Mike Bear: Sketchbook
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Sketches from a nomadic life.

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I haven't updated my sketchbook in a long time, so here goes. These sketches are from the past 8 months, from the time I moved from Chic...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Update!

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I started a new job at Rockstar New England and have not been able to update. So please enjoy a little warm-up sketch. It's a lil' r...
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Sunday, December 07, 2008

Castle WIP

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A little work in progress, inspired by landscape artist Albert Bierstadt. And also, since I've been back in Washington, I've noticed...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

Land Bat

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Another piece for the portfolio, using Photoshop and alias sketchbook pro to get this to it's final stage. Here is my initial descriptio...
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Friday, December 05, 2008

Zombie Love and more

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Land Bat (Gray Scale)

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I think it's pretty done in the gray scale painting. I'm going to try some color variations and see where it goes. Might possibly al...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Land of Giants WIP

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This is a fairly quick color sketch I was working on while on the phone. I started refining some parts already. I hope this is the first of ...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Sketchin'

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Been looking at some Sebastian Kruger. I love his work. This is just messing around with value and warm tones. I'm starting to just expe...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Monsters go "RAWR!"

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Here is my first attempt at a fully painted made up illustration, without line art. It took me longer than I normally would take, but it was...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Application!

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This is an illustration I'm working on. I designed a monster and a character to do battle in an erie jungle cave setting at night unde...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Experiments

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Part of the reason why I love figure painting is so that I can have an excuse to just mess around and experiment, no pressure to make it goo...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Figure Painting

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All gouache, water color underpainting. Definitely a challenging medium, but fun to use. I think we are becoming friends.
Friday, November 07, 2008

Land Bats (WIP)

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Cursed Land Bats. Millions of years of evolution have resulted in a land-based bat. It's wings have shrunk and transformed into giant...
Monday, November 03, 2008

Bigfoot, Ninja Robot, and some guy

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These are some very quick prelim sketches for what I hope to finish very soon. Well, at least the first two.
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Friday, October 31, 2008

Random Art Makings

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An in progress painting. Watercolor over pencil, soon to be layered in gouache.
Monday, October 27, 2008

The Color of Shadow

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I'm back in Washington for the time being, waiting on starting my next job. So I'm attending the open model sessions at the local co...
Friday, October 03, 2008

Lots of Nudey Drawings

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The paintings were done at Blur Studios' (www.blur.com) open model sessions and the charcoal studies were done at a workshop taught by C...
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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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