M. DiPascale

Lady Death Origins;Cursed Wraparound Cover

2012-01-19T19:12:00.000-05:00

Due out sometime in April! Published thru Avatar Press/Boundless

War Goddess 6 Wrap Around Cover

2011-11-29T10:28:00.000-05:00

War Goddess 4 Art Nouvaeu Cover

2011-09-01T11:22:00.000-04:00

Due out the end of October

More New Stuff

2011-08-08T19:02:00.000-04:00

Crossed: Psychopath #4 Wizard World Chicago Exclusive Cover

Lady Death Issue #10 Art Deco Retail Incentive Cover

Night of the Living Dead: Death Valley Issue #5 Regular Cover

New Stuff

2011-04-16T13:15:00.001-04:00

It's been awhile since I've put up some new stuff, I've had quite a few covers come out so I figured I would just throw them all onto one big post! Here goes

Night of the Living Dead: Death Valley out this April

War Goddess #0 due out in June

Lady Death #1 Auxiliary Cover Available now.

Lady Death #3 Auxiliary Cover

Lady Death #1 Bad Waters cover. Available now

c2e2!

2011-03-11T08:10:00.002-05:00

This year I am very excited to be going to Chicago for the c2e2 comic and entertainment convention with Avatar Press!! The show starts this Friday, March 18th and runs thru until Sunday the 20th. They have some really awesome guests attending (Chris Hemsworth...Thor!! very giggitty! How can you not like a hero who hits people in the face...with a hammer??) along with the crew from Avatar! stop by and say hey.
Thanks!

Night of the Living Dead; Death Valley

2011-01-23T13:05:00.003-05:00

This is the first of five covers I did for the Avatar Press mini series NOTLD; Death valley! Will be on stands in March.

Mid-Ohio Con

2010-10-19T10:02:00.003-04:00

At this years Mid-Ohio Con, Avatar Press will be offering two of my covers as exclusives! One will be my first Night of the Living Dead cover and the second will be another disturbing cover for the Crossed series!
Not sure if I'm going yet but if I do I'll post it.
Thanks for looking!!

Long Beach Comic Con Exclusive!

2010-10-19T09:58:00.002-04:00

This Crossed Cover will be used as an Avatar exclusive at the Long Beach Comic Con coming this October 29-31!

Lady Death Art Deco!

2010-10-19T09:44:00.002-04:00

Avatar asked if i could do something that was similar in style to Patrick Nagel, a very prominent and popular artist during the 70's and 80's. He was a regular contributor to Playboy Magazine along with doing the cover art to the Duran Duran Rio album. He passed in 1984 from a heart attack at the age of 38.
Avatar is using them as Lady Death Art Deco incentive covers. I tried to come as close as i could to his style without actually reproducing any of his images. Thanks for looking and if you get the chance, go check out some of Patrick Nagel's work!

New Crossed Covers

2010-10-19T09:36:00.003-04:00

These two covers can be purchased from the Avatar press store here http://www.comcav.com/cart/
They will be available in October and November.

Lady Death Chicago Con Cover

2010-08-08T12:30:00.003-04:00

Special Edition UNVEILED cover for the relaunch of Lady Death at this years Wizard World Chicago Con!
Published by Avatar Press under their new Boundless Comics Publishing.
Click on the picture to view a larger version

Absolution Cover

2010-05-21T10:38:00.003-04:00

This will be the next cover I've done for Avatar Press and it's available for sale this August at their web site. http://www.avatarpress.com/
It's the Ultra-Action Alpha Bitch cover for issue #3 of the Cristos Gage series Absolution.

Commissions

2010-04-30T18:03:00.001-04:00

Just wanted to let everyone know at this time I am taking commissions, whether it be digital or traditional. pricing to be determined by size and complexity of the piece.

Hope to hear from you guys soon

Michael

Convention Banner!

2010-03-15T11:53:00.002-04:00

I just received my new banner for this upcoming convention season! I really like how it turned out. The only convention i have lined up right now is the Motor City Con in Novi Michigan. I'll try to let everyone know as i decide on what other conventions I'll be attending.
thanks!

New Covers

2010-01-15T07:52:00.004-05:00

Here are two new covers i did for Avatar Press that will be available in April. Since both are limited edition, it would be easier to pick them up here http://www.comcav.com/cart/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=61
The first one is for 'Crossed' written by Garth Ennis and the latter is another 'Anna Mercury' written by Warren Ellis!

Warren Ellis' SuperGod #1 Incentive cover

2009-11-20T17:05:00.002-05:00

Incentive cover for SuperGod issue #1. Last cover for a little while as I'm off to paint the interiors on a new Avatar Press project!!
I have about five or six more covers that i did and will post each one here as soon as it's okay to do so! thanks for looking!!

Wizard World Big Apple Exclusives

2009-09-29T17:07:00.003-04:00

Two of the covers I've done for Avatar Press will be exclusives at this years Wizard World Big Apple Comic Convention. The first cover will go to everyone who purchases a VIP package and the second (Anna Mercury) cover will be a convention only exclusive at the avatar booth!

Mid Ohio Con and Avatar Press

2009-09-21T08:32:00.002-04:00

Well I'm finally getting my first cover published with Avatar and it's going to be a convention exclusive for the Mid Ohio Con! I am very excited about this and would urge anyone who plans on attending to come on over and say hello!

Sword of Souls

2009-09-01T07:22:00.002-04:00

i like books, and i like to read them! so when the science fiction book club decided to have a cover contest with the grand prize being free books...i just had to enter! so here is my entry! all i have to do now is print it off and mail it in. believe it or not, this is the first art contest I've ever entered and I'm kinda excited about it!

Whowantsasmack.com

2009-08-04T13:38:00.003-04:00

Finally have my web site up and running! i should soon be adding new stuff to the different galleries and the store. Still work to be done on it but at least it's functional now. Here's a link
http://www.whowantsasmack.com/
Stop by and check it out!

Dargo's lament #4 cover

2009-07-22T08:11:00.003-04:00

this is the original version before BOOM! had me change the look of the general that Dargo is about to fight. below is the B&W after the changes. they went ahead and had someone else color the final cover. i was none to pleased by that or by the job the colorist did!

BloodRayne vs the Butcheress!

2009-07-17T07:20:00.001-04:00

here is the cover for Novembers issue of BloodRayne; Revenge of the Butcheress.

Bad News, Good News

2009-06-29T17:32:00.013-04:00

First the bad news, I had to bow out of Necessary Horror's. With Stephen's permission I am posting all of the pages I did minus the word balloons. Now for the good news, this is the reason I can't continue doing NH, I will be signing an exclusive 2 year contract with Avatar Press !!!!

Post Motorcity Con

2009-05-23T15:48:00.002-04:00

Thanks to all who stopped by, I really enjoyed talking with everyone I met! If you want to see some of the pics from the convention they can be seen on my Facebook page.
For anybody who has gone to my website, as you can see it's still under construction, my contact information is on the "about" page at the bottom. So if anybody is looking for a print or a commission or just wants to say hi, you can reach me at the email address listed!
Thanks!!

Motorcity Comic Convention

2009-05-05T17:33:00.001-04:00

just letting everybody know that I'll be at the con this year so if your going, stop by and say hey!

Necessary Horrors Cover

2009-04-30T17:39:00.003-04:00

Necessary Horrors update

2009-04-26T08:33:00.002-04:00

last update for awhile, we can't show every page!

More Necessary Horrors

2009-04-23T07:12:00.006-04:00

Here are the first four pages of the book I'm doing with Stephen Lindsay creator of JHZ!

Farscape 3 Cover

2009-04-16T14:02:00.003-04:00

This is the challenger cover for Farscape #3 I did for BOOM! studios, they're limited to only 500 copies.
From sketch to digital paints using Corel painter, it took a little more than a day
to complete. I was real happy with how it turned out!

Necessary Horrors

2009-04-10T15:07:00.004-04:00

Here's the first page of completed art for a new project I'm working on called Necessary Horrors with Stephen Lindsay, creator of "Jesus Hates Zombies".

How I do a page Finished

2009-04-06T20:55:00.002-04:00

here it is all completed! Now onto the pencils for the next project called Necessary Horrors that I'll be doing with Stephen Lindsey. He's the creator/writer for "Jesus Hates Zombies".

How I do a page

2009-04-05T13:27:00.009-04:00

I've had a lot of people ask me what my process is, so I'm going to try and explain how and what i do.
first i start with a rough done in pencil, not always do i do this but I'm starting to more often because i never have any originals to show or sell at the conventions when people ask for them. i guess its one of the pitfalls working almost exclusively in digital!

next i use reference photo's and begin things in corel painter. first i did the panel with the eyes in black and white, once my values are were i like them i will either multiply a layer and color over the top, or lifting the image and color under the lines. if i color on top i will drop the multiply layer and blend, hi light and darken before addding another layer. if i color under i do everything on one layer and then just discard the original line work.

then i started the next panel, again in black and white. at some point i put both panels on the page to check for size, flow and page composition.

once i like how it looks i continue doing the panel by itself to completion. once it's painted i replace it back on the page and then I'm done!
this one's not totally complete yet but you get the idea!

ImagineFX DVD

2009-03-26T20:57:00.000-04:00

The folks over at ImagineFX magazine will be using some of my art in an upcoming DVD companion to their magazine. not sure which issue I'll be in but here are the pieces that will be included.