Artwork de K4ICY

Like the colors in the sky and the variated stars. And of course the whole atmosphere of the scenery!

>Knacki
thanks for that brush-angle-shortcut! Helps quite a bit!

"MAYDAY! - An Amateur Radio Aerial Adventure"

My newest newsletter cover is a collaboration between me and my teenaged daughter Haleigh.
You can see her work here: http://trapstepgirl.deviantart.com/
I started with a concept thumbnail, then she developed the characters and did the pencil sketch and final ink with a Micron pen.
I then colored behind the ink with Verve of course, adding some fluidy whispies on top.
She dabbles in Verve now and again when she visits me, but I would give her a while before it takes hold.

The image depicts a fictional situation where two kids are lone survivors trapped within a crippled airplane destined for doom. In a last-ditch effort utilizing their individual skill-sets they cobble together a communications device to request assistance. Caught in freeze-frame as you will, is the moment in time when, at the will of chance; these kids are poised to either be flung into oblivion or to save the day with a TV-worthy story to tell.

It's not everyone that can say their kids can hold their own artistically with them, and it's not everyday you get to create art with them.
...I just wish she wasn't often cross with me.

[Taron]

Oh, she's GREAT! Very sweet stuff! I like the Manga style, too.
Yeah, it's quite a privilege to be creative together with your kids. I know how much I absolutely loved it to have my father draw something for me, whereby he was the polar opposite of me. I can only imagine how much your daughter really loves it to paint/draw with you. Whether she immediately shows it or it somehow gets hidden beneath stranger behavior, hahaha, it's next to impossible that she wouldn't love it. And the result kinda shows it already. I hope you'll get to do a whole lot more collaborations!!!

Mayday may-day!

Pretty cool!
You should be proud of your daughter (and of yourself).
I dig that style too!

Thanks! And I am.

Brilliant teamwork and storytelling within a single panel. I am starting to think that the both of you should combine for a complete strip revolving around these two and base it on the magazine. You both have a gift for storytelling and it would probably be fun. Great stuff as always.

Nice Artwork, like it so much cool lineart & inking - nice teamwork

Mayday turns into Dad-day.
Still not completely lost hope to do something with my son together.
But actually it is not looking like that
One never knows

Very cool picture. Very teenager + very Mike = superb!

[Taron]

I hope everything is alright, Mike! Dare I speak for us all here by saying: We miss you!