The Art of Mike Dubisch

Here is the final painting, pending approval from the client. Below here are two earlier stages: Colors washed or scumbled in. All that's left to do is the blacks, tints, and the finishing touches. The monochrome stage in blue and raw umber.

Red and violet colored inks.

The client and I agreed we liked the fourth, most finished idea but also the dynamic pose of Barda in the second, so I combined them for the final pencils:

I thought I'd share the progress of this privatly commissioned painting of the Jack Kirby New Gods characters, Big Barda and Mister Miricle of the planet Apokolips- Here are four roughs playing around with composition and poses:

"The Crypt Kid" is a horror graphic novel in progress that I am writing and illustrating: In a world lost to monsters from the bowels of the planet, is there anything left worth saving when the greatest horror of all threatens to emerge? And if the strength of the surviving humans is not enough, can a monster rise up to save them?

Below are some sample pages from "The Atlantean," a graphic novel I am working on with Wildstorm's Shannon Eric Denton, in which a miner and his friends discover a dark power from an ancient civilization in the depths of the earth.

Here are some of my recent paintings and illustrations as we approach the end of 2009: Some black and white images for horror publisher Perilous Press and some color work for The Mysterious journal of J.S.Lewis, including a portrait of H.P.Lovecraft.

I'm going to try and catch up on most of my favorites from the new art I haven't yet posted here in just a couple of posts, so here we go: Starting with the pin-ups: