Mike Hales

Photo of Valencia St in San Francisco by Mike Hales, 2025

Photo of Valencia St in San Francisco by Mike Hales, 2025

Photo of Valencia St in San Francisco by Mike Hales, 2025

Photo of Valencia St in San Francisco by Mike Hales, 2025

Today’s observations:

A drawing of a gristled old man admiring his last slice of mystery berry pie by Mike Hales

Thoughts of regression in skill. But…

Perhaps my love of pie will never die.

Photo of Lafayette Park in SF taken by Mike Hales

Photo of Lafayette Park in SF taken by Mike Hales

Photo of Lafayette Park in SF taken by Mike Hales

Photo of Lafayette Park in SF taken by Mike Hales

Today’s observations:

I’ve heard of read-ins where people meetup at a cafe as a group and just read in silence as they drink their coffees. It sounds kind of amazing.

New cup designs!

Current cappuccino making status: It’s more about silky foam milk than a pretty design.

A drawing of a one wheeled slime monster by Mike Hales

A drawing of a one wheeled bird tank by Mike Hales

A drawing of eligible bachelors by Mike Hales

A drawing of utter bullshit by Mike Hales.

Hello friends. Lately I’ve been photographing observations around my city. I’ve been enjoying that. But I’ve also been sketching, mostly to exorcise demons:

These good old digital sanguine trees ;)

#trees #digital #design #sanguine #drawing

A mural depicting a mushroom cloud from a recent explosion. It looks like a nuclear bomb maybe, with dark clouds but orange and yellow light emanating from the explosion like a tiny sun. In the left-hand corner, two dogs are fucking. They are unbothered by the nearby explosion and danger.

A closer view of two dogs humping in the lower left-hand corner of the previous mural. One dog is white, the other black. Neither seems bothered by the nearby nuclear explosion, even as the light from it is bright enough to cast a heavy shadow on the ground of the two dogs fucking.

"Dogs be humpin" mural by Sapien on 19th and Mission in San Francisco. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti #murals #Sapien

Photo taken by Mike Hales

Photo taken by Mike Hales

Photo taken by Mike Hales

Today’s observations:

Photo by Mike Hales, July 2025

Photo by Mike Hales, July 2025

This afternoon’s observations:

Here’s some observations from this morning:

The alternative is always another candidate that isn’t Republican. There can be more than one.

Billionaire drug slang.

geometric patterned brain ig gray, red and black

blue lotus brain painting

Watercolor brain paintings #sciart artologica.etsy.com

It should be a year, at least, with no access to any other kind of wealth then that particular job. That’ll learn ‘em.

I need to check these tools out.

Today’s observations:

Break time observation

@docpop.org

Beautiful. A game about a fly!

That sounds like a lovely combination of elements!

I want it to feel organic, like it’s an organism that wants to nestle into your ear and set up camp, beginning its eventual trek into your brain.

You could say I’ve been consumed by the music and the art for the music that I’ve been making for the past few months. I think it’s getting close to being finished. Or at least at a mutually agreeable resting place for which to finally release and spread.

Sketches from a sketchbook: futuristic tank tractor, barefoot in the grass, and three portraits by Mike Hales

Here’s a typical sketchbook page from my sketch book, the latest:

Drawing of a 5 headed cat by Mike Hales

I’ve been drawing cats lately. Here’s a cat drawing:

I’ll post a larger, version in a couple of days.

Music News:
Finally decided on a cover for Helicopter Rescue’s next album, Weird Birds.

It’s all inspired by Vandermeer’s Southern Reach book series.

Friends, here’s some drawings from the archives. I’d like to compile these and similar drawings into a book. Do you see one that resonates with you?

Comic and Photos from SFCC June 2025 Our June meetup of the Cartoonist Conspiracy of San Francisco was a blast. Ten folks showed up, and we tried drawing comics in a new format. Rather than drawing our jam comics, where work on one lo…

Some photos and mini-comics from our recent #CartoonistConspiracy jam in #SanFrancisco. These were created collaboratively by a dozen local artists with no planning in advance. If you like mini-comics, you can print and fold these at home. cartoonistconspiracysf.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/c...