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2018 Monster Month: Deer Infestation

Happy Halloween!

Here is the final offering in this year’s limited Monster Month posts…

Sometimes life can be tough for an ogre who has decided to buck (pun intended) the traditions of his kind to be a vegetarian. Living creatures no longer fear him, and thusly he is inundated with an infestation of deer. All that venison can be a sweat-inducing temptation, but he’s determined to stick with his principles, even if he constantly is stepping on deer droppings.

 

Just his luck, he’ll get Lyme disease from a deer tick.

 

Thanks for following along with this October’s collection of silly monster sketches, drawings, and illustrations. We now return you to our regularly scheduled art.

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2018 Monster Month: Scare School

I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.

 

Finally! A class where you can’t wait to do homework!
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2018 Monster Month: Swine Soldier

While one might not consider a pig to be a traditional monster, this one qualifies due to his indiscriminate use of that axe, and the fact that he smells pretty foul.

 

You’d be blue like that in the winter, too, if you weren’t wearing any pants.

 

Inked traditionally in my sketchbook, and painted digitally in Photoshop.

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Big Bird

This week, one of the bastions of my childhood chose to retire. Caroll Spinney, the Muppeteer behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for much of the past 50 years on the show Sesame Street, filmed his final scene yesterday.

 

 

I have been fortunate to have chatted with Caroll a number of times right here in my town of Burbank, California. He told me that when he was a young man, his aspirations were to be an animator, and even applied to Walt Disney’s studio. He said Walt offered him a job, but not very much pay, so Carroll turned ol’ Walt down. Not long after, he got into puppetry which led to meeting Jim Henson, and the rest is history.

 

 

Caroll still enjoys drawing, and I am proud to have five pieces of his in my collection, this one being my favorite. My very best to Mr. Spinney and his wife, Debra. Thank you so much for filling my childhood mind with wonder, and broadening my imagination.

 

 

Be sure to seek out the wonderful documentary I Am Big Bird to learn about Caroll Spinney’s fascinating life.

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2018 Monster Month: Bump In the Night

The distant foreboding peel of the distant clock tower was morosely muffled by the early morning fog seeping between the dark alley ways and lonely streets of ye olde London masking the nocturnal movements of those that go bump in the night. Do you know where YOUR children are?

 

As he scraped by with his limp waddle, I froze in fear not wanting to know the answer of where the teddy bear came from, nor how did he come to acquire it.
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2018 Monster Month: Top Chef

Trolls aren’t so bad. Sure, they may eat you, but they like tasty cuisine just as much as the next foodie out there.

Trolls will prepare their meals with the best seasonings they can grow under billy goat gruff bridges where they hang out, and are sure to cook at just the right temperature for just the right amount of time for maximum tenderness.

Who can blame them, really? No one likes to have to throw out a dish and start all over again. It’s so wasteful of food.

 

He is, quite literally, trolling her.
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2018 Monster Month: Pig Nosed People Eater

Just doodling around the other day, and this creature spilled forth. Things took an ugly turn when I decided what to have him chomping on.

Truly monstrous.

 

It is important to not just eat meat, but also your vegetables.
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Sam Elliott

Doodled up a little bit of cowboy actor Sam Elliott. You’ve seen him in Tombstone, The Big Lebowski, Netflix’s The Ranch, and even as a voice of a T-Rex in The Good Dinosaur that was really a cowboy role. He’s just such a fun actor to see on the screen no matter what he’s in.

I haven’t met Mr. Elliott, but hope to in the near future – he’s just about the only member of the original Mission:Impossible TV cast I have not met yet, and I’m a HUGE fan of that old show.

He also has the best mustache in the business. (Tom Selleck is a close second.)

 

It’s the hat, but even more, it’s the mustache.
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