I wish I had the guts to get a tattoo. Maybe a dinosaur fighting a robot or something.

BATTLE!

A quick MSPaint request from Jill.

DinoSevere!

Tornadosaurus!

Thunderdactyl!

Hurricanotops!

Gale Forceryx!

Velocerometric Pressure!

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Brontotsunami!

Snow-isaurus!!

Dipfloodocus!

Baseball sized Hail-Allosaurus!

Quite regularly, whether I’m on the phone or just wasting away some time at lunch, I open up MSPaint (surprise surprise) and just do some doodling. Normally, I try and doodle faces or figures and normally they are complete crap. Most often I screw up either the eyes of a face or the proportions of a body so that it doesn’t even begin to resemble the picture that I have in mind.

Well, yesterday I was working on one and by pure chance it came out great! Boingboing had a short feature on Robert Ullman yesterday and so I was picturing his work when I started in on this doodle. It wasn’t actually an experimentation into faces or figure, instead I wanted to try and get Indian style sitting down. Unexpectedly, the face came out great! The Indian style sitting? Less great, but it’s still there in form. Check it out!

Without color… and with leggings and hobbit feet? or something?

With color with shorts and more normal feet.

I’m pretty proud of it. now if only I could draw higher quality faces and figures with some regular consistency.

Occasionally I get readers and friends who send me MSPaint requests. I can’t do them all because oftentimes their complexity makes them near impossible (“Can you draw an elephant with the face of Mitt Romney stomping out a huge fire at the Charles de Gaulle airport while onlookers stare confused? also can you put Napoleon eating Neapolitan ice cream in there somewhere – that’d be HILARIOUS??”)

But today Pam sent me over a quick one that seemed like it’d be doable. A friend of hers is on a volleyball team called the vipers and she was interested in having a shirt done commemorating the team. Specifically, she was hoping to see a viper wrapped around a volleyball. Check it out!

I’m pleased with the first pass. Though I must admit, I stole the Volleyball image.

I recently took mouse in hand, as I often do, and opened up MSPaint for some t-shirt designing. I came up with this idea after a chat with Darcy. She told a tale where she was sassed by an unexpecting fool. Friends, you don’t sass Darcy. It’s just not something you want to do.

So I drew a sweet T-shirt design.
Let me know what you think.

Oh man! Can you feel the wrath of that MSPaint chick or what?! I’m very proud of how she came out. I’m thinking about silk screening a bunch of these for the ladies. Especially those ladies who should not be sassed.

Last night I whipped up a little Kung Fu comic.

Check it out here.

I thought of this concept in the middle of my kung fu class on Wednesday. Sure enough, we have a door along the side wall of our workout space that is labeled just like that one. When the thought hit me, it really took some effort to keep myself from breaking out into crazy laughter in the middle of class.

(It should be noted, in real life the room is full of first aid supplies, extra uniforms, wood to break, and various folded chairs and tables to pull out if we need them.)

I really love the facebook application Graffiti. It’s got a few disadvantages to MSPaint and a few advantages. I’ve been playing around with it a bit and I whipped up a picture today for Vivienne during lunch that I’m pretty proud of.

enjoy!

For those of you with Facebook, click here to watch the brush strokes that made up this picture.

Once again, work and school have me a bit strapped for time. Since I can’t devote the proper amount of effort to a good textual post, here’s some MSPaint.

As is often the case with random MSPaint pulled from my collection, I don’t remember the origin of many of these pictures. So we’ll just have to use our imagination.

Enjoy!

I’m afraid there’s a freak ton of stuff going on at work this week, so I really can’t put in the time for a proper update. And when the going gets tough… the tough go through their MSPaint archives and post a handful of old drawings. So here we go – a collection of MSPaint. I will title this collection:

No Explanation Needed.

Ryan came up with this idea and asked me to draw it up for him.

Awesome!

If you know me well, then you probably know that I’m not a huge fan of politics. I think it’s extremely important that we appreciate that there is no one answer, and rare is the case where someone is right or wrong. Republicans? They make a lot of great points. Democrats? Also a lot of great points.

Anyway while I might dislike politics, I love MSPaint. How is this even remotely related? Well, Sarah, a friend of MikeDiDonato.com, is a campaign manager for a Mr. Joel Haugen in Oregon. Joel Haugen is running for Congress and Sarah asked me if I’d be willing to whip up a little MSPaint version of Flat Stanley in the likeness of her candidate.

Clearly I rose to the challenge. Not so much because I believe in politics but because I believe in MSPaint. So, check out Joel’s website. Over there on the left hand side bar is a little download Flat Joel link. It’ll bring you to a page where you can download my picture of Joel Haugen. Neat huh?

Here’s a preview:

MSPaint. Helping shape the United States’ Congress.

Gymnastics Caitlin asked me to whip up an MSPaint of a gymnast as the logo for her Gymnastics Facebook club. I’m pretty pleased with the result. Check it out.

Nothing special. Just reds .

It’s a bear all hyped up on red bull.

Just something I whipped up during lunch today.

Scary!

Morning commute…

I love this one:

This one isn’t so much a monster as a T-rex.