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  • Landscape Sketching on Location!

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  • New Tutorial is Up!

    This is About Seeing, Blocking and Editing Simple Shapes.

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    Welcome to My Site...

    Mike Sheehan, hailing from Los Angeles, California, has always been fueled by a deep passion for capturing the world around him. With a sketchbook or paintbox in hand, he finds that every moment holds the promise of a new adventure. His dedication to working from life has profoundly enriched his career in design and illustration.

    Mike earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,

    California. He has built a career as a designer/illustrator and art director working with companies like Walt Disney Imagineering, Toy Design Director for The Disney Stores as well as all sorts of companies creating toys and

    consumer products. The focus is the same through varied media including a five year feature for “Off-Ramp” on KPCC, the NPR affiliate in Los Angeles. Through it all, mileage is the cornerstone-whether in a sketchbook or in life.

  • My Sketchbooks

    These are my everyday sketchbooks. Mostly observational and some out of my head...

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    USS Abraham Lincoln
    March Field Air Museum
    Doodle in the Saloon
    Saloon Sketching
    Sunday at the Batman Household
    Class Demo at Travel Town Griffith Park, Ca
    Saloon
    Boulder Bay, Big Bear
    First Date
    Doodle
    Waiting for a Sandwich
    Carnival
    Musicians
    In-Class Demo
    Chinatown, Los Angeles
    McDonald's Sketching
    Coffeeshop
    Choir
    Fisherman, Lake Gregory
    Another Stoner at Lunch
    Mall
    Jazz Gig
    Fullerton College
    San Francisco
    Gil Scott-Heron Doodle
    LouEddie's Pizza
    Frenchman at Dinner
    Grand Park, Los Angeles
    Grand Park Fountains
    Jazz Gig
    Jacques Lesure
    People Sketching
    Sketchbook Painting
    Student
    Pigeon Point Lighthouse
    Keller Peak Fire Lookout
    Bust from the Lincoln Shrine, Redlands Ca
    Waiting to fly out to Hong Kong
    Lunch Sketches
    LouEddie's Pizza
    Mariachi Plaza
    Jazz Gig
    Lake Arrowhead, Ca
    Lunch
    Night Sketching
    Demos from the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles
    Olvera Street Los Angeles, Ca.
    Packing House, Anaheim, Ca.
    Queen Mary, Long Beach, Ca
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  • Design

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    10" Wall-e Remote Paintmaster
    Remote for 10" Wall-e
    EVE Remote
    EVE Remote
    Buzz Lightyear Playset
    Buzz Lightyear Vehicle Roughs
    Rough Sketch for a Modular Toy
    Prototype
    Prototypes
    Animation Attraction Disney's California Adventure
    Light and Effects Sequence
    Desk Design for the Beasts Library
    Early Rough
    Early Sketch for a Video Capture Prop
    Prop Design
    Off the Page Design
    Prototype
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    Barbie Backpack for Mattel
    Toy Product Thumbnails
    Life Size Fairies Playset
  • Illustration

    A small selection of illustration including some roughs

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    Lake Arrowhead
    Restaurant Illustration
  • Fullerton College

    Life at Fullerton College

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    Doodle from the Winter Session Draw Workshop
    Meeting Doodles
    Sketching for Animators and Illustrators Whiteboard
    Whiteboard Doodle
    Secret Bunker
    The Ramblings of my Officemate...
    Faculty Meetng
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    Christmas
    EASL Costume Model Night
    Doodles
    Another Doodle from My Digital Drawing Class
    Napkin Doodle
    Free Tutoring...
    Scene from an Art Department Faculty Meeting
    Natural History Museum Sketches
    Student
    Doodles
    Model
    Doodle
    Museum Field Trip
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  • Links

    Fullerton College Art Department

    Where I teach.

    My YouTube Channel

    I post my tutorials here.

  • About

    A quick run down

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    Mike Sheehan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has had a career designing and illustrating for the theme park, toy, and consumer products industries. In 2003 he was artist in residence at Fullerton College in California. One of his pieces was added to their permanent collection.

    Throughout his career he has been a studio and plein air oil painter. He's currently working on a new series of paintings and drawings.

    Recently, his sketches of various subject matters around Los Angeles have been featured on KPCC’s Off-Ramp with John Rabe.

    His home and studio is in Lake Arrowhead, California.

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