The Chad Frye - Illustration GuyHere is another page from my sketchbook that began with the short knight (where was he two days ago when we had all those dragons?!), and the rest of the page filled in with other short creatures that might be more comfortable in a J.R.R. Tolkien tale than in the cold winter of Russia where they were sketched in ink.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if The Blob had to sneeze?
Here’s the answer accomplished in gouache on black paper…
Here is a page from my sketchbook with a massive infestation of dragons. They came out of my pencil in all shapes and sizes, and with varying degrees of dangerosity. (That’s a real word – at least today it is.) You never can find a brave knight when you need one. Although in this case, the knight would really only need an eraser to defeat the dragons.
Incidentally, much like some sketches I showed you last week, these creatures came forth while traveling in Russia earlier this year.
What is that they say? “It’s not the heat, but the humidity.”
Just imagine you are standing there talking with a friend and all of a sudden it just gets REALLY humid out. Then imagine that the humidity isn’t caused by the weather. Yowza!
Today’s monsters are brought to you by watercolors and colored pencils.
I sometimes wonder what it would be like if aliens invaded the old west of America. Yeah, yeah, I know there was a movie called Cowboys & Aliens which was a fascinating version of how things could have gone, but I require just a little bit more silly in something like that. Silly as in, “What would a gunfight look like where one is armed with four arms?”
Perhaps this is how it would have gone down, by way of ink and gouache on tan paper…
Last month a new version of Stephen King’s It was released in the movies. I have not seen it. Despite enjoying creating monsters all the time, I embrace the silly, not really the spooky. Also, I remember seeing the television version of It back in the early 90s, and it ruined me. So, no thanks to any new scares.
It was the television version that I returned to for inspiration for this birthday card I made for a friend this past summer. Tim Curry’s version of the creepy clown Pennywise has done more than its share of damage to my dreams thank-you-very-much. So, here’s my silly ink and watercolor version for Emily’s birthday card…
This little guy may seem like a Romeo at first glance, but he was actually created on a sympathy card for someone who lost a loved one that was very much into monsters. So while many of these creatures can be silly and intended for vapid entertainment, once in a while a monster can reach out to say, “I’m sorry.”
I’ve been sketching a LOT of monsters in my sketchbook this year. So, you’ll be seeing more sketchbook pages than usual in this year’s selection of creatures that go bump in the night.
Here’s one such page of some creatures that came forth during one of my trips abroad. These guys were sketched in pencil in the freezing, wintery depths of Russia this past January! You wouldn’t want to encounter one of these fellas in the dark or it would be dosvedanya to you!
