Preface

Last updated: August 14th, 2024 - 4:09pm

Hi, I'am Mike Lewis. Long-time self-taught artist, doing illustration, painting, animation and cartooning, while also investing in the stock market, reading books and traveler.

                                     (an image that should give you a good idea of what I'm like)

My purpose in life is create art. Not just art, true art. Pretentious, I know. 

• Mike's History

I've been drawing for as long as I can remember, been fascinated and obsessed with drawing and anything to do with it from a very young age.

Been wanting to do my own cartoons thanks to classic animation like Tom & Jerry, Tex Avery, Disney, Looney Tunes, Fleischer, UPA and Hanna-Barbera. 

Around 2011, I began to animate on Nintendo DSi's Flipnote Studios, learning more and more about the process of animation through self-education and reading and watching videos:

https://vimeo.com/943485795

In the late 2010s, my influences started to expand and became interested in other forms of media, such as illustration, painting and comics.

I started to branch out to using Toon Boom Harmony where I animated two pilots for potential series, "Junior's Inquisitive Quest" and "Quackology", both originally intended to co-exist as a series collectively named Animalistic, but things changed afterwards.

With the help of the now-defunct Sony's Sketch app, I developed the Questo's World comic as a spin-off of the "Junior's Inquisitive Quest" pilot, founding my new found love of webcomics that I still doing to this day.

Expanding into other mediums helped me realized how much advantage and opportunities I had on my hands.

A moment in time in the mid-2022, I bought some painting supplies, but didn't really get into painting until much later that same year. I originally wanted to watercolor as a way to blow off steam, but eventually wanted to use my own unique style to simple acrylic painting and eventually decided to do an art business, which I became very thankful for.

Six of my favorite selected paintings

                               Paintings I did for family members

Anyways, this is all what lead to Mike's Arthouse:

Slightly new logo and background done in 2024

I do everything, from filmmaking, painting and illustrating. My one goal in all of these is one (two?) simple term: "self-expression"!

Sincerely

Mike Lewis