The Cloud Creator

Hello all! Sorry for the radio silence, we've been away on holiday and had no time lately to sit down and do some good old 'blogging'. So what have we been up to exactly? Well to start off here's a new illustration which came out of a doodle created for CreatureMags 1 Minute Monsters. I thought I'd do the idea justice and make a finished piece out of it.

We've also done a few interviews over the last couple of months, one of which went live on the CreatureMag site not so long ago. There's a couple more in the pipeline which we'll post when they surface! As well as the odd interview, we also had the privilege of being That's My Folio's featured artist, there's a short blog post about it here on their lovely site. And finally, we've been drafted on Dribbble, so now you can get mini previews of what we're working on if you pop to our page. That's about it folks, I promise the next post won't be so long in the making! Cheerio for now...

Oakey the baby owl

Here's Oakey the baby owl, the latest addition to our plush creatures family. Oakey and Otis have been privately commissioned as a present for an expectant mother. We thought it would be fun to give one of our creatures an offspring so Otis got to be the lucky father! In other news we're busy working away on ideas and sketches for a collaboration that we will reveal more details for next month. We've also done a couple more interviews for some rather lovely websites so we'll post those when they go live. And on that note we'll wish you all a happy Sunday as we've got rather a lot of work to do...

bubbles

Our first post of 2012! And to celebrate here's some bubbly (ok not quite the expensive liquid kind but it's bubbly all the same). We thought it was time to start experimenting more with our characters - so expect a lot more wacky illustrations like this in the coming months. We'll be looking to be a bit more active on the blog front this year by showing progress in our illustration and toy creating! We plan to showcase some tutorials on the blog and show stages of how our work starts from a doodle and ends up being an illustration or plush creature.

In other news we're currently very busy doing our first collaboration with a new illustration friend, so we'll reveal all early next month. Here's to another Monster New Year!

Pull my finger!

Business as usual! A new illustration suggesting not the best action to do during this festive season (after all that turkey it could be disastrous!) We're slowly trying to incorporate more typography into the work so let us know what you think!

Merry Christmas from Monster Riot

Just a short post to say a big thank you to everyone's support this year. It's been an amazing year and we've got you to thank for it! Here's a picture of Florence and Sanchez (the brains behind all of Monster Riot's work!). Hope you all have a great Christmas and New Year and we'll be back with more eccentric illustrations and cute creatures before you can say 'Bah Humbug!'

Advanced Photoshop issue 91

Recently we illustrated a double spread for an article on how to run a successful creative blog for Advanced Photoshop magazine issue 91. It's the first editorial piece we've done and looks great in print. So check it out as it won't be in the shops for long!

Digital Artist Magazine issue 27

So here it is, the final piece and how it looks in the magazine. We're also on this issues disc so you can create an alphabet style poster too! Got a few more works in the pipeline and we'll be posting up some new illustration and creatures with a festive theme very soon!