Monster Riot

Oakey the baby owl

2012-01-22T07:02:00.000-08:00

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

2012-01-10T16:16:00.000-08:00

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!

2011-12-27T14:42:00.000-08:00

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

2011-12-24T08:03:00.000-08:00

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

2011-12-24T07:44:00.000-08:00

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

2011-12-03T02:08:00.000-08:00

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!

Yummy Yakisoba!

2011-11-30T11:13:00.000-08:00

Finally a new illustration to share! This new piece 'Yummy Yakisoba!' features in this months Digital Artist magazine and it's my first ever 5 page tutorial! It's all about creating a typographical style poster (they're all the fashion these days) so grab yourself a copy if you want to learn some of my well kept tips and tricks! I'll post some photo's of the pages and the final illustration at the end of the week!

Astro Dogs now a Threadless tee!

2011-11-14T11:23:00.000-08:00

Yes we finally have a Threadless tee! And we're chuffed to see it finally on the site! Thanks to all that voted and supported it. If you fancy having a gander (or possibly purchasing one) you can do so here.

Bernard the Bat

2011-10-30T02:11:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween everyone! And to celebrate the day in ghoulish fashion, Catherine has created a plush especially for the occasion! Introducing Bernard the Bat! He likes fruit corner yogurts, playing bass guitar and visiting Cornwall. Hope you all have a lovely spooky Halloween night and don't have any 'Tricks' played on you!

Digital Arts Magazine

2011-10-30T02:03:00.000-07:00

Jason's in the latest issue of Digital Arts magazine. They showcase a few of Jason's illustrations and include a short interview about him and the Monster Riot collaboration. If you fancy getting yourself a copy grab the November issue now!

Matilda the Cat

2011-10-16T03:17:00.000-07:00

Here's Catherine's latest creation, Matilda the Cat. She's currently working on her next one which will be a Halloween themed creature so be sure to check back soon!

Here, there and (nearly) everywhere

2011-10-03T12:23:00.000-07:00

Gosh that month went by quite quick. Sorry for the lack of posting recently, we've been very busy at Monster Riot HQ and unfortunately the blog has suffered. We'll make more of an effort from now on, we promise! So what have we been up to to make us this busy? Well I have to say September was a very good month for us and we were lucky enough to start getting blogged about and even appearing in the exposure section of this month's Computer Arts magazine. It went on sale in the UK on the 29th September so it will be in the shops for a few more weeks if you want to grab yourself a copy.

As I mentioned we also had the privilege of getting to do a number of interviews and were also blogged about on certain websites. The first one was for the lovely people at Pistache Moustache, and I have to say their questions have been the best so far! If you fancy a read you can see it in all it's glory here. Then there was the awesome inkygoodness team you made us featured artists on their blog, check out the post here. And that's not all, our two little rabbits even got in on the action by being part of a studio interview for lovely Meg and Tuesday at Studio Sweet Studio. You can see pictures of the fluffy things and where we do our work here.

We have also started up a new Society 6 account where you can grab yourself some select prints. Check out the shop here to see what we have on offer.

Phew! So that's you all updated now. We'll be posting some new illustration later in the week. Cheerio for now!

rabbit rabbit

2011-09-08T01:29:00.000-07:00

Hello all!

I hope you have had a chance to look around our new site, if not have a look now (go on it won't hurt!). We have just put up our rabbit rabbit illustration on Threadless for their latest design challenge 'We love totes'. Have a look here and please vote if you can! Apart from that we're working on new illustrations and a new plush which will appear here and on the new site over the next couple of weeks!

We have also just had our first official interview too! The lovely Amy from Pikaland has written a piece about us, the new website and our work for the Pikaland blog. If you fancy a read and a chance to get to know a bit more about us have a lookie here!

Our shiny new website

2011-09-06T03:26:00.000-07:00

We're proud to present our brand new website. We were well overdue a new one so here it is. We now have a shop and there's actually things to buy in it (fantastic!). We'll be updating the site regularly so make sure to visit it now and again (websites do tend to get lonely if you don't). So please take a look and let us know what you think!

Digital Artist Magazine issue 23

2011-08-11T02:33:00.000-07:00

Our second tutorial for the lovely Digital Artist Magazine (issue 23) hit the shelves today. If you ever wondered how to make your characters seem epic this is for you!

Beware the Yeti

2011-08-10T04:13:00.001-07:00

A recent illustration for the latest issue of Digital Artist Magazine - will post pics of the pages tomorrow!

Astro dogs

2011-08-04T17:22:00.000-07:00

Oops it's been quite a while since our last post - sorry about that! We've been very busy and hopefully over the next few weeks we'll start posting all the recent work we've been doing.

To start things off, here's an illustration for the SPACE exhibition, which will be part of the Cardiff Design Festival in October. We thought we'd do some dogs in space, and of course they still love to smell each others butts in zero gravity.

Monster Riot in Digital Artist Issue 20

2011-05-19T13:44:00.001-07:00

Yay! Our first magazine commission has been published today. We feature in the latest issue of Digital Artist magazine (issue 20) with a tutorial on how to stylise smoke effects. More to come soon...

Introducing Edgar the Wolf

2011-05-08T12:48:00.000-07:00

Oops! It's been quite a while since our last post (sorry about that!). We've been busy with lots more illustration and toy making which we will be posting over the coming weeks. Which brings us to Catherine's latest plush creation, Edgar. He's a wolf and is a fan of Duran Duran and strawberry milkshakes. He also doesn't eat meat as it gives him indigestion (which is probably a good thing as he would eat the rest of the plush creatures and we don't want that!

He's also fitting in nicely with the rest of the clan. More plush and illustrations coming soon!

Yeti and Big Foot

2011-04-02T15:37:00.000-07:00

These two fellas have been picked for Pictoplasma's 'Missing Link Research Exhibition' that's happening in Berlin later this month. For more info visit their site here!

Walkies

2011-03-16T17:04:00.001-07:00

Walkies has been submitted to Threadless as a new tee design. If you like it and would like to see it printed on a lovely t-shirt please show your love by voting for it here. Thank you! x

Super Change

2011-03-06T14:01:00.001-08:00

Entry for the Society6 'Superheroes SF' exhibition 2011

Otis the Owl

2011-03-06T03:25:00.000-08:00

Catherine's latest creature!

Monster Riot now on Screenfunk!

2011-02-26T06:26:00.000-08:00

So you want Monster Riot iPhone & iPad wallpapers? Alright, as you've twisted my arm and all that. You can now download a select few of our designs from Screenfunk. Look out for new designs soon...

smoked kippers

2011-02-22T04:21:00.001-08:00

a rather british godzilla

2011-02-11T08:50:00.001-08:00

charlie

2011-02-05T07:51:00.001-08:00

i love death & cupcakes

2011-02-02T09:02:00.001-08:00

Bird Brian

2011-01-31T14:53:00.001-08:00

Eldwin

2011-01-29T08:06:00.001-08:00

Catherine's new batch of plush creatures are on the way with a new distinctive look & design!

The Keyhole Monster

2011-01-19T08:22:00.001-08:00

3 Teas

2011-01-14T10:35:00.001-08:00

Death In Technicolor

2011-01-09T12:44:00.001-08:00

skull

2011-01-09T12:40:00.001-08:00

draw! print available to buy

2010-12-27T13:58:00.000-08:00

Buy the print from Society6 here

draw!

2010-12-20T01:46:00.000-08:00

my dead friend

2010-06-06T16:08:00.000-07:00

Super quick doodle - skull boy

2010-02-11T01:12:00.000-08:00

Lovely Vimeo goodness

2009-10-27T06:02:00.000-07:00

Monster Riot now has a Vimeo channel which will be getting stocked up with idents made by Fuzzbot's caring hands very soon. For the moment you can watch the Cesc Fabergas Show's 'Bob Boonah' sketch which we animated last year by clicking here
Other than that Fuzzbot will be posting some new illustrations by the end of the week for Halloween, so keep your eyes peeled.

Craftacular! Pictures from the event

2009-08-26T05:04:00.000-07:00

As we said last week, we attended the Craftacular show in Bethnal Green. The place was full to the brim and had everything from fluffy plush toys to little cosy tea parties. We took some pictures which you can view on our flickr page right here !

Craftacular!

2009-08-19T06:17:00.000-07:00

Me and Catherine are popping to the show on Saturday to check out the other crafters. Looking forward to it :-) (click on image above to find out more!)

BANG!

2009-04-28T01:01:00.000-07:00

Our first ever post. Things are slowly starting to take shape at Monster Riot HQ. An updated website in the next few days and a new batch of creatures are also on the way. Catherine will also be doing a 'making of' number of blog posts to show how she tackles the way she makes a new creature - so watch this space! For up to the nose news check out our twitter page, hosted by the notorious Herbert the Monster.