Mikero's Artflows

[TheRedPriest]

... you're fired.

[Johncarllos]

Bites makes me feel uncomfortable.

[Mikero]

I haven't had decent time to hunker down with the tablet and draw at all lately, I'm prepping for a big move.

But I feel like posting so here's another doodle. It's some lady I drew a few months back when I first feeling out my new tablet monitor.

[TheRedPriest]

That's pretty nice.  Could use some stubble on the side of the head though.

[Mikero]

It's actually acne scars.

[TheRedPriest]

Sea Breeze my friend!

[Captain Sanoguchi]

>lady

[Mikero]

I can't draw at all for any of my projects today, so it was doodle-time;

Posted on:  2 July 2013, 19:59:27

Something I can say here, that I can't really get into anywhere else online: This is the latest thing I've been working on.

Video: http://www.usatoday.com/videos/life/tv/2014/08/11/13914981/

Article: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/first-look-disneys-penn-zero-part-time-hero-102600.html

Also, this is my first time officially supervising scene planning on a production (I recently un-officially supervised on "Team Hot Wheels: The Origin of Awesome" for Mattel).

[ASR]

siiiiiiiiick

[TheRedPriest]

Cool beans!

[Mikero]

This is a drawing I did a while back that I thought people here would appreciate.

(It stretched out the thread so here's a thumbnail link)


Even bigger version on my art blog.

[TheRedPriest]

Why isn't he using Top Spin?

[Mikero]

He foolishly started in the bottom-right!

[TheRedPriest]

What a foolishly foolish fool.

[Mikero]

Couple doodles...

[TheRedPriest]

Needs more Roll...

[Mikero]

Working a little Bass right now, so I could do a Roll next if I continue this style.

[TheRedPriest]

You WILL continue until Roll is done.

[Snare]

Dang that's mad cute

[TheRedPriest]

The term is Kawaii, Snare.

[Majikn]

I REALLY like the colouring style on Mega Man.

[TheRedPriest]

It's good, but the blues could use a bit more contrast.

[Mikero]

It's hard with my limited markers. I actually used the same blue marker for both of his tones and just did a little work around. I would have prefered to just have two separate tones but I like how I got around it, there was a moment where I didn't know if it would work, even though it's just a quick doodle it got stressful for a sec.

Managed to do a quick Bass and Roll. It's kind of annoying that taking a photo on your phone makes drawings so much larger.

These are a cheap office bic ballpoint black pen and some 10 year old japanese markers, by the by.

[TheRedPriest]

I approve!  Now make them into animated gifs!

[Winged Warrior]

I approve!  Now make them into animated gifs!

this

[TheRedPriest]

You know, I kind of want eye whites on them now.

[Snare]

I dont know can you make it pop more you know?

That was my impression of a client wanting to change something on a picture you made

[TheRedPriest]

Make it happy.  Make it more dynamic.  Make it more fun.

Yeah.  Clients give the most vague and unhelpful/irrelevant requests all the time.

[Mikero]

Hahaha! I pretty much stopped doing freelance 'cause of that. Probably missed out on at least one great opportunity but the stress involved with my last vague client was soul crushing.

Just an FYI I'm working on a little shop thing and I'm probably gonna make a shirt and things out of the Mega Man from those. I won't be adding the other two guys to any merch, I'm not particularly happy with them, but I'm undecided on Roll. You guys think humans would be interested in a few things with that Roll?

[TheRedPriest]

Everyone is interested in Roll...  EVERYONE.

But maybe see how she looks with eye whites.

[Snare]

It's annoying how patrons feel entitled to meddle in the process of creation without actually knowing what it is they want.

Excuse me this is MY inflation art of Barney the Dinosaur, not yours. Now pay me the 650 you said you were gonna

[Mikero]

Everyone is interested in Roll...  EVERYONE.

But maybe see how she looks with eye whites.

It's done in real media but I can try a photochop sometime, I'm curious enough.

[TheRedPriest]

I realize they were done in real media.  I didn't expect you to drop white out on her.  I figured it would be some photoshop.

[Mikero]

I got bored in a meeting...

[Winged Warrior]

I didn't take Mikero for a strength build, what with being a flippy flip ninja and all.

Unless those are b-b-b-bodyarmor.

[Mikero]

This photograph was taken thirteen seconds after Mikero powerslammed Ro-Beelzebub through a 105-story skybridge on the executive level of a triplet tower system built for a Neo-Tawain-ese EiL-Sapphire distribution conglomerate operating out of the New People's Republic of Kuala Lumpur. The fight lasted 2 days and 1 night all expenses paid by the Dauphin of Magiorbis who had humanitarian interests in the company's overhead.

The skybridge (before it's destruction) joined towers σ and ρ at ~509 metres (~1670 feet for those in the past), therefore the fall took 10.22 seconds, Mikero landed in virabhadrasana I, as is his wont, though he thought garudasana would have been more flashy (and less practical).


Time under tension makes you swole for a lil bit.

[Snare]

and your makeup didn't even run

Wow

[Winged Warrior]

-5 points for the missed opportunity of Robolzebub. You were so close...
-3 points for forgetting to mention Mikero's one liner: "Looks like this was a bridge to nowhere, for you!"

You final grade for the story & illustration comes to a 93%, A-

[Mikero]

First of all Ro-Beelzebub is an android but it's not like he came out of nowhere. He was regular old Beelzebub last time Mikero defeated him and his brain energy was transferred to a Life Model Decoy endoskeleton. It's like Mecha-Godzilla isn't called "Mechazilla" or anything, his name was Beelzebub the whole time.

"Robolzebub" sounds made up.

Secondly this is history not juststory. I can't just go and make up something Mikero didn't say, what do I want my head cut off again? Even if he did sound travels 332 metres/s in air and then even slower in my photographer's gellacube so how would I hear it?!

God, no wonder journalists just wanna write blogticles about casting the latest Snarevel Supremoes viddy-file these days.

[TheRedPriest]

Just draw him with his finger in his nose.  THAT WILL SHOW HIM.

[Mikero]

Been messing around with a new take on an old design..

[TheRedPriest]

Edgy!

[Johncarllos]

Regular ninja mask under a collapsible/retractable face shield? Dope.

[Mikero]

Thanks!

The goal isn't to make things more edgy, but I can see that. In fact if there's a goal it might be quite the opposite. Basically, I recently got into the idea of the character again; I don't have plans to do anything really with him but I'm having fun with essentially reorganizing everything about the character.

I always had a completely non-Megaman related storyline in my head for this, that I never really got around to telling here. Right now I'm just trying to fit those pieces together in a better way. It's fun to try and adapt, rebuild, or surgically remove things I thought were cool ten years ago. Changing fundamental design elements to make the whole world make more sense together is a big part of that.

Like I said, I'm not planning a comic or any kind of thing, but hopefully I can find a way to share more story in the future.

[TheRedPriest]

You're not some character Mikero, you're our FRIEND.

[Johncarllos]

It's a nice contrast, the potentially friendly eyed ninja warrior that immediately turns into what looks like a murder cyborg could lead to some great combat transitions.

Just as long as it's not as often as Black Panther's last fight.

I like the more rounded face shape in the upper left for non-armored, then it being so much more angular afterwards.

[Mikero]

Thanks!

I like the more rounded face shape in the upper left for non-armored, then it being so much more angular afterwards.

I should explain this, and some other things. I was drawing those to figure out how the armor/mask would put itself on. That upper-left drawing is with the upper cranium armor pulled back and the mandible armor wide open, showing the basic ninja mask (which would be part of the more flexible full-body suit that's under everything, like compression clothes).

The bust drawing that's more to the right and lower has the mandibles open but the cranium portion is closed over. And then the lower one is obviously the full head armor, without the classic scarf.

The idea is that when the armor comes on it would move and lock into place in that order. Once fully closed he'd have a HUD kind of like other tech-characters (Iron Man, etc.), and full protection for the skull and eyes--the closed armor making the eyes look robotic and orange (instead of the character actually having orange irises like my older designs).

That came out of the old idea that his bike actually becomes his armor (like how Rush became Super Armor) from my old stuff. I drew him on a bike here just for fun, technically speaking he shouldn't be able to ride and be armored at the same time with my current ideas. Also, that's not even the type of bike I'd have him riding anymore, if at all, but more on that later.

I haven't really sat down and done any real character design rotation on this concept yet, but I just did this quick mockup of the helmet in profile:

[TheRedPriest]

Ninja Mantas!

I think the cheek portions would look better swung up all the way so they resembled something more like Metal Man's ear pieces, then swung down in the opposite direction of the forehead piece.  The mandible placement/design looks kind of weird and unweildly to me.

[NovaMan XP]

I like it, though I agree with what Rez said as well.  

I've been wanting to redesign my character for ages now but I end up scrapping most of the ideas... seeing your art makes me want to try it again though.

[TheRedPriest]

In fairness, I spent literally 3 minutes Frankensteining you together from sprites and recoloring you.  You're a real champ sticking to that for all these years.