The House of Sketch

New Stuff

2011-05-22T12:20:00.000-07:00

Some new art - including #1 of my new webcomic 'My Guardian Angel's A Luchador' - which you can read at - http://www.loochador.thecomicseries.com/

2011-05-02T03:45:00.000-07:00

Images (c) Mike Hartigan 2011

Mistico!

2011-04-03T13:04:00.000-07:00

My favourite luchador...Mistico

Robin Hood

2011-03-31T11:08:00.001-07:00

My 'saturday morning cartoon' version of Robin Hood

Krypton Party

2011-03-27T06:27:00.001-07:00

Eskimo Dave and the Polar Bear Amulet

2010-12-16T01:51:00.001-08:00

Girl

2010-11-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

She

2010-10-31T21:50:00.000-07:00

Another quick sketch, and another Grindhouse Girl

This time, 'She' from Machete

Cherry Darling

2010-10-31T10:32:00.001-07:00

Rough sketch of Cherry Darling from Planet Terror

Black Canary

2010-10-31T05:51:00.000-07:00

I havent drawn anything in a very long time - not just havent posted but actually havent drawn - so I bought a new book and was sketching and the Canary made an appearance so here it is (no scanner so not the best upload)

2010-08-11T00:42:00.000-07:00

Not much of an update as I am without a scanner while in Germany – but I liked this little sketch so decided to take a quick photo of it and post it up

The A-Team

2010-06-20T02:46:00.000-07:00

I whipped this up on a whim after a short exchange with a friend over on twitter

Not as finished as I would normally like (or post) but I realised I won't have time before i leave on my trip to get it done any more than it is - so hopefully y'all will dig it as it is.

Side Note: Loved the movie by the way saw it twice and was great both times

Eskimo Dave and Co.

2010-06-08T12:05:00.001-07:00

Wonder Woman

2010-06-07T16:08:00.001-07:00

Wonder Woman (c) DC Comics

Art (c) Mike Hartigan

Click to view larger version

Black Widow

2010-05-26T18:07:00.000-07:00

A quick Black Widow sketch I threw down for the monthly jam over at http://www.drawingboard.org/

Also I wanted to draw her since seeing Iron Man 2

Black Widow (c) Marvel

M is for Mr Johnson

2010-04-21T13:29:00.000-07:00

Mr Johnson (c) Sesame Workshop

Art (c) Mike Hartigan

Click the pic for full size view

O is for Oscar

2010-04-20T20:10:00.000-07:00

Oscar the Grouch (c) Sesame Workshop

Art (c) Mike Hartigan

Click pic for full size view

Me am not Bizarro

2010-04-18T16:31:00.000-07:00

Threw this one down for the jam over at drawingboard.org
Posted the colour version then for fun i grayscaled it and actually thought it looked quite cool in black and white.

Character (c) DC Comics

Art (c) Mike Hartigan

Click the pic for full size view

PeekaBOO colours

2010-04-18T16:28:00.000-07:00

Coloured version

Characters (c) Disney/Pixar

Art (c) Mike Hartigan

Click the pic for full size view

Peek-A-BOO!

2010-04-14T19:31:00.000-07:00

Seriously just love drawing these guys!

Characters (c) Disney/Pixar

Art (c) Mike Hartigan

Click pic for full size view

Raaaaah!

2010-04-12T20:37:00.001-07:00

Art (c) Mike Hartigan

Characters (c) Disney/Pixar

Click for full size

Mike and Co Colours

2010-04-12T20:35:00.001-07:00

Art (c) Mike Hartigan

Characters (c) Disney/Pixar

Click for full view

Monsters, Inc.

2010-04-12T18:02:00.000-07:00

This time a little Monsters, Inc action...I love this flick

Characters (c) Disney/Pixar

Buzz Lightyear Collab

2010-04-12T15:07:00.000-07:00

My buddy over at http://www.dcjosh.deviantart.com/ laid down some smooth colours on my Buzz Lightyear pic

Thought I would share - go give him some love by visiting his site!

Buzz (c) Disney/Pixar

You've Got A Friend In Me

2010-04-03T22:06:00.001-07:00

Characters (c) Disney/Pixar

Dragon Slayers Collab

2010-03-29T07:42:00.000-07:00

Some awesomeness was slapped over my inks by my buddy Mike (not me; another Mike)

to check out his work visit him at http://www.bonejesta.deviantart.com/

Father of the Dragon...Boy

2010-03-24T19:04:00.001-07:00

High Priest - Dragon Boy Character

2010-03-24T18:33:00.000-07:00

My New Drawing Room

2010-03-23T19:16:00.000-07:00

My favourite room in the new house - my new drawing room!

Click for full views

Dragon Slayers

2010-03-23T19:15:00.001-07:00

Characters (c) Mike Hartigan

Dragon Boy and Co

2010-03-12T23:12:00.000-08:00

Look who popped back to my page - my old pal Dragon Boy - with some new duds
and...a sidekick? well, sort of...
Full size this puppy...although beware -it's big!
Characters (c) Mike Hartigan

Moquito y Perito

2010-02-28T12:27:00.000-08:00

OK so trying to show some love to mi amigo Juanele's creation MoquitoPlaying around with the cutout look.
Although done very cheaply with photoshop filters and drop shadows, I do like how it turned out in the end

So hope y'all dig it
(full view is best)

Characters belong to Juanele - http://moco-comics.blogspot.com/

Once Upon A Time...

2010-02-26T19:25:00.000-08:00

Luchaville Flats

2010-02-10T06:35:00.000-08:00

Just some flat colours as a guide

Luchador-able

2010-02-07T17:54:00.001-08:00

Alt Tshirts

2009-12-14T19:37:00.000-08:00

Playing around with some alternate colours

Supa Lucha TShirt Idea

2009-12-13T18:57:00.001-08:00

An idea for a Supa Lucha TShirt I was thinking of making for myself
The blue is only because thats the colour tshirt i was thinking of, its obviously not a part of the image itself

*Click for full size view*
(c) Mike Hartigan

Hope you like.

Supa Lucha contra El 'Fango

2009-12-11T21:42:00.000-08:00

Coloured Version - I like how it came out in the end considering it wasn't what I had originally intended
Anyways, hope you like it.

Click for full view as it is much better.
(c) Mike Hartigan

Supa (?) Lucha!!!

2009-12-10T18:58:00.001-08:00

An idea i worked up - Supa Lucha vs the Mud-Monster...sort of...

THought this could look cool with the right retro/pop type of colourings - I will give it a go but don't hold your breath lol

In the meantime if anyone wants to give it a crack let me know and I can email a larger file to you

Characters (c) Mike Hartigan

Supa Lucha flats

2009-12-08T19:40:00.000-08:00

Flat colours

Supa Lucha!!!

2009-12-08T18:26:00.001-08:00

Enter the hero - Supa Lucha!
(c) Mike Hartigan

Corazona .:Colours:.

2009-11-29T15:00:00.001-08:00

Coloured version
(c) Mike Hartigan

Corazona

2009-11-28T18:25:00.001-08:00

Arevised version of a villain i created earlier in the year:

Corazona

(click for full views)

Chupa-colour

2009-11-04T19:28:00.000-08:00

Chupacabra

2009-11-01T10:06:00.000-08:00

The Chupacabra (pronunciation: /tʃupa'kabɾa/, from the Spanish words chupar, meaning "to suck", and cabra, meaning "goat"; literally "goat sucker")

The name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats. Physical descriptions of the creature vary.

It is supposedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines reaching from the neck to the base of the tail.

Batman Comic Cover

2009-10-27T16:03:00.000-07:00

Wanted to play around with a few things on the batman pic just for fun

In retrospect i dont like the coffee cup ring but oh well live and learn!

Piecing it together part 1

2009-10-06T19:23:00.000-07:00

Slowly i hope to turn this into a larger pic

so here's step one : just seeing if they fit together - i like it so far

characters (c) DC Comics etc

Mr Freeze

2009-10-06T19:15:00.000-07:00

Chill out - my fave batman villain

Mr Freeze (c) DC Comics etc

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Batman!

2009-10-05T19:26:00.000-07:00

Whipped up this pic of the Dark Knight and decided to ink it up
The anatomy is whacky but I like the overall look
Batman (c) DC Comics etc

Click for full size view
Thanks!Mike

Big Stick Collab 3

2009-09-29T20:40:00.000-07:00

This time colours kindly provided by my good buddy over at

http://bonejesta.deviantart.com/

Stop on by his page and peep his work

show him some love

maybe a hug

Iron Man Coloured

2009-09-25T22:10:00.001-07:00

Played with some coloured

Origina lphoto used for background sourced from google

I Am Iron Man

2009-09-25T19:27:00.000-07:00

Cleaned up the Iron Man sketch I posted earlier

Big Stick Collab 2

2009-09-24T21:16:00.000-07:00

This time, the awesomness was kindly provided by a fellow kiwi

Check out his work at http://www.xiwik.deviantart.com/

Rough Iron Man

2009-09-24T19:55:00.000-07:00

Just tinkering (ha!) around with a pic of Ol' Shellhead

Carry A big Stick - Coloured

2009-09-24T14:12:00.000-07:00

Colours by my new amigo

http://www.monkey-cosio.deviantart.com/

Muchas Gracias!

Carry A Big Stick

2009-09-22T19:40:00.001-07:00

Inks

Warrior Girl Pencils

2009-09-22T19:35:00.000-07:00

(well actually ball-point pen)

Slayer Coloured

2009-09-13T14:19:00.000-07:00

High School Slayer

2009-09-12T16:56:00.000-07:00

Another quick sketch, a typical high school slayer of evil

Girl Under Water

2009-09-12T02:22:00.000-07:00

non-imaginative title to be sure
just something i drew rather quickly but liked all the same

New Profile Pic

2009-08-25T22:51:00.000-07:00

New profile pic

SD Beastman - Inks

2009-08-25T21:47:00.000-07:00

Continuing the SD MotU lineup, i give you the third villain: SD Beastman
Beastman (c) Mattel

Saabar and Betty - In Colour

2009-08-19T19:56:00.000-07:00

"Did the artist totally cheap out and re-use the background from his Red Sonja pic?"
"Sure did - lazy good for nothing S.O.B"
- in my defence i did tweak it a bit -
Hope you like

(click for the better full-view)
Characters (c) Me

Saabar and Black Betty

2009-08-18T20:35:00.000-07:00

'I swear...there were like a thousand bandits over there...I used my awesomeness to totally beat them though, so it's cool now...'
Saabar and Black Betty (c) Mike Hartigan

Witchy Woman

2009-08-17T19:55:00.000-07:00

Quick sketch of a new villain I am working on
character (c) Mike Hartigan

Where The WIld things At?

2009-07-31T15:55:00.000-07:00

Final Inks
Colours to come soon

Characters (c) Maurice Sendak

-Mike

Wild Thing first stage inks

2009-07-30T19:05:00.001-07:00

So I decided i would post this pic in stages - working through the process I go through

So the last pic was the pencils (or more accurately, ballpoint pen - apologies also for the low quality as my scanner wasnt handy at the time and i took the pic with my phone)

This stage is the first inking - i usually do the rough inks to get the look i want, then the next stage will be finished inks (coming soon!)

Hope you enjoy

-Mike

Where are the wild Things?

2009-07-30T07:21:00.000-07:00

Quick rough sketch for a Where the Wild Things pic I was challenged to draw.

SD Skeletor

2009-07-29T16:01:00.001-07:00

SD Skeletor in the house!Again some small liberties taken in the design
these villains are way fun to draw
Skeletor (c) Mattel

SD Mer-Man

2009-07-28T19:29:00.000-07:00

The first of the MOTU chibi villains - i took a bit more artistic liberty on this one than the others - but i think he came out rather well

Mer-Man (c) Mattel

SD Teela

2009-07-26T21:16:00.000-07:00

#3: Daughter of the Sorceress and Captain of the royal Guard: Teela
Teela (c) Mattel

SD Man-At-Arms

2009-07-26T19:55:00.000-07:00

More lil Masters of the Universe!

This time, He-Man's right hand man: Man-At-Arms!

SD He-Man

2009-07-26T15:50:00.001-07:00

Going in the complete opposite direction I now give you lil' He-Man

By the Power of Grayskull!

Master of the Universe

2009-07-26T07:27:00.000-07:00

(click pic for fuul view)

He-Man (c) Mattel

All in the Family

2009-07-25T19:20:00.000-07:00

(click for full size)

Meet the Draculas

2009-07-23T21:09:00.000-07:00

A very rough first pass at my idea for Johnny's parents
awww - he got his mother's nose...but he got his dad's skin tone...ears...eyes...
will undoubtedly clean this up at a later stage
Left to Right: Count Dracula (Retired), Johnny Dracula, Dora Dracula

A page of Johnny Dracula

2009-07-20T21:01:00.000-07:00

So i actually did about 10 pages of Johnny Dracula (you may remember him from a couple of pics I did - this is him in his 'day' clothes) i never took them past the rough pencils, but the more i look back at them the more i like them.

Anyways, this was one of my favourite pages from the lot.

Hope you enjoy

-Mike

The good professor, Joseph Griffin

2009-07-07T22:32:00.000-07:00

(click for full view - the preview image does nothing for the pic)

(c) Mike Hartigan

Space Girl

2009-06-30T21:12:00.000-07:00

Click for full view

Treasure Hunt

2009-06-29T17:08:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of posting as of late - have been batting an idea around and a friend and I have come up with what we think is a decent teaser script - now i just have to get motivated and draw some sequentials!Here is a teaser of the main hero (on the left) - Professor Joseph Griffin, in his everyday, non-superhero garbThe treasure stealing commie on the right is one of the early villains...sort of...

Characters (c) Me

Justice League: Work In Progress - Updated

2009-06-07T18:33:00.000-07:00

Justice League: Green Lantern and The Flash

2009-06-07T16:58:00.000-07:00

Green Lantern and the Flash (c) DC Comics

These are the first characters to add to the trinity pic

Justice League: Trinity

2009-06-06T20:08:00.000-07:00

The three big guns of the DC Comics Universe: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman

(click for full view)
Characters (c) DC Comics

Hal Jordan : Parallax

2009-06-03T23:23:00.000-07:00

Hands down, Hal Jordan/Green Lantern is my favourite comic character - and I totally dug the idea that he became a villain.

(click for full view)
Parallax/Hal Jordan (c) DC Comics

Together: Billy / Dragon Boy

2009-06-02T20:12:00.000-07:00

Billy and DB side by side - the secret identity with the hero...just dont let the villains see this!

(click for full view)

Dragon Boy

2009-06-02T19:06:00.000-07:00

Billy in costume as the hero Dragon Boy

(click for full view)

Dragon Boy (c) Mike Hartigan

Dragon Boy Mighty Mugg Design

2009-06-01T19:03:00.000-07:00

So I finally bought my first Mighty Mugg on the weekend (it was Optimus Prime - woo hoo) - and so i decided I wanted to try and design one based on my character Dragon Boy, and this is the result...

(Click for full view)

Dragon Boy (c) Mike Hartigan
Might Muggs (c) Hasbro
www.hasbro.com/mightymuggs

Dragon Boy: Behind the Mask

2009-05-31T00:30:00.000-07:00

William 'Billy' Tyler aka Dragon Boy

Billy in costume to follow

(Click for full view)
Billy Tyler / Dragon Boy (c) Mike Hartigan

Dragon Boy Revisited

2009-05-27T18:48:00.000-07:00

So possibly my most popular created character was a few years back in the form of Dragon Boy
I did a few pages of sketches, reinventing the characters and then took some of the better ones and threw them all on one page.

I will do up a character sheet in the near future with full pics of each character in colour.

(Click for full view)

Dragon Boy and all related characters (c) Mike Hartigan

Boy Wonder in Colour

2009-05-26T20:27:00.000-07:00

Robin the sidekick of sidekicks, now in colour

pencils, ink and photoshop

(click for full view)
Robin/Tim Drake (c) DC Comics

Punisher Collab

2009-05-26T14:39:00.000-07:00

First off, go and check out Derek's gallery for some awesome goodness: http://dfridolfs.deviantart.com/

Including this piece of the Punisher: [link]

So I decided to try my hand at colouring it and liked the final result.

(Click for full view - it's much better)

Pencils/Inks: Derek Fridolfs

Colours: Me

The Punisher (c) Marvel

Boy Wonder - Pencils

2009-05-26T01:27:00.000-07:00

Tim Drake, the third Robin

(Click for full view)
Robin (c) DC Comics

Steel - Quick Colour Test

2009-05-25T19:28:00.000-07:00

By no means a finished piece - was just trying to get a feel for the colour scheme

Steel (c) DC Comics

Batman and Robin - Pencils

2009-05-25T13:48:00.000-07:00

A piece Im thinking of doing for a sketch jam over at http://www.drawingboard.org/

Characters (c) DC Comics

Steel - Pencils

2009-05-25T06:12:00.000-07:00

Never drawn Steel before - so here is my interpretation.

Pencils; Inks may follow

(Click for full view)

Steel (c) DC Comics

Cap Victorious

2009-05-23T20:43:00.001-07:00

The new Captain America laying the smackdown on Iron Man/Tony Stark

(Click for full view)
Characters (c) Marvel

Supergirl

2009-05-19T16:29:00.000-07:00

I went with a more retro look to this piece

(Click for full view)

Supergirl (c) DC Comics

Stargirl

2009-05-19T05:58:00.000-07:00

The coloured version of miss Courtney Whitmore aka Stargirl

(Remember to click for full size view)
Stargirl (c) DC Comics

Stargirl - Inked

2009-05-18T21:50:00.001-07:00

Fixed a few things - like making her head/face a little more feminine!

SG (c) DC Comics

Some Rough Pencil Drawings

2009-05-17T20:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some rough pencil drawings of a trio of super ladies

Supergirl

Stargirl

Wonder Woman

All (c) DC Comics

Click each pic for the full view