FLIGHT FORUMS

Thanks for the kind comments. I'm really kind of in love with the Robot character as well. Maybe I'll have to design some more robots and see how much I like them.

Thanks guys. I'm really glad that kids are into it. I wasn't really sure about how kids would feel when I was working on it.

Here are some pages from 4 beginning reader books I did earlier this year. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3513/3830261420_a5e7bc43b9_b.jpg I thought I would make small PDFs of the books available for download. These are the images without the words, but I hope the story flows well (I'm just the illu...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3300/3447591860_4d0521f51a.jpg This is an illustration for the Night & Day section in The Pitch. The section has a blurb about Record Shop Day or something. I had fun doing the album covers, I figure most of them are recognizable. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QYzfXnwhxQU...

Thank you Campy. I'm always checking out your work on my RSS reader. I love the texture stuff you are trying out.

Thanks!

I finally fixed the bugs and added an animated header to my website. Please check it out here:

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Just some more work. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2946727681_fb4351bcef_o.jpg 3rd Nighttime cover. This is as far as the series is going for now. I can't wait to see these in the bookstore. This is my favorite of the 3. Anyone think one of the others is better? http://farm4.static.flickr.com/...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2850997251_e0d9c96cc7_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2851830980_63321af5c7_o.jpg Doesn't "Nighttime" seem like it should only have one "T" in the middle? Anyway, here are the first two covers for a series of books by Todd Strasser . Each book contains ...

I just detailed my process for getting halftone dots as shown in this illustration:


You can view the process on my website:
http://www.mikelaughead.com/HalftoneProcess.html

I use photoshop and I get the halftone dots this way: 1. I crate a gradient in the shape I want on a separate layer. 2. I copy and paste that layer in a new file. 3. I convert the file mode to grayscale. 4. I then convert the file mode to bitmap. 5. The default is set to 50% threshold, but there are...

Some recent work: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2826060002_8ea44129bb_o.jpg Spot for Good Housekeeping. The article is about which technological gadgets are appropriate for children as they grow up. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3176/2825222331_7074fdfa26_o.jpg This is a small illustration fo...

These first two are for an article in Guide Magazine. I'm most proud of the boys rosy cheeks and that fact that I actually looked up the word "flour" in German. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/2679563807_465aa24c95_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/2679563839_f08f20c9e2_o.jpg These are s...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3100/2575569844_b0c4f86233_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/2574744275_fa38e5879a_o.jpg Parts 2 & 3 of 3 for Guide Magazine. The story is about a girl leaving her village in Italy during WWII when soldiers come to occupy it. In the end she gives a bible to th...

These are really great. The one with the goblin-like women dancing is awesome and funny.