Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake - Project Description: Traditional media using colored pencils on a textured drawing paper. 12"x10" Project Role: A piece illustrating the various parts of an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. Greatly exaggerated colors were a necessity for making everything stand out.
icepod - Project Description: Traditional media using acrylic paint on canvas. 18"x24" Project Role: This illustration represents the future of civilization, where creatures from another planet have come to find humans frozen in time, listening to their iPods.
Snapple Ad - Project Description: Traditional media with colored pencils and textured paper. 10"x12" Project Role: An illustration based on an advertisement for Snapple. Using Snapple's "fun fact" on their caps for inspiration, this fact involved a frog.
Kiwi, Kiwi - Project Description: Traditional media with colored pencils on textured paper. Project Role: A project combining two objects.
How to Draw A Teddy Bear - Project Description: Pen and ink, then touched up and colored in photoshop. 10"x12" Project Role: A practical illustration designed to be in a "how to" book for children.
Bus Comic - Project Description: Pen and ink on marker paper. 10"x8" Project Role: A fun project called the visual essay, where I listened and wrote down different people's conversations. This was actually the comic I sent into my student run newspaper, the Keystone. After this comic, I was given the job of the paper's cartoonist.
Live Poster - Project Description: Traditional media with acrylic paint on illustration board. 9"x12" Project Role: A concert poster designed for the band Live.
Ninja Turtle Comic The only stipulation for this project was that we needed to use a mask in some way. Growing up, I always loved dressing up like a Ninja Turtle, so this drawing puts me directly in the comics, but in my Ninja Turtle costume. Pen and ink, and colored in Photoshop
The Mis Adventures of Super Squirrel #1 - Project Description: Pen and ink, then designed and colored in Photoshop. 8.5"x11" Project Role: Designed to be in a children's magazine, this is a comic based on a character named Super Squirrel and his best friend Chubbs the chipmunk. As kids themselves, they go on a series of adventures together around the yard.
The Mis Adventures of Super Squirrel #2 - Project Description: Pen and ink, then arranged and colored in Photoshop. 8.5"x11" Project Role: Designed to be in a children's magazine, this is a comic based on a character named Super Squirrel and his best friend Chubbs the chipmunk. As kids themselves, they go on a series of adventures together around the yard.
The Mis Adventures of Super Squirrel #3 - Project Description: Pen and ink, then arranged and colored in Photoshop. 8.5"x11" Project Role: Designed to be in a children's magazine, this is a comic based on a character named Super Squirrel and his best friend Chubbs the chipmunk. As kids themselves, they go on a series of adventures together around the yard.
The Mis Adventures of Super Squirrel #4 - Project Description: Pen and ink, then arranged and colored in Photoshop. 8.5"x11" Project Role: Designed to be in a children's magazine, this is a comic based on a character named Super Squirrel and his best friend Chubbs the chipmunk. As kids themselves, they go on a series of adventures together around the yard.
The Buried Life - Project Description: Pen and ink then colored and cleaned up in Photoshop.10"x7" Project Role: Designed to be in either a magazine or newspaper, this project was about the reality television show called "The Buried Life." A show that follows four young adults trying to do a bucket list.
Puffin - Project Description: Graphite on drawing paper. 9"x12" Project Role: A quick sketch done at a zoo then detailed later.
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Mike Bricker
Animator/Illustrator/Designer Lansdale, PA