2021 Monster Month: Dino Drip

Maybe if the caveman had gotten the vaccine, he would be protected.

 

I guess it could be worse. The drip could be coming from his nose.

 

Ink in a sketchbook, colored in Photoshop.

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 bit of a humorous escape for people if some producer gave them a cooking show.

 

Tastes a little undercooked.

 

*Of course, I’m talking about REAL trolls here. Not those fictional technicolor Smurf-like creatures who sing all the time.

Black cherry colored pencil in a sketchbook.

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.

 

That is some SERIOUS brain fluid!

 

Ink drawing in a sketchbook, colored in Photoshop.

2021 Monster Month: Night Stalker

If you decide to take your lovely lady out for a late night constitutional, please be very aware of your surroundings.

 

While he doesn’t quite know it yet, when he gets closer, that street beast will discover that Ethel and Horatio are on their way home from the Rotary Club’s annual bean supper.

 

Ink and black colored pencil in a sketchbook.

2021 Monster Month: The Stare

Today’s entry for Monster Month is a piece I actually posted in 2019 on Instagram as just line art, and that’s how it remained for two years. It is an ink sketch from a sketchbook that every time I flipped to it, that hypnotic stare kept calling out to me in a raspy creepy voice, “color me!”

So, I took this zombie and his pet rat into Photoshop to see if a little color would make him even MORE creepy. I think it worked.

 

I wonder if he had LASIK surgery?

2021 Monster Month: Red Dragon

No, this is NOT about Hannibal Lecter. THIS Red Dragon is literally a dragon drawn with a red pencil complete with drool.

 

Now scratch your screen and see if you can smell his terrible breath.

2021 Monster Month: Dragon’s Best Friend

I’m not a pet guy, but I can see the appeal. After a full day of breathing fire on angry villagers or BBQing knights in shiny armor who are always trying to kill you first, it must be nice to come home to the unconditional love of a dog.

 

It’s all fun and games until he starts barking in the middle of the night.

 

Brown colored pencil in a sketchbook.

2021 Monster Month: Grease Monkey

When traveling the galaxy and you’re having engine trouble, hopefully there’s a planet nearby with a garage full of these little guys. They can fix just about anything that comes fluttering and sputtering into their repair docks.

 

This guy really knows his blarganches from his fleefborgs.

 

A traditional watercolor and colored pencil illustration. No computers necessary.