03May2013
May 2013 First Friday – Big Mike Walton
My jumping off point was Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. Clearly, I covered a lot of subsequent distance. I’ve dubbed the piece, Birth of the New Queen. I started out making a number of doodles of eldritch abominations and Cthulhu sketches before landing on the final concept. It’s
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Robot Challenge – Big Mike Walton
I started out doodling a spider inspired robot until I suddenly realized it looked an awful lot like something out of The Matrix. That got me thinking about movie robots. My mind quickly jumped from Robby the Robot to one of the most sinister movie robots of them all. "It's a robot. Ash is a go
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Nightmare Challenge – Big Mike Walton
I couldn't find a satisfying solution for illustrating my most common nightmare: realizing it's time for school finals and I haven't been to class all year long.
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Frontier Heroine – Big Mike Walton
I went with the first thing that popped into my head when I read the challenge theme. A Native American fighting against U.S. & European military expansion.
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24Dec2012
Flight Challenge – Big Mike Walton
My brain knocked around a number of concepts while considering this challenge. Initially, I thought about the fantasy of human flight with superheroes or jet-packs. Then, given the date, I started contemplating reindeer, but ultimately decided to sketch something alluding to man's inability to
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Introducing Big Mike Walton!
I became aware of Big Mike Walton some months back when Daniel Govar and he collaborated on a short comic story over at Mike's webcomic anthology site False Positive. Their collaboration intrigued me, so I looked a little deeper into the site and was really knocked out by the work. Not only is Mik
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