Hello I'm Mike Manley, welcome to my studio Blog. I am veteran comic and animation artist and I created and edit Draw! Magazine. This blog is a chronicle of what's happening in my studio. Follow my process and path as an painter, cartoonist and teacher and find out how they inform and enrich each other!
Thursday, August 16, 2007
ZOMBIE
Here is the first big pass at the new painting, the biggest so far at 16 x 20. I'm doing my take on a Zombie. below you can see some of the head detail. It's in oil of course. I need to shoot some reference of me holding a broom to get the hands and arms right. This has been quite a week here with the sudden and tragic passing of my friend Mike Wieringo. I'll have a longer post just about that later.
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Mike,
Did you use Jim Steranko (sans large sunglasses) as the ref for the head?
I'm hoping to go to Baltimore Con - will definitely look you up while there if it works out. Do you know Ted Slampyak? Artist on Annie syndicated strip - recently moved from Philadelphia to NM. He has a nice blog called Shop Talk - maybe a good interview fro Draw mag?.
Did you know Mike W.? I never had the pleasure to meet him - heard good things, though. He was the same age as I am - reminds us all to make the most of our time here.
Thanks for sharing (and inspiring us with) your work process for the paintings! Hope you have a great show at your school!
Take care,
Jonathan Gilpin
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