<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651</id><updated>2011-08-01T17:24:30.488-07:00</updated><category term='illustration'/><category term='characters'/><category term='sketches'/><title type='text'>particle matter</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>41</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-3677697360743264202</id><published>2011-04-04T19:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-04T19:37:54.463-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Painting!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZWWvzsuJ2vg/TZp_3spOwdI/AAAAAAAAATo/8-MHLuNYXHk/s1600/ash-painting-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZWWvzsuJ2vg/TZp_3spOwdI/AAAAAAAAATo/8-MHLuNYXHk/s200/ash-painting-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591922482187518418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G6RbyxXx-qA/TZp_3gF_WWI/AAAAAAAAATg/wIcw9yB7uvo/s1600/moms-ruster.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 153px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G6RbyxXx-qA/TZp_3gF_WWI/AAAAAAAAATg/wIcw9yB7uvo/s200/moms-ruster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591922478818482530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SPtgrrfKa1s/TZp_3c96AQI/AAAAAAAAATY/qnoAbdQ_9lQ/s1600/beth-painting.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 148px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SPtgrrfKa1s/TZp_3c96AQI/AAAAAAAAATY/qnoAbdQ_9lQ/s200/beth-painting.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591922477979271426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L0xSDm5TPgw/TZp_39zWKyI/AAAAAAAAATw/hsmYdXCyty0/s1600/mike-stumpy-pincel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 148px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L0xSDm5TPgw/TZp_39zWKyI/AAAAAAAAATw/hsmYdXCyty0/s200/mike-stumpy-pincel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591922486793349922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Theses are a few pieces i painted for some family and friends this christmass.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-3677697360743264202?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/3677697360743264202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=3677697360743264202' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3677697360743264202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3677697360743264202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2011/04/painting.html' title='Painting!'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZWWvzsuJ2vg/TZp_3spOwdI/AAAAAAAAATo/8-MHLuNYXHk/s72-c/ash-painting-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-7526938745428554238</id><published>2010-10-11T15:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-11T15:57:11.700-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Enfamil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLOVpe3LV4I/AAAAAAAAAS4/QSCeJ0sQz6c/s1600/Movie+Clipping+9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLOVpe3LV4I/AAAAAAAAAS4/QSCeJ0sQz6c/s200/Movie+Clipping+9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526925707605399426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLOVdXjyqZI/AAAAAAAAASQ/0d6a9Rh-reg/s1600/Movie+Clipping+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLOVdXjyqZI/AAAAAAAAASQ/0d6a9Rh-reg/s200/Movie+Clipping+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526925499486611858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLOVfGRSAcI/AAAAAAAAASw/C77G-pguTJU/s1600/Movie+Clipping+8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLOVfGRSAcI/AAAAAAAAASw/C77G-pguTJU/s200/Movie+Clipping+8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526925529205309890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLOVdp5PEGI/AAAAAAAAASY/V998LeaT9co/s1600/Movie+Clipping+4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLOVdp5PEGI/AAAAAAAAASY/V998LeaT9co/s200/Movie+Clipping+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526925504408391778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLOQdJV0b0I/AAAAAAAAARQ/ykV56AcK7qg/s1600/Movie+Clipping+1.jpg"&gt;   &lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/15750735?portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ffea00" frameborder="0" height="225" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a commercial i art directed and animated for Saatchi and Saatchi NYC. it took a while to get the environment right so it really feels like your moving through warm, glowing, and inviting plasma like liquid but im really happy with the final result.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-7526938745428554238?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/7526938745428554238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=7526938745428554238' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7526938745428554238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7526938745428554238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2010/10/enfamil.html' title='Enfamil'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLOVpe3LV4I/AAAAAAAAAS4/QSCeJ0sQz6c/s72-c/Movie+Clipping+9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-4454721046669646572</id><published>2010-10-11T12:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-11T12:56:37.720-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>NEW Paintings!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLNkbJsGXXI/AAAAAAAAARI/K3krMfxxKag/s1600/-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLNkbJsGXXI/AAAAAAAAARI/K3krMfxxKag/s320/-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526871585333861746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So iv been working for a while and haven't been doing a lot of personal work but here are some paintings iv done recently. the other three followed close behindthis is a shitty picture of the bottom of my new skate board, its the first acrylic painting iv done in almost years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLNkavNS2xI/AAAAAAAAARA/XuYugO4IrB4/s1600/-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLNkavNS2xI/AAAAAAAAARA/XuYugO4IrB4/s320/-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526871578225335058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I took a picture of a girl with a huge dry cleaning bag hanging in front of her on the subway about a year ago, and it just sat on my phone for a while untell last month when i finally got around to painting this... i kinda wanted to do a set of limited color paintings with subway themes, but iv lost interest... so moving on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLNkaTpAO4I/AAAAAAAAAQ4/q_TowEYhs1s/s1600/-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 167px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLNkaTpAO4I/AAAAAAAAAQ4/q_TowEYhs1s/s320/-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526871570825362306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;and these are two of three 4x4inch paintings of blocks. iv been  playing around allot with lighting and trying to get nice smooth gradients which is kind of a bitch with acrylic but its nice when it works. I'm liking doing small paintings mostly because i don't have the patients to do larger ones... and when i do i care to much about them. but who knows...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-4454721046669646572?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/4454721046669646572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=4454721046669646572' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/4454721046669646572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/4454721046669646572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-paintings.html' title='NEW Paintings!'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/TLNkbJsGXXI/AAAAAAAAARI/K3krMfxxKag/s72-c/-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-6869452015307615706</id><published>2010-04-10T08:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T14:04:15.794-07:00</updated><title type='text'>lincoln comic</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8Ca54uTUSI/AAAAAAAAAQo/mObiQs9eZ3g/s1600/lincoln-sketch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8Ca54uTUSI/AAAAAAAAAQo/mObiQs9eZ3g/s320/lincoln-sketch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458533067642851618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8Ca0Fdz8QI/AAAAAAAAAQg/-6nlZAaw4GY/s1600/lincoln-page-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 199px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8Ca0Fdz8QI/AAAAAAAAAQg/-6nlZAaw4GY/s200/lincoln-page-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458532967984132354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Four score and right fucking now im kicking your ass bear!&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8CajugTTjI/AAAAAAAAAQY/ebKnl3h4Ba8/s1600/lincoln-page-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 196px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8CajugTTjI/AAAAAAAAAQY/ebKnl3h4Ba8/s200/lincoln-page-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458532686942654002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8CaikpuIQI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/uMjcjAxWLGA/s1600/lincoln-page-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 198px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8CaikpuIQI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/uMjcjAxWLGA/s200/lincoln-page-5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458532667117936898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8CaiQhhJCI/AAAAAAAAAQI/BdEoN3C2KoI/s1600/lincoln-page-6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 196px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8CaiQhhJCI/AAAAAAAAAQI/BdEoN3C2KoI/s200/lincoln-page-6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458532661714822178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8CaiMVOTjI/AAAAAAAAAQA/kNQGyZnRtlw/s1600/lincoln-page-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 196px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8CaiMVOTjI/AAAAAAAAAQA/kNQGyZnRtlw/s200/lincoln-page-7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458532660589514290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8Cah5uUrlI/AAAAAAAAAP4/doqqF1XzFRk/s1600/lincoln-page-12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 198px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8Cah5uUrlI/AAAAAAAAAP4/doqqF1XzFRk/s200/lincoln-page-12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458532655594516050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well this is a comic i wanted to get out for Mocca... but life got in the way. So im posting a bunch of pages day of... in fact i should be there now... i got to go... hope you like them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-6869452015307615706?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/6869452015307615706/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=6869452015307615706' title='33 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6869452015307615706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6869452015307615706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2010/04/lincoln-comic.html' title='lincoln comic'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/S8Ca54uTUSI/AAAAAAAAAQo/mObiQs9eZ3g/s72-c/lincoln-sketch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>33</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-8793517111465621859</id><published>2009-11-12T02:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T02:33:33.387-08:00</updated><title type='text'>4th</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SvvjqjS2-II/AAAAAAAAAOk/4WptcLPcbd0/s1600-h/show_page_123.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 156px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SvvjqjS2-II/AAAAAAAAAOk/4WptcLPcbd0/s320/show_page_123.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403162498129393794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SvvjqxrGrBI/AAAAAAAAAOs/PdsDrRqwmYU/s1600-h/show_page_456.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 156px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SvvjqxrGrBI/AAAAAAAAAOs/PdsDrRqwmYU/s320/show_page_456.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403162501989182482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SvvjrF9CCcI/AAAAAAAAAO0/53luUmm0w84/s1600-h/show_page_789.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 156px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SvvjrF9CCcI/AAAAAAAAAO0/53luUmm0w84/s320/show_page_789.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403162507433085378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is "4th" the short i did for a compilation hopefully coming out winter/spring. I kinda rushed the end but i think it works. Its mostly about a funny fat kid, hope you like it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-8793517111465621859?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/8793517111465621859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=8793517111465621859' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8793517111465621859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8793517111465621859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/11/4th_12.html' title='4th'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SvvjqjS2-II/AAAAAAAAAOk/4WptcLPcbd0/s72-c/show_page_123.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-7427961711784727212</id><published>2009-11-02T17:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-02T17:24:01.672-08:00</updated><title type='text'>playing with type in Maya</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Su-FoeJzSBI/AAAAAAAAAOM/-b5xFS7wpls/s1600-h/FTL_AE.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Su-FoeJzSBI/AAAAAAAAAOM/-b5xFS7wpls/s200/FTL_AE.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399681408575948818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Su-FZLiGIFI/AAAAAAAAAN0/1GwvvOu-z0k/s1600-h/FTL_1_124.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Su-FZLiGIFI/AAAAAAAAAN0/1GwvvOu-z0k/s200/FTL_1_124.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399681145879535698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Su-FoBpEnqI/AAAAAAAAAOE/p3UzsnIwlC4/s1600-h/FTLRENDER_D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Su-FoBpEnqI/AAAAAAAAAOE/p3UzsnIwlC4/s200/FTLRENDER_D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399681400922480290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Su-Fxhu0sXI/AAAAAAAAAOU/91wfWLtc6DA/s1600-h/FTLRENDER_E.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Su-Fxhu0sXI/AAAAAAAAAOU/91wfWLtc6DA/s200/FTLRENDER_E.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399681564155359602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-7427961711784727212?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/7427961711784727212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=7427961711784727212' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7427961711784727212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7427961711784727212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/11/playing-with-type-in-maya.html' title='playing with type in Maya'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Su-FoeJzSBI/AAAAAAAAAOM/-b5xFS7wpls/s72-c/FTL_AE.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-7954997280805077504</id><published>2009-09-25T19:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T19:47:01.872-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Infinite for illustration friday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Sr1_j2b0itI/AAAAAAAAAM8/n8uuhbg1bAk/s1600-h/INFINITE.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Sr1_j2b0itI/AAAAAAAAAM8/n8uuhbg1bAk/s320/INFINITE.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385600983289334482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;a fun little piece i did in a few hours for illustration Friday. didn't really have time to finish it 100% but thats ok. its the first piece iv digitally painted in a while, lately iv been doing alot of flat color....likely due to laziness&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-7954997280805077504?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/7954997280805077504/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=7954997280805077504' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7954997280805077504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7954997280805077504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/09/infinite-for-illustration-friday.html' title='Infinite for illustration friday'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Sr1_j2b0itI/AAAAAAAAAM8/n8uuhbg1bAk/s72-c/INFINITE.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-2493582826967254240</id><published>2009-09-09T22:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-09T22:55:58.799-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Hobo Claus</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SqiUNLlTqTI/AAAAAAAAAM0/1iVVTW7RSnI/s1600-h/santacrop_V2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SqiUNLlTqTI/AAAAAAAAAM0/1iVVTW7RSnI/s320/santacrop_V2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379712709062535474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;drew this santa looking homeless guy on the train and liked it so i did some quick color.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-2493582826967254240?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/2493582826967254240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=2493582826967254240' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/2493582826967254240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/2493582826967254240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/09/hobo-claus.html' title='Hobo Claus'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SqiUNLlTqTI/AAAAAAAAAM0/1iVVTW7RSnI/s72-c/santacrop_V2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-7899851070790189443</id><published>2009-06-10T21:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-10T22:01:52.172-07:00</updated><title type='text'>havnt posted in forevers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SjCKbWXeaYI/AAAAAAAAAL8/VNd4xiwy914/s1600-h/06_10_092A.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SjCKbWXeaYI/AAAAAAAAAL8/VNd4xiwy914/s320/06_10_092A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345924960153921922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;been doing a lot of doodles on stick-em notes lately. its pretty fun, also it doesn't matter if it looks like crap because its on a stick-em note&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SjCKbKlo5bI/AAAAAAAAAL0/0cig5At-aFc/s1600-h/pinup_sketch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SjCKbKlo5bI/AAAAAAAAAL0/0cig5At-aFc/s320/pinup_sketch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345924956992103858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;was looking at &lt;a href="http://signeersessies.blogspot.com/"&gt;Alberto Ruiz&lt;/a&gt;'s blog (which is awesome)... then drew some pinups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SjCKaytdpgI/AAAAAAAAALs/EvFuisRL9oo/s1600-h/train_watercolorA.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 126px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SjCKaytdpgI/AAAAAAAAALs/EvFuisRL9oo/s320/train_watercolorA.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345924950582470146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;water color pencils and a water brush on the train.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-7899851070790189443?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/7899851070790189443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=7899851070790189443' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7899851070790189443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7899851070790189443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/06/havnt-posted-in-forevers.html' title='havnt posted in forevers'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SjCKbWXeaYI/AAAAAAAAAL8/VNd4xiwy914/s72-c/06_10_092A.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-6935088727451725613</id><published>2009-04-06T20:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-06T21:05:27.161-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>some drawings</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SdrOGwGi6II/AAAAAAAAAK8/7EFoeAAnpzI/s1600-h/girl-on-train.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SdrOGwGi6II/AAAAAAAAAK8/7EFoeAAnpzI/s320/girl-on-train.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321792525078554754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; drew this lady on the metro north when i was going up to Poughkeepsie to visit my sister. the lady put earplugs in (which i though was weird) and proceeded to play with her hair for about an hour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SdrNp5E9qsI/AAAAAAAAAK0/8zAdTLEC-k0/s1600-h/train-drawing-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SdrNp5E9qsI/AAAAAAAAAK0/8zAdTLEC-k0/s320/train-drawing-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321792029271632578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;guy on the on the Q train. he noticed me drawing him, then smiled and pulled out some work. it was much appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SdrMQM_i_KI/AAAAAAAAAKs/6u3TKk2MpPU/s1600-h/beth_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SdrMQM_i_KI/AAAAAAAAAKs/6u3TKk2MpPU/s320/beth_small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321790488429395106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I did a drawing of my sister Beth the other night while She was zoning out watching twilight... worst movie ever.  she doesn't like it much (the drawing not the move, she loves that fuckin movie) cause she looks like a zombie but she was enthralled by the magic of bad acting. how else can you look.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-6935088727451725613?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/6935088727451725613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=6935088727451725613' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6935088727451725613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6935088727451725613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/04/some-drawings.html' title='some drawings'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SdrOGwGi6II/AAAAAAAAAK8/7EFoeAAnpzI/s72-c/girl-on-train.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-3616798412350928877</id><published>2009-03-15T13:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-15T13:55:16.816-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>more life drawings</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Sb1pvjcbIjI/AAAAAAAAAKU/RxBjA51wsrA/s1600-h/LD7web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Sb1pvjcbIjI/AAAAAAAAAKU/RxBjA51wsrA/s320/LD7web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313519401056281138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Sb1pwDRBLlI/AAAAAAAAAKk/rQXYA7GamAg/s1600-h/LD5web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 165px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Sb1pwDRBLlI/AAAAAAAAAKk/rQXYA7GamAg/s320/LD5web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313519409598377554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;from Gaffney's class about a month ago, i think they are 7's&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Sb1pvzJvw1I/AAAAAAAAAKc/l4RCIqLv2mU/s1600-h/LD8Web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 182px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Sb1pvzJvw1I/AAAAAAAAAKc/l4RCIqLv2mU/s320/LD8Web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313519405272908626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;asifa Wednesdays 3min&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-3616798412350928877?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/3616798412350928877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=3616798412350928877' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3616798412350928877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3616798412350928877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-life-drawings.html' title='more life drawings'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Sb1pvjcbIjI/AAAAAAAAAKU/RxBjA51wsrA/s72-c/LD7web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-6805372709452615745</id><published>2009-03-09T22:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T22:10:08.163-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>train sketch</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SbX1iX0CNOI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/gqCsv3S_24Q/s1600-h/train_sketch2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 178px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SbX1iX0CNOI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/gqCsv3S_24Q/s320/train_sketch2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311421306409989346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-6805372709452615745?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/6805372709452615745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=6805372709452615745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6805372709452615745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6805372709452615745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/03/train-sketch.html' title='train sketch'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SbX1iX0CNOI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/gqCsv3S_24Q/s72-c/train_sketch2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-8345252021822118610</id><published>2009-01-19T23:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-19T23:17:24.610-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Tetsuo vs Kaneda</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SXV4zZxrRUI/AAAAAAAAAI0/4Ku1EdD4Jd8/s1600-h/akira.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SXV4zZxrRUI/AAAAAAAAAI0/4Ku1EdD4Jd8/s320/akira.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293269761531790658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Iv been trying to work faster and more graphic and this hit a lot mile stones for me. the whole thing took a little over 3 hours (after i worked out a few thumbnails) this is also the first thing iv hand inked in a long while so it worked out to be a lot of fun.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-8345252021822118610?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/8345252021822118610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=8345252021822118610' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8345252021822118610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8345252021822118610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/01/tetsuo-vs-kaneda.html' title='Tetsuo vs Kaneda'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SXV4zZxrRUI/AAAAAAAAAI0/4Ku1EdD4Jd8/s72-c/akira.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-4838592865504882141</id><published>2009-01-11T22:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-11T22:24:16.750-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>train sketch</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWrh4pJLa_I/AAAAAAAAAIs/jvPxpD3RhTk/s1600-h/train.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 265px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWrh4pJLa_I/AAAAAAAAAIs/jvPxpD3RhTk/s320/train.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290289075533343730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;more color studies from my sketch book&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-4838592865504882141?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/4838592865504882141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=4838592865504882141' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/4838592865504882141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/4838592865504882141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/01/train-sketch.html' title='train sketch'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWrh4pJLa_I/AAAAAAAAAIs/jvPxpD3RhTk/s72-c/train.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-3341879410012332243</id><published>2009-01-11T20:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-11T20:43:14.673-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='characters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Gunslinger</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWrKCy6ihhI/AAAAAAAAAIk/FWhA2h4m6i0/s1600-h/gunslinger.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWrKCy6ihhI/AAAAAAAAAIk/FWhA2h4m6i0/s320/gunslinger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290262861675922962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i drew this when i was reading a lot of dark tower and now finally got around to coloring it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-3341879410012332243?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/3341879410012332243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=3341879410012332243' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3341879410012332243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3341879410012332243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/01/gunslinger.html' title='Gunslinger'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWrKCy6ihhI/AAAAAAAAAIk/FWhA2h4m6i0/s72-c/gunslinger.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-3612563705359077486</id><published>2009-01-10T22:52:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-11T10:32:45.582-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>coffee stain</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWmXQC9ERaI/AAAAAAAAAIc/1nYSAsginBw/s1600-h/coffe_stain_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWmXQC9ERaI/AAAAAAAAAIc/1nYSAsginBw/s320/coffe_stain_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289925539250062754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-3612563705359077486?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/3612563705359077486/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=3612563705359077486' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3612563705359077486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3612563705359077486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/01/coffe-stain.html' title='coffee stain'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWmXQC9ERaI/AAAAAAAAAIc/1nYSAsginBw/s72-c/coffe_stain_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-8955993731472722007</id><published>2009-01-08T19:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-08T19:39:06.228-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Link vs Hellboy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWbF3quZcGI/AAAAAAAAAIM/eWmhUQYtKgQ/s1600-h/hellboy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWbF3quZcGI/AAAAAAAAAIM/eWmhUQYtKgQ/s320/hellboy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289132372545597538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; "stop it you mean little bastard!"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-8955993731472722007?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/8955993731472722007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=8955993731472722007' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8955993731472722007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8955993731472722007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2009/01/link-vs-hellboy.html' title='Link vs Hellboy'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SWbF3quZcGI/AAAAAAAAAIM/eWmhUQYtKgQ/s72-c/hellboy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-234312358575617818</id><published>2008-12-13T23:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T23:29:38.972-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>artist trading cards are neat!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SUS1f5Mj8II/AAAAAAAAAIE/iF7Jqji_5g4/s1600-h/mr1345.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SUS1f5Mj8II/AAAAAAAAAIE/iF7Jqji_5g4/s320/mr1345.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279544222719144066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was sketching on those artist trading cards for a while. then coloring them with a water color pencils washed out with a water brush pen while on the train... i haven't done any in a while but these are my favorites that i scanned before trading or giving away.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-234312358575617818?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/234312358575617818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=234312358575617818' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-3772975853211021360</id><published>2008-11-08T22:24:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-08T22:40:30.317-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='characters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>X23</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SRaCya7c5EI/AAAAAAAAAHs/LyNSVhj64wY/s1600-h/x23_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SRaCya7c5EI/AAAAAAAAAHs/LyNSVhj64wY/s320/x23_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266540616990123074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SRaCyIT-LBI/AAAAAAAAAHk/Rourm1hjIws/s1600-h/x23_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SRaCyIT-LBI/AAAAAAAAAHk/Rourm1hjIws/s320/x23_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266540611992693778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm trying to take a step toward thinking about what makes a good image instead of fixating on portraying reality.  i like the silhouette in the black floor but dont know if it really works. what do you like more? a little critique would help, thanks&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-3772975853211021360?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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{parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyVoc5-h3I/AAAAAAAAAHE/qqZl1nzsBiA/s1600-h/LD3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyVoc5-h3I/AAAAAAAAAHE/qqZl1nzsBiA/s320/LD3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263746586675939186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyVn5t_k5I/AAAAAAAAAG8/_PObzDeARVY/s1600-h/LD2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 98px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyVn5t_k5I/AAAAAAAAAG8/_PObzDeARVY/s320/LD2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263746577230435218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyVnggt3GI/AAAAAAAAAG0/oaBLuDsov9M/s1600-h/LD1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyVnggt3GI/AAAAAAAAAG0/oaBLuDsov9M/s320/LD1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263746570463861858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;some life drawings from a few weeks ago 7min and 10min i think. hope you like&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a id="publishButton" class="cssButton" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="if (this.className.indexOf(&amp;quot;ubtn-disabled&amp;quot;) == -1) {var e = document['stuffform'].publish;(e.length) ? e[0].click() : e.click(); if (window.event) window.event.cancelBubble = true; return false;}"&gt;&lt;div class="cssButtonOuter"&gt;&lt;div class="cssButtonMiddle"&gt;&lt;div class="cssButtonInner"&gt;Publish Post&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-2089923625279907700?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/2089923625279907700/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=2089923625279907700' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/2089923625279907700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/2089923625279907700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-life-drawings.html' title='more life drawings'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyVot_EE6I/AAAAAAAAAHM/yWRdFbOGTIM/s72-c/LD4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-6433146490096667058</id><published>2008-11-01T09:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-01T10:50:39.781-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='characters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>x-men</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyKv8sQNHI/AAAAAAAAAGs/F-vHOcSwv5Y/s1600-h/scarletwitch1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyKv8sQNHI/AAAAAAAAAGs/F-vHOcSwv5Y/s320/scarletwitch1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263734620839490674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyKrBH4sbI/AAAAAAAAAGk/0xlTfMDKO94/s1600-h/cable.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyKrBH4sbI/AAAAAAAAAGk/0xlTfMDKO94/s320/cable.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263734536129786290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;the scarlet witch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt; and cable i did for a sketch g&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;roup at work. i didn't have a lot of time to color so &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;its pretty bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;e bones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-6433146490096667058?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/6433146490096667058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=6433146490096667058' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6433146490096667058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6433146490096667058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2008/11/x-men.html' title='x-men'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SQyKv8sQNHI/AAAAAAAAAGs/F-vHOcSwv5Y/s72-c/scarletwitch1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-3237419746978829462</id><published>2008-10-21T23:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T23:24:07.526-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>class starts back up!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SP7F1iJFXMI/AAAAAAAAAFo/Se7SOZ5bCtM/s1600-h/sketbooknudes3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SP7F1iJFXMI/AAAAAAAAAFo/Se7SOZ5bCtM/s320/sketbooknudes3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259858938303962306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SP7Fv9qS7OI/AAAAAAAAAFg/Wy8DIKONPFw/s1600-h/sketbooknudes2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SP7Fv9qS7OI/AAAAAAAAAFg/Wy8DIKONPFw/s320/sketbooknudes2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259858842611805410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SP7FsB5X_6I/AAAAAAAAAFY/UbrVmQGJnFE/s1600-h/sketbooknudes1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SP7FsB5X_6I/AAAAAAAAAFY/UbrVmQGJnFE/s320/sketbooknudes1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259858775029317538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;a few pages of life drawings out of my sketch book and one i ripped off of some news print (the news print one might be my favorite life drawing ever.) i need to post more often... for that matter, i need to draw more often.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-3237419746978829462?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/3237419746978829462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=3237419746978829462' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3237419746978829462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3237419746978829462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2008/10/class-starts-back-up.html' title='class starts back up!'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SP7F1iJFXMI/AAAAAAAAAFo/Se7SOZ5bCtM/s72-c/sketbooknudes3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-6938070762798762193</id><published>2008-06-04T21:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-04T21:28:59.509-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Animation reel!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LV9k0HsDDYg&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LV9k0HsDDYg&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my 08 animation reel. hope you enjoy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-6938070762798762193?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/6938070762798762193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=6938070762798762193' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6938070762798762193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6938070762798762193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2008/06/animation-reel.html' title='Animation reel!'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-6188423545952877174</id><published>2008-05-17T07:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:05.017-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='characters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>the intallerable steve</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SC7vye4piaI/AAAAAAAAADs/s9u8Vz3N8Wg/s1600-h/fevolutionforweb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SC7vye4piaI/AAAAAAAAADs/s9u8Vz3N8Wg/s320/fevolutionforweb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201358270222666146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-6188423545952877174?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/6188423545952877174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=6188423545952877174' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6188423545952877174'/><link 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>at the circus</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SC7vMe4piZI/AAAAAAAAADk/1XACCKxtXLw/s1600-h/Untitled-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SC7vMe4piZI/AAAAAAAAADk/1XACCKxtXLw/s320/Untitled-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201357617387637138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-6368421790072799484?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/6368421790072799484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=6368421790072799484' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6368421790072799484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6368421790072799484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2008/05/at-circus.html' title='at the circus'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SC7vMe4piZI/AAAAAAAAADk/1XACCKxtXLw/s72-c/Untitled-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-7779265736043115586</id><published>2008-04-13T08:20:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:05.688-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>postcards</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SAIk5VuJrfI/AAAAAAAAADc/1oePxNw7i8Q/s1600-h/happyVdaymom.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SAIk5VuJrfI/AAAAAAAAADc/1oePxNw7i8Q/s320/happyVdaymom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188750288186093042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moms valentines day postcard... I may or may not have ran around mostly naked in cowboy boots and a fireman's hat when I was a baby.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-7779265736043115586?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/7779265736043115586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=7779265736043115586' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7779265736043115586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7779265736043115586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2008/04/postcards.html' title='postcards'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SAIk5VuJrfI/AAAAAAAAADc/1oePxNw7i8Q/s72-c/happyVdaymom.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-5910804895344439325</id><published>2008-04-13T08:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:05.842-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>note</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SAIiAluJreI/AAAAAAAAADU/15vi-Hdor4U/s1600-h/note.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SAIiAluJreI/AAAAAAAAADU/15vi-Hdor4U/s320/note.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188747114205261282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;an idea for a skate board i pumped out the other day. I'm finding i need to simplify my line and I really like  using col-erase pencil as  a wash.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-5910804895344439325?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/5910804895344439325/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=5910804895344439325' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/5910804895344439325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/5910804895344439325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2008/04/note.html' title='note'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/SAIiAluJreI/AAAAAAAAADU/15vi-Hdor4U/s72-c/note.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-2647528606574949732</id><published>2008-03-28T18:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:06.770-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>blasting out illustrations</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R-2VqQbJZ-I/AAAAAAAAAC0/68rgtNdadvE/s1600-h/crossroads1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R-2VqQbJZ-I/AAAAAAAAAC0/68rgtNdadvE/s320/crossroads1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182963299369183202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R-2VqgbJZ_I/AAAAAAAAAC8/EEBxpRzsrgA/s1600-h/DJ-MR-hide2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R-2VqgbJZ_I/AAAAAAAAAC8/EEBxpRzsrgA/s320/DJ-MR-hide2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182963303664150514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R-2VqgbJaAI/AAAAAAAAADE/lDYiS5F-UH8/s1600-h/suicide.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R-2VqgbJaAI/AAAAAAAAADE/lDYiS5F-UH8/s320/suicide.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182963303664150530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R-2VqwbJaBI/AAAAAAAAADM/rVsAB7UH8Ko/s1600-h/driving2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R-2VqwbJaBI/AAAAAAAAADM/rVsAB7UH8Ko/s320/driving2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182963307959117842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;these are a series of illustrations i recently entered in an art contest to be published in some Canadian educational magazine and get a bounty of change...  lets hope i win.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-2647528606574949732?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/2647528606574949732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=2647528606574949732' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/2647528606574949732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/2647528606574949732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2008/03/blasting-out-illustrations.html' title='blasting out illustrations'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R-2VqQbJZ-I/AAAAAAAAAC0/68rgtNdadvE/s72-c/crossroads1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-1713362793192787508</id><published>2008-01-24T21:52:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:07.514-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>class</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R5l5Rm3ByKI/AAAAAAAAACY/9ehJV2H2PcE/s1600-h/class-copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R5l5Rm3ByKI/AAAAAAAAACY/9ehJV2H2PcE/s320/class-copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159288191525701794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I started this last September and did most of the work then... then i didn't touch it for four months, which brings us to now and 20min of work later its dunzo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-1713362793192787508?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/1713362793192787508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=1713362793192787508' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/1713362793192787508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/1713362793192787508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2008/01/class.html' title='class'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R5l5Rm3ByKI/AAAAAAAAACY/9ehJV2H2PcE/s72-c/class-copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-6421624473565926056</id><published>2008-01-24T21:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:07.624-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>first of the semester</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R5l1DG3ByJI/AAAAAAAAACQ/kdVyuLvM6DI/s1600-h/drawings002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R5l1DG3ByJI/AAAAAAAAACQ/kdVyuLvM6DI/s320/drawings002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159283544371087506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-6421624473565926056?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/6421624473565926056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=6421624473565926056' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6421624473565926056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/6421624473565926056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2008/01/first-of-semester.html' title='first of the semester'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R5l1DG3ByJI/AAAAAAAAACQ/kdVyuLvM6DI/s72-c/drawings002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-7401457173444635536</id><published>2007-12-01T00:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:07.761-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Hammerspace</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R1EcrFIh6bI/AAAAAAAAACI/6uHsXaGUcdA/s1600-R/hammerspacescene.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R1EcrFIh6bI/AAAAAAAAACI/pU3O8Pi5mmw/s320/hammerspacescene.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138920176244353458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this is a composition i did for gaffneys class last year. its the characters from the pitch book im working on and its finally colored.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-7401457173444635536?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/7401457173444635536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=7401457173444635536' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7401457173444635536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/7401457173444635536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2007/12/hammerspace.html' title='Hammerspace'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R1EcrFIh6bI/AAAAAAAAACI/pU3O8Pi5mmw/s72-c/hammerspacescene.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-1310868626866641818</id><published>2007-11-23T21:24:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:07.977-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>life drawings</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R0e1uzWcFPI/AAAAAAAAABs/OB_zoUVEVZI/s1600-h/life-drawings11forweb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R0e1uzWcFPI/AAAAAAAAABs/OB_zoUVEVZI/s320/life-drawings11forweb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136273715702273266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;seven and ten minute life drawings&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-1310868626866641818?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/1310868626866641818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=1310868626866641818' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/1310868626866641818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/1310868626866641818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2007/11/life-drawings.html' title='life drawings'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R0e1uzWcFPI/AAAAAAAAABs/OB_zoUVEVZI/s72-c/life-drawings11forweb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-8148851892661241964</id><published>2007-11-23T20:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:08.274-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>Songebob!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R0emgDWcFOI/AAAAAAAAABk/iTlF6kjWxP8/s1600-h/sponge-bob-and-patrick.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R0emgDWcFOI/AAAAAAAAABk/iTlF6kjWxP8/s320/sponge-bob-and-patrick.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136256969624786146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5am, can't animate anymore... time to draw Spongebob.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-8148851892661241964?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/8148851892661241964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=8148851892661241964' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8148851892661241964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8148851892661241964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2007/11/songebob.html' title='Songebob!'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/R0emgDWcFOI/AAAAAAAAABk/iTlF6kjWxP8/s72-c/sponge-bob-and-patrick.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-3646595979316350881</id><published>2007-11-18T00:21:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:08.433-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Fetch doggy!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Rz_2XjWcFNI/AAAAAAAAABc/t2nQPm8G_RU/s1600-h/doggirl2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Rz_2XjWcFNI/AAAAAAAAABc/t2nQPm8G_RU/s320/doggirl2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134092984712434898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is an illustration i worked way to long at. Its kind of an experiment with textures and some random combinations of effects.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-3646595979316350881?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/3646595979316350881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=3646595979316350881' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3646595979316350881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3646595979316350881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2007/11/fetch-doggy.html' title='Fetch doggy!'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/Rz_2XjWcFNI/AAAAAAAAABc/t2nQPm8G_RU/s72-c/doggirl2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-3690845808666585647</id><published>2007-10-21T02:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:08.666-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>life drawings</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RxsiOI8yo2I/AAAAAAAAABU/5b1e-HuzsG0/s1600-h/life-drawings-conte-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RxsiOI8yo2I/AAAAAAAAABU/5b1e-HuzsG0/s320/life-drawings-conte-web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123726627380044642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;7min drawings from life with Conte pencil.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-3690845808666585647?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/3690845808666585647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=3690845808666585647' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3690845808666585647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/3690845808666585647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2007/10/life-drawings.html' title='life drawings'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RxsiOI8yo2I/AAAAAAAAABU/5b1e-HuzsG0/s72-c/life-drawings-conte-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-8149721344381393557</id><published>2007-10-14T23:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:09.024-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>quick studies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RxMPDI8yo0I/AAAAAAAAABE/ytVVeQy05G8/s1600-h/stody026small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RxMPDI8yo0I/AAAAAAAAABE/ytVVeQy05G8/s320/stody026small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121453747866870594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RxMPT48yo1I/AAAAAAAAABM/9yryoqAw6yk/s1600-h/stody025small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RxMPT48yo1I/AAAAAAAAABM/9yryoqAw6yk/s320/stody025small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121454035629679442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was flipping through James Jeans blog and and saw his new drawings from life in an effort not to get to discouraged i set my screen savor to 4min and spent some time doing some quick studies from photograph. I'm trying to exaggerate the gesture more while still retaining form and structure. still not pushing enough, but not bad for 4min studies...  ps. these may or may not be from porn&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-8149721344381393557?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/8149721344381393557/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=8149721344381393557' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8149721344381393557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8149721344381393557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2007/10/quick-studies.html' title='quick studies'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RxMPDI8yo0I/AAAAAAAAABE/ytVVeQy05G8/s72-c/stody026small.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-8114496467928799824</id><published>2007-09-22T20:45:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:09.164-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Finally!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RvXiVo8yozI/AAAAAAAAAA4/AsdE35ih2_M/s1600-h/lion-backgroundsmall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RvXiVo8yozI/AAAAAAAAAA4/AsdE35ih2_M/s320/lion-backgroundsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5113241813346591538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;i finaly painted something complete... with backgrounds and everything!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-8114496467928799824?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/8114496467928799824/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=8114496467928799824' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8114496467928799824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8114496467928799824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2007/09/finaly.html' title='Finally!'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RvXiVo8yozI/AAAAAAAAAA4/AsdE35ih2_M/s72-c/lion-backgroundsmall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-4386053824334338962</id><published>2007-09-22T13:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:09.685-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='characters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>alien...mutant...beast...creature...thing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RvV0wo8yowI/AAAAAAAAAAo/s-gPhQalJAI/s1600-h/clone-colorsmall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RvV0wo8yowI/AAAAAAAAAAo/s-gPhQalJAI/s320/clone-colorsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5113121330924004098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-4386053824334338962?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/4386053824334338962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=4386053824334338962' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/4386053824334338962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/4386053824334338962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2007/09/alienmutandbeastcreaturething.html' title='alien...mutant...beast...creature...thing'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RvV0wo8yowI/AAAAAAAAAAo/s-gPhQalJAI/s72-c/clone-colorsmall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-8612763265732910596</id><published>2007-09-20T20:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:10.110-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='characters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>bumblefux the giant designs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RvM1wI8yovI/AAAAAAAAAAg/Crg2-OAZ4ds/s1600-h/bumblefuxforweb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RvM1wI8yovI/AAAAAAAAAAg/Crg2-OAZ4ds/s320/bumblefuxforweb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112489103148098290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GIANT.... RAHHHH!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-8612763265732910596?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/8612763265732910596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=8612763265732910596' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8612763265732910596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/8612763265732910596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2007/09/bumblefux-giant-designs.html' title='bumblefux the giant designs'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RvM1wI8yovI/AAAAAAAAAAg/Crg2-OAZ4ds/s72-c/bumblefuxforweb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933501880872606651.post-5281874516935910748</id><published>2007-09-13T14:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:38:10.534-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>New Illustration</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RumwlDy1UxI/AAAAAAAAAAU/eWtwaZKj8dw/s1600-h/lionsmall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RumwlDy1UxI/AAAAAAAAAAU/eWtwaZKj8dw/s320/lionsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109809402948702994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year, instead of trying to be prolific in sketches im trying to put out the best work i can. im also trying to think more conceptually apposed to the usual stagnant character standing alone. This is the rough of a piece im hashing out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3933501880872606651-5281874516935910748?l=michaelricca.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/feeds/5281874516935910748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3933501880872606651&amp;postID=5281874516935910748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/5281874516935910748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3933501880872606651/posts/default/5281874516935910748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michaelricca.blogspot.com/2007/09/this-year-instead-of-trying-to-be.html' title='New Illustration'/><author><name>MIKE RICCA</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08643948666172061710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Y55GRonwEs/RumwlDy1UxI/AAAAAAAAAAU/eWtwaZKj8dw/s72-c/lionsmall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
