tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112259402024-03-17T23:03:50.094-04:00Draw!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! Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.comBlogger1293125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-83202667859627344292021-10-23T18:50:00.003-04:002021-10-23T18:50:25.758-04:00Happy 80th Wonderwoman!<p> <span data-offset-key="5bdge-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">A bit late due to work but a Wind Down for Wonder Woman </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="5bdge-1-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Day</span></span><span data-offset-key="5bdge-2-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"> 21</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNqpqghG5wtUcsQkSFWb57nD-5WSbjM2O7atl_FVcOcXzWtrygtQd13DwrWBCkhRb_EzzOIONUopsrnNz8tZB0_UiKGLo5nYbxBZRGDo55iLucTHLCDDAiiIIgZ8eU6lNBBDyoXA/s1767/wonderwoman+day-21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1767" data-original-width="1346" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNqpqghG5wtUcsQkSFWb57nD-5WSbjM2O7atl_FVcOcXzWtrygtQd13DwrWBCkhRb_EzzOIONUopsrnNz8tZB0_UiKGLo5nYbxBZRGDo55iLucTHLCDDAiiIIgZ8eU6lNBBDyoXA/s320/wonderwoman+day-21.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-4536291190767253582021-09-22T01:42:00.000-04:002021-09-22T01:42:38.680-04:00Skull Kids designs on T-shirts!!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl6B9YeiTBZxYKvEEanEEwit8_YBIse5Zq5meDAyRp9bBH3BeLk1gG10ZxnvkZF1DBcZoOj-8vrO6oREn7LBYhp9yLt5eVlTb_w_Sd6oCVKzvrwpxQkGHlx2cCsJ8E1wnQFcTqw/s1248/store+header.jpg" imageanchor="1" referrerpolicy="origin" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="1248" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl6B9YeiTBZxYKvEEanEEwit8_YBIse5Zq5meDAyRp9bBH3BeLk1gG10ZxnvkZF1DBcZoOj-8vrO6oREn7LBYhp9yLt5eVlTb_w_Sd6oCVKzvrwpxQkGHlx2cCsJ8E1wnQFcTqw/s320/store+header.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Great news! I have opened a <a href="http://tee.pub/lic/Za0PC5BJsWs" target="_blank">TeepPublic </a>store featuring a whole bunch of my Skull Kids illustrations as designs for T-shirts, mugs and more! I have also gone over 8K in followers on my Instagram Account/ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/drawmanley/" target="_blank">Drawmanley!</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3jwBPoqJVakiNcWcfkTbD_iEWwAgItxfTUMQ95cD3duhK5ozFFJda2K9w_p1vXa25UZCXUstrFbs5uTIs3nY-dJL-qDPDDetIX907rKiuCkFyoVE-H_VYRauEcwKjD3qyYlytmg/s1336/thanks+8k.jpg" imageanchor="1" referrerpolicy="origin" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="1247" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3jwBPoqJVakiNcWcfkTbD_iEWwAgItxfTUMQ95cD3duhK5ozFFJda2K9w_p1vXa25UZCXUstrFbs5uTIs3nY-dJL-qDPDDetIX907rKiuCkFyoVE-H_VYRauEcwKjD3qyYlytmg/s320/thanks+8k.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-13428601785999342072021-08-19T16:49:00.000-04:002021-08-19T16:49:14.901-04:00Geppetto's Workshop A pen and Ink demo, start to finish by Mike Manley.<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/qwuM-E1q1Rk" width="480"></iframe><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYwJvCNNK1snCa29YXNy0FLNBgM4QGF9lQB4DZNMw6r6ObKCkpks5Xt42-NSbd6PVeOMt-6OVtthZkjYEUNao7cl5ZRgOtLsJlug57eme_02q_l8M-qJUUh1x6sTRimMqSl8ZL1Q/s649/Screen+Shot+2021-08-19+at+4.23.19+PM.png" imageanchor="1" referrerpolicy="origin" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="495" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYwJvCNNK1snCa29YXNy0FLNBgM4QGF9lQB4DZNMw6r6ObKCkpks5Xt42-NSbd6PVeOMt-6OVtthZkjYEUNao7cl5ZRgOtLsJlug57eme_02q_l8M-qJUUh1x6sTRimMqSl8ZL1Q/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-08-19+at+4.23.19+PM.png" width="244" /></a></div><br />Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-84831814586310629462020-07-21T20:30:00.000-04:002020-07-21T20:30:56.937-04:00Some Recent Phantom Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are some recent pencils and inks from the end of the last Phantom story and the beginning of the newest one. My buddy Bret Blevins chipped in on some inking help with the new story to try and gain a little time. That meant for those strips they are inked digitally in Clip Studio paint. I have been doing most of the strip this was since the pandemic and my assistant <a href="https://www.liangarts.com/">Liang</a> having to stay home. So I pencil traditional then send her the pages and she inks the backgrounds digital and sends them back and I ink the figures on another layer and combine them in Photoshop. Not ideal, but we don't live in ideal times and we have to adapt.<br />
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<br />Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-80002870747671904892020-07-19T18:33:00.001-04:002020-07-19T18:33:13.930-04:00Pen and Ink Skull Kids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the evenings after my long days of drawings the strips I like to relax just by drawing for myself. I call these Wind Down drawings. Usually done late into the night, often while listening to audiobooks. Back in the beginning of the year these skeleton kids just popped out of my head onto the paper one night. I don't know where they came form--maybe some subconscious reaction to the pandemic--I don't know. But they are an awful lot of fun to draw and I am working on a graphic novel featuring them I hope to bring into print. The freedom I have working for my self, my own imagination allows me to work in ways that I don't get to in my commercial jobs including doing a lot of old school pen and ink rendering which I love to do. I am a huge fan of the great pen and ink artists from the last century and of course Bernie Wrightson and Moebius. There is something relaxing and meditative about doing this type of drawing and technique.</div>
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<br />Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-89970844981510095542020-07-19T18:20:00.000-04:002020-07-19T18:20:26.996-04:00Pencil to Pencil live on Youtube!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have now added our YouTube channel for our podcast at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDkMGQL6xhBD-iS616XdPFg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDkMGQL6xhBD-iS616XdPFg</a> which should be resolving to just Pencil to Pencil soon. YouTube has to do some magic trick. But now you can watch and subscribe on YouTube or over on our facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PenciltoPencil">https://www.facebook.com/PenciltoPencil</a>. the podcast is broadcast as a simulcast on both platforms or listen over on our website <a href="http://penciltopencil.com/">http://penciltopencil.com/</a>--so you can't have an excuse to not find us and listen! We have had some great guests in the past few months and we have a great line-up of guest from comics, animation and illustration coming up in the next 8 weeks or so, which is about how far we have laid out the schedule.Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-563585740017113882020-05-04T11:13:00.003-04:002020-05-04T11:13:49.566-04:00William Wray Podcast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Listen to our interview with animation legend and Art director on the new Harley Quinn show William Wray! <a href="http://penciltopencil.com/episode/pencil-to-pencil-live-with-william-wray/">http://penciltopencil.com/episode/pencil-to-pencil-live-with-william-wray/</a> or watch it on our Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/547783545747706/videos/1391008271091867">https://www.facebook.com/547783545747706/videos/1391008271091867</a>Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-76087081250230004142020-02-14T00:00:00.000-05:002020-02-14T00:00:12.330-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-46680587441073133732019-07-29T15:50:00.001-04:002019-07-29T15:50:43.212-04:00New Podcast Episode with Mike HawthorneNew Podcast is up! <a href="http://penciltopencil.com/episode/mike-hawthorne/">Listen to it here!</a><br />
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Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-40184480428999376072019-04-22T13:49:00.000-04:002019-04-22T13:49:05.949-04:00Behind the Scenes on the PhantomA little behind the scenes on the Phantom over on the Chronicle Chamber<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2f5496; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Comic Industry Vets Mike Manley Bret Blevins and Jamar Nicholas Launch New Podcast PENCIL TO PENCIL</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">From the creator and contributors to Eisner-award nominated Draw! Magazine comes a new podcast:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Pencil-to-Pencil </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">(http://www.penciltopencil.com)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, featuring </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">bi-weekly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> conversation focusing comics, animation, illustration and all forms of narrative storytelling.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In each episode, comic-book industry veterans and hosts Mike Manley, Bret Blevins and Jamar Nicholas engage in candid in-depth conversations on art, techniques and experiences with fellow professionals from all over the fields of publishing and entertainment.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">This podcast is for anyone interested in the process of creating comics, working in animation, illustration, concept design or the entertainment industry. Drawing upon their long and varied careers and connections Mike, Bret and Jamar will discuss each guest’s work and how they navigated the path to success in their career, as well as their creative and working process.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Manley says, “Being a 30-year veteran in comics and also editor of a succesful how-to magazine on the craft has brought me to an easy decision to bring together friends Bret [Blevins] and Jamar [Nicholas] to introduce a information-hungry audience to pros engaging in ‘shop-talk’ with the listener as the fly-on-the-wall--with the use of the podcast as said wall.”</span></h1>
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Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-89723635927959168222019-03-14T08:57:00.002-04:002019-03-14T08:57:55.403-04:00Artistacon Demo: BUILDING EFFECTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS WITH EMOTIONAL STORYTELLING–MIKE MANLEY<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'll be doing a live demo and talk coming up at Artistacon at Moore College on the 23rd of this month. A great show with lots of top talent, a fantastic opportunity for pros, art students and lovers of illustration. </span><b style="color: red; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 0.9em; letter-spacing: 0.26px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Sunday, March 24, 2019 </b><b style="color: red; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 0.9em; letter-spacing: 0.26px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><time class="event-time-12hr-start" datetime="2019-03-24">2:00 PM</time> <span class="event-datetime-divider"></span> <time class="event-time-12hr-end" datetime="2019-03-24">3:00 PM</time></b><br />
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Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-37083263924584971692018-11-10T10:45:00.000-05:002018-11-10T10:45:04.587-05:00Interview on the Phantom Chamber<a href="https://www.chroniclechamber.com/podcast">A big fun interview</a> with the men of the Phantom Chamber with Tony and myself about the current storyline.<br />
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Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-88680138401372099882018-09-18T11:03:00.001-04:002018-09-18T11:03:29.659-04:00Knightfall InterviewI was interviewed on <a href="https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/i-will-break-you-an-oral-history-of-the-batman-knightfall-saga">SYFYWIRE</a> about my time on the Batman comic from the whole Knightfall event, check it out!<br />
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Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-86421678658535680322018-04-27T10:06:00.000-04:002018-04-27T10:06:07.541-04:00Best Story Award!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My second story arc on the Phantom by Tony DePaul and me <a href="https://www.chroniclechamber.com/single-post/2018/04/27/Best-Egmont-Stories-of-2017-Announced">won best story from the readers of Egmont in Sweden and Norway.</a><div>
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Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-19569392177135776682018-02-26T15:35:00.000-05:002018-02-26T15:36:27.970-05:00Interview on the Phantom Downunder on the Chronicle Chamber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You can listen to a podcast interview with me on my Phantom work and more over on the <a href="https://www.chroniclechamber.com/single-post/2018/02/26/X-Band-The-Phantom-Podcast---Episode-91-Daily-artist-Mike-Manley">Chronicle Chamber </a>Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-50117749349455263062017-12-28T00:12:00.001-05:002017-12-28T00:13:12.949-05:00Big Pharma CartoonsWhile moving work off and old drive I came across several of these "New Yorker Style" cartoons I did for a big Pharma company about 10 years ago. It was fun to try and do or play around with that style.<br />
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I finally broke down or rather saved up and bought myself a Cintiq 13' this past week. I have been wanting to get one since my assistant Mimi got done last summer and I played around with it some. I have even started doing Judge Parker all digital to see if that will work and flow well. I will stay with doing The Phantom traditional as there is also a demand for the originals unlike the Judge.<br />
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The biggest issue so far is adjusting my work set-up and the feel of the whole thing. 40 years of muscle memory and tactile feedback are compromised a bit so far--especially the feedback and feel. It all feels the same no matter the tool, all sooth, so memory has to sort of fill in there.<br />
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For me its all about flow and I have trained like a Jedi master in my traditional ways but the interface interrupts that so far. So its a bit of retaining here. I know what a 102 vs a 108 feels like and a dry brush vs a wet one or a whole host of tools and media--but the Cintiq feels the same for all. I also make many lines more that once as a result to get the one I want--something that never happens in the "Meat World" as I call it. I don't feel the mark the same way as I make it, and this is very different.<br />
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So, I'm giving myself some time to adjust and if I don't like it I'll just go back to paper for the strips. But I am more interested in trying to digitally paint as another way of working, maybe branching out to backgrounds and concept design, some of which I have already done in the past when working in animation. And for commercial art you simply have to know how to do it now. There is no escaping it and so I figure I give myself a minimum of 6 months to get the hang of it.<br />
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2017 is at an end and 2018 is rushing up fast, part of getting the new rig was to also move into the next step or phase of producing more of my own work. I will be releasing a book of my ink drawings in 2018 as well a making more paintings of these subjects, like the study of Astronaut and Mermaids above. The final might be produced as an oil painting. I also have plans to do a comic or maybe a graphic novel of the Detective character I came up with in the Inktober drawings that people really seem intrigued by. How will I do it all you might ask---I plan on giving up sleep in 2018. Happy, Happy Joy, Joy!Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-13252588492838233062017-12-17T13:30:00.001-05:002017-12-17T13:30:18.268-05:0090's Flashback-Quasar!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I came across a bunch of pencils from my run on Quasar back in the 90's, the first book I penciled for Marvel. Ironically I followed the late Paul Ryan on the book, who I would also follow on The Phantom after he passed away.<br />
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I experimented. a lot on this book. Mark Gruenwald wrote rich stories and I wish I had gotten to know him better as he was always very complimentary about my work. This issue was fun since I had the opportunity to draw The Eternals--another fun Kirby concept. When I started on the book I was doing a more "traditional" approach to penciling, having spent time in Al Williamson's studio and being a huge fan of his approach, as well as John Buscema, etc. But I think I saw the Cosmic Oddest by Mike Mignola and thought it was so good I wanted to try paring down the rendering and "push the forms more". Now I wince at a lot of the nearly 30 year old drawing--but hey I was trying something new.<br />
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When I was younger and just in the biz I started collecting original comic art when I could afford it. I was making OK money and art wasn't as crazy expensive as it seems to be going today. many great Silver Age artists work was very affordable. I bought Kirby pages for a hundred bucks, John Buscema Thor pages for $5. I was always trying to get better, learn my craft better and some pages I would buy just for that purpose. They often were cheap pages under a hundred bucks, but they were inked by Joe Sinnott or drawing by Buscema, Kane, good folds or techniques, etc. I bought this old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romita_Sr.">John Romita</a> DC Love story in the late 80's as an example. These are I believe what were called bromides, a paper stat or proof which unlike some stats were not slick or had a shiny surface. This made correcting and cutting up the art easier. This old job was re-purposed from a much earlier 60's job, before Romita left DC for Marvel. This was now the 70's so all the hair was inked over to fit with those swinging times by somebody in production and its pretty bad and ham-fisted. But the faces and a lot of the art is still un-corrected and I leaned a lot about drawing a pretty girls face from this job as Romita was one of the very best at that.<br />
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I pulled this out again and have it next to my desk as a reminder of how to do it right and it comes in handy for Judge Parker and even the Phantom. John Romita always drew the right angles with great clarity and appeal and having done soap opera strips for seven years now I can greatly appreciate the skill it takes to do this even more. Simple is hard, clarity is hard and the emotions he shows are always clear.<br />
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Its easier to draw superheroes with exaggeration but here you really can't do that or people look ugly. I'm sure he was influenced by the great illustrators like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Parker_(artist)">Al Parker</a> and <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/camdesigns/genius-jon-whitcomb/?lp=true">Jon Whitcomb</a>, enjoy!<br />
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Trying to get back on the blogging horse and blog more often than in the past year. The daily drumbeat here in the studio has changed with the addition of the Phantom comic strip and the fact have basically given up painting for the most part as a result. I have also been rethinking where I want to go and what I want to do as a painter and gallery wise as well.</div>
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I haven't even been plain air painting this spring at all and decided to forgo entering any contests at all. I could do a whole post just on the PA contests and my feelings on them---and maybe I will--or not.</div>
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I just put together a new watercolor/gouache painting rig so I hope to get back to painting this summer just for me. I also think I needed to completely detox from the MFA which I graduated from in 14---three years ago! Funny how time flies when all you do is work. </div>
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I ran through the annual ASE for PAFA last Sunday after the AS Student show. How the school is fast changing and I think more into what all other art schools are like. I still think the first ASE I saw in 2007 was the best I had seen with the strongest contingent of drawing and painting--the core of the Academy, not what I mostly saw last week, and many changes are coming down the pike at PAFA. I am glad I got to go through the end of the old era, had a few of the older teachers before they retired, but life and the business of art school moves on!</div>
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While moving and sorting (the endless purge) I came cross the drawing at the top which I did back in high school. The old zip-a-tone is starting to yellow now, but that was done in 79-80 so much of the work I did then that has zip is also yellowing. The logo "contact" was hand lettered and then pasted on. Its of course a big Wally Wood pastiche/homage as I was and still am a huge fan of his work and earlier on he was an even bigger influence on my work. </div>
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In the same portfolio I also found this cover rough to Darkhawk No. 9. I also found an assortment of other old art some of which I might post. Funny how you forget drawing something and when you find it it might bring back a specific memory of time.</div>
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I'm also posting an assortment of progress work for the two strips. In the strip above my assistant Mimi tightend up the Mozz and Guran figures for me and then I inked them.</div>
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Here is this week's Sunday strip. We are finally coming to the end of the storying with Sophie, the band, the kidnapping and the family secret. Its really took a big turn from my original idea I gave to Wilson before he left the strip. Next we will be dealing with the April situation, then who know, at that point it will be a completely new direction as all the old Wilson plots will be wrapped up. I had planned to do a contest to give away some strips but decided against doing that after the deluge of nasty comments by the CK message board. So instead some art will eventually be for sale on Ebay. I still want the comments gone and hope to convince King along with many of my fellow professionals to get them to ax them this year. Yeah, thats for you trolls reading this.</div>
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Here are my pencils for an upcoming week of the judge and below for The Phantom. I enjoy doing the landscapes on both strips and in general the Phantom is more exciting to draw since its a superhero gig. which lends itself to much more interesting compositions than I typically get on the Judge. I try to in general pencil the work just tight enough to ink, leaving some of the drawing to that part of the process. I feel after a year on the Phantom I am starting to get a feel for the characters like I do on the Judge and I think I like drawing Guran the most. He's the comical type so his acting can be a bit broader and the hat is a great iconic thing to use as well.<br />
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This video shows me inking on a Judge Parker strip. I have been doing live demos on my Facebook page so keep an eye out.Mike Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00345070847409367151noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11225940.post-21352568816861751742017-05-20T01:25:00.000-04:002017-05-20T01:28:42.605-04:00Odd and Ends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Darkhawk figure is in the house! I still haven't seen the Guardians 2 yet, but I hear this figure is hot right now. Still no word from Marvel about and so I had to buy my own copy.<br />
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Its been a bit since I updated here and I have been super busy with the strips and the end of the school year. But let's face it, when am I not busy? The two strips have me at max capacity so I have hired an assistant Mimi and pulled in the help of my buddy Scott Cohn to help on backgrounds to gain some time.<br />
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Mimi sorting the piles of comics and then there are all the paintings<br />
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Mimi starts the full time crunch this summer and has already been working for me a few months, mainly putting my art in order, but she has pitched in a bit on the strips too time/school allowing.<br />
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Then Mimi challenged me to try my hand at drawing a manga style drawing, so I did. Not sure how manga-ish it is but it was fun to just wing it.<br />
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I also had my final class of the year for the After School Program at PAFA, it was a fun yer full of great kids. Budding artists all! The student show is hung this weekend.<br />
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One of the cool things I came across on a recent Ebay hunt was a year (1957) of Judge Parker strips by the original artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Heilman">Dan Heilman</a> to did the strip into the mid 60's when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_LeDoux">Harold LeDoux </a>took over full time. I heard that he was helping Heilman along from the 50's doing backgrounds etc. Hellman had a journeyman_Caniff based style which was very common up until the 60's when that style faded away more and more with few exceptions like Frank Robbins. Its interesting to see what the strip was like before Sam Driver entered the scene and to see Randy, the son of the original Judge as a kid, along with his sister who was evidently written out of the strip decades ago. Randy is now the judge as the original Judge Parker retired about 10 years ago during Eduardo Baretto's run. the strip was much more serious and the storyline I have is about bullying and juvenile delinquents which was very much a topic back in those days like the 1955 movie Blackboard Jungle. The Strip has steered far away from any topical or social cometary based storylines that I can see for decades and is much more a typical soap these days.<br />
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I have also been warming up some mornings by doing a few Phantom Sketches which I will ink up and sell via Ebay, so stay tuned for the links. I have a few more and might do up to a dozen and then post them all.<br />
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Then on a quick break I went to the great Howard Pyle show hosted by <a href="http://drexel.edu/pennoni/news-events/pyle-exhibition/">Drexel University</a> where Pyle taught illustration classes for two years before he opened his own school in Wilmington DE, where he taught the likes of NC Wyeth. </div>
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its a must see show if you can make it</div>
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<strong><strong>April 3-June 18</strong><br />
Paul Peck Alumni Center<br />
3142 Market Street<br />
Open Monday-Friday, 9-4 p.m.<br />
Free and open to the public</strong></div>
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A great show featuring Pyle, NC Wyeth, Rockwell, Lyendecker, Parrish and more.</div>
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