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  • 2021 Monster Month: Makin’ It Rain

    You ever wonder where those random rain showers come from that even the weather people didn’t predict?     Colored pencil in a sketchbook.

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  • 2021 Monster Month: Doctor Visit

    Hey, going to the doctor’s office can be a scary thing, even for a big scary monster. They need a little love and reassurance, too! (And they also like lollipops when it’s all over.)     Traditional ink in a sketchbook with some slight blandishments from Photoshop.

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  • 2021 Monster Month: Birds of a Feather…

    …flock together! Hey, if you find a group to hang out with that you get along with, hang out with them!     Traditional ink drawing in a sketchbook, colored in Photoshop.

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  • 2021 Monster Month: Red Heads

    Now and then, I like to take my sketchbook and just do some random freeform thinking with my pencil. This page came from a day of monster ruminations. What that means is that I would sketch without a pre-conceived thought about where the sketch was going to go. I knew two things in advance. I…

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  • 2021 Monster Month: Whaaaaaa?!

    Whaaaa?! is right! Did you realize Monster Month is back, and it started yesterday? Well it is and it did! Here is the exciting second piece, a completely traditional watercolor and colored pencil piece of a dumbfounded beast who is just as surprised to be here as you are in seeing him.  

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  • 2021 Monster Month: The Box

    Welcome to day 1 of this year’s MONSTER MONTH!!!! After two years since the last one, did you miss it? So, this being the first day, I thought I would gingerly let the first one out of the box without causing you too much fright. It is certainly nothing as horrendous as what Morgan Freeman and…

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  • It’s Baaaaack!

    It’s hard to believe, but after a two year absence here on the ol’ blog, I am pleased to announce that I have decided to bring back Monster Month posts for the month of October!     Beginning in 2009 (A whopping TWELVE years ago!!! Where has the time gone?!), I began posting a monster drawing…

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  • Necking

    The birds, but no bees. Bees would just get in the way.     Ink and watercolor in a brown paper sketchbook.

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