My friends!

Every month I get together with my good friend, art model and artist Mairin-taj Caya to draw and talk about life and art. I call it “Life Studied”, and our Patrons and supporting subscribers here on Substack get it a week early.

BUT, it’s now been a week since the newest episode was release so it is now free to watch!

You can get Blackwing pencils like the ones I use in the show at this link: https://blackwing602.com/mikehawthorne

We’ve launched a new store! Now you can get all my artbooks, print and digital, in one place.

I'd have been happy just using the Gumroad store, but they recently stopped allowing physical items. That's a big part of our offerings, so I had to find a new option. So, we opened the new store!

All print books ship autographed and with extra goodies we throw in for fun.

AND, for the first time, non-Kickstarter folks can get my new creator owned comic Hysteria: One Man Gang!

I hope you’ll check it out.

On the subject of Life Studied, the show has a sister art-book series. We recently Kickstarted the second volume, and started shipping books & art out Friday and yesterday.

Once these are out the door we’ll offer the 2nd volume on the new store and we’ll be launching a new campaign for issue 6 of my Warm Ups sketch-zine!

Here’s a sneak peek.

Every day I do warm up sketches, scan and collect them into high-quality sketch-zines.

I also include tons of extra goodies, like stickers and postcards, exclusive to the campaign. All while using the zine format to keep the project affordable!

If you’d be so kind as to follow me over on Kickstarter, you’ll get a notification when the campaign launches.

Thanks!

Back to my creator owned comics, I’ve been plugging away at my Top Secret Image books. I can’t say anything about it yet, but I have been dropping sneak peeks here in Notes…

I’m excited to share more!

Lastly, I’ll be at guest at next month’s Heroes Con!

Hope to see you there.

Best,

Mike

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