Mike King

Mistborn fan art: Vin and Inquisitor

Fan art for Mistborn.

Glee fan art: Emma

Emma from Glee, my current favorite show on TV.
Done freehand, but with reference and measuring lines added in Photoshop to help achieve the right proportions.

This was an exercise in how to capture a likeness. I think I must have scrapped about 6 prior attempts. Once I got the likeness close, the painting went pretty quickly.

The colors are still a little wacky. But I think it’s time to move on to the next piece.

Photoshop CS4. 12 hours.

Firefly fan art: Kaylee

Some fan art of Kaylee from Serenity. Photoshop CS4.
I lost count of the hours trying to get the likeness right. Maybe 8? Finally had to give up. It’s just not quite there. I wish I were a better artist so I could see how to fix it more easily.

Finished it off with a quick hack coloring job of only an hour or so.

I was a bit rusty after not painting for at least a month it feels like. It was hard to get back into the groove.

Doctor Who fan art

A relatively quick Photoshop painting of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. I’m just starting Season 3 on DVD.

Kim Possible fan art: black dress

kim possible fan art

Another photoshop painting of Kim Possible. There are some issues with the proportions of her arms, but overall I think it came out ok. This one took about 6 hours over the course of a week. This exercise was inspired by recently reading Joe Chiodo’s book: “How to Draw and Paint Pin-ups”.

Kim Possible fan art

kim possible fan art

Here’s a painting I did in Photoshop of Kim Possible. Done in a few hours over the past week, mostly on Sunday. Trying an experiment with lost and found edges. I don’t think the shadowing on the lower legs is successful with the mostly white background. My lighting reference that gave me the idea to put the lower legs in shadow was a darker lighting situation.

 As usual, the more I look at it, the more I can find wrong with it. The biggest thing that bothers me at the moment is the lighting direction isn’t consistent.

My time is limited though, so I’m calling it good enough for now. More lessons learned for whatever my next painting is.

(posting a revised version)

revised kim possible by ~mking2008 on deviantART

mistborn fan art again

Another piece of Mistborn fan art. Vin again.

Finished this a while ago but forgot to post it here. I re-used an earlier piece for the background. In retrospect, her head ended up a little to big for her body. I guess that’s what practice like this is for–to get enough experience to avoid those sorts of problems in the future without having to think about it.

Mistborn fan art

I just finished reading the last book in the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson and got inspired to do a quick painting of Vin, one of the main characters. I can see so many things I’d like to fix with this painting, but I’ve got to get back to writing Lirielle. Still, I guess it’s not too bad for just a few hours of work.

Into the Black update

Click here to read about how Nathan Fillion happened to meet the guys making Into the Black, a Firefly fan-film. Nathan sounds like a very cool guy.

Into the black

Some Canadian fans of Firefly are making their own show. Original characters in the same universe as Serenity. Check out their website and follow their progress here.