Mike Staples

Any job that requires manual labor. Anything creative already has or soon will have an AI alt. Companies are always trying AI for any entry level office and customer service jobs. The platform, Workday is a perfect example of companies handing off hiring and employee relations to a program…

Well this was frustrating as shit but overall fun and super proud of it. #procreateart #art #digitalart #digitalillustration #illustration #judgedredd #comic #fuckai

So I’ve been really busy…color inspired an insane amount of redrawing. Now the details will be more fun. With upgrades, I had to up the sizing so I have to do each of them in their own projects to conserve the layers that they need. To smooshed later #art #digitalart #digitalillustration

There always something else I could do to this but I’m tired of looking at it. #art #digitalart #digitalillustration #procreateart #fucktrump #fuckmaga #judgedredd #dredd #justiceneeded #nokings #removetrump

Yes sometimes I will trace when trying an experiment. The skull wasn’t the ultimate point. I wanted to see how much extreme erasing I was willing to do to get the cross hatching to make sense #art #digitalart #crosshatching #skull

Took a break from pretty things…strobe warning for the Timelapse… #digitalart #hiking #lost #wendigo #demon #art #digitalillustration #procreateart #horror

It was weird at the time that I tied it and it’s even weirder analyzing it on a fiber level. I did get a little lazy with the counting when I tied it and modified that in the drawing but this thing really accidentally was kinda perfect 😅 #art #artist #digitalart #flytying #flyfishing #procreateart

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Just realized I can add video separately! I love the Timelapse’s @procreate.com does

I try not to do these without finding who did the original but I couldn’t resist. The only reference I could find was a comment saying that this beauty was tied by Bud Guidry. I want to update this if anyone can confirm #art #artist #digitalart #flytying #flyfishing #procreateart

Loosely based on one of the first elaborate ones I tied. The piece is what I would have liked to tie if I had the materials at the time😅 #art #artist #digitalart #flytying #flyfishing #procreateart

Not to mention high schoolers with chronic truancy problems and questionable mental states ruining Ferraris…ugh it’s a travesty

Exactly! Both are beautiful, it just blew my mind that until halfway into this thing that it didn’t dawn on me at all that it was based on something😅

Only when I got to the coloring, did I realize that this was based on a flag. Hahaha this thing is almost exactly the proportions I love and with the colors, I had to do it😁 Drawing the flies is similar to tying and very relaxing, going one material at a time #flytying #flyfishing #art #digitalart

Just realized I already posted this a few months ago but screw it this is one of my favorites that I’ve done. And again…this is medically accurate. #rfkjr #politics #maha #mahamyass #art #illustration

Yeah that are doing it for sound clearly. And I doubt it’ll be a flyover. They’ll be doing loops for as long as possible.

Thank you!

Thank you!

The one picture that got me into fly tying. Not sure why I haven’t done this one before. Haven’t tied in a while but my arm keeps it alive😂 #classicsalmonfly #flyfishing #flytyingjunkie #flytying #art #digitalart #procreateart

About 20 years apart. Turning 40 in a couple months and I’m pretty sure I’ve reached peak me that I envisioned in high school. You know, minus the unemployed part. #art #digitalart #illustration #selfportrait #evolution #artist #goals #bodymodification #sundamage #growing

Predator watching an ice protest in LA in 2025. No threats from protestors but against them are military helicopters, stock piles of weapons, tear gas, armed cops/military, instigators planting bricks for possible use, and someone in an apartment ignoring what’s going on right out side watching Fox News. It’s a lot

Replace the extreme religious cult & cops in the movie with our current cult & cops/military, combine them, and a current Predator 2 would be pretty accurate. Danny Glover would be too old not to recognize what’s going on #art #digitalart #illustration #fuckice #fucktrump #fuckmaga #thisisamerica

Staples Does Stuff An eclectic collection of digital art, scratchboard art, and mixed media

New online portfolio! Spent a lot of time on it and would like people to see it.

www.staplesdoesstuff.com

#art #digitalart #digitalillustration #scratchboardart #flytying