Mike Laughead’s Process

I found Mike Laughead’s site the other day, and loved the work. I also appreciated the description of his process.

For a good while I’ve been torn between styles that feature line work, and styles that are more shape and color based. Mike’s process bridges those competing aims well.

So I played around with his process in ArtRage the other night. In ArtRage, you have to make a stencil of a layer to ‘lock transparent pixels’ the way Photoshop does. Unfortunately, this means you’re looking through a transparent red field the whole time you’re painting in the lines.