Hello, my name is Mike Sheehan,
and I'm a doodle addict.

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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I always tell students to start a project with quick sketches to develop a shape language. Plus research, then you can start to generate ideas. This is one of who knows how many small sketches I'll do to start this project. #ideation #designsketches #pilo

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Some studies from the @fullertonarboretum Friday. These are random studies for my Sketching for Animators and Illustrators class. This is how I create handouts. We're hitting the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles this Saturday. Can't wait! #fullertonc

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I took a class to the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. This is one of my pages.

One of the students from my lifedrawing class, I have a tendency to draw the other artists in the room and not the model. #drawing #lifedrawing #sketching #tonedpaper #lifemodels #prismacolor #prismacolorpencil #saddbackcollege #saddlebackarts #drawingfro

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Sketchbook page from a night at the Anaheim Packing House.

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mike_sheehan_studio My sketch spot was better than your sketch spot last night. #virtuososofyakutia #lakearrowheadresort #violin #sketchbook #sketching #cafesketching #urbansketchers #urbansketching #ucr #fullertoncollegeartdepartment #lakearrowheadrotary

Quick breakfast doodles before the next storm comes in... #cafesketching #cafesketch #sketch #sketching #artistsofinstagram #characterdesign #fastsketching #urbansketching #mitsubishipencil #mcdonalds #illustration #drawing

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Breakfast doodles.

Took my fast sketch class cafe sketching. This is a napkin demo.

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Class demos in my "Sketching for Animators and Illustrators" class. The building in the foreground is a students sketch I xeroxed and went over with acrylics. This is about a half hour in. We also looked at brush-pen and watercolor. I'm doing a summer ver

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My notes and demos from yesterday's watercolor sketching workshop at #waltdisneyfeatureanimation. We were talking about quickly blocking in people from life in natural situations. #watercolor #watercolorpainting #pleinair #illustration #disney #disneystud

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My "Sketching for Animators and Illustrators" class started yesterday, which means the start of whiteboard doodlemania. #doodle #fullertoncollege #fullertoncollegeartdepartment #whiteboard #whiteboarddrawing #dryerase #perpective #sketching #marker #paris

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Some of my sketchbooks from a new workshop I'm conducting at the Riverside Art Museum.

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Sketchbook doodle from the mall food court.

Quick one from the Women's March today in Los Angeles. This was great, everyone was was mellow. It felt more like a demonstration of solidarity than an angry mob. #womensmarch #womensmarchlosangeles #huffingtonpost #drawing #sketch ##sketchbook #sketching

Quick sketch of The Pilgrim in Dana Point Harbor. #danapoint #sketch #danapointharbor #thepilgrim #strathmorepaper #strathmoreart #tonedtan #tonedtanmixedmedia #tallship #marineart #ship

Costumed model night at Fullerton College.

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If you ever need to solve a problem, any problem, this is your guy. #characterdesign #sketching #cafesketching #mcdonalds #sketchbook #mcdonaldslife #lakearrowhead #illustration #artistsofinstagram #urbansketching

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Market Street a long time ago.

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Old one from Long Beach California.

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Read an article that Gill's Ice Cream is closing, here's an old sketch in front of it at The Original Farmers Market. Los Angeles has a weird habit of destroying the real thing to put in a facsimile of the same thing, but without the tradition, charm or h

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