Valentine's heartbreak

 Heartbreak happens when you least expect it and that was the case for me this year. So I created this art.

               

Nightmare landscape

 Today's Halloween season post is about nightmares. We've all had plenty over the course of our lives. Weird dreams and nightmares are usually the result of some stress or anxiety we have during the day. Occasionally nightmares can happen without stress or anxiety. Possibly those are a result from seeing a difficult or imaginative movie, show or story we've read.

This drawing was from a dream that had a shape shifting landscape that I remember as being less of a nightmare and just a fascination with the ability of the landscape to do such a thing.

Halloween Merch

 Halloween Merch to make you laugh or scare you into the night. Either way, come and get some Halloween Merch before Halloween arrives!

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IM Game Screens

 When I was working at this big company in Redmond, I was tasked with creating Instant Messenger Games for about 6 months. The first one they wanted me to design, do animations for and to go over the way that all worked together with the one programmer I worked with in China, was the game "GO".

I made a bamboo wood board for the pieces to rest on, made a bamboo themed background and then designed the game parts on the left side.

The screen on the upper left was for a seasonal solitaire game. This was the "Autumn" Solitaire screen. We wanted each seasonal screen to feel immersive and have a natural flow to them. The buttons on the right were the three levels of the game that you could play.

The bottom left screen was for a letters game in which you had to adopt/buy letters to spell words.

The "Blob Alert" screen on the lower right was for a game that didn't get finished but I like how several of the screens turned out.

After that I moved to another project. But I did about 4 other game concept drawings before I left.

I might show those at another time.

TRIBBETS

On a project some years ago, I was tasked with creating as many different types of "Tribbets" for a game. I would do 25 of them a day. After I finished each batch the PM and I went over them to see which ones would fit and which ones to reject. Rarely got any of them rejected but a few had changes that needed to be made. Not a problem.

I had such a blast creating these little creatures. Here are just a small sampling of "Tribbets".

 

Game art from the ones I've worked on.

 First in a series of art from games past that I've worked on. When working on a game, there needs to be some background elements and working on them should be fun. These images were done for billboards in the backgrounds for a game I was working on some years ago. I had a lot of fun coming up with these. Some of which were based on stylings from the 1950s and 60s. Mid Century Modern fun. I have a couple more that were based on the stylings of the 1970s. I don't show them here because they are so different from this grouping.

CHAPTER EIGHT of my graphic novel series ENATAI BEACH for sale now!

Chapter Eight of my graphic novel memoir series "Enatai Beach" is NOW available on Amazon. This chapter marks a turning point in the story that is dramatic and heartbreaking. For more of the storyline, follow this link to my page for this chapter on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQZZ7CMN?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

 

ENATAI BEACH: CHAPTER SIX

ENATAI BEACH: CHAPTER SIX on SALE NOW!

As of today my memoir ENATAI BEACH: CHAPTER FIVE 

is available for purchase on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BF28P8MS?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

 

THE BOOK OF DOODLES VOLUME THREE!

"THE BOOK OF DOODLES VOL 3" 

On sale on Amazon NOW! Enjoy the winter more with this fun book.

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Doodles-3-Michael-Cressy/dp/B086PRKYJQ/ref=sr_1_19?qid=1642887406&refinements=p_27%3AMike+Cressy&s=books&sr=1-19&text=Mike+Cressy

 

LIVE NOW ON AMAZON.... ENATAI BEACH: Chapter One

A long time in the making and now the first chapter is available to purchase.

Sometimes you don’t ever meet someone in the same town until you do. Holly and Mike meet at Enatai Beach in Bellevue, where they both live. And which is directly underneath the crossing of two Interstate Freeways. The I-90 runs east and west. The I-405 runs north and south. Similarly these two people who are both going in different directions with their lives. The merging of minds or just two souls passing by? This first volume of a 12 chapter series of graphic novels tells the very beginning of this story. Even as they "meet cute", an undercurrent of darkness is already consuming one of them.

Follow the link to buy:

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Chapter One Book cover...

I've narrowed it down to these three cover concepts for the first chapter of my graphic novel.

Not sure which one I will be picking but I'm leaning close to the red background.

 

ALL NEW BOOKS FOR AUTUMN READING

There is still time to get some NEW BOOKS for the Fall to read and enjoy. I published 5 NEW BOOKS this year. Two new "THE BOOK OF DOODLES" books Volumes 2 and 3. There there is my SKETCH31 book that features all the ink drawings I did during the month of October. My full COLOR "CARROTS ARE SCREAMING" book that feature many of my Digital creations. And finally the "DRAGON MY BUTT" book about having pneumonia during the COVID19 outbreak. 

 

New Ad for my NEW BOOK!

DRAGON MY BUTT... is NOW a book that is available for purchase on Amazon.com!

Drag your own butt over there and check it out! :D

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MY NEW BOOK!

DRAGON MY BUTT... is NOW a book that is available for purchase on Amazon.com!

Drag your own butt over there and check it out! :D

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08B39MV5J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Down to two versions of the cover

For my Dragon Book. Not sure which one I will choose.

Dragon my Butt through the Quarantine...

Dragon my butt over to the window to play my guitar instead of actually being able to go outside...

 Dragon my butt over to the fridge for some milk... I've been over doing the hot sauce lately.

Dragon my butt to more Zoom meetings today...

Dragon book cover varieties...

As usual, I get caught up in doing a bunch of variations on covers for the book I'm working on.

These are most of the variations. I will making some changes on one of them that will 

be the final cover soon.

NEW Dragon Butt drawings...

I've been drawing these different Dragons as a Metaphor of my Pneumonia, during the Quarantine.

Dragon my Butt over to the sink for a coughing fit...

Dragon my butt over to the comfy chair to do some reading...

Dragon my butt over to the dinning table to eat yet another homemade meal...

More Dragon my butt drawings for May.

Dragon my butt to the dinning table because I am so hungry...

Dragon my butt to do a more realistic rendering of myself...

Dragon my butt into the kitchen to chop, dice and cook...

More DRAGON my BUTT drawings from the Quarantine...

Dragon my butt into the kitchen again for some food... oops...

Dragon my butt over to get some coffee and a little morning dance...

Dragon my butt over to the window to give someone an Air Hug...