Category: Character Designs

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 would be drawing heads, and they would be monsters.

I would start drawing shapes, and then come up with the facial details as the sketch progressed. What came out was kind of fun, so I inked them with a brush pen, and dabbed on a little red watercolor paint. Five monster character design concepts were the result!

 

Sure am glad these things only come to me in an improv moment, and not in my dreams.
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Art: Inking Art: Watercolor Character Designs Monsters Random Doodles Sketchbook

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.

 

You’d be shocked, too, if you just found out that your whole existence was due to some guy’s blog. Who even reads blogs anymore?!
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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 Brad Pitt once found in a box, so you can breathe easily. Rest assured, you and the kiddies will likely enjoy (most of) what is to come this month.

 

No bright lights, never get it wet, and never feed it after midnight.

 

Ink and black Prismacolor pencil from my sketchbook.

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Necking

The birds, but no bees. Bees would just get in the way.

 

Schmoopies.

 

Ink and watercolor in a brown paper sketchbook.

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Animals Art: Drawings Art: Inking Art: Watercolor Character Designs Random Doodles Sketchbook

Arrrrr!

Today be the official “Talk Like a Pirate Day.” So, shiver your timbers, yo ho ho, and swab those decks, but just be sure you are doin’ it in a high-pitched squeaky voice like these here pirates be doin’.

 

Sailing the seven seas can be tough when your foe has nine lives.
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Batman Day 2021

Hey, hey, hey Superman – it’s not always about you! Today just happens to be Batman Day, so be a pal and step aside.

 

Perhaps Batman has a little neck envy.
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The Jug Band

“Swing your partner round and round, kick ’em in the knees and throw ’em to the ground!”

Wait, that can’t be right.

 

They’d really sound good if they were each playing the same song.

 

A pencil sketch from my sketchbook. Might be fun to one day develop this a bit more and make a nice traditional watercolor painting out of it.

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Bird Hunting

When I was a kid, in the fall my dad would pack us up into our faux wood-sided station wagon and drive us up to New Hampshire where we’d enjoy the fall colors of the region while he traipsed through the woods with friends as they would go bird hunting. We enjoyed lots of tasty meals from those trips that consisted of pheasants, woodcocks, and once even a goose! Good memories.

 

Don’t worry, that gun won’t shoot anything. It’s made of ink.
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Animals Art: Drawings Art: Inking Character Designs Random Doodles Sketchbook