Mac McRae

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Parrot Drinking a Margarita

Mex­i­can Par­rot Drink­ing a Mar­gari­ta

This is me draw­ing and paint­ing a par­rot drink­ing a mar­gari­ta because t‑shirt shops want to know I am a classy guy with mar­ketable skills and I am up on the cool pop cul­ture imagery.

Hairy Dog Illustration

Hairy Dog Running With The Ball

This is a col­lec­tion of illus­tra­tions that I did for UGA ath­let­ics over about a three year peri­od. I did Uga twice, Hairy Dawg and Kir­by Smart. I spent the prime years of my work­ing life try­ing to become a pro­fes­sion­al illus­tra­tor. It is the pla­ton­ic per­fect form of putting all of your eggs in one bas­ket. It made me ignore work­ing on a career that would pay my bills and made me impov­er­ished for a decade. One thing pos­i­tive it did is teach me to focus like a sur­geon and work very hard to try and scratch out a liv­ing. So over the past two months I have been mak­ing a graph­ic design port­fo­lio to try and get an actu­al 9 to 5 job. If you are won­der­ing what the gap­ing hole in the mid­dle of my career is — it is a failed illus­tra­tion career.

Henry Rollins Caricature

This is a paint­ing of Hen­ry Rollins. I have been a punk music fan for a long time. I learned about bands like black flag, wire, fugazi and the stooges when I first became inter­est­ed in nir­vana in the 90s. Punk is about rebel­lion and anger. It is cool when it isn’t about hatred. Rollins has been on Rogan’s pod­cast like two times now and he is a smart and inter­est­ing guy. He and Rogan are basi­cal­ly the same per­son. It is cool how the web lets you hear how amaz­ing peo­ple think and process the world live with­out fil­ters and with no time lim­its.

Red Crab Cartoon

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crab-car­toon

This is a hap­py red crab with white pol­ka dots. He lives on the bot­tom of the ocean and he crabs around gob­bling up spoiled food peo­ple threw into the eng­lish chan­nel — singing tunes from the lit­tle mer­maid. When he eats he makes snibity snab nois­es.

Monster Under the Bed 2

Mon­ster Under the Bed

This is a mon­ster under Tim­my’s bed. He is wait­ing patient­ly for an unsus­pect­ing house cat to jump down with­out look­ing so he can gob­ble him up. He is a trans­par­ent green slime mon­ster with red eyes and lots of pointy teeth.

Eustace Tilley

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Eustace Tilley Look­ing at But­ter­fly

This is an illus­tra­tion of Eustace Tilley for the Newyork­er. He is their dandy intel­lec­tu­al mas­cot with a mon­o­cle and a but­ter­fly bro.

Vampire Bat Cartoon

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vam­pire-bat-car­toon

Vam­pire bat car­toon for Hal­loween. Vam­pire bats are hip­sters. They only come out at night and they hang from their toes when they sleep.

Caticorn With Takashi Murakami

This is a cati­corn being rid­den by Takashi Muraka­mi. He is a famous Japan­ese pop artist who works in New York. This cati­corn has a rain­bow tail and blue eyes. He bounds through space and over rain­bow neb­u­lae — spir­it­ing Takashi away into dream­land every night.

Green Monster Standing

This is an inquis­i­tive green mon­ster with big blue eyes and a blue visor. He is hold­ing his favorite kit­ty next to him.

Koi Illustration

Koi Pond Illustration

This is a spot illus­tra­tion of a Koi with lily pads. He is eat­ing algae off the sides of the force­field that is hold­ing real­i­ty up. He some­times thinks he sees giant two legged mon­sters on the oth­er side watch­ing him.

Deadpool With a Big Head

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dead­pool with a big head and uni­corn slip­pers

This is dead­pool with snazzy uni­corn bed­room slip­pers. I always found it iron­ic that the most hat­ed artist in com­ic book his­to­ry also cre­at­ed the coolest super­hero ever. He is smart and fun­ny and self aware and he makes fun of comics and all of the char­ac­ters, tropes, ideas and gim­mics in them.

Fat Geisha Girl

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Fat-Geisha

This is a chub­by Geisha who got fat eat­ing sushi fla­vored ice-cream and cot­ton can­dy ramen noo­dles. She plays Mario sun­shine and drinks screw top wine.

Police Officer Cartoon

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chica­go-police-offi­cer-car­toon

This is a Chica­go police offi­cer. Schools should do a bet­ter job of teach­ing kids how to inter­act with cops. If you are friend­ly and respect­ful cops are some of the best friends you could ever have. The secret is to do what they say and if you have a dis­agree­ment — do it in court. Nev­er chal­lenge a police offi­cer because it will end with you get­ting cracked over the head.

Kitty Cat Cartoon

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kit­ty cat car­toon

This is an illus­tra­tion of a cute gray kit­ty with a bell col­lar around his neck. I love kit­ties. They are domes­ti­cat­ed but they have a wild streak inside them. It is cool to watch their preda­tor instincts kick in when they are hunt­ing a tiny bug or lizard. They go into a hyper cute nin­ja mode that is a rem­nant of their lion ances­tors. Bells are like a kit­ty alarm sys­tem to pro­tect our song­bird bud­dies from being eat­en. This is one of my favorite ani­mals.

Smiling Peach Illustration

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smil­ing-peach

This is a smil­ing peach illus­tra­tion from Peach coun­ty. He reminds me of going to get peach ice cream with my grand­ma when it was 100 degrees out­side and the humid­i­ty was 100 per­cent. I remem­ber giant puffy white clouds stretch­ing up to 50 thou­sand feet, ben­zos, ice cold car air con­di­tion­ers and dri­ving about 30 miles per hour in a 55 zone. My grand­ma despised me for being younger and more intel­li­gent than she was. I used to lis­ten to lec­tures on the bible just to school her on sub­jects she thought she was an expert on. BTW the Sep­tu­agint is the ear­li­est Greek trans­la­tion of the Hebrew scrip­tures known as the Torah. You have to know this to argue with my grand­ma.

Purple Monster Four Arms

This is a pur­ple mon­ster with four arms and rain­bow col­ored teeth. He is at peace with his ugli­ness. He takes Benadryl to sleep. Some­times when he takes more than four he gets tiny yel­low birds that land on him and chirp mys­te­ri­ous code like bird song.

Happy Baby Cartoon

Smiling Baby with Blue Eyes and a Gold Curl Wearing Pampers

Hap­py Baby Car­toon

A baby is a hap­py lit­tle mon­ster who grunts and drools and makes strange bod­i­ly nois­es. They live to be loved and tak­en care of. Here is bub­bles with­out the bub­bles.

Fat Guy Riding a Scooter

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Patrice O’Neil rid­ing a Ves­pa scoot­er

I love when fat peo­ple ride scoot­ers. The con­trast in size is shock­ing and fun­ny. This guy’s name is Roscoe. His street name is Big Love. He is a ded­i­cat­ed Broni who rides his ves­pa scoot­er to the laun­dro­mat to pick­up home­less chicks. He gets dis­abil­i­ty and he woos the ladies with his design­er shoes and name brand laun­dry deter­gent.

Old Macintosh computer

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old-mac-com­put­er-car­toon

This is an old Mac­in­tosh com­put­er. It rep­re­sents how prospec­tive employ­ers see me. I think they are too intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­lenged to com­pre­hend that peo­ple get bet­ter at dif­fi­cult jobs as they become more expe­ri­enced. As Mal­colm Glad­well point­ed out: the 60,000 hour rule dic­tates that after about 20 years we become an expert at the jobs we prac­tice. You clowns need to rec­og­nize exper­tise when you see it and stop penal­iz­ing the peo­ple who will make you rich.

Creepy Red Fish Cartoon

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creepy red fish car­toon

Creepy red fish car­toon. Chuck the fish lives in the un-chlo­ri­nat­ed and brack­ish water under grand­mas pool cov­er. He likes to eat orange algae and tiny pad­dle bugs for dindin. It gives him moun­tains of icky ener­gy to swim around in tight cir­cles to impress and or creep out the beau­ti­ful lady fish.

Uncle Sam Flying a Fighter Jet

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uncle sam fight­er pilot

Uncle sam is fly­ing his trusty f‑86 Saber through Kore­an air­space. This jet is from the era when pilots flew by the seat of their pants and out­ma­neu­vered bad guys with­in visu­al range in old fash­ioned dog­fights.  I love the 50s. Amer­i­cans were cool and smart back then and the USA was the king of the world. Peo­ple for­get that North Korea and Chi­na invad­ed the South to start the Kore­an war. I find it odd that 86 is Amer­i­can slang for get­ting rid of some­thing and that 86 is also the phone code for dial­ing Chi­na.