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2011 Monster Month: Day 6 – Zombie Painter

You know, there’s nothing like holding a palette full of paint in one hand and twirling a brush with panache in the other to really make one truly feel alive. Hope you enjoyed today’s monster fresh from my sketchbook! Tomorrow’s beast will come to you in brilliant technicolor!
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2011 Monster Month: Day 5 – The Nerd

Sadly, even the monster world can’t escape eyeglasses tape and pocket protectors….. I hope you have enjoyed this week’s batch of monsters! Come back again on Monday for another round of five beasties!
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2011 Monster Month: Day 4 – The Reptilian Villain

Prior to this year’s Monster Month, I shared with you some of the art I created as a character designer for the new Zhu Zhu Pets movie, The Quest for Zhu, that came out on DVD last week. The drawings showed lots of cute little hamsters with their big eyes and button noses. What I didn’t…
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2011 Monster Month: Day 3 – The Hooked Alien

He can’t help it that he was born this way. He’s really an alien with a heart of gold, but no one will really give him much of a chance. All this guy really wants is to make it big on the music scene. You should hear him sing an old fashioned love song, coming down…
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2011 Monster Month: Day 2 – Monster Tea Party

Back in 2004 I was contemplating getting into using the watercolor medium. For many years I created illustrations with colored pencil and gouache, an opaque water based paint. Watercolor paint started catching my eye to the point of inspiring me to give it a try. But what would be a worthy image on which to…
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2011 Monster Month: Day 1 – The Drawing Dead

WELCOME to the return of Monster Month! This is my third annual offering of a piece of monster art every week day throughout the month of October. Some creatures will manifest themselves as watercolor paintings, some as inked drawings, digital art, pencil drawings, and even sketches direct from the pages of my sketchbook. Word must…
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Zhu Zhu Pets – End Credits Art 5

Have you ever wondered what a chorus line of singing and dancing hamsters would look like? No? I never did either, but this Zhu Zhu Pets animation project gave me the opportunity to contemplate such life-altering matters. During the production of The Quest for Zhu, little Pipsqueak is magically whisked away to the Zhu Village…
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The Return of Monster Month

Hide the children, and bar the windows and doors at night….. …The monsters are returning for another month of fright! That’s right! For the third October in a row, it will be MONSTER MONTH on the Chad Frye • Illustration Guy blog! Each weekday throughout October a new piece of monster art will…
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