Megacon 2012

Last year I decided that I would take the leap and FINALLY sit in Artist Alley at Megacon. Little did I know that it would be such a great experience. Imagine if you will, being stuck in a washing machine... set to AWESOME! That's how it was. Just enough chaos, especially a VERY busy Saturday, filled with great people coming by to visit my table. If you're here at this site because of one of my business cards, THANK YOU. You made this weekend for me along with the countless family, friends, and co-workers that came out to support me. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that my work would be so well received. This marks the beginning of what I hope will be more great things to come.

Thank You,

Mike Victa

Road to MegaCon

As a warm up for my first Con, I asked some friends to toss out some topics for me. Idea here was to finish these up quickly. Each of these took 15-45 minutes to complete. Thanks to all that played along.

Legendary

This week has been filled with inspiration. One quote from author G.K. Chesterton really hit home. “Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

Quick Sketch

Just something simple I did today.

Dark Times Potter

My weekend of writing was hijacked by a Harry Potter Marathon on cable. So, here's what was floating around in my head.

Progress

Character Study

Quick designs for a project I've been working on. Still a work in progress.

Randon Sketching

SUPER fast sketches I did tonight.

 

Kira and Fizzgig

Tried most of last night trying to get this right. Used up several full pages in my sketchbook before I gave up and just did this on the Cintiq. The nap after a day at the office probably helped too.

Night of Doodling

Sat down with some movies and doodled tonight.  Here are two the resulting doodles.

 

Prowl Jr.

Crashed hard this afternoon with a migraine which means of course that I'm wide awake now. Finished some work on the book earlier today and decided to do a quick one of this since a friend requested it. Now I think I'll try to sleep!

Mini Megs

Something just for fun.

Mystery Sketch Theater - Harry Potter Night!

Fun Harry Potter night at Mystery Sketch Theater. This time I actually scored some swag! 10 points for Gryffindor indeed! Thanks to our model Brooke White for picking my sketch as one of her 5 favorites from among all the awesome pieces there. Be sure to check them out on Facebook and come out next time.

Slow and Steady

Third draft and more thumbnails revised for the first issue. 7 years in the making and I'm still tweaking. I want it to be perfect. Made some nice headway today which is good since that deadline is fast approaching. Started on some character designs which have changed considerably since the early days. I like it a lot more now. Tweets and Facebook post from friends at Dragon-Con are pushing me. Man that looked like a good time. Wish I was there but glad I'm here and working. Just a few months to go and this isn't even the hardest part yet! I think I'm going to need a new coffee maker...

Back on track.

After 2 months of being busy with life and a much needed adventure to the West Coast, I'm back to work. Just a few days ahead of schedule. I've written a few things in the past but never had to write for a comic book before. The pacing is a little different from what I'm used to. Still, I think I left Issue 1 on a nice "what the??" moment that will hopefully keep people interested enough to see Issue 2. Thumbnails drawn. Time for some model sheets before starting the pencils.

The Celebrate! Project- Sea Serpent Day

This is a drawing I did for my friend and his latest project called The Celebrate! Project. It was clearly for "Sea Serpent Day". He is taking the entire year to celebrate our nation's more unique holidays. The tag line? "One Idiot. One Year. 365+ Holidays." One year yes. Most certainly 365+Holidays. One Idiot? Nah! Just one man and a dream. Head over to the project page via the provided link above to follow along all year long!

I'll save you Kimmy!!!!!!

I was watching the "old" movie Titan AE the other night and remembered another Don Bluth epic Space Ace. Then this happened.

Prime Time Tee

I've added the Optimus piece to my Redbubble shop. Grab one if you like it to have a nice shirt that no one else will have at the movies. Also check out some of the other artist posting their work there.  Lots of great stuff!



Redbubble-"Prime Time Tee- Optimus Prime byMike Victa"

That's Just Prime!

Finished up a little project in honor of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Had a lot of fun with this one. Added a few things just for fun below. Hope you all enjoy.

First up, here is a little time-lapse video of me working on the pencils for this one.


Here are the pencils.

After that it was off to Photoshop for some colors.

For this next part you'll need to find yourself a set of these.

 

This set comes packed with a smallish Optimus Prime figure.  Part of a preview figure set available at most stores. If you can't find this set, any pair of old skool 3D glasses should work just fine. 

Enjoy! Transformers: Dark of the Moon is in 3D too after all.

Doodlemus Prime 2: The Quickening

Ok. So there was still a little more room on the napkin.