Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

2021 Monster Month: Big Bad Wolf

Well, here we are on the eve of the final day of MONSTER MONTH. Have you been enjoying it? I hope so, because I’ve sure enjoyed presenting all these wacky characters to you this month. This is one of my favorites for the month. It’s a traditionally created piece made with ink and gouache paint…
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2021 Monster Month: The Good, the Bad, & the Deadly

When out West roaming the lonely frontier, the mind can play a lot of tricks on even the most seasoned hombre. You start to hear things. You start to see things. You start to smell things – things that no living creature should hear, see, or smell. If you should find yourself riding along a…
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2021 Monster Month: Dino Drip

Maybe if the caveman had gotten the vaccine, he would be protected. Ink in a sketchbook, colored in Photoshop.
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2021 Monster Month: Taste Test

Hard as they try, trolls are never very good chefs. They never use enough seasoning, their meat always tastes quite gamey, and they’ll eat anything that’s not related to them. It’s truly an ugly existence, even more so when you realize they actually have nothing of benefit to offer society.* Although, they might offer a…
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2021 Monster Month: Time Warrior

Time can be our friend, or it can be a cruel joke. When time is more of the latter, that is when one must call upon the services of the Time Warrior. He travels through time to write the wrongs one has done, but he does so for a price – a price that you…
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2021 Monster Month: Fish Bowl

I can’t quite be sure, but I think this alien has fish on the brain. The truth is very likely stranger than science fiction. Ink drawing in a sketchbook, colored in Photoshop.
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2021 Monster Month: Chadula

Here we are 24 days into Monster Month, and there hasn’t been one self-portrait in the batch. Seems reasonable that after drawing all these monsters, there should be at least one depiction of the artist as a creature that goes bump in the night. (In real life when I do that, it’s likely due to…
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2021 Monster Month: Monsters At Work

Well here’s something different in this month-o’-monsters – an actual bonafide monster job! Back in July I was hired to work on this advertisement for the Disney+ animated series Monsters At Work. The agency had already written the ad, and another wonderful artist had illustrated it and laid it out (that means the graphic design…
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