Mykes's Sketchbook 2.0 {56k warning)

[Cloak519]

This is all pretty impressive

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I need to start drawing again. I feel inspired.

 

[Myke]

 

[Shockwind]

Same as always, you're a great artist!

I love all of your cool drawings!

 

[wasim]

your drawing skills are awesome myke !!

i wish i could draw like u

i hardly drew this pic ( traced from the ds )
and it took almost 3 hours

 

[Shockwind]

your drawing skills are awesome myke !!

i wish i could draw like u

i hardly drew this pic ( traced from the ds )
and it took almost 3 hours

You're good too.

What's his name?

 

[Berthenk]

your drawing skills are awesome myke !!

i wish i could draw like u

i hardly drew this pic ( traced from the ds )
and it took almost 3 hours

You're good too.

What's his name?

His name is Neku.

 

[Myke]

gotta start somewhere, nice job wasim, even though it took you 3 hours and you copied from artwork, it shows that you are on the right track. lines are clean and gradations aren't choppy.

 

[wasim]

thanks
but you could give us all some tips to improve

or show us some pics which we can start of with

 

[Myke]

well anyone can ask away of they have questions, I'll give advice as much as I can. sometimes I pop into other threads here and there and if I find something useful to mention I will say it. it's far and rare, but if anyone asks me anything I will definitely answer.

so I finished designing the cover for my sketchbook which right now i'm only making 1 copy but if it all goes well I might start selling.
it's 8X8 20 pages, hard cover
I'm not much of a photoshopper, I much prefer hand done stuff to digital, but I wanted it to look more up with the times. I know it's not crazy intricate (quite simple actually) but I really like the way it looks.
here's the cover for it:

 

[Myke]

well I figured I would post this in my sketchbook because even though it's not art per se, I still think it's artistic and I'm damn proud of it.
Here's my arcade cabinet I built a couple of years ago. Took me around 6 months.
I started from this:

then mocked up a control panel like this:

I then bought these:

built the box of my control panel and cut the top part like this:

reprimed the whole arcade cabinet in black, then took apart the coin slots and cleaned and repainted everything like this:

then I started sketching the designs that I painted on the sides with white chalk like this:

I then painted said sides with enamel. I had red, yellow, blue, black, and white and mixed all my colors
and they look like this:

and this:

then I designed the control panel and put the whole thing together like this:

I then designed the marquee and tested the light I mounted behind it and it looked like this:

I then put the whole thing together and changed my boot screen, and it looked like this:

I do have a screen cover that doesn't show the border of my monitor or the inside of the cab, but I don't have a picture of it. it's a sheet of lexan where I spraypainted black around the panel. it's shiny from the viewer side. it looks clean as hell.
still love it to death. she's my non human baby. hope you like it! stop by and play a game sometime! it's only got like 200,000 games, and around 20,000 pinball tables. It doesn't show in the picture, but I got buttons on the sides of the cabinet for flippers and bumpers, as well as a button on the front of it for the ball plunger.

 

[Shockwind]

well I figured I would post this in my sketchbook because even though it's not art per se, I still think it's artistic and I'm damn proud of it.
*snip*

Wow.

That's awesome. If I'm in America then I'll play with that.

But, I don't know where you are, and please don't answer my question, it's too confidential.

I'm proud of you that you made that. It's super hard to do it, if you're gonna make me do it.

 

[Myke]

shirt design in progress

 

[Shockwind]

shirt design in progress
*snip*

Good luck on finishing that t-shirt design!

 

[Myke]

thanks! Hey wasn't your name Gamerfan123?

 

[Shockwind]

thanks! Hey wasn't your name Gamerfan123?

Yup. I asked tj_cool to change my username into this.

 

[Myke]

woot! my hardcover sketchbook came in the mail today. it's so shiny and sick looking.

now if I only knew how to get more printed and how to sell them.

 

[Nujui]

You could find a private company to do that for you. That's what my school does when they make the designs of all of our new planners.

 

[Myke]

yeah I'm having a hard time finding one that's not overblown in their pricing. any online company I found I would have to charge a lot for it to make a minimum profit. it's not worth it.

 

[Shockwind]

woot! my hardcover sketchbook came in the mail today. it's so shiny and sick looking.
*snip*
now if I only knew how to get more printed and how to sell them.

Wow. That's so cool.

 

[NiGHtS]

Your work is INCREDIBLE. I love it

Keep at it and you'll reach the top.