Category: Monsters

One of my favorite past times is drawing friendly monsters.

My medium of choice is the iPad / Apple pencil combo in Keynote for easy use in slides and printing in stickers, but monsters are not picky about where and how they appear.

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Graph Theory Monsters, Bipartite Graph

A graph with green and blue nodes that are personified as monsters holding poles. Each blue node is connected to a green node.

Bipartite graphs as monsters: We who are different are connected.

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Almost Birthday Monster

A blue, three-eyed monster peering above the bottom frame of the image with a curious expression

This monster is almost one year old.

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This holographic monster would love to be on the back of your phone

A hand holding a set of holographic monster stickers

Gotta love this monster’s candid expression!

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Extremely cute "box programmer" stickers / new personal card!

Stickers containing an illustration of a monster doing a puzzle of boxes, and an arrow pointing to the monster saying "Box Programmer" and Lara's information

This is possibly the cutest thing I have ever created! The middle illustration peels off into its own sticker.

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Monster who is genuinely interested in what you have to say

Green monster with spikey nose, looking friendly and curious!

If you’re ever frustrated, feeling like, “No one is listening to me!!” just look at this sweet monster.

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Emo-shapes #1

This shape embodies the illusion that everyone else knows exactly where to go, and fits perfectly into what they do.

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Saturday, plant-based monsters

Three monsters with square heads that are holding hands and growing out of the earth

These monsters are enjoying the weekend so far! Looks like they won’t be going anywhere.

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Friday monster

Purple monster waving

A friendly monster to welcome in the weekend! This has happened before.

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Story time monsters

Large light blue monster on the left is holding a pink book reading a story to several small mutlicolored monsters that are peaking their heads through holes in the ground. One of the small monsters is saying "CSS is so cool!" and another one saying "I know!"

Another slide from my talk, this image represents the end of a short story about how a CSS algorithm saved the day!

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Monsters working on a house of cards

A red monster on top of a yellow monster positioning a new card on a stack of teetering cards. The yellow monster has a speech bubble that says "OMG careful!" They both look very nervous.

These monsters are working on a house of cards, an experience similar to working on a code-base that has not been tended to appropriately over the years! This is a slide from my “Algorithms in CSS” talk.

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Monster reminiscent of a Star Wars character

Do you know the one I’m talking about? Boba fet, maybe?

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Monster with flower boogers

A blue monster with a long neck and trunk-like nose that has a bouquet of flowers coming out of its nose

Look at this nice monster with flowers coming out of its nose. A+ boogers.

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“Say hello to the weekend” monster

Orange monster with one eye and big ears peaking into the image frame

Well, hello there, weekend!

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“Didn’t order a burger in Dayton” monster

A purple worm-like monster with eyes and nose at either end inside burger buns with some lettuce

I drew this monster while having dinner at a nice bar in Dayton, OH called “Lucky’s”. The burgers didn’t look like this…err on second thought, I didn’t order one so I don’t know!

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Young, potentially overexcited monster

Green monster with wide eyes peaking into the image frame

This monster is ready to welcome in 2019 with wide eyes and a hopeful smile. Is that how you feel about the new year, too?