A.P.E Aftermath

So its done! Thank you all so much for making this a really amazing experience! This was my first time putting myself out there like that and I really didn't know what to expect. Thank you to those who made purchases, I really really appreciate it. If you were looking for a print that I ran out of I'm working on getting an online store of some kind set up, until then you can always email me and we can work something out.

So whats next? I'm not sure yet but I definitely need to take a break from divers and draw some faces!

Again thanks to all who dropped by for your kind words and support, more to come!

-Mike M

Thats it! The whole shebang

Hey guys,

It's all done! This time next week (thats the 17th and 18th) the Alternative Press Expo will be happening, hundreds from the independent and small press community will be exhibiting their wares and yours truly is amongst them.

Its been a long road but I'm glad to say its been worth it. Here is the final spread of the items I will be selling at APE.

The book's cover is vellum and watercolor paper.

The printing of the interiors came out really nice, couldn't ask for better.

Art prints are printed on 8.5 by 11 Fabiano water color paper, I gotta say these really came out nice! They look just like the originals.

Hand printed T shirt available in small, medium, large and extra large.

Hope you guys liked it!

Me, my friends Tim Wilkins and Jose Moreno will be at table 237A (thats on the left side of the convention hall)

So please if your in San Francisco October 17th and 18th drop by and support your local artists.

Alternative Press Expo (APE)

Concourse Exhibition Center (620 7th st)

Oct 17-18

For more info on APE head over to http://comic-con.org/

Last piece for real!

I lied last time. NEW last piece!

While I was putting together the book I realized that I didn't have enough pieces to format the pages the way I wanted.

I have to admit I'm a very lazy person and I was ready to settle and just deal with the book not being quite how I wanted it. But I kicked my butt into gear and I'm happy for it, I think this is one of my favorites.

Last one

Thats it! Last piece is done. I have learned so much making these pictures, its pretty hard looking back at the first few.

These pieces have been really important to me just on a personal level. I had been feeling extremely frustrated and depressed with myself during the year and a half after college but I think now I have a much better idea of who I am as an artist.

So now I have to produce the book, get everything printed and just hope I get a decent turn out at APE, will keep you guys posted on how things are coming together.

Flem

Hey all,

Penultimate piece! I think the last one will nicely wrap up this strange little adventure.

I really enjoy using close cropped figures to make compositions, someone once urged me to do 50 of them, might have to follow up on that.

Pulled

New Piece!

This image is going to be the first piece in the book, I really wanted something striking and a little unconventional.

Here you can see some process, I was lucky with this one in that I felt like I really had a very solid idea of how this looked in my head, from the beginning I have the composition set but the divers gesture was a lot harder to get down.

The idea was to get a sense of vertigo and claustrophobia. The sky is pushing down, the diver is crammed up into the corner suspended over a void, skewed horizon to further add to the vertigo.