An awesome reference a vis dev friend of mine pointed me to. Apparently this is a FB group that has periodic topics for the masses to submit a design for. A recent one was - you guessed it - MONKS! Obviously some of these are pretty bad. But well worth digging through because some of them are aweeeeeesommme!!!!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/CharacterDesignChallenge/?multi_permalinks=457354174465936&notif_t=group_highlights