CASA

Taken by Barbara two weeks ago.

ILLUSTRATOR

I've been seeking a new way to interpret the INFERNO by Dante and this is another sampling of a woodcut style using the Illustrator program and the Cintiq monitor. This took about a half hour to do.

ROUGH STUFF ART MAGAZINE ISSUE 8

Just a reminder that artist/editor Bob Mcleod's eighth issue of ROUGH STUFF is on sale this Wednesday, April 16.
There's an article about my comics and film related art process inside.

From the ROUGH STUFF website:

"ROUGH STUFF presents more amazing looks into the creative process of comic art with interviews, articles, never-before-seen penciled pages, sketches, layouts, roughs, and unused inked pages from throughout comics history—plus critiques of newcomers’ work, and more! This issue features an in-depth interview and cover painting by the extraordinary MIKE MAYHEW! Also in #8, we present preliminary and unpublished art by ALEX HORLEY, TONY DeZUNIGA, NICK CARDY, and RAFAEL KAYANAN, as each artist offers commentary explaining how their work evolves into its finished form. Plus: Dominique Leonard spotlights the great Belgian comic book artists, MIKE MURDOCK goes under the knife for a ROUGH CRITIQUE of his work, and more! Edited by pro artist BOB McLEOD."

PENCIL ROUGHS

DANTE CLASSICS COVER

Back in 1989 First Comics wanted to do an adaptation of Dante's Inferno for their Classic's Illustrated line of comics.
I did this Joseph Cornell inspired composition for the cover. Based on the proportions of this image, the art director could not fit the Classics logo into the company's uniform cover design and asked me to use bleach and adjust the painted image to fit the cropping they desired. I refused to do so and as luck would have it, First Comics went under soon after.
I never got to finish the adaptation and I'm quite sure it was a blessing in disguise. I've gotten to know more about the source material, and today's computer technology can easily adjust any image to the desired size without harming the original art.



UPDATE: Here is the cover today with some slight modifications done with the computer.

PHOTOSHOP DANTE

Photoshop collage.

Dante Study One

I started this blog so that I can funnel all the Dante related studies and notes of a graphic adaptation of Dante's Inferno with written text adapted by Lovern Kindzierski into a single site.

Above is a color study created in Photoshop. It is slightly different in approach to this facial study below which I found less energetic: