Food is exploding out my eyeballs (FWP)

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Saturday, November 26, 2011

Posted at : Saturday, November 26, 2011


Is it a Turkey? Is it a chicken? Or is it just delicious?

Handy Now Available

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Friday, November 11, 2011

Posted at : Friday, November 11, 2011


Handy is now available on the iTunes store! Check out the official website or go straight to the iTunes link.

Rakinos Design & Handy

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Thursday, November 10, 2011

Posted at : Thursday, November 10, 2011


Tried to finish this before Halloween but got sidetracked by many things. I wanted to take a stab at making
something more flashy.



In other news, I just submitted my first app to the iTunes store called Handy. Currently waiting on it to get approved. What is Handy? Well, for the longest longest time I've been wanting something like PoseManiac's Hands for Drawing (Warning: digital dong will greet you)  to be available on my phone so I could be more inclined to use hand reference (using a mirror can sometimes be a nag). I even emailed the PoseManiac guy several times about getting something started, but no luck.

So I went and made my own with the powers of Unity and the amazing Alex Hogan who generally knows what the hell he's doing more than I do. We took it a step further and made it so you can even adjust the lighting and field of view. Pretty simple project, but still fun to work on to figure out a lot of the kinks. I'll post more when it's finally approved.

Heavy Drinker

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Posted at : Wednesday, October 26, 2011





Drawing fat things is always fun.

Festraw

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Sunday, October 23, 2011

Posted at : Sunday, October 23, 2011



Recently grabbed RockSmith for PS3 and all my drawing/painting productivity has nosedived. It's a pretty decent shot at bringing some form of entertainment to practicing guitar. And while it's far from perfect (game has some serious UI flow issues, as well as clunky load/save times) it's definitely a good first step in the right direction. I'm pretty terrible at guitar, so anything that gets me excited to practice it 2-3 hours everyday is a pretty satisfying purchase. Also being able to actually play Muse's 'Unnatural Selection' is a pretty big rush.

Dragun

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Monday, October 17, 2011

Posted at : Monday, October 17, 2011


Messing around and having some fun with swatches. I really got to get around to producing some finished looking art again.
In the meantime I'm working on a small iPhone app. More details on that soon.

StarMunk

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Thursday, October 6, 2011

Posted at : Thursday, October 06, 2011

More random doodley goo. Monkeys in space suits always seem like a good idea.

Peace

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Posted at : Wednesday, October 05, 2011


Anyone Home?

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Thursday, September 29, 2011

Posted at : Thursday, September 29, 2011

FYI I'm changing the domain for my blog to now point to blog.mike-monroe.com. If you visit the old address you should still get redirected here. It's one of those things I probably should have done a long long time ago but now finally got around to.

Panthro Doodle

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Monday, September 26, 2011

Posted at : Monday, September 26, 2011

Digging the new Thundercats so far.

Death

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Saturday, September 24, 2011

Posted at : Saturday, September 24, 2011


TROLOLO-O's

Filed Under (, ) by Mike Monroe on Thursday, September 22, 2011

Posted at : Thursday, September 22, 2011

Something I whipped up real quick for the SketchDaily group on reddit, where the theme was to design a cereal box with a mascot. I think a Eduard Khil cereal would be fucking AWESOME. Or really just a cereal built out of internet memes, like perhaps Nyan Cat Crunch.

RSI

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Posted at : Wednesday, September 21, 2011


Cheers

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Posted at : Tuesday, September 20, 2011


Eden

Filed Under (, ) by Mike Monroe on Monday, September 19, 2011

Posted at : Monday, September 19, 2011

One of the pieces done for the CGMA Environment Design class. I decided to make it into a small tribute to one of my favorite games Rez.

Love

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on

Posted at : Monday, September 19, 2011


Old Random Post-its

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Sunday, September 18, 2011

Posted at : Sunday, September 18, 2011


Time for some more random work post-it doodles.

Bunnies Got It Rough

Filed Under (, ) by Mike Monroe on Saturday, September 3, 2011

Posted at : Saturday, September 03, 2011

Too damn busy. Lots of small doodles but nothing I wanna put up yet. So in the meantime here's a plant concept I did for the Dynamic Sketching class. Bunnies got it rough when even the plants are out to get them now-a-days.

The Gap

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Posted at : Tuesday, August 09, 2011

I found this excellent design on reddit of Ira Glass' thoughts. All I have to say is FUCK YES. I wish I knew who designed this.

Gotham City Impostors Nuke Whale

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Posted at : Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Drawn for a compadre at work. We ended up turning this into a calling card you can use in the video game Gotham City Impostors by Monolith.

GCMA Classes

Filed Under (, ) by Mike Monroe on Sunday, July 31, 2011

Posted at : Sunday, July 31, 2011

So I started taking some online classes over at CGMA. I'm currently in the middle of Environment Design 1 with James Paick and Dynamic Sketching 1 with Peter Han.

Here's some thumbnails from my first week of the Environment Design class. Basically we had to practice separating foreground, middle-ground, and background while also providing 1 main focal point and 2 softer focal points. My personal goal is to try and get some mood into these whenever I can.



Magic Caster

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Saturday, July 30, 2011

Posted at : Saturday, July 30, 2011

I tend to bounce between sketchbooks repeatedly. Ones with fancy paper, one's that are massive, moleskins, and so on. I even keep a backup one in the car. I also got in the habit of trying to use notebooks again, taking notes and doodling. My favorite one I pumped full of awesome notes and doodles from art and music workshops and then proceeded to lose it for about a year. Fortunately it finally turned up again in a random backpack, and I found this doodle I always rather liked. It's always a bit of a pain getting the loose-leaf lines out of these though.

Clayface

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Thursday, July 21, 2011

Posted at : Thursday, July 21, 2011

Don't mind me. Just painting up Clayface. Ended up making this into a calling card for Gotham City Impostors.

Dracula Fetus

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Sunday, July 17, 2011

Posted at : Sunday, July 17, 2011

Fiverr request by mr. Dracula Fetus

GG Allin

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Friday, July 15, 2011

Posted at : Friday, July 15, 2011

 Another Fiverr request. This one involved late punk rock singer GG Allin and a Pokemon named snubbull. *shrug*

Fiverr requests

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Sunday, July 10, 2011

Posted at : Sunday, July 10, 2011

So in a random bit of curiosity, I decided to whore my art skills out on Fiverr for a little bit, offering todo small sketches for $5. I had some fun and interesting requests. Had to cut it short unfortunately since my freetime is drying up this month as I start online art classes again.

Anyways, here's one of the requests. "Please draw me a crazy DJing Penguin incorporating the letters PGT somewhere."

Bad Yoshi

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Posted at : Wednesday, June 29, 2011

It's-a-me!

Beast!

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Sunday, June 5, 2011

Posted at : Sunday, June 05, 2011



Drew Beast for the Everyday Sketch club. Theme this time was X-Men: First Class.


Vash the Stampede

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Posted at : Wednesday, May 25, 2011

I drew Vash the Stampede from Trigun for the Everyday Sketch blaroogh.


Also, in the interest of getting my body to stop morphing into a slumping sack of potatoes, I built myself a ghetto stand up desk and have been trying it out at home for the last week and a half.

VERDICT (so far):
GOOD for gaming, casual browsing and coding.
BAD for painting, or at least awkward enough to make me want to paint on my tablet PC rather than the desktop.

I've noticed it also forces you to take more breaks. It's also very weird sometimes to be "exhausted" after using the computer.

Grok

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Friday, May 20, 2011

Posted at : Friday, May 20, 2011

The product of a small value experiment.

Psycho Demon MF

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Posted at : Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Found this amidst some old digital doodles. I'm not quite sure what the hell is going on with this guy, or why he has a flannel shirt and biking shorts on. But that's definitely a face you can trust with babysitting your children.

E's Magical Mechwarrior Adventures

Filed Under ( ) by Mike Monroe on Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Posted at : Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Done for the Everyday Sketch stuff. Apparently a young girl named E loved everyone's farting robots, so the theme for this day was to draw her with some more robots (farting optional).

David Bowie

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Sunday, May 15, 2011

Posted at : Sunday, May 15, 2011

HAIR. EVERYWHERE. I drew David Bowie as Jareth, the Goblin King. 
Done a weekly art ma-jigger at work. I also like that spellcheck recognizes the word ma-jigger.

Reddit

Filed Under () by Mike Monroe on Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Posted at : Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Once upon a a time, someone requested I doodle the Reddit alien.
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