Mike Maihack

Elektra

Here's another watercolor character sketch. This time Elektra all wrapped up in her Daredevil garb. This is actually the first time I've ever drawn her (that I can recall). She's fun! I'll have to take another crack at her sometime.

Anyhoo, still quite a bit of comic work to get done tonight so I'll leave it at that. Have a devil of a great evening, everyone!

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Mary Marvel

Hi, all! Here's a watercolor sketch of Mary to help bolt you into a hopefully marvelous new work week.

The patron for this one requested "street wear" fashion for her, which I was more than happy to oblige. For anyone with an upcoming character sketch from me who prefers theirs in a similar vein, just LMK. :)

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Moonlit Spiral: Quill

Happy Friday, my friends! One more character from The Moonlit Spiral to look at before maybe taking a short break and moving on to some other things next week.

Quill is a 107-year-old magical foxicorn. But her personality is almost completely based off my now eight-year-old son. She's energetic optimistic, inquisitive, and while sensitive to those around her, has an extreme lack of sensitivity to what's around her. She has no sense of time, an extreme short-term memory and the ...

Interview and Live Q&A

Hi, all! Couple of quick things this pleasant, little Thursday afternoon:

First off, there's a fun interview with me on School Library Journal today about what it was like working on my recent Spider-Man books and how those came to be. Really enjoyed answering Caleb's questions.

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Moonlit Spiral: Zyla Fable

Continuing writing a bit about the characters for Moonlit Spiral as well as some process on them. Today I'm spotlighting the primary supporting character and second most paneled person in the book!

Zyla (pronounced Zigh-lah) was a tough character to peg down in terms of design. I knew fairly early on what her personality would to be like. As Rion's best friend I needed to challenge his thinking in a lot of ways which meant conflicting the more systematic view of his world with ...

Moonlit Spiral: Rion Corsair

Happy Monday! As promised, I'm going to start sharing some of the characters from my future graphic novel this week (see the collection link I started below). 

When developing a new story, my first step is usually figuring out who is going to be in it. I tend to sketch a little, type a little and then go back and forth between those two things before something begins to form. I knew I wanted a bright, slightly fantastical adventure type vibe, and I needed characters that would help...

The Moonlit Spiral Cast

So last week I talked a little bit and shared with you the first promo image of my latest graphic novel project, THE MOONLIT SPIRAL. Today, I initially thought I'd share the entire core cast of characters from the story. After looking over all of my sketches however, I realized I just had way too much art and information to write into a single post.

So I decided to split them up. Starting Monday, if everyone's cool with it, I think I'll post about each individual character every other d...

Captain Britain Watercolor

Happy mid-week!

Starting to chip away at character sketches for folks. I got three separate requests for Betsy here so thought I'd knock out one of those. Totally okay with having to draw her a couple more times because she's a blast to draw.

I get asked SO often if/when I'm going to open up sketches again that I also thought I'd start a commission counter so patrons know where I'm at with the ones currently under my belt (as well as maybe where others might be in the queue). This...

SuperBatober Harley & Ivy Art for Sale

Hi everyone!

Two of my SuperBatober paintings from last year are now up for grabs! The original buyer unfortunately came into some financial hardships and was unable to pay for the pieces. I've since closed down my eBay store plus I'm just too busy to place them up for bid, so decided to put them up in my online shop instead.

Both are priced at $400 (about what they originally went for on eBay). Even though they are open to the public, I wanted to make sure patrons knew a...

The Moonlit Spiral

Happy Friday!

With work on Spidey coming to a close (at least for now), I thought it was finally about time to share the next graphic novel that's likely going to take up most of my year: A 300 page, creator owned treasure-hunting, fantasy adventure I've decided to call THE MOONLIT SPIRAL.

Other than my agent, publisher and a very minute circle of friends and family, you lot are the first to hear of it. Because of this, please don't share any of ...

Magical Monday

Hi, everyone! It's been a while since I've drawn a Happy Monday sketch. Since I had an itch to draw Zatanna this past weekend, thought she might be a fun way to start out the work week. She also has the distinguished honor of being my first fan art of the new year! I hope her magical spell comes true for y'all.

Speaking of new years, this is truly looking to be a really exciting one. I just handed in (what I hope) is the final rough draft of my next graphic novel and I can't wait to fin...

Quantum Quest Release!

Hi all! Just a quick post to ALL my subscribers (not just tier ones) that my latest Spider-Man graphic novel, QUANTUM QUEST, swung into stores across the US yesterday (it'll get to international places too eventually--it just takes longer to swing across vast oceans).

For those who are tier subscribers, I just wrote up a little post about...

Quantum Quest Cover Process

Hey everyone! Hope everyone's new year is off to a pleasant start. Mine is starting with the release of my latest Spider-Man graphic novel, which is in comic and book shops across the various realms of the world this week. A few of you may have already gotten the book! If so THANK YOU! And I hope you and any kids you may share it with enjoy spinning it ...

Girl in Red Cap Leaning on Pipe

Happy Friday, my friends! I hope everyone has had a nice Christmas week. Still a few days to go by my calendar (12 days of Christmas and all).

I haven't been drawing much; spending most of my week hanging out with family. Lots of board/card games, pleasant walks outside and Mario Wonder.

However, we all decided to take a few hours off from each other yesterday so I came up to my studio and ended up with the little sketch above. Was thinking it might be fun to do more of these sort...

It's a 2023 Batgirl Supergirl Christmas!

Season's greetings, my friends! Here's this year's annual Batgirl Supergirl Christmas comic in advance of me posting it to the socials later this weekend (or maybe actually on Christmas--I haven't decided).

And to go along with it, a few new wallpapers! These two options for your phone (I thought the more pulled away image might work well with an app view):

And also this larger high-res ...

Super Tunes

Happy Wednesday, my friends!

Here's a simple drawing of Kara floating to, I can only suspect, some merry, holiday melodies. Doodled in between a million other things I have going on this week (many of them also spent listening to holiday melodies). It actually started as a quick wind-down sketch of an ice skater but very quickly evolved into a drawing of Supergirl instead. I didn't think anyone would mind.

The days before Christmas are always so hustley bustley but this year feels...

Star Power

My urge to draw Ramona Flowers finally got the best of me.

Have a precious little weekend everyone!

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Phone Wallpapers - SuperBatober Edition 2!

Hi, my friends. I told you it wouldn't be that long before the next wave of wallpapers and here we are--only 3 days later--with a new batch. Surprise!

Like I did last year, I thought it'd be fun to create a few out of some SuperBatober pieces. And like last year, there was a LOT to choose from (in other words, I can make more).

Also, with the holidays and all, I thought you might like some more festive options. So I collected a bunch of Batgirl & Supergirl Christmas o...

Phone Wallpapers - WAVE 9

Hi, everyone!

As promised, here's a brand new wave of phone wallpapers for you. All custom-sized to hopefully fit most of your screens. And like usual, I included a few alternate ones not pictured above:

Download these new ones below. For past wallpapers (Waves 1-8 + some bonus ones), I created a new <...

Winter Jacket

Happy end of the work week! Here's a quick, little pinup sketch to wind it down.

Looking to be a Japanese movie weekend for me. I'm leaving in a few to go see Godzilla: Minus One tonight and already have tix to see The Boy and the Heron on Sunday. Any suggestions on what I should maybe watch on Saturday, let me know!

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Ms Marvel Timelapse

Hi all!

A recent comment reminded me I haven't posted many process vids for you in a while and I'm sorry about that. Here's a quick one of that recent Kamala drawing I did.

Part of the reason I haven't been posting them as late is because I decided not to renew the Vimeo account I was previously posting them to. So I'm currently in the process of slowly uploading all my past ones to a private YouTube account instead. I don't think it'll take me more than a month to get them all b...

A Sensational Greeting

Hi all! Here's a John Byrne era She-Hulk breaking into your feeds to wish you all a happy mid-week! Another character sketch for one of your fellow patrons.

And I hope you're all having a great one. My hope is to get at least three to four of these sketches finished each month (still about 16 to go), but we'll see how I fare. I'm deep into graphic novel work again and that's gotta remain my big priority if I'm to meet my deadline next year. I'll start sharing some of that process soon.<...

Super Saturday

Hi, my friends! Hope your weekend is off to a nice start. Back to being warm and humid again in mid-Florida. Four days of chilly weather is about my limit anyways (I moved here for a reason).

Here's a little Supergirl sketch for one of your patrons who won a contest last month. I'd like to offer more chances to win some free sketches like this so maybe something to look forward to in the coming year. It'll just depend on my schedule.

While I'm here, reminder that the 2023-12-02 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post