right.

Anyhoo... The first is the bigger Crumplehorn, as promised, with Mittens 'cause they were on the same file and blah to you! And the second is sketches I did that may or may not appear on picture frames from some company.

[ASR]

I like the sketches a lot, with the stitching and such. Giraffe is the best, then the elephant, then the rabbit.

[Chron]

The turtle is my favorite.

[Mikero]

I hate the pig entirely and wanted to redo it but didn't have time so I said ##### it and sent it along.

I did the turtle ONLY because I love turtles and always do a turtle if I'm drawing animals at all, but I do like it.

Giraffe was the last one done, elephant was the first.

[AlexThePenguin]

That rabbit reminds me of a plushie I had when I was little. Fond memories, yes.

That turtle has sass to him. It's awesome.

[ReploidQ]

Your a very talented artist. I hope that sometime I will have some stuff that compares. At the moment I have been hired to work on a indi graphic novel. Nothing huge but I am much better at western comic style and just learning digital art. But Seriously I love everything I have seen, especially all the sketchs. Keep it up

[Mikero]

Why thank you, man. I hope all the other Q feel the same way. Post stuff from the graphic novel thing in your thread!

[ReploidQ]

Why thank you, man. I hope all the other Q feel the same way. Post stuff from the graphic novel thing in your thread!

I'll post what I can but the editor and writer dont want me showing alot of the art, even though i say it would be good publicity.

[Fatso]

The other Q are too busy screwing around with Captain Picard to bother with your art topic sorry.

[Mikero]

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[The Otaku]

Whoa, I love the full bodied art of you, it looks awesome. You look so cool . .

[Lunchebox]

Whoa, I love the full bodied art of you, it looks awesome. You look so cool . .

Keep it in your pants, you ain't legal in Canada yet.

[Mikero]

I'm Mikero, and I approve this message.

[MOX]

Who's your running mate?

[Mikero]

Haven't decided yet. Depends on who WANTS to be my running mate. I already know most of you want to be my mate, but this is different. This involves cardio or something...

Uhm. Oh. Eh. Huh? Oh, er, look! I made an American flag out of nuclear warheads and explosions!

[Chron]

Wow, classy.

[Abominator]

Draw a non-sprited suited Mikero!

And no more Bjork font!

[Mikero]

Ha! I love Bjork font but now that you recognized it I have to change!

Originally I was gonna do with a photo, but I don't have the time. Today I saw an Obama action figure at work, and on the back it had art almost EXACTLY like MY election poster! I took a picture with my phone, but I've just realized I don't have a micro SD card or any other way I know of to put it online.

[ASR]

Pix-Text Message it to your e-mail.

Or to somebody else who can get it online.

And wait, they really make Obama action figures? Haha.

[Mikero]

This week an Obama comic and McCain (spelling?) comic came out, one each. The covers are nearly exactly the same, which each candidate looking in the opposite direction in the same. Also, an edition came out that was both comics in one, so you'd just flip to the other side and have the other prez-prospect's cover. I didn't read them.

I plan to make more election posters, I think.

[ASR]

I'm about to copy you. Almost identically.

[Mikero]

I knew you might.

Actually, this really started off as an idea for Random MMM Comics. I was going to do a whole commercial of your candidacy slandering mine like they do FAR TOO #####ING FREQUENTLY on real live living life TV. And then I was going to see if you'd do a commercial of my campaign striking back or if I'd have to do it myself.

Also, I remembered way back when, an MMM fad broke out where people were campaigning for MMM awards with little sig images. And I thought that might happen again, except I don't want to change my sig at all anyway.

[ASR]

Ha, you should definitely make that comic. If you don't, I'll make a version.

And MMM Awards. HUH. WHEN ARE THOSE COMING UP AGAIN.

[Mikero]

Later.

























Sike.

Posted on: 10 October 2008, 21:37:29

IT'S FINALLY HERE!!

Mittens And Crumplehorn, for you to read! With help from the lovely ASR.

[ASR]

I was going to secretly hide an "ASR" somewhere in one of the pages like that (C) you have hidden in the mountains, just to be a dick.

I DESERVE A THANKS IN A BIGGER FONT THAT THE "IT'S FINALLY HERE!!"

But yeah, everybody read this. It's fantastic.

[Mikero]

I've hidden a C in every page, and smaller font makes you look slimmer!

I really wanted a new page for this, but couldn't stand to upload other stuff and wait a bit.

[ASR]

Well, when there's a new page, just re-post this stuff. I'll delete one of my posts so it brings yours to the top, haha, so long as you get the second post on that page.

[Vinchenz Rock]

That was awesome.

I thought it was going to be a kids story, though.

[ASR]

I'd read it to my kids!

[preventerWIND]

I got an early view of it, thanks to ASR and Mike, I forgot to comment. But its awesome Mike! I thought it'd be more of a child story, but when I read it I fell back into my chair laughing, loved every bit of it Mike! EVERY #####ING BIT!

+1,000,001 respect points from WINDUH

[ChaosVortex]

That was great...

Excellent job Mikey.