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1909 [Oct. 11th, 2010|11:56 pm]
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I've finally posted my college thesis online in its entirety! If you want to read the prologue to a grand steampunk adventure that never was, dating back to the misty, murky days of 2006, then click on the pretty pout below to proceed to a world of magical, mechanical alchemy. It's 1909!

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"This Journal Belongs to..." [Jun. 1st, 2010|06:59 pm]
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This is my first professionally printed sketchbook, and I'll be debuting it at HeroesCon this weekend. Thereafter it should be available for purchase online and at any other conventions I attend. More details on that to follow, but for now I hope to see some of you in Charlotte! You can find me at AA-612!

Thanks to Eric Canete for all of the conceptual guidance and Val Nunez for the amazing design job.


"This Journal Belongs to..." - An art journal by Ming Doyle
5.5 x 8.5 inches - Full color pearlescent cover,
B&W interior with book mark. 45 pages.
$15.00 USD (plus S&H for online purchases)

Now, for some other items of convention interest!

• I'm bringing a selection of sketchcards to both Heroes and San Diego. Each piece is standard trading card size illustration quality Bristol board, $20.

Assorted sketchcardsCollapse )

• I'll also be debuting a new full-color print at HeroesCon! "Fatales," featuring Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn.


FatalesCollapse )

• And finally, I've done a piece for the HeroesCon art auction. Calling all Black Canary fans!


Black CanaryCollapse )
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Sketch dump. [Feb. 17th, 2010|02:23 pm]
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Guys, I've finally, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, only just now, DISCOVERED THE DRY MEDIA BRUSHES IN PHOTOSHOP. I'd just been drawing with the default pencil tool, this is freaking mind-blowing! The dry media brushes are so much faster and more natural to use. I wish I'd known about this two months ago when I had to draw close to 200 pages of comics thumbnails. ;__;

I also hear that there are such things as custom brush sets! Where people make even more brushes that make your time in Photoshop quicker and more pleasant. AUGH. I usually just jump into things and try to figure them out without doing much research beforehand, and in this case it's cost me over a decade of valuable art knowledge.

Well, here are two sketches to make up for lost time. Digital art ahoy!



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Being a mermaid ain't pretty. [Aug. 29th, 2009|02:57 am]
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Well, it's almost 3 AM so I feel like this would be a good time to post an impromptu illustration of a psychedelic demon raver mermaid. Under the sea is where to be for all the ancient, volcanically hot parties, I am sure!



Being a mermaid ain't pretty.Collapse )

Completely unrelatedly, check out these cute and funny moving vidjah pictures if you get a chance! You will not regret it, especially if you like cats and/or the Internet.

Dressing Up The Cats (They're Gonna Get Married), by Ryan Murphy.

YouTubed, by Neil Cicierega.
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Beautiful Portraits & Vulgar Renditions [Aug. 27th, 2009|02:16 pm]
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[Current Music |The Builders and the Butchers - Red Hands]

This year was my first time attending Flim Fest, a local film festival organized by Neil's pal and fellow director Kevin James. It was a bonafide blast. Established Flim Caricaturist Julie Becker let me share an art-strewn table with her, and together we cranked out some quick, cheap, fun portraits.

Here are a couple selections for your perusal. You can find the rest over at my Facebook album!


Photographer Kevin Forti


Artist Emmy Cicierega


Edit: On-the-spot drawing is tough and I'm not the best at capturing precise likenesses, but I had a lot of fun with this. I'm considering doing cheap portraits at conventions on better paper if I ever get my own table, maybe in the $3-5 range. It's an awesome way to get to know a stranger in 10 minutes or less!
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artlapse [Jun. 30th, 2009|03:38 pm]
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[Current Music |the kleptones - a night at the hip hopera]

with all these work updates (which are almost done, i promise!), it's sometimes hard for even me to remember that time to time i do just draw purely for the joy and fun of it.

luckily through the wonder of modern technology, i can now remind myself of that fact through digital documentation!

here's a look behind the scenes of this sketch;




check out these excerpted stills from ARTLAPSE (pretty image heavy!) for a stationary look at my work process.Collapse )

if you want to see me superspeed my way through drawing this piece, then here's the movie version! cinematography courtesy of trapezzoid, music courtesy of santa inferno via archive.org.

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vlad the impaler [Jun. 16th, 2009|10:02 pm]
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[Current Music |black forest/black sea - blackbird on gray sky]

in the last few weeks i've watched bram stoker's dracula, let the right one in, and the season premiere of true blood, as well as read the historian and the strain. vampires, vampires everywhere! i guess you could say i'm on kind of a kick.

so without further adieu, here's a little sketch of the biggest bad himself, vladdy boy.



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more info on all the busy-making professional stuff i've been working on next post!
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a gypsy heart and american antiques. [Apr. 23rd, 2009|12:05 pm]
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[Current Music |shiina ringo - poltergeist]

lo and behold, here is some of that long-promised, mythical "art" i am always speaking of. i don't know what's with me and all these original drawings lately, but i should really buckle down, get my head out of the clouds, get serious, and get back to drawing superhumans in skintight clothing.

until then, please enjoy this vaguely gypsy mystic with two unicorn spirits.



bigger gypsy heartCollapse )

last weekend neil and i celebrated patriots' day by delving head first into some high class americana at main street antiques in plymouth, MA. then there was some time traveling nonsense. you know how these things go. anyway, please feel free to youtube all about it!

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winged things. [Mar. 10th, 2009|05:57 pm]
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[Current Music |the unicorns - tuff luff]



more fairies like you would not believe.Collapse )
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stuck in ruts and traveling on trains. [Mar. 5th, 2009|10:03 pm]
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[Current Music |the kinks - phenomenal cat]

i've been battling a case of the winter creative mopes like nobody's business for the last couple of months, but i ain't giving up hope. spring springs eventually, right?



so in that spirit, here's a quick sketch and moving picture dump!Collapse )

i mainlined project rooftop canada yesterday. i'm not too crazy about this year's lineup so far, but honestly i'd be happy to watch just for iman's face.

la de da!
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