Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Sneak Peek

Late last year I was invited to contribute a story for the second volume of "Rendezvous". It took me quite a while to figure out the story and layout, but there's no way I would have been able to do this without the help of my friends. I began rendering about a week ago so here is a sneak peek of the first page. 11 More to go!

20 comments:

Thomas Yamaoka said...

Dang clean! Looking good Mike.

Whitney Pollett said...

Daaang Mike.
You're amazing! You manipulate one of the messiest mediums with ease!!!

I bet your hands stay sparkly clean when you're done.

You're a wizard!!

Francis said...

looks sweeet

geraldraws said...

And you have 11 more to do ? wow, take some drugs man ;) Good luck Mike ! we support you !

Rich Hennemann said...

Looks great, Mike!!

Looking forward to seeing the final product!

David said...

Page one looks great! cant wait to hold the book in my hands. Be sure to post the rest.

Monica Grue said...

Woow super clean... ! Awesome.

wade minter said...

awesome! Very Nice! i can't wait, what type of paper are you using? if you don't mind me asking

Saigonradio said...

Think that's nasty? Man that's sick.

Mike Lee said...

Thanks everyone for the support!
I still have many sleepless nights ahead of me! :)

And wade, I use bristol paper to do these illustrations.

joe said...

hey mike, your work is killin' it as always. when was the last time you visited the ole cerritos studio?

Mike Lee said...

Hey thanks Joe! Man it's been quite a while since i've visited. I want to go back but i usually go back to cali during the holidays so the studios closed. Perhaps one of these days... :)

Alina Chau said...

Lovely!! can't wait to see the final work!

andre medina said...

you work is FREAKIN amazing!!

Mike Lee said...

Alina - Thanks for stoppin by! It's taking much longer than i thought, but i hope to finish asap! :)

Andre - Thanks so much! You have some pretty amazing stuff on your blog as well!

Ty Carter said...

Beautiful work!

Jordan Lamarre-Wan said...

Looks great man!

sarah soh said...

hi mike!
this is sarah soh. hopefully you remember me. did small interview soph. year and met you at '08 senior show.

anyways i LOOOOOVE your pencil drawings :D the renderings are suuuper awesome and so clean. i was just wondering.. how do you get the shadings to blend so well?? im so amazed by it :)

continue the good work!

Mike Lee said...

Hey Sarah - of course i remember. Thanks so much for the compliment. As far as process: I lay down and block in rough tones with graphite powder, but unfortunately it doesn't create perfect gradients. So i would say 60 percent of my time i'm sitting there trying to get everything to transition smoothly. It's a bit tedious and it definitely takes some time to do. I hope that's helpful. If not you can shoot me an email if you have more questions.

Carito said...

woooow! that's awesome!!! you may be such a patience person.

I'll keep passing by! your stuff is amazing. Congrats

Saludos!