Mike Rayhawk
@mikerayhawk.bsky.social
The BrikWars guy. Former (and now future, again) LEGO guy.
Concept designer and illustrator behind many of your favorite LEGO themes and games, and somehow also the old Roblox logo. I don't know, I can't explain it either.
mikerayhawk.com
brikwars.com
Concept designer and illustrator behind many of your favorite LEGO themes and games, and somehow also the old Roblox logo. I don't know, I can't explain it either.
mikerayhawk.com
brikwars.com
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Mike Rayhawk
@mikerayhawk.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Hi! I guess I need some kind of intro here. I'm a designer with a long history at LEGO and a bunch of digressions into tabletop and video games. I also made the original Roblox logo and BrikWars. Currently freelancing in illustration and whatever odd jobs strike my fancy.
www.mikerayhawk.com
www.mikerayhawk.com
Quote with your most detailed art!
December 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Quote with your most detailed art!
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[Raises glass] To everyone who chose not to post everything that came into their dang heads today
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
[Raises glass] To everyone who chose not to post everything that came into their dang heads today
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Realized it’s been a while since I posted my Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring so here the lads are again
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Realized it’s been a while since I posted my Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring so here the lads are again
Nobody who said "nice" every time they saw the number sixty-nine gets to complain about kids saying six seven
December 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Nobody who said "nice" every time they saw the number sixty-nine gets to complain about kids saying six seven
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"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
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Nice gyre. Widening?
December 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Nice gyre. Widening?
A stranger just swooped in to explain my own joke to me online. But I'm not a woman! I don't know what the protocol is for this kind of gender emergency
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A stranger just swooped in to explain my own joke to me online. But I'm not a woman! I don't know what the protocol is for this kind of gender emergency
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I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
So that Divinity trailer. It's not the wildly overdone depravity, it's that they put a little girl on a woman's shoulders to watch it.
Is this a riff on Horses? Is Larian thumbing their nose at Santa Ragione? Look what we can get away with and you can't?
Is this a riff on Horses? Is Larian thumbing their nose at Santa Ragione? Look what we can get away with and you can't?
December 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
So that Divinity trailer. It's not the wildly overdone depravity, it's that they put a little girl on a woman's shoulders to watch it.
Is this a riff on Horses? Is Larian thumbing their nose at Santa Ragione? Look what we can get away with and you can't?
Is this a riff on Horses? Is Larian thumbing their nose at Santa Ragione? Look what we can get away with and you can't?
My first pass at this one, I tried a flat-graphic poster style with bold color slashes like I was trying to be Tom Whalen. Epic came back with "If we want Tom Whalen, we just hire Tom Whalen"
Anyway guess who came back for the Ninjago launch
fortnite.gg/cosmetics?id...
Anyway guess who came back for the Ninjago launch
fortnite.gg/cosmetics?id...
December 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My first pass at this one, I tried a flat-graphic poster style with bold color slashes like I was trying to be Tom Whalen. Epic came back with "If we want Tom Whalen, we just hire Tom Whalen"
Anyway guess who came back for the Ninjago launch
fortnite.gg/cosmetics?id...
Anyway guess who came back for the Ninjago launch
fortnite.gg/cosmetics?id...
Me: (body dying of too much carpentry)
Manda: Do you need some yoga for Christmas?
Me: I'll just wait until the fancy corporate gold ticket healthcare kicks in, get that physical therapy
Manda: Do you need some yoga for Christmas?
Me: I'll just wait until the fancy corporate gold ticket healthcare kicks in, get that physical therapy
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Me: (body dying of too much carpentry)
Manda: Do you need some yoga for Christmas?
Me: I'll just wait until the fancy corporate gold ticket healthcare kicks in, get that physical therapy
Manda: Do you need some yoga for Christmas?
Me: I'll just wait until the fancy corporate gold ticket healthcare kicks in, get that physical therapy
It's possible I'm biased, but the new Ninjago island for LEGO Fortnite is pretty epic
December 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's possible I'm biased, but the new Ninjago island for LEGO Fortnite is pretty epic
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its crazy to see ur name in fortnite
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
its crazy to see ur name in fortnite
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I think sometimes its important to draw a dragon the way your 9 year old self would have appreciated. Look at her. Shes dreadful. What a splendid beast.
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I think sometimes its important to draw a dragon the way your 9 year old self would have appreciated. Look at her. Shes dreadful. What a splendid beast.
Do you guys have any idea how hard it's been to keep my mouth shut about this for the past year. ANY idea
youtu.be/UYzJvHNmC6A?...
youtu.be/UYzJvHNmC6A?...
Master Your True Potential in LEGO® Fortnite Odyssey’s NINJAGO® Update
YouTube video by LEGO Fortnite
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Do you guys have any idea how hard it's been to keep my mouth shut about this for the past year. ANY idea
youtu.be/UYzJvHNmC6A?...
youtu.be/UYzJvHNmC6A?...
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my comics advice that's somewhat related to "show feet" is that imo learning to draw distant things via less detail is more useful than scaling down your brush. a lot of newbies want to draw distant/small figures by just drawing smaller, but it turns mushy! and it takes forever!!
December 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
my comics advice that's somewhat related to "show feet" is that imo learning to draw distant things via less detail is more useful than scaling down your brush. a lot of newbies want to draw distant/small figures by just drawing smaller, but it turns mushy! and it takes forever!!
The 7yo has become extremely MJ curious over the past week, which is a really complicated subject to try to explain
And by MJ I mean Michael Jackson
And by MJ I mean Michael Jackson
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The 7yo has become extremely MJ curious over the past week, which is a really complicated subject to try to explain
And by MJ I mean Michael Jackson
And by MJ I mean Michael Jackson
When I start this new job I'm going to subscribe to so many worker-owned reader-supported news sites
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
When I start this new job I'm going to subscribe to so many worker-owned reader-supported news sites
7yo has been avidly Duolingoing Danish as well; tonight as I was putting him to bed we had our first unprompted mini Danish exchange:
"Godnat far! Jeg elsker dig!"
"Godnat, søn! Jeg elsker også dig!"
A milestone! He's very excited that Mom has no idea what we're saying
"Godnat far! Jeg elsker dig!"
"Godnat, søn! Jeg elsker også dig!"
A milestone! He's very excited that Mom has no idea what we're saying
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
7yo has been avidly Duolingoing Danish as well; tonight as I was putting him to bed we had our first unprompted mini Danish exchange:
"Godnat far! Jeg elsker dig!"
"Godnat, søn! Jeg elsker også dig!"
A milestone! He's very excited that Mom has no idea what we're saying
"Godnat far! Jeg elsker dig!"
"Godnat, søn! Jeg elsker også dig!"
A milestone! He's very excited that Mom has no idea what we're saying
I wonder if our beef CSA is using AI
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I wonder if our beef CSA is using AI
Surprised I'm not seeing anyone show up with the This Is Good, Actually take
👍 Meta hemorrhaged a bunch of its capital back into the economy without it adding any value to Meta
👍 They did it in a way that didn't create a tsunami glut of indie games into an already oversaturated market
👍 Meta hemorrhaged a bunch of its capital back into the economy without it adding any value to Meta
👍 They did it in a way that didn't create a tsunami glut of indie games into an already oversaturated market
December 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Surprised I'm not seeing anyone show up with the This Is Good, Actually take
👍 Meta hemorrhaged a bunch of its capital back into the economy without it adding any value to Meta
👍 They did it in a way that didn't create a tsunami glut of indie games into an already oversaturated market
👍 Meta hemorrhaged a bunch of its capital back into the economy without it adding any value to Meta
👍 They did it in a way that didn't create a tsunami glut of indie games into an already oversaturated market
Filling out a background check, they asked for my residence addresses of the past seven years. And I only had one to list! This is the first time I've stayed somewhere longer than a year or two since the eighties.
Our seven year old has never known what it's like to move!
Our seven year old has never known what it's like to move!
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Filling out a background check, they asked for my residence addresses of the past seven years. And I only had one to list! This is the first time I've stayed somewhere longer than a year or two since the eighties.
Our seven year old has never known what it's like to move!
Our seven year old has never known what it's like to move!
How is this not already a gaming supplement?
The heroes walk into the room and face - [unfold paper with wet ink] - THIS!
The heroes walk into the room and face - [unfold paper with wet ink] - THIS!
Pages from Ruth McEnery Stuart and Albert Bigelow Paine’s Gobolinks (1896). More on the microgenre of "inkblot books" in our latest books post, including the original in the genre, Justinus Kerner's Kleksographien (1857) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/inkblot-books
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
How is this not already a gaming supplement?
The heroes walk into the room and face - [unfold paper with wet ink] - THIS!
The heroes walk into the room and face - [unfold paper with wet ink] - THIS!
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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me: omg goth diamonds
santa: that’s charcoal
santa: that’s charcoal
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
me: omg goth diamonds
santa: that’s charcoal
santa: that’s charcoal