Mike Hoyt Illustration

Some quick lettering work I finished up tonight. Used a couple fine liners and a
Sharpie.

Alien w/ Gun in Gray n Black

One of those aliens from the Resistance game.

Zombified

Sketched this piece up a few months back, as I watched my first episode of The Walking Dead. I remembered hearing something about Marvel Zombies, but I never read it, so this is my take on what that might of been like. Needs a little more penciling, but basically ready for some digital inking I'd like to try out. Purposely not inking this.

Heads n Graffiti

Whew, glad Monday is over. I was sick as a dog and could hardly muster up the energy to even draw, now that's seriously sick!
I did manage to make it to work for a few hours however and chatted with my buddy Spencer about my new blog. Talking about the blog and the desire to be discovered inspired Spencer and his desire for art, mainly his passion for graffiti style lettering, which I have always found to be very cool. Spencer drew up a name he thought would be awesome for a website, should I ever start one up, and I have been thinking about it. I think the name sorta implies I do tattoos or something, but that isn't so bad, I've wanted to do tattoo designs before and have been approached to become an apprentice under a local tattoo artist, just never took the following steps in that direction. Perhaps I will make a separate page on my site, dedicated solely to tattoo designs? You never know.
The heads above Spencer's design were originally done by Chris Bachalo, another favorite artist of mine, currently working on the new Wolverine & The X-Men series, which is hailed as the best X book at this time. Bachalo's style is unique and I love how it varies from very loose to also being tight and technical.

Snake Eyes by Humberto Ramos

So I didn't want to wrestle with the roomie's scanner today, because it's a big pain in the rear to move all the stuff around the scanner. I took this photo with my iPhone camera, just to say I did something today.

This picture of Snake Eyes was originally done by Humberto Ramos, a big influence to me. Ramos' style really stood out to me for reason last year and recently looking him up on Wikipedia, I found he's actually been around since the early 90's. The only artists that stuck out for me back then were Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld and Todd MacFarlane and then I took a long break from collecting comics. I found this picture on ComicArtFans.com and then copied it to the best of my ability. All props to Humberto Ramos.

Experiment in Toner Paper

I did this piece sometime in 2010. I had all this Japanese toner paper, used in shading for manga, in one of my longboxes of comics and I decided I should finally use it up. Recently finishing the Samurai 7 anime, I decided to use one of their posters. Penciled out, inked by some primitive means and finally applied with toner, which I have decided is one of the most difficult ways to shade any kind of work. Maybe one day, I will attempt to find more toner to work with, but for now I'll be working on improving my crosshatching!

To all the true believers, lovers of original comic art and enthusiasts of sequential art, welcome to my blog!! My name is Michael Hoyt and I am an aspiring artist. Aspiring to be a true professional in the field of sequential art, come with me on my journey as I post some pieces on here. Feedback is always welcome and I will try to answer any questions or criticism I might receive on my blog.

For the remainder of today, I will be making a concerted effort to add a bunch of content that I scanned in. Some pieces are original pencils by myself and others may be pictures I drew, while looking at another artist's work, attempting to assimilate their style. Isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery? This could actually be a future topic on my page, as I have noticed that many of my favorite artists today got their start by imitating some of the greats, like, Jim Lee and Todd MacFarlane.