Love Everyday !

Love Everyday from Mike Mendes on Vimeo.

Video by Graham Beasley,
Art by Mike Mendes

SO much thanks to
Daniel Johnson, from Stereos
Isis Salam, from Thunderheist
Billy Hamilton, from Silverstein
Richard Howard, from Staylefish
Rob Dyer, from Skate 4 Cancer
Rick Cordeiro, Greg Elliott, Stu Jakeman

Love Everyday

Video finally finished! Wooo. Not this though ,

Plus I stubbed my toe and have been bleeding for an entire hour so far.

I write better with a tattoo machine than a pencil

Today seems so much longer when yesterday never really ends.

Got bored with some pencil crayons on oatmeal paper.

Also found super old (But hopefully still neat?) picture.

Flying panther attack!

Someone came in with a strange giant flying panther just barely lined. This is what we did with it.

And more animals that probably shouldn't have wings. RAT BIRDS!

Also, I think I have a visitor. Although I'm pretty sure he will leave me as soon as he realizes there hasn't been food in my apartment for over a year.

It's either something like that, or my ears are fooling me into hearing things in order to keep me occupied at 3:30 in the morning.

Pandas & Polar Bears

After about 7 or 8 hours of tattooing, there's nothing quite like coming home and... drawing pandas and polar bears?

 

Also ravens. But for the sake of alliteration, you get left out of the title for now, ravens.

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Straight on 'til morning

Hi, I'm Mike Mendes, and these are my 13 eviction notices.

No I am not where I belong

Just about finished tattooing this.

The clock is laughing in my face

Sort of got close to finishing one side of this and then just got bored... Sorry, old guy.

More pencil crayon on vellum.

Gangster...? Somehow this was a cover-up.

My only friend at 5 AM is the clerk at the 711

I don't remember where I found the original photograph of this, but I had fun drawing it. 

Maybe if I put this one up here it'll motivate me to finish it or something. Pencil crayon and marker on vellum.

Murals and mermaids and no sleep

Greg, when you called me this morning I didn't want to say I was drawing a picture of you on a toilet because it would have made for an awkward situation. So instead, you showed up at my place and I pulled out a giant ingrown hair on your head and then scanned your face, and am now making a blog post about it all. I painted your wall sometime today too. I'm not too sure what exactly it is that I painted but maybe I'll figure it out sometime soon.


On a slightly more productive note, I did this fun little mermaid tattoo in exchange for 4 cases of beer.

I am the only one looking for pencils and a sharpener in 711 at 4:30 in the morning

The 711 by my apartment does not carry pencils or sharpeners at 4:30 AM. But Jaheed, the 711 clerk, will call other 711 locations to check if they have it in stock for you. I dedicate these random doodles of nothingness to him. You're my boy, Jaheed.