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Mike: I did drawings as a kid but so did every other kid so I don’t think that was special. I started painting as a hobby when I was 23 that’s when I started putting in long hours towards art. I moved from painting to drawing digitally with a Wacom tablet When I moved to a tiny 10×10 back room for the friends house. I am crammed in there with the washer and dryer. I don’t have space to paint so drawing digitally is my strategy to still get my art fix without the space.
H: What would you say your most popular character/item is?
M: Unicorn riding a bike is a pretty popular one. I think it is because most of the shoppers on Esty are woman. I have a theory that every woman is either a unicorn lover or a dolphin lover. I’ve been trying to come up with a way to draw a dolphin riding a bike too but the no legs thing is really making it difficult.
H: Do you take custom orders? Any funky/crazy requests?
M: The custom orders you saw were probably large orders that I gave a discounted custom price.
I don’t do commissions it feels too much like work (I try to keep this fun for myself) but I take recommendation. If it’s a idea I like I will add it to my list and send the person who recommended it a message when I make it with a link to the item in my shop (no obligation to buy it). Almost all of the requests I get don’t seem very crazy… mostly customers ask for me to make pretty main stream characters like batman or superman or a famous athlete on a bike.
H: We are a geeks for geeks site, Would you consider yourself a geek? Why or Why not?
M: I feel I’m a geek to some degree for sure. The things that interest me and content of my artwork consist of a good amount of sci-fi, fantasy and comic related stuff. Those are stereotypically geeky things to be interested in.
H: What is your biggest geeky obsession?
M: I’ve been racing mountain bikes professionally for the past 5 years so in the past I have spent a ton of hours in bike geek mode purring through catalogs, company websites and forums creating diagrams comparing frame geometries and comparing weights of parts… I have pretty much stopped doing this but in its place I’ve become more obsessive about creating art.
M: There are so many star trek television series and so many different episodes that it feels like its been spread a little too thin. I like Star trek but you need to sort through some stinker movies and TV episodes to get to the good ones. Not like star wars where they all seem to be at least pretty good in my opinion.
 Wonder Woman on bike, 5… $15.00
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 Boba Fett pulling Han s… $15.00
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 Optimus Prime, roll out… $15.00
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 Dr Doom riding bike pow… $15.00
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 Batgirl riding bike wit… $15.00
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 Superman riding heat vi… $15.00
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 Admiral Ackbar riding b… $15.00
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 Spider Man on bike, 5×5… $15.00
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 Mr. T riding bike with … $15.00
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 Thor on bike with hamme… $15.00
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 Boba Fett riding a bike… $15.00
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 Han Solo riding bike wi… $15.00
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