The Art of Mike Dubisch

Here are two very early published pieces, both scanned from stats that the publisher had made. He had difficulty with these pieces because they were so big- I'd fedexed them the original art. How different things are today, I'd have of course scanned them myself and emailed the files :) I don't think he actually used these in printing after all, they are slightly washed out compared to the printing in the books.The seraphim is long gone, but I still own the dragon, it's in a frame somewhere. Someday I'll pop it out and scan it. This stuff is © Palladium books and appeared in Dragons and Gods, my first work in RPGs.

All this stuff is ©WizardsOfTheCoast

It's been a long time since I did a doodlebook post here:

I was doing a number of these d&d minis at one point- Here's my elaborate pencil design and the toy that was manufactured:

Charles and I decided to try a more cinematic, widescreen approach to the storytelling- Joe did some new roughs and I finished and inked the pages- virtually the only such collaboration I've done in my career. Eventually Joe did at least one other take on these pages with his own inks before ultimately the project canceled for various reasons...

Back in abt 2004 writer Charles Santino approached me about collaborating with my friend legendary comic artist Joe Staton to develop an adaptation of the novel "Anarchaos." The novel is a classic SF paperback written under a pen name by the late great Donald Westlake- Joe did rough layouts for this version with a different take on the main character, Charlie and I redesigned him and I created these painted pages. The cover painting was inspired by a sketch Joe did with the character facing away- it was actually a lot cooler that way but a hard sell to publishers. This cover remained attached to the series proposal but we ended up scrapping this version of the comic pages.

A second HP commish, finally!  I had a great time with this :)

Ink stage and paints stage of my latest Strange Aeons cover painting...

Bachus: private commish for The Vinyard Wines and Spirits in Schenectady, NY

I've been sharing some very early art on Facebook, thought I'd share one here, this EC homage from age 15

Another video blog entry to tide you all over....

I promise more art soon, but until then I'm pleased to be able to share today's show here. Be sure and bring your own tunes to the show for an enhanced experience.

Sorry for my absence from the blog spot, I have big plans to get re-involved here. In the meantime, I'll share one of my other projects here daily, my YouTube channel Mike Dubisch TV. Here's today's show- Cthonic Doodling Vortex Creature 3 "Another Cthonic Doodling experiment. I strongly suggest bringing your own tunes to the show. Please comment if you enjoyed the piece. These are shot in one take with no rehearsal or editing. Earlier entries to the series will screen at HPLovecraft film festival in Portland Oregon May 11-13, 2012"