Michael Cho's sketchbook
Monday, June 21, 2010

The Clash

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I spent a few days during the last week painting up some quick portraits of the members of the Clash. I got the idea to do these after watc...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

PEN Canada: Dawit Isaak

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PEN Canada recently asked me to draw a portrait of imprisoned writer Dawit Isaak, and I was happy to accept. For those unfamiliar with PEN...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Toronto Streets

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A couple of weeks ago, I was on a walk in the west end of downtown when I saw this street. I was struck by way it looked, so I came back a ...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Editorial all day long

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Just to show you that my time isn't spent doodling super-heroes all day long, here's a batch of editorial illustrations I've don...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

A Night at the Opera Pt. 2

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These are the other seven illustrations I did for " Les Adventures de Madame Merveille ", a comic-themed opera performed earlier t...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The Marvel Superhero Hour Pt. 2

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As I was mentioning in a previous entry (see 2 posts down), I took some time recently to do some new super-hero paintings to take to TCAF, t...
Monday, May 03, 2010

Best American Comics 2010

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This was a fun assignment, and a real honour. I was asked by Houghton Mifflin and series editors Matt Madden and Jessica Abel to design a...
Monday, April 26, 2010

the Marvel Superhero Hour

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Lately, during the week, I've been trying to take a couple hours at the end of the night to paint up some small super-hero sketches. So...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Village Voice

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This is a cover for the Village Voice Spring Arts Guide I drew a few weeks ago. Obviously, its a tie in to the new Kick Ass movie that...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Cartoon City

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This is a new painting I completed earlier this week for an exhibition called Cartoon City , which opens at Harbourfront Center on April 9th...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

A Night at the Opera

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Here are three illustrations from a fun project I completed last month. They're for a new modern opera, " Les Adventures de Madame...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Crossroads

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This is a little painting about Robert Johnson that I completed recently. Come On In My Kitchen is one of the songs that I listen to all t...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Pablo Picasso

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This is a small painting of Pablo Picasso I did for a charity art-show and auction, to raise funds for Haiti. They asked for a head-shot of...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Darkseid - Lord of Apokolips

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This one was a lot of fun to work on. I was asked to draw an image of Darkseid ( a great comic book villain created by Jack Kirby ) for a c...
Sunday, January 03, 2010

Happy New Year

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Now that it's 2010, I thought it was time to post some new artwork. Unfortunately, I can't share much of the work I've been doi...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

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Here's my holiday card for all of you who've dropped by to check out my blog this year. May you all have a wonderful season, and a ...
Monday, December 14, 2009

In time for Christmas: Penguin does Posters!

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A week ago, I got in the mail a nice package from Penguin Publishing with some excellent posters they'd made of my cover artwork for Don...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Mighty Avengers!

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Sorry for the long delay in between posts, folks. To make up for it, here's a drawing of that old-school Marvel super-team, the Avenger...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Bill Russell - the greatest Celtic of all time

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As some of you may know, I'm a basketball nut. I'm the kind of fan that follows NBA teams even during the off-season: reading about...
Monday, October 05, 2009

The Amazing Absorbing Boy - Book Cover Art

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Above is the final artwork for a recent book cover assignment for Random House Canada . I was contacted by art director Jennifer Lum to ill...
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