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If I had some roller skates, this is what my halloween costume would be.

Roller Ninja Mike D.

Another entry! This one is frightening.

Unitard D.

The costumes keep coming in!!

Momma D.

Ugh. This one might win the ‘grossly disgusting’ award.

Disgusting Cat Creature

Another entry!

Check here for the instructions.

The Incredible Mike

Another entry!!

Devo.

Yet another entry into the Halloween MSPaint contest.

Skeleton

Our newest addition to the Halloween MSPaint adventure:

Leonidas

Click here to get in on the action.

This is the first entry received in this month’s HALLOWEEN MSPaint adventure. Check out the templates and such here.

Michael Antony.

October is well on the way so I suppose it’s about time for a Halloween MSPaint event.

Last year’s event, complete with over 30 entries, was a big hit. This year I thought I’d continue along the same lines as before with a ‘make a costume for mike d’ contest.

But this time with a bit more flare.

I’ve created an MSPaint body template.

Included in this template are a series of eyes, mouths, heads, skin tones, and bodies to allow you all sorts of flexibility in making your best costume for me.

For starters, click on the thumbnail above and save the image to your computer.

Next, get this final template. This will standardize entries and help with sizing etc.

Open up two MSPaint windows and copy the body components from one MSPaint into the canvas of the final MSPaint template. Then, add some accessories and some color to make the ultimate costume!! Finally, add a title and e-mail it to me! (MikeDiDonato AT gmail D0T com)

Really, anything is allowed, but if you’re looking for a theme I’ll start you off with SuperHereos and Supervillains.

MSPaint tip:

When you’re pasting each component into the final template, make sure you have this highlighted in the toolbar:

It’ll help a lot.

Here’s a quick one that I came up with just now. Dr. Hurt. Dr. Hurt’s shield has the chemical composition of cocaine engraved into its face. He’s intense.

If you have a hard time getting the files or manipulating MSPaint send me a quick e-mail and I’ll help you any way I can.

Halloween MSPaints will appear in the ‘quickthoughts’ section for as much of October as I can provide.

(side note: if you feel restricted… feel free to make your own ‘bodies’ or features. there’s no rule saying you have to use only what’s provided)

Good luck!!

We have a solid 7 entries into the most recent MSPaint contest. The challenge was to depict “When Rubik’s Cubes Attack!” using only MSPaint or a Mac equivalent. Enjoy!

Rubik’s 1 - Angry and vicious… these cubes are ready to strike. (entry is large, click your mouse to close)

Rubik’s 2 - A giant cube crushing an Anime chick?

Rubik’s 3 - Burn and Pillage! Burn and Pillage!

Rubik’s 4 - “That’s no puzzle cube…”

Rubik’s 5 - ‘We are Borg.”

Rubik’s 6 - Simple and straightforward.

Rubik’s 7 - The drama is palpable.

Great job to all the contestants!

Vote in the comments for:
a) your favorite
b) the most artistic
c) the most inane

You are not allowed to vote for your own entry.

Well, it’s been awhile. So it’s probably time that we bring back some MSPaint action.

Your challenge is to depict the following:

WHEN RUBIX CUBES ATTACK

You are only allowed to use MSPaint (or a mac equivalent). E-mail entries to MikeDiDonato AT gmail D0T com by 6:00pm EST on Thursday June 7th 2007.

Good luck!

As many of you know, my father plays sax for a band called Tabasco Fiasco.

He wants to silk screen some t-shirts for the band, and is looking to you for awesome ideas.

The band consists of 5 members: Two horns, a bass, set, and guitar. They play a bunch of local gigs in Massachusetts, with a focus on the classic rock genre.

SO. your task… if you choose to accept it, is to design an image to be silk screened onto t-shirts. Feel free to come up with a logo or slogan if you’d like. Typically the band has been represented by a chili pepper, but I’m sure that they’d be willing to explore other ideas if you have them.

The best design, as chosen by my dad, will be plastered onto the t-shirts of the band and the designer will get a free t-shirt for themselves.

This may be the first MikeDiDonato.com art contest where MSPaint isn’t required. All I ask is that you try and restrict your color usage to no more than three colors. example: Black, red, green.

E-mail your entries to me at MikeDiDonato AT gmail D0T com. The deadline is tentatively Saturday March 24th at midnight.

Thanks to all the participants to the recent MSPaint contest that challenged you to draw “bad things to juggle.”

The Results!

Group Favorite: God Juggles the Planets!
artist: mike d.

Funniest: Stick man juggles creatures large!
artist: Sander

Most Inane: Fran Drescher!
artist: Shaun L.

I have to give a special bonus award to my sister Tree for her entry: A brain, a slip and slide, and a warrior mental spike ball and chain weapon

Most of the time I’m pretty good about posting entries that were sent to me, but for whatever reason hers slipped through the cracks. Well done Tree! I think this would have easily stolen one of the grand prizes.

The other artists were:

Juggle 1: Shaun McQuaid

Juggle 2: Anita Clue

Juggle 5: Jes Saint

Juggle 7: Roland

Great job everybody!

The Challenge was simple: Using only MSPaint (or mac equivalent) draw a scene with the following theme:

Bad Things to Juggle

I received 7 strong entries. Check ‘em out!

Juggle 1: Simple, elegant. And extremely true.

Juggle 2: Caution: sharp. Leather gloves recommended.

Juggle 3: That would be Fran Drescher.

Juggle 4: The situation will change dramatically if the animals are alive or dead.

Juggle 5: Not recommended. Children will likely die.

Juggle 6: Hey God! Cut it out!

Juggle 7: More children will probably die.

Now it’s your job to vote for the best.

Vote for:
1. Your favorite
2. The Funniest
3. The most Inane

You can’t vote for your own.

Calling all MSPainters!

CONTEST:
Using only MSPaint draw an image that best captures the following statement:

“Bad things to Juggle.”

You have until Saturday January 27th at noon EST. You are not allowed to copy and paste from any other source that is not your own and all entries must be done in MSPaint or a Mac equivalent.

Please e-mail your entries to mikedidonato AT gmail DOT com by the deadline.

Good luck!

Being that it’s nearly Christmas, I figured it’d be a good time to finally post the results to the “Give mike d a costume” halloween MSPaint contest.

So here we go:

First place goes to:
CREEPY ANGEL PROSTITUTE!
an MSPaint by Ruth!

Second place goes to:
CULTIVATION EQUIPMENT!
an MSPaint by mike d.

third place goes to:
MILDLY EVIL MIKE D!
an MSPaint by Alicia D.

fourth place was a four way tie between:
Nearly Perfected Science (McQuaid!), Disco D (Jesse), and Mic D.(Roland)

Below, I’ve listed all the entries with their artists. Enjoy!

1. The Tasty Halloween Costume. PATRICK!
2. This is mike d, as a pregnant schoolteacher. JOCELYN!
3. Mike D as Elvis! ANITACLUE!
4. Mike D as Ace Ventura! JES SAINT!
5. Mike D as Cultivation Equipment MIKE D!
6. Mike D going Disco Style JESSE!
7. Mike D as Britney Gallivan PATRICK!
8. Mike D as maybe (probably) undead. SANDER!
9. Mike D as a creepy angel prostitute RUTH!
10. Mike D as Big Bird DIANE!
11. Mike D as a member of the Kill Bill Crazy 88 ROLAND!
12. Mike D cloaked in nearly perfected science. SMcQUAID!
13. Mike D as a convict who wishes to have his identity protected by the media. MIKE D!
14. Mike D as Mr. Potato Head SANDER!
15. Mike D as Wingnut Weaver RYAN SCHENK!
16. Phantom Mike D JES SAINT!
17. Mike D as a rockstar Drummer BEN PRIV!
18. Mike D as Kurt KURT!
19. Dragonball D MIKE D!
20. Mike D made entirely of eyeballs SANDER!
21. Mike D as Elvis #2 CAITLIN!
22. Mighty Mike UUIG!
23. Mike D as Motofone! SHAMUS!
24. Mike D as Master Chief! MIKE D!
25. Mike D as Master Chef RYAN!
26. Mike D. as Clean D! MIKE D!
27. Mildly Evil Mike D. ALICIA D!
28. Milk D MIKE D!
29. Leprechaun D JES SAINT!
30. Mic D. ROLAND!
31. Mike B. ROLAND!
32. Mike as the Invisible Man. ANITA CLUE!
33. Business Partner Alien Mike D. MIKE D!

Everyone should note that the Big Bird MSPaint was done by Diane!

Thanks to all the participants! Well done!!

We’ve received the first entry to this week’s Halloween MSPaint Marathon.

This artist was inspired by the flip like characteristics of my hair and came up with:

The Tasty Halloween Costume.

So here we are. It’s finally fall. And Halloween approaches.

This year I thought I’d try something a bit fun. I have created a templet drawing of myself located HERE.

Go to that picture and copy it into MSPaint on your computer and then color me in and give the mike d on the right a Halloween costume. It can be as elaborate or as simple as you desire. You can also submit multiple entries if you’d like. Please type the name of your costume in the lower right so that we will be able to identify your creation.

Here’s an example: Business Partner Alien Mike D.

I’ll post the pictures throughout the next two weeks as they come in. This one’s going to be less of a contest and more of a “let’s have a good time” sort of thing. So go nuts.

The only rule is to keep it MSPaint real.

Low turnout this week. We had a simple three entries. The lack of entries, however, does not make them any less entertaining!

The contest was such: Using only MSPaint, draw a new album cover for the disc “RETURN TO COOKIE MOUNTAIN” by the band TV on the RADIO because the current album art, while ‘okay’, can’t keep up with the sweet album title.

Cookie Mountain 1: This artist used some shading and some female dominance to literally portray a return to a cookie mountain. I like the redhead and the cookie shading. Well done artist one!

Cookie Mountain 2: Artist two also used shading. This particular mountain clearly has cookie boulders. They may seem harmless and tasty from afar, but up close… deadly. I like the beams of light in this entry. Great job artist two!

Cookie Mountain 3: Artist three made the clever connection to Brokeback Mountain. I find this one hilairous. not only because its a parody, but also because it really is difficult to quit cookies. Very well done Artist three!

Thanks to the three participants! Next week’s challenge will be a bit less complicated!!

Please vote for your favorite in the comments.
Remember, artists can not vote for their own entry! Good luck!

UPDATE: we have a FOURTH contestant!

Cookie Mountain 4: Artist four also went for the literal route of ‘a mountain made of cookies’. However, if you do some research you’ll find that there are claims that the name “oreo” came from a mountain. Hydrox, on the other hand, came up with their name from combining basic elements. Hydrogen and Oxygen. This naming nomenclature failed miserably, which is why Nabisco is #1. Very clever artist number four!

So the band TV on the RADIO just came out with an album called “RETURN TO COOKIE MOUNTAIN”

This is the album cover:

A birdsnest? LAME.

This week’s contest is for you to design a better album cover. The name is amazing… but the art is terrible.

For extra credit, include some sort of visual credit to the song title: snakes and martyrs

THE RULES:
All art must be done soley in MSPaint (or mac equivilent). All entries must be e-mailed to me by Thursday September 28th at 5:00pm EST. My e-mail addy is: MIKEDIDONATO AT GMAIL DOT COM

You can use the internet to research ideas, but please do not copy and paste from anyone elses drawings. We want the art to be mikedidonato.com originals.

Good luck team!

The challenge was such:
Draw your best representation of the phrase REVENGE OF THE TREES using only MSPaint.
Thirteen people from across the globe answered the challenge. We had participants from over 8 different US States, both hemispheres of the globe, and from five different time zones.

The votes have been tallied and we have winners! (drum roll)

First place goes to my very own SWINGSET TOSS (#11)! Woo!

Second place goes to Roland’s CUPCAKE ARMAGEDDON 2: REVENGE OF THE TREES!

Third place was a three way tie between akirkaldiejr’s LUMBERJACK NIGHTMARE (#1), Patrick’s TRIBUTE TO BRITNEY GALLIVAN (#2) and TimBaird’s TREE LOVERS (#3).

AND the coveted INANE award goes to Jes Saint for her CHAINSAW MASSACRE (#10):

Well done dudes, this was a fun competition. Here’s a list of all the participating artists! Never before has the internet seen such MSPaint Glory!

TREE 1: akirkaldiejr
TREE 2: Patrick
TREE 3: TimBaird
TREE 4: Jes Abad
TREE 5: Fantom99
TREE 6: Nancy
TREE 7: BlueSarah
TREE 8: SMcQuaid
TREE 9: Sander
TREE 10: Jes Saint
TREE 11: Mike D.
TREE 12: Roland
TREE 13: Paul

NOTES:
The Feature Image at the top of this page was created by Fantom99, thanks man.
#11 was indeed done only in MSPaint, and yes, it did take forever. if anyone would like a how-to, just ask.

Who doesn’t love MSPaint?

I really don’t know.

This week’s contest is a brutal one. The challenge was to draw your best representation of the phrase REVENGE OF THE TREES using only MSPaint. And draw you did. We have over ten entries, check it out.

NOTE: some of these drawings are large, if it opens to full screen just click the drawing again to return to this screen.

TREE 1: An instant classic! These trees are clearly on a path of destruction.
mike d’s fav. part: the color of the clouds

TREE 2: Ahh Britney Gallivan! how we love you here at MIKEDIDONATO.com, while normally we disqualify entries with copy and pastage… I think this deserves a pass. (if you ARE Britney Gallivan, click here)
mike d’s fav. part: the tree’s face. very cartoony, I like it.

TREE 3: Hilarious! I love this!
mike d’s fav. part: This is just insanely clever. A+

TREE 4: Colorful, fun, a work of art no doubt.
mike d’s fav. part: This tree, of all those submitted, has the best leaves in my humble opinion.

TREE 5: The artist of this piece entitled it “Devil in Eden.” The devil is intended to be possessing the tree called “The Forbidden”
mike d’s fav. part: The devil is ellusive. This one takes a minute to figure out, I find this mysterious.

TREE 6: This is by far the most unique of the entries. It appears to be a female tree of doom, on a quest to kill.
mike d’s fav. part: Actually, my fav part of this entry is the funky dog on the right.

TREE 7: This artist gave a quick description of her drawing, I quote:

the reason the trees want revenge is because they are being overharvested and sprayed with chemicals. So they call a meeting and decide to drop all fruit (so that there is none to eat). Obviously some females can adapt to a junk food diet and these are the ones who are paid to keep the species alive. The desired result being a stabilised population where everyone eats a non-fruit diet.

also the cherry on the cupcake is intended to be a Mangel-wurzel. (A vegetable in taste, very similar to very sweet, red beets; in shape, greatly resembling carrots) This was used in the war-time to make fake cherries.

mike d’s fav. part: the round table of trees and the main tree’s face and color.

TREE 8: Oh man. We love the cupcake purple dude. We really do.
mike d’s fav. part: it’s obvious. The purple dude.

TREE 9: These trees have no mercy. None.
mike d’s fav. part: The bulldozer!

TREE 10: Please note: these trees are using Chainsaws. And their facial features are near-perfect.
mike d’s fav. part: The tree on the left. It’s great!

TREE 11: Whoa, impressive shading. I like the color choice and the funky leaf method
mike d’s fav. part: the ground shading

TREE 12: CUPCAKE ARMEGEDDON 2 - REVENGE OF THE TREES
mike d’s fav. part: RAWRG!

TREE 13: Brilliant! I tried forever to think of a way to get “revenge of the sith” into my drawing idea… but came up with nothing. Special props to this artist for achieving this.
mike d’s favorite part: The tree’s blood is clorophyl.

So there we have it. 13 entries.

Please use the comments to vote for….
1) your personal favorite
2) the most artistic
3) the most hilarious

and a bonus point for the most inane.

YOU CANNOT VOTE FOR YOUR OWN! If you don’t feel comfortable voting publically, you can vote anonymously, however the e-mail must be legit. Otherwise I will revoke the vote, and publically humiliate the poster.

Need a review? Here are the entry thumbnails in order 1-13. click on the small verson for the big version.

TREES 1,2,3
TREES 4,5,6
TREES 7,8,9
TREES 10,11
TREES 12,13

Once again, 1) personal fav. 2) most artistic 3) most hilarious
and a bonus point for the most inane.

Please feel free to write commentary on why you chose the drawings you did. votes will be tallied next Thursday, Aug 30th.

Welcome back to Mike D’s MSPaint contests!

We last left off with the Robot at a Playground contest. The winner was Robot 3!!

For those keeping score, Patrick had it right on the money. Robot 3 was done by me. Robot 1 by Patrick, 2 by Sander, and 4 by Roland. Check out the Robot at a Playground contest here.

So it’s been awhile… about three months in fact. During that time I had been trying to come up with the best idea to bring the game back in full fury. I was having a hard time… there are only so many “Jaguar’s stuffing typewriters into microwaves” that a guy can come up with before his idea bank runs dry. So I spoke to a few people yesterday and this morning… and it was Aaron that came up with this stellar idea:

Revenge of the Trees

Here are the rules.

Using ONLY MSPaint (or a mac equivilent) draw a picture that you feel best depicts the phrase “Revenge of the Trees!” All drawings must be submitted to me by next Wednesday at noon EST! If this deadline is to be extended, it will be extended before Tuesday. I have to keep this contest short because of my pending trip to China.

Feel free to use the internet to research the topic, but do not steal or copy anything from anyone else’s art. Your MSPaint drawing must be entirely your own. Also, I would recommend that you keep your drawings relatively small, otherwise drawing deformation may occur when people try to view the drawing in Internet Explorer.

E-mail your entry to mikedidonato AT gmail DOT com

I’m expecting some new participants in this challenge, so get started early and rock that MSPaint.
Good luck!!