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Urban Sketching in Brooklyn 18 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
On Saturday the 17th, I took the Ikea ferry over to Red Hook with the NYC Urban Sketchers group. We got off at the Fairway supermarket and hung around that area for a while. Outside of Fairway are a ...
Fangbone's original name was... 17 Aug 2013 | 01:34 am
0 0 1 112 639 MIKE REX 5 1 750 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I hand kind of forgotten about this, but “Fangbone” was originally named “Bonesword.” When I pitched th...
More Fangbone! TV design sketches 7 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
0 0 1 144 824 MIKE REX 6 1 967 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The Fangbone! pilot is flying along. Early in the summer the all of the voices were recorded, the stor...
More drawings with Urban Sketchers NYC 30 Jul 2013 | 01:29 am
0 0 1 87 500 MIKE REX 4 1 586 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Early in July I spent two Saturdays with the New York City Urban Sketchers group. As mentioned in an ea...
Drawing on location 3 Jul 2013 | 07:45 pm
Over the last few months I have tried to get out and draw in different places. My schedule doesn't always allow it. In May, I went to the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame over at Teterboro Airport. ...
More digital work 2 Jul 2013 | 08:16 pm
On Saturday, I spent a few hours with some people from NYC Urban Sketch. This is a group that meets each week in a different spot in NYC. Their goal is to draw and document the urban landscape. I w...
Wasteland stuff... 1 Jul 2013 | 07:09 pm
Two sketches I did in the last few days. These were drawn with a Pilot pen bought at the local CVS, and colored with watercolors. The Moleskine sketchbook that I used didn't hold up very well to the...
My First "Icky Ricky" Fan 26 Jun 2013 | 06:24 am
I received this letter from a very happy mother a few days after a recent school visit. "Icky Ricky" was designed with new readers in mind. Many of the chapters are stand alone stories, and there is...
Reeling in a big one! 18 Jun 2013 | 08:13 pm
0 0 1 221 1260 MIKE REX 10 2 1479 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I don’t believe that ideas just drop from the sky into your lap. You have to work for them. You ha...
Monster House 31 May 2013 | 07:50 pm
Here's another new illustration from a few months ago. I really like the one. The color was all digital, with textured paper scans, and enlarged watercolor smears. This summer, I am going to be ver...
