Mike Bear: Sketchbook
Friday, November 16, 2007

Experiments....

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...sometimes they come out good, sometimes not so much. But the important thing is to learn from them. Thankfully, I don't make my livin...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Paintin's

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I'm taking a figure painting class. Purely for technical practice. It's great to have an excuse to paint and further my understandin...
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I sure do like sketching.

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There is something about the sketch that appeals to me. It has energy, it is full of possibilities, and when I see it, I can imagine exactly...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

DrawNight

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The theme was very loose, and wasn't really even expected tonight. Skottie finally said, "Draw your dream project." So this is...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

A sort of failed attempt

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Even though the actual watercolors didn't turn out, I'm planning on messing with it in photoshop to see if I can salvage the image. ...
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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Ahhh, details.

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Just a work in progress. This will be the first of many versions I'm sure, but just wanted to actually spend time on something for once...
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Sunday, July 22, 2007

CafeNeo

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Sundays are my favorite day. I go to a cafe, sit and draw from life or my imagination. Often times I'll try to paint something really qu...
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Sunday, July 01, 2007

Watercolor Knight

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Just messing around. He looks a tad meaner than I wanted, but I'm happy with how this little experiment turned out. I hope to continue t...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Full Metal Alchemist WIP

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I'm still not finished with the black and white rendering. It's been awhile since I've done anything like this and I'm tryin...
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Photoshop is our friend

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I cheated and did a bit of manipulation in photoshop. Mainly to the values.
Friday, May 25, 2007

YO JOE!

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This are some of my favorite pages from GI Joe: America's Elite #22-24. I can't believe I've drawn over 100 pages since I starte...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Positive Procrastination

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Rushed the watercolors.. didn't really have a gameplan tonight... but I think I'm going to have to change that... or not.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Drawing from Life

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I really didn't know what I was doing tonight, just messing around. I am not feeling the watercolors these days.
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Dry Brush Lifedrawing

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Just wanted to bust out the inks this week. I need to do more of this, it's been a while.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Art makings

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Just some stuff done in my spare time.
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Nudey drawings

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So I experimented with black and white acrylic on brown paper... didn't turn out so well. Looks a little mannish to me. Sebastian Kruger...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

Randmoness

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This is a sketch I did while at the San Diego airport. Nothing fancy. This is a drawing/watercolor done in an hour and a half. Just messing...
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Monday, January 15, 2007

The Process of Creation- Step 5

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And she's done. I ended up going with watercolor and guoache and then realized that the textures were a bit too harsh, so I softened the...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Cyborg

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This drawing was one of those stream of consciousness sort of things. I had no plan and just drew parts as they came and then tried to polis...
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Saturday, September 09, 2006

The Process of Creation- Step 4

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This is more or less a color sketch of what I want. It's a little too pastel due to the fact that at the time I did it I was using a mal...
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Sketchin'

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I was at starbucks, trying to get into a character's head ( the female). But as I always do, I take little breaks to read comics. I had ...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

The Process of Creation- Step 3

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I went over the pencils with ink wash. It upped the contrast, but maybe have lost a little bit of detail. I also might continue inkwashing t...

Sketches from my latest book

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Many of these sketches were done during this last week when I spent a week with my family (parents and little brother) at Lake Chelan in Was...
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I'm a concept artist and illustrator. Clients include Rockstar Games, Popcap, Electronic Arts, Hasbro, One Pixel Brush, Big Red Button Games, and Lolapps, Inc.,
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