Dead spooky dude.
I've been working on this guy for about a week on and off, I'm calling him done for now and want to take a step away and maybe make changes later.
Who knows!
New works and some links to cool people
I've been meaning to do this for some time, I finally have gotten around to going through all the business cards I got in December at the Massive Black LA workshop! Here are the links to these beautiful peoples' sites:
Toma Feizo Gas and the folk at Vulcan Design Forge
My workshop roommates:
Jarrad Lajeunesse -no site available yet! :(
People in Austin, these are just some of the artists I hangout with in Austin:
Ron Stevens 1 and 2
Here is some art for my brother's band DidyouseethoseBats? !
New works and studies
Vampyres is still in it's fundraising mode, I just wrapped up some small client jobs, and studies have been going on for a while too. At day 50 of the Daily Study Group I decided it was time to make more work while still being able to work on the studies. So I have an underwater piece I'll be chipping away at every day for an hour or so. I'll post that image when it gets to a more finished state.
Here is a shirt design:
Here is a little portrait for Patchistory:
And here are studies:
Vampires, vampires, vampires.
It has been a busy week and I have been jumping from website stuff, to video and audio editing, to good old drawing. I had a later start for two of the studies this week. I'll be posting up the videos that haven't gone up yet today and tonight I'll be Livestreaming a Q&A session about Vampyres and working on a new image.
My illustration was lack luster, but the site will be ready and I'll be making up for the lack of sketching and painting next week with some client work and new fan art.
Lastly here is a finalized vampire concept that we'll be using in the feature film:
Here are some images that will be live on the Vampyres website later tonight:
Here are the studies from the week:
Updates and new works! LIVESTREAM Q&A next week!
Tomorrow morning we shoot our pitch video for Vampyres and begin editing for the crowd funding campaign. I have been creating new images to use for the perks that we will be offering. These will include posters, shirts, and other goodies.
Our crowd-funding campaign will start on February 9th. I'll be Livestreaming a Q&A on February the 7th at 7:30pm Central Standard Time. I will be answering any and all questions people have about the project, filling in everyone about my process, the organization of the campaign, and whatever else may come up that is of interest.
The one thing we will not divulge is the plot of the film itself as that is something we'd want to present in the actual film medium.
Okay time for some art! Here is a poster for Vampyres Film:
The Daily Study Group is going strong, I have a new schedule posted for next week and will be on tomorrow morning drawing some still life things.
Here are studies from this week:
Studies Studies….
Well into Day 22 of the Daily Study Group and I had an epic fail live when I accidentally erased my history when trying to copy and save an older version of the study so far. Luckily it was only a study and not a real piece I was working on. I caught myself back up triple time after the I lost the history and then saved out a version of the new and old updates.
Join the Group Every weekday at 9am CST and Midday/Evenings on the Weekends.
You can watch the study fail here:
Watch live streaming video from mciii at livestream.com
Here are the rest of the studies:
More studies and a new image!
Here are a bunch of studies from the Daily Study Group! I'm now studying everyday at 9am CST on my Livestream Channel. I'll be going through composition break downs every morning as well as still life and photo studies.
Also here is a new image to promote the Vampyres Film Project and a link to some viral videos Josephine is making.
If you want to check out Josephine's website and IMDb page, click here!
Okay here are the studies!
I also made this image thats on the front page of this site as a Vampyres Promo image:
And finally I made this Lichy Wizard, he's been on the front page but I wanted to give him some blog time:
Hey! Check out this stuff:
My Facebook, add me and chat/ join the study group!
-MCIII
Studies, Walter, and Video Links
I've been trying to update this blog once a week, but my alert that I had previously saved did not work for some reason, I'll be making a new one now. Here's what's been going on since that Daily Study Group started:
Along with the studies I started up "Collin and Friends" a series of original characters that I'll be illustrating on a weekly basis.
Daily Study Group
I started up a regiment of daily studies that I'll be streaming for at least an hour everyday in an effort to keep my skills up and keep progressing as I try to get regular freelance work and start working for better clients. The idea for the study group came from the Crimson Daggers Study Group and after a talk with CJ Marsh on a Google Hangout Session.
One of the original formats to the Crimson Daggers groups appears to have been daily live stream study sessions where people worked on various lessons and focuses while broadcasting their practice live and talking about their thought process while pushing each other to keep focused and progress.
So CJ and I have started the Daily Study Group through the Crimson Dagger's forum in an effort to recreate that focus on doing studies and exercises in a group and sharing ideas and lessons learned.
Here is the Crimson Daggers thread for the group, and for those that don't want to click the link can read the information below:
Daily Study Group
The Structure: Everyday an hour study
When: It's up to you, but CJ, myself and a few others will be livestreaming our sessions daily and talking though them so that you can watch them later and follow along.
Where: This thread and the links provided below.
Miguel's LiveStream: http://www.livestream.com/mciii
CJ's Livestream: http://www.livestream.com/cjmrshpaintordie?t=144638
Daily Lesson Plans: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Al8d...sp=sharing
Miguel's Photo Study board on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/coronadoiii/photo-study-board/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So the plan is, we do the daily lesson and anyone that follows along is strongly encouraged to make their own live stream video and share both the daily study and the process video, also be sure to talk through the video and discuss your thought process.
Here is my study from the first day (January 3rd, 2014):
You can follow along with the first study by watching the youtube video below and working along side me (virtually).
Please join our study sessions and contribute your own videos to the cause, or feel free to just follow along with our sessions as we'll be posting links to our images and sources for every study we do.
Now for some new work to show:
Massive Black Workshop LA
I travelled, I learned, and I am refocusing my work after attending the Massive Black Workshop in LA this past weekend. It was my first workshop, my first time meeting a lot of these illustrators in person, and I was able to put my work in front of other professionals and get their feedback on what I need to work on and where to focus.
Along with the new input from my peers, I have also returned with the desire to pursue illustration over concept art and really buckle down on a career in freelance illustration for the time being.
I made two videos about my time in LA and go over what it was like and what I have learned. You can find these videos here:
Lastly, I made this video about my online resources and wanted to share that too:
Kid Chameleon designs
Kid Chameleon is a game for the Sega Genesis that I used to play all the time, it was notoriously hard (as most 80's-90's platformers were) and it had over 100 levels. The premise of the game is that there is a new virtual reality game that has opened up and kids that were playing the game were vanishing and you (Kid Chameleon) had to play the game to free all the lost kids/teens.
The game is WildSide and the Boss is "Heady Metal".
Here are some of my paintings. 
I'll keep making some more concepts and pick a few key compositions to expand upon and create a few fan art pieces.
Promo shot and some new images completed!
Okay! Our promotional teaser/trailer was shot last Friday and I've since met with the editor and gone over the footage. Everything looks great and the shoot went well. For more information on the Vampyres Project, follow this link!
Here is a process image for your eyes to look over and another set of vampire make-up concepts. The top image is fairly large in order to be able to see some of the actual process detail.
Vampyres Project update
This Friday (November 8th) we will be shooting out proof of concept for our vampire short film! I created a series of new ads for our Facebook campaign and I'll be working on some more Storyboards today and tomorrow.
Tonight is a fitting for our vampire actor's teeth and prosthetic.
Long time no post!
Here is a Halloween update! I'll post another update with a collection of the Drawlloween's I've done for the month, but for today, here is a poster for Vulture Cult! 
And here are some speed paints from the Facebook Spitpaint group:
Drawloween update, and a new Cyber Dead
Drawloween has been going strong this week. I'm still working on a Spiderman Vs Venom piece as a finished polished illustration.
Here are the last three Drawloween images including today's.
I also got another Cyber Dead dude painted out.
The Cyber Dead, Drawloween, Spiderman
Several images from the weekend and today.
I've been doing one speed zombie a day for practice, but I'll be switching over to some full character stuff soon.
Also, with the month of October beginning I'll be drawing a monster a day as part of the Drawloween Challenge.
And finally, here is the first in a series of Marvel characters I'll be illustrating for fun.
Studies, sketches, and Vampyres updates.
So at the beginning of the week we decided to pay for some Facebook advertising to boost our page's exposure. The ads have paid off with our "likes" jumping from 130 to 391 in about two days. The ads take images from our page and run them on the sidebar of people's profiles. We targeted the entire United States and specifically anyone who had "liked" vampires, Dracula, TrueBlood, Interview with a Vampire, Lost Boys, and other known vampire franchises. Here are images we've released on our page:
Besides Vampyres, I have been back to my morning studies and sketches. I'm also planning on going to the Massive Black workshop in December.
Update on Vampires, and sketches
We launched the official Facebook page for the vampire project. After taking it live, we jumped from 30 "likes" to 130 just before bed. In honor of our first 100 "likes" we released a poster concept early. Along with that concept we also released a progress picture of the vampire prosthetic for our proof of concept.
The last image we've released is a wardrobe and make-up test Josephine and I did last week to begin building the visual look of Violet, our story's protagonist.
We'll have more images to release on Friday, our Facebook Page is the best place to catch the images early. Spread the word about our project and the more people we can draw the more media we can release at faster pace.
Thanks for following my work and the work of Josephine and myself, below are some sketches to sketch out.
Vampires Project
Hello world! I've just added my blog back the the site and wanted to update people on what is happening here in Austin, TX. Josephine (my girlfriend) and I have started development on a vampire short film project. We are releasing images once a week until we finish up work for a proof of concept video.
The first image was released last week on Facebook and my other web profile pages.
Along with this first image I'm releasing an animated .gif image today and will be continuing to release more images and development news on a weekly basis.
Here is the .gif along with the frames used to make it!
Thanks for following the project, more to come later!
-MCIII