Mike King

New drawings

Updated the gallery with a couple of new images. A painting of Adam Warlock for a friend and an attempt at Kim Possible that doesn’t really look like her, but I got some good practice at figuring out how to do inking in Photoshop.

Donal takes an oath

Latest painting.

landscape painting

At long last, finished my painting of York Castle and surroundings for the Amber campaign.

vivienne

Another painting of my character from our role playing game.

painting again

Illustrating another scene from the latest RPG adventure. Interested parties can read the notes here.

some new paintings

Ogre battle

A quick sketch of a scene from our latest RPG adventure. I’m pretty happy with the perspective and composition. The ogre looks like he’s facing the wrong way unfortunately. The figure drawing is still pretty weak. But with any luck I’ll improve a bit if I keep up and make one of these sketches a week.

Gwynedd and Martin

Another couple of paintings I did of characters from our latest role-playing campaign.

We’re using the Amber diceless RPG system. One neat thing about it is that the players contribute something in between games. It could be drawings or stories or a diary entry from the character’s perspective. It really adds a neat dimension to the game.

We’re using the rules, but our GM has come up with a medieval fantasy setting for us instead of playing in the Amber universe. We’ve only played a couple times, but I have to say it’s very cool.

I also set up a wiki for our game notes and player contributions here.

quick paint

Spent a few hours painting a character from a role playing game I’m in.

Teaser poster

I recently finished a teaser poster for my brother Gary’s next short film. The working title is Hubris. I’m such a hack artist, but it turned out okay. The style is based on artist Marcos Chin’s work for the Lavalife ads. Ok, it’s more like totally ripped off as far as color schemes and stuff. But I’m not a good enough artist to actually duplicate his style. The people turned out looking like my usual sort of comic book stuff. I would have loved to polish it a little more, but it’s not bad for a couple evenings worth of work.

I see all sorts of things that I’d like to do better. But that’s typical for me.