Mikero's Artflows

[Johncarllos]

THIS IS THE BEST CHILDREN'S BOOK EVER.

I really wish I had PDFs of each page.....

[Mikero]

I have a PDF of the whole book...

And thanks guys!

Aannd apparently Mittens is Australian. Aaand apparently Crumplehorn is British and sounds like the Moon from The Mighty Boosh.

[preventerWIND]

Send me the PDF Mike!

And do you mind if I share this with a couple of friends of mine?

[Vinchenz Rock]

Excellent job Mikey.

WHY THANK YOU BUT DO SAY KIND SIR WHAT JOB ARE YOU SPEAKING ABOUT?

[ChaosVortex]

K...

KIND SIR WHAT JOB ARE YOU SPEAKING ABOUT?

[Mikero]

Send me the PDF Mike!

Mmmmaybe.

And do you mind if I share this with a couple of friends of mine?

Go 'head!

[preventerWIND]

Well, it'd be a lot easier if I got that PDF y'know! >.>

[NovaMan XP]

Or you know, you could just send them the link to the flash WINDUUUUUUH!

[preventerWIND]

WHO ASKED YOU!? HUH!? NO ONE SO STFU

[NovaMan XP]

NOBODY ASKED YOU TO RESPOND TO MY POST!

[preventerWIND]

You were replying to my previous post, and its a given that I'd reply to that!

[NovaMan XP]

NO IT DOESN'T ARGH

I'M GONNA LOCK YOU POSTS AND YOUR SIG

[Fatso]

Wow.








Wow.






Wow.

I love the 'future' page.

[MOX]

The shrimp has a cool silhouette.

I loved it, and the german(?) octopus (with an ak 47?)

WELL DONE. I dont see at all how it wouldn't be a children's book!

[preventerWIND]

I'm currently trying to find all the 'C's in the story..

[Mikero]

SS Octopus is his name and sea-fascism (soceanlism?) is his game. I can't remember exactly what assault rifle (if that) I referenced but it was specifically WWII and German. Not an AK-47 though, as those were invented later. Notice that I will never draw a swastika if I can help it. Because I can't help it. I can never bring myself to do it. I'd only be able to, maybe, if it was for a job. Otherwise I just move it out of shot and stuff.

Originally, it was just an octopus I partly sketched the same night I did the concept art for Mittens and Crumplehorn (which became the cover images of them). Then I added a head-mirror-thing along with a syringe lodged in his further back area head (and inside the liquid in the syringe was a goldfish) and he was then almost on his way to becoming Dr. Octopus in the background of a page.

But I forgot about him in my planning of the pages leading up to the one he's actually in, which was going to have a host of legendary sea monsters. I eventually thought that would be too much like the Past page, so I decided I needed something else. The name "SS Octopus" floated into my head before I realized I had an octopus waiting to be finished and put into the book. SO I added tentacles I'd previously left out and fit him to the theme. And I think that worked out better than the other stuff would have.



Future page was a loonng one, but I love the effects on it and they made the page worth it.
... Once I got those green eyebeams, I tripped.



Worst page was probably the Present. I redid the whole thing three times from the sketch-level because I, First: had photoshop crash before I could save, right when I was near the end of it just making the rising sun. Second: Accidentally saved over the file when I did the Future page. I did that page 3 times in the space of like... 10-12 hours. 8 hours of which I was at work. Or 7.5, whatever. 'Cause the second time I did the page was during my lunch break.

[Johncarllos]

It's amazing straight through Mike.

I ripped all the images from it and made myself a series of images from it in PNG.

Still wish I had the PDFs though.

[ASR]

I have all the original hi-res images and the PDF.

Kekeke.

[Mikero]

I might put up the PDF later. Mmmmaybe.

Unfortunately on my end, they aren't hi-res enough. I forgot when I started to do it all at 300DPI so everything was done in 150DPI. I lost some depth, colour, and brightness in the prints. But that happens.

Oh yeah, and look for famous robots in the Future page. There's 3 or 4 depending on how you see it. None of them are hard to find.

[Johncarllos]

Aw that sucks.

Still, I like a nice resolution image to look at.

[ASR]

They're not like, SUPER hi-res or anything. But they're clear and big and that's what counts.

The images you guys all see should be half-size. I just halved them all to fit them in the Flash.

[Fatso]

Oh yeah, and look for famous robots in the Future page. There's 3 or 4 depending on how you see it. None of them are hard to find.

That was part of what I loved so much about that page.

[Lunchebox]

Mike, that was beautiful.

The ending got me.

[Chron]

If I ever have children, I'm reading that story to them every night.

...
... *chalks up another reason why Chron should never have children*

[Johncarllos]

I JUST NOTICED MELVIN AND MEGAMAN IN THE FUTURE PANEL AWESOME!

[Mikero]

Marvin.

And there's 2 more known ones, but one is only slightly count-able I think.

[Vinchenz Rock]

I saw Iron Man.

[Johncarllos]

Whatever it is.
I'm not a HHGttG fan.

[Fatso]

I caught War Machine, but who's the fourth?

[ASR]

Yeah, I only saw 3. MegaMan, Marvin, and unpainted Iron Man (or apparently War Machine) in that order.

And the first time, I only caught MegaMan and Marvin.

[Johncarllos]

If only there wasn't that one s-bomb.

I'd let kids read it.

[Mikero]

The fourth is an NS-4 robot from I, Robot. Because those are like the best robot designs ever. Even if the movie ('cause I don't know the book) is about the next model.

I saw Iron Man.

No you didn't. You saw War Machine.

Yeah, I only saw 3. MegaMan, Marvin, and unpainted Iron Man (or apparently War Machine) in that order.

And the first time, I only caught MegaMan and Marvin.

War Machine is black and silver/chrome. The eyes shine and pulsars and all that are green.

[ASR]

I, ROBOT, THAT'S WHAT IT WAS.

I knew one of the others looked familiar. I was grasping at straws, though.

[Fatso]

The book was a collection of short stories without any single central plot, and in fact beyond a few characters (none of which were treated the same between the two entities anyway) the book and movie are 100% unrelated.

[Mikero]

That much I did know about the book, a friend of mine just read it. Hasn't seen the movie but I told him not to expect anything like the book.

Posted on: 16 October 2008, 23:17:16

Coming soonesque.

[NovaMan XP]

... thats...

#####ING SWEET.

[Mikero]

Just indigo blue pencils on it right now, to lay down what I want. I'm thinking I'll go over the lines in something dark next (probably still pencil so I can edit + have it wash of later), but then I'm not sure what medium I want to use for colour.

[ASR]

I just want to tell you how #####ing fantastic that is. Now I really want one of my own.

I swear, ever since you brought these to my attention, any time I look at an action figure I'm reminded of them and all these creative juices start flowing.

[Mikero]

I forgot to wash him first, so if you do get one don't forget to wash him first if you plan to use paint (there are some oils from my hands as well as factory substances on it still I guess).

This is not gonna be a complicated or showy one at all, just a character I know how to do to get my familiar with the whole thing. You can colour these with anything ("even ketchup") so I don't know what I'm gonna do.

[preventerWIND]

YEEH! Thats awesome! Oh man, I want one now, those look so #####in' ace!

[ASR]

I'd probably use Sharpies since I have a huge rainbow arsenal of them.

[preventerWIND]

Speaking of Sharpies, I've been using Sharpie Pens for my daily inking and #####, they're great, no bleed through either.

That concludes Wind's random assed statement of the day.

[Majikn]

I looked at that picture.

And then I said "dude" in exclamation three times.

HEY, IF YOU EVER NEED A TALENT AGENT- [laughtrack]

[Chron]

I forgot to wash him first, so if you do get one don't forget to wash him first if you plan to use paint (there are some oils from my hands as well as factory substances on it still I guess).

This is not gonna be a complicated or showy one at all, just a character I know how to do to get my familiar with the whole thing. You can colour these with anything ("even ketchup") so I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Anything, eh? I wouldn't try color pencils, myself. I can never get any depth out of those.
Maybe some kind of paint. I'd go acrylic, but that can get a bit messy.

[Mikero]

I'm just using blue col-erase to get the design down, I definitely won't be colouring in pencils unless they were like watercolour ones or something. And yeah, they say anything so.. Yep.

I'm wary to go in acrylic with a brush. I don't want to leave strokes all over it. I don't own or know how to work an airbrush either, but we'll see.

I'd probably use Sharpies since I have a huge rainbow arsenal of them.

If Sharpies has different percentages like Prismacolor markers, then maybe. I have a bunch but I don't know how to blend colours with them and all the colours are far too saturated for my taste OR my character's design.

And here's some basic shots, now that I had the "wtfholy#####" shot up for a bit.

[Chron]

I know it's possible to get fine detail with an airbrush, but I've never seen them used on objects that weren't flat.

There's probably some kind of paint you can use. Maybe you can find some model paint or something. Should be at any hobby shop.

... I'm not sure why I didn't think of that first. The stuff is fine tuned for this sort of thing.

[Mikero]

I'll be checking stuff out when I've gotten the lines darkened and junk. But apparently a lot of people airbrush colour them (and it looks awesome).

After this, I might do another mini munny or go for full size (but not jumbo). If I like it at the end, that is.

[ASR]

Airbrushing actually sounds like a great option, especially since your character has pretty large areas that are all one color.

[Mikero]

I thought about getting a fullsize Munny as they also come in black, but... Well I'm not confident enough to do one that big yet. Also thought about the full size glow-in-the-dark one, to make all those lights glow.

[preventerWIND]

Hey Mike, where'd you score one of these Munny's? Silver Snail? I'd really like to try one, but I'm sure I'd have to be adding and sculpting extra ##### onto it to make it what I want.