2018 Monster Month: Top Chef

Trolls aren’t so bad. Sure, they may eat you, but they like tasty cuisine just as much as the next foodie out there.

Trolls will prepare their meals with the best seasonings they can grow under billy goat gruff bridges where they hang out, and are sure to cook at just the right temperature for just the right amount of time for maximum tenderness.

Who can blame them, really? No one likes to have to throw out a dish and start all over again. It’s so wasteful of food.

 

He is, quite literally, trolling her.
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2018 Monster Month: Alienation

Another monster has invaded my sketchbook, probing its pages for cattle to mutilate. Next it’ll start drawing crop circles on the blank pages. Good times.

 

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2018 Monster Month: Pig Nosed People Eater

Just doodling around the other day, and this creature spilled forth. Things took an ugly turn when I decided what to have him chomping on.

Truly monstrous.

 

It is important to not just eat meat, but also your vegetables.
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2018 Monster Month: Blue Frankie

I hate to disappoint, but I decided that this year I won’t be doing my usual Monster Month series through the month of October. Typically I post a new monster drawing each weekday during this month, but things have been just a little too busy with some freelance projects, and being full-time on a new series for Warner Bros. based on Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs & Ham book. (Oh yeah, I haven’t really announced that in a big way yet. So, guess what I’ve been working on lately?)

ANYway… I may post the occasional monster here and there this month, but it won’t be an onslaught this year. That being said, let’s kick off October 1st with a new version of my favorite creature that goes bump in the night, Dr. Frankenstein’s monster!

 

Dr. Frankenstein was talented medically, but he sure didn’t know the first thing about orthodontia.
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Sam Elliott

Doodled up a little bit of cowboy actor Sam Elliott. You’ve seen him in Tombstone, The Big Lebowski, Netflix’s The Ranch, and even as a voice of a T-Rex in The Good Dinosaur that was really a cowboy role. He’s just such a fun actor to see on the screen no matter what he’s in.

I haven’t met Mr. Elliott, but hope to in the near future – he’s just about the only member of the original Mission:Impossible TV cast I have not met yet, and I’m a HUGE fan of that old show.

He also has the best mustache in the business. (Tom Selleck is a close second.)

 

It’s the hat, but even more, it’s the mustache.
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Bunny and Bear

Had some time between storyboards the other day to just let my mind and hand wander. This was the result.

 

Yes, it was a hot, muggy wind, but the bunny thought it was just an affect of summer. The fish knew otherwise.
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September 11

On this morning in 2001, I was getting ready for the day.
 
I turned on the television that morning to watch the news with the volume off while I was trying to call my father at his workplace. It was my regular day of the week to do so. I saw images of the first tower smoking, and without the volume on, I was wondering what movie we were getting a sneak peek of. The phone at my father’s office was giving me the busy signal, something that NEVER happened because I call into a corporate switchboard. Weird. As I try dialing again, I see a plane fly into the second tower. It was at that point I realized I’m probably not watching a trailer for a movie, and then it was obvious why the phone droned on with a busy signal. The whole world was trying to call loved ones in the New York area.
 
My father worked in an office building across the Hudson River in Jersey City that had a clear view of the tragedy taking place. I ended up reaching my father much later in the day, and as it turned out, he was out on the road that morning for work purposes, and was nowhere near the city. I sighed in relief.
Taken on the NJ side of the Hudson, this is my father in October of 1998.
Several hours later, I did go to work on time out here in California, but obviously the whole country was concerned with what happened in New York and Washington D.C. that morning. Nobody was doing much work.
 
Everyone was concerned, especially when no one knew exactly what was up. There was a wash of misinformation going around as reporters speculated on things while trying to sort out the facts. Eventually, we did learn that it was carried out by Middle Eastern terrorists. One idea that trickled forth later in the day was that the very possible next targets were the propaganda machines that spread forth the message of Western decadence – Hollywood movie studios. I worked for the Walt Disney Studios. WE were possible targets. We were sent home early.
 
Obviously that was a terrible day. Those of you who lived through it probably remember, as I do, where you were and what you were doing when we learned of those events. Some of us might even have been there. I learned a few days later that a man who grew up in the house behind my childhood home had perished at the Pentagon. The tragedy struck home.
 
Ecclesiastes 9:12 tells us that no one knows when our time is up, but the Bible does give hope about how to use the time we have in Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
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Jack Out of the Box

I’m still playing around with some digital brushes in Photoshop, and recently worked up this painted sketch with a gouache look.

It’s kind of fun trying to play around with broad strokes and tones rather than the endless noodling I do when I paint traditionally. Also, painting digitally allows me create subtle color builds MUCH easier than when trying to paint traditionally. However, at the end of the project, there is no original painting. It only exists in the ether.

For this drawing, I reached back into my brain thinking of the style of great European comic book characters such as the original Smurfs and Asterix for inspiration. I always LOVED that kind of art style, which seemed to be seldom utilized by American cartoonists.

Jack is a super tiny Englishman being confronted by the giant who really is the victim of a home invasion when you think about it. You’d be upset, too, if some punk kid slid under your door to eat your food and steal your golden goose all from right under your nose. Fe to the Fi to the Fo to the Fum.

 

Looks like the giant don’t know Jack.
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