Mike Hinge 098

Mike Hinge - Unplotted Object (original Orientation). Pencil and pen on paper. Approximate size 60x70cm. Date: Unknown. Unsigned.


This is a sketch that belongs to the series of drawings by Mike for a story that he wrote and illustrated called "OBJECT - COMPUTE...COMPUTE...READOUT...REALTIME /// 0" for the September 1982 magazine "Heavy Metal".

detail

 rotated

I have a collection of a few of a few more sketches for this story that I have already posted on the blog you can see them HERE.

With the collection of Mike Hinge photocopies, I got recently, there was a rough draft of the story OBJECT so I thought it might be interesting to compare and contrast the rough draft with finish published images.

Here are the two frames of "Unplotted Object", draft and then published.

  

Here is the front cover of the draft story and an inside page and then an inside page of "Heavy Metal" magazine.

I have cobbled together a youtube film the draft "OBJECT - COMPUTE... COMPUTE... READOUT... REALTIME /// 0"  and have combined it, to compare and contrast, with the finished illustrations that were published in "Heavy Metal" magazine.

Mike Hinge was a massive music fan and had a wide interest in music. From one  short biography he wrote, "Work to favourite New Wave Groups: Ultravox, Joy Division, Magazine and Orchestral  Manoeuvres in the Dark, with which the listening preference is headphones..." Hence the decision for the chosen sound track - Ultravox - Maximum Acceleration.


All the best.


*UPDATE* 10/04/2011


Later I realised that I have another of Mike's photocopied images from this series that shows a little more of the scene and has the difference that it doesn't have the name Barney on the space helmet.

 A3 photocopy  

A3 photocopy 

Mike Hinge 070

Mike Hinge - Lock On. All Systems Reading. Pencil on tracing paper. Approximate size 70x60cm. Date unknown. unsigned.

Mike Hinge 069

Mike Hinge - Lock On. All Systems Reading. Pencil on white paper. Approximate size 70x60cm. Date unknown. unsigned.

This artwork is a colour version of an image that featured in a story called "Object" written and illustrated by Mike Hinge published in "Heavy Metal" Sept/1982.

Mike Hinge 057

Mike Hinge - FLT LT Jaimie Gordon - Omega 22. Pencil on white paper. Approximate size 60x70cm. Date unknown. unsigned.


This artwork is very similar to an image that featured in a story called "Object" written and illustrated by Mike Hinge published in "Heavy Metal" Sept/1982.

Mike Hinge 034

Mike Hinge, Spaceman and ladder sketch, pencil on white paper. Approximate size 70x60cm. Date unknown. Signed.

This preliminary artwork is very similar to the final piece that featured in a story called "Object" written and illustrated by Mike Hinge published in "Heavy Metal" Sept/1982.

Mike Hinge 011

Mike Hinge design: Object-Compute-Compute-Readout-Realtime-///0. Pencil on white paper. Approximate size 50x60cm. Date: 16th Apr/80?. Unsigned.

This preliminary artwork is very similar to the final piece that featured in a story called "Object" written and illustrated by Mike Hinge published in "Heavy Metal" Sept/1982.

Mike Hinge 010

An unfinished sketch of what looks like an electrical circuit labyrinth. Pencil and grey ink with correction whitener on white paper. Approximate size 60x50cm. Date: 2nd & 3rd Sep/78. Unsigned.

A version of this sketch turned upside down was used in the story "Object" by Mike Hinge published in "Heavy Metal" Sept/1982.