Some New Art-ing

 "Clarity"

Pencil/Watercolor

Mike D. burke

"Eros"

Pencil/Ink/Watercolor

Mike D.Burke

WIPs of "Hipster Skull Girlz 1"

THE EVER EXPANDING SCOPE

There is a way to present yourself to the public ever present in everyday life in this modern digital world. Its out there on our phones and our personal computers, tablets, wristwatches even our glasses now. Its called Social Media and its taken the job of the recruiter for a company to a whole new level. It gives them the upper hand to snoop and see who it is you interact with on a daily basis and what it is you say and think and feel now (emojis are king) and everything else that encompasses it. We can try and hide from the people we want to hire us and pay us the big bucks but the truth is their will find us and they have people and departments that are dedicated to these measure.

It is however not a negative thing to think about which is to say that nothing is private anymore. First of all if you're looking for privacy on the internet you are in the wrong place. Just be safe, don't be afraid to show all your sided, make the good outshow the bad and front load your portfolio always. Just some tips here and thoughts on the matter of the network of intertwined life online. Here are some sites to remember that you show your best and market the best you.

1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. instagram
4. vine
5. blogger
6. Pinterest
7. Pandora
8. Yahoo
9. google

Pooch Tip

A tip from my pooch: 

Pooch tip #1: take it easy at least once a day. 

Working Hard

What ap bitches?! Just kidding...but seriously yeah, what up?

Lately I have been working and busting out art like a friggin fiend on crack hooked up to an IV pumping Monster!!!! GraaaaaaAAAhhAHHHHH!! For real! As soon as I think the world is ready to see what I'm working on I will post the shit out of it!

I've been continuing to work on my graphic novel series pencils, I started a watercolor painting; started my first digital painting, finished completely the cover to my next book and one of six inside illustrations for it , did two t-shirt designs which you guys saw on my deviantart, oh and also started the first of my illustrations in a series!

The only thing I haven't done in a while is write, which I will have to fit in somewhere....

Mike D. Burke
www.ananami919.deviantart.com

Fragments of Fate

On Wednesday August 25, 2010 at 9:00AM my fiance and I arrived on the set of what would be our first debut as actors on the big screen, hopefully. It was amazing, we arrived there dressed nicely with only the hope of maybe being an extra and getting to help with the equipment. Somehow we ended up getting to do more. Rich Talarico the amazing director/actor/writer allowed us to have a scene with one of the talented actors in his film. To us it lasted for at least a half hour, in the film it will probably only be around three minutes tops depending on how they cut it together. We got to improv a whole scene for his new short film which was untitled as of the shooting. It was great! We were so pumped! During the takes and improvisation I actually made the other actor we were working with burst into laughter. All the other actors on set said that we were really hilarious and they just kept talking about the scene after! The one guy there, Jim Stevens who plays the manager of a bank wanted us to move out to L.A. and start going on auditions. He said to quote, "You have a very unique look about you and that scene was just hilarious." about me and us. Our plan is to eventually move out to L.A. and go on auditions and such, not to mention out in L.A. we will have a lot more access to our outlets for our talents. So that will be awesome, most def.
In any case I am currently still working on all my projects; "Masters of Fiction" I have one page done of the rough pencils and working on the second page, "Commercials" done with Act One and onto Act Two, "A Little Valentinus in your Samhain" currently on chapter Six. So still plugging away at everything!! More news sometime.

Promotional!!

Greetings and salutations earth beings!! Oh wait, I'm an earthling too...Never mind. No. I'm not changing my first greeting, I don't care if it doesn't make sense. I like it. Sheesh. Inner monolouges.
In any case I wanted to let all of you know that I finally received my BUSINESS CARDS!!!! YaY! I can feel how excited you all are across cyber-space. Yes this is very exillerating and what not! I shall be handing out my business cards to local businesses, coffee shops, libraries, t-shirt stores, local restaurants, people I want in my network (everyone who can help me and who needs help) and random places that have business cards out hahahahhahahahaha!!!!
Also here is a list of projects I have going at the moment and what it is I'm doing with them:

1. "The Quest for Dairy"-Play: Currently under consideration by the Utica Players committee (I'm awaiting their approval to start working with them on casting, directing and what not)

2. "Masters of Fiction"-Graphic Novel: Currently in the rough pencils stage. I do have two finished mock covers for it as well which will be posted on my deviant art page.

3. "A little Valentinus in your Hollows Eve"-Novel: Currently I have been writing at least four pages a day it is no wheres near done yet (on p.50 out of a 240 p. book) but working on it.

4. "Commercials"-Screenplay: First rough draft version is being written right now. It is a 114 page script roughly and I am on p.20.

5. Commissions status: Open (email me or message me on here and we can discuss prices)

Work!Practice!Write!Draw!

Currently I am so slammed with a ton of work to do right now and it is really having an effect on me. I have tons of school work to do which includes; continuing to get good grades and stuff for graduation, nine more pages for my Children's book I am working on for Childs Ill, I have to do three finished illustrations for this book, a cover and two other illustrations, doing photos and research and all sorts of things for Figure illustration, and doing good enough at Science to keep a good grade, oh and doing projects well for Editorial as well. By the way I don't think I've done many awesome pieces that would be considered portfolio level which is not cool. Then I have my own side projects I'm trying to do like; writing a script for my comic I want to do, "Master's of Fiction" (which then I have to thumbnail, layout, pencil, ink and eventually color on the computer and publish through Lulu), do random pencilled pages for my comic portfolio and I offered to do a story and whole comic for this Indy anthology thingie so yeah....a bit too much on my plate per se.
But I guess this will all make me a better artist in the end. It is teaching me to not sleep so much, man that just holds you back...In anycase I hope to post some stuff up here soon but until then I will continue blogging.