Scoobygang

McShane sketch/portrait

2011-07-06T07:44:00.000-07:00

Trying to get back into drawing. I have a small/medium wacom tablet at home I bought back from 2004. It's not easy to draw on it but it serves it's purpose. Anyway, thought I'd start with an Ian McShane portrait. I roughed out the foundation and then spent the next hour putting in the details. I felt the drawing was really off and I wasn't happy with it so I imported the photo to help show me where I went wrong. Thankfully I only got some very minor details wrong, mouth and nose too small and hair on the left was far too short. I spent another 30 minutes making the corrections and this is the end result. It's still just okay and I hope to do better on my next drawing.

2009-08-10T07:54:00.000-07:00

2009-06-24T17:26:00.000-07:00

2009-06-04T15:30:00.000-07:00

Sketched in Alias Skecthbook. Rendered in Alias Skecthbook, Photoshop 7 and CS3. This project took about 12-16 hours. It's really hard to estimate actual work hours as this has been an on again off again project since August 2008.

BBC show, don't know the name.

2009-05-16T13:46:00.000-07:00

30 Rock Alec Baldwin

2009-05-16T13:45:00.001-07:00

2009-03-27T12:54:00.000-07:00

2009-03-11T18:58:00.000-07:00

Batman JLU

2009-03-03T18:07:00.000-08:00

Adama

2008-08-13T10:04:00.001-07:00

Finsihed face render with rough blocked out hair. About 3-4 hours.

Optimus Prime Rough Build

2008-03-02T14:48:00.001-08:00

Work in progress. Current work time about 3 hours

Moon

2008-02-07T17:28:00.001-08:00

This is a nurbs sphere with a file texture I got off of the internet. Just playing with lighting and textures. Project took maybe 1 hour to tweak and render again...and again....and again....make that an hour and a half.

Lance of Longinus - Evangelion

2008-02-05T13:05:00.000-08:00

My second Maya project, took about and hour or so to build and texture. Not great but a start.

Adama

2007-12-10T16:56:00.001-08:00

Been watching lots of Battlestar Galactica and drew this from photo reference.

Holland Kid

2007-11-19T16:02:00.001-08:00

Kid from Band of Brothers. Not 100% happy with the hands.

Sad

2007-11-15T11:17:00.000-08:00

Martian Manhunter

2007-09-10T10:24:00.000-07:00

Venom

2007-09-10T10:21:00.000-07:00

Pissed of Kid

2007-08-02T15:22:00.001-07:00

Bench Bum

2007-08-01T09:54:00.001-07:00

Batman Rough

2007-07-31T23:17:00.000-07:00

Creepy Old Guy

2007-07-10T09:43:00.001-07:00

NHL 07 vs NHL 2k7

2007-06-10T16:04:00.001-07:00

First off, I love the sport of hockey, and play Goalie in Ball Hockey as often as I can. With this said I am immediately disappointed with how awful the goal-tending in NHL 07 is. Also how few customized equipment there are for goalies. Goalies wearing the equipment of teams they were on 2 seasons ago after they left. A hand full of pads, that won't match a third of any of the NHL teams colors and 6 (to maybe 8, if your lucky) basic saves you will see again, and again and again.

Were the strengths lay in NHL 07 are its graphics. The hockey players look better in NHL 07 than NHL 2k7. The faces of players are dead on as with the coaches and the proportions are more accurate as well. The new "skill stick" (the right analog stick) is now mapped as the pass button. However on the odd occasion it will pass the puck in a random direction. At times 180 degrees from you intended pass direction. The commentary is exciting at times. NHL 07 makes you feel the excitement of playing the game and going deep in the playoffs, but lacks any realism at all. So for a good looking game and more arcade style fun go with this.

NHL 2k7 is deep, rich, and cheap game. The graphics are not great, but equipment for goalies is early season accurate and each team has 6 different sets of gear to dress you goalie up with. Also editing players is far easier in this game. Its not even worth my time to explain how the annoying the editing a player in NHL 07 is. NHL 2K7 makes it simplicity itself. The game play feels more real and if your not for real..well you can change it. NHL 2k7 has 4 different game styles: default, Sim, arcade and physical. And each of these styles can be further edited to your liking.

Really this is not a competition this is how I see things breaking down.

Graphics:
NHL 07
Equipment:
NHL 2K7
Game play:
NHL 2K7
PLayer Editing:
NHL 2K7
Player Rankings:
NHL 2K7
Animations:
NHL 2K7
Play by Play
NHL 07

If your a die hard hockey fan and need it as close to reality as possible it has to be NHL 2k7.

Thanks for reading.
Mike

Final Fantasy

2007-03-18T16:24:00.000-07:00

First digital sketch in Alias Sketchbook, which, I highly recommend playing around with it. Best drawing program I have ever tried. This took me about 2-4 hours, hard to say, as it was completed over nearly a 2 week span. A bad combination of being way too busy or way too lazy.

Angel

2007-01-17T21:06:00.000-08:00

On an Angel watching kick and figured I'd draw him since I couldn't think of anything else.

Birthday Present

2007-01-17T12:56:00.000-08:00

After playing ball hockey for about 3-4 years now, I have finally upgraded to, what I hope will be, one of my last pairs of goal pads. I started out on 27" (kids sized) tall pads and now my 5th pair of pads (on the left) are my shinny new Itech 36" leg pads. These are meant for recreational ice hockey, but my badly brusied knee has forced me to buy these. I have been using a 34" pad (on the right) which doesn't protect my knees.

I used birthday money to pick these up. Many thanks to my family.

2006-10-26T23:54:00.000-07:00

A drawing I did for my landlord's son's birthday. Huge Superman-Batman fan. Every time I see him he has some comic book related t-shirt on. I realized now I messed up on Superman's leg, but live and learn.

-Mike

Ah Busy-ness

2006-10-12T22:19:00.000-07:00

Well no drawing post this time around. Current show I am on is winding down and I jump straight onto another project. But with the new computer I just bought I should (I hope) get some new drawings done.

Mike

PEI

2006-09-18T21:29:00.000-07:00

My favorite picture I have ever taken on the eastern coast of PEI
-Mike

hullo sailor

2006-09-18T21:00:00.000-07:00

A drawing I did using a picture as reference
-Mike

BlueDogs!!

2006-09-18T20:53:00.000-07:00

3 friends and I competed in a TSN sponsored street hockey tournament out in Halifax just over a year ago and I designed this back then for fun in honor of our f&^*ing awesome team.

-Mike

Little Eskimo

2006-08-28T22:24:00.000-07:00

Wanted to draw a squinted eyed character with a huge grin and turned into this. Didn't turn out at all the way I planned and just took on a life of its own.

-Mike

2006-08-17T08:49:00.000-07:00

My first and so far last digital artwork. I'm happiest with how the legs turned out but to me the hands don't look great.

-Mike

2006-08-13T19:44:00.000-07:00

I did this drawing for a friend's comic book "SpaceJet" by Mike Myhre.

-Mike

Fantasy Concept

2006-08-13T19:37:00.000-07:00

I'm largerly influenced by the Final Fantasy, Metal Gear as well Star Wars. Heres a drawing based off of those roots. Turned out okay and I'd like to do more with this character one of these days.

-Mike

Where my Dogs at?

2006-08-13T14:34:00.000-07:00

Here's a link to a show I finished working on about 2 or 3 months ago. The dumpster diving clip features animation I did except for the last scene.

http://www.tv.com/where-my-dogs-at/show/59386/summary.html?q=where%20my%20dogs%20at&tag=search_results;title;0

Wish I was able to find an embeded link but looks like it was taken off of the internet.

Here's a news link to the show also which speficially mentions a scenes which myself and another animator worked on. Sorry Black people.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/09/leisure.mtv.reut/

-Mike