Category: Illustrations

2017 Monster Month: Day 15 – eHarm.com

Everybody deserves a little love, right? How would a zombie really find his match online? No human is going to trust him, of course. They’d go out for dinner and one would come back without any brains. So, zombies really need their own online dating service.

Introducing E-Harm.com, where monsters can safely find a mate compatible to their lifestyle.

 

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After the effort of making a dating website page for good ol’ Don here, it seemed a shame to not let you see him a little closer. He’s good looking, has a decent job, and is into small pets – or are they into him as it were? So here he is…

 

Now who wouldn’t fall in love with a face like that?
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2017 Monster Month: Day 13 – Fluffy

So, did you make a guess as to which of yesterday’s sketches would be turned into a painting today? If you guessed the little girl and the big horned beast at the top of the page, you would have been correct.

It just seemed like a fun idea to take that little girl and make the big guy her pet. Clearly, he could totally be the one to take her for a walk, but he willingly allows her to be his master.

So, a little watercolor paint and some colored pencils applied to a textured paper can turn a few rough pencil sketches into something special…

 

Who walks whom?
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2017 Monster Month: Day 10 – The Bird Lady

Okay, I realize that TECHNICALLY, this lady does not look like a monster. However, the whole scene gives me a bit of the creeps, so it is being included in this creepfest I call Monster Month.

This started as a sketch of a gnarled old tree in my sketchbook drawn lightly with a blue pencil. As it started to take shape, the birds seemed like a natural addition. Then, of course, an old woman needed to be added, who is likely the birds’ mistress, or perhaps she is not. That is the beauty and mystery that a single drawing can do to the viewer. It makes one ask questions. Who is this woman? Why are those birds there? What do the birds and the woman have to do with each other? Why doesn’t this artist seem to know the answers to these questions?

Well, maybe I do have these answers, or maybe I don’t. That is the beauty and the mystery that an artist can wield with his ink brush pen…

 

Tuppence a bag?
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2017 Monster Month: Day 8 – Hay Fever

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if The Blob had to sneeze?

Here’s the answer accomplished in gouache on black paper…

 

I wonder if he covered his mouth?
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2017 Monster Month: Day 6 – Humidity

What is that they say? “It’s not the heat, but the humidity.”

Just imagine you are standing there talking with a friend and all of a sudden it just gets REALLY humid out. Then imagine that the humidity isn’t caused by the weather. Yowza!

Today’s monsters are brought to you by watercolors and colored pencils.

 

I’d also wager that he needs a really big breath mint.
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2017 Monster Month: Day 5 – Illegal Alien

I sometimes wonder what it would be like if aliens invaded the old west of America. Yeah, yeah, I know there was a movie called Cowboys & Aliens which was a fascinating version of how things could have gone, but I require just a little bit more silly in something like that. Silly as in, “What would a gunfight look like where one is armed with four arms?”

Perhaps this is how it would have gone down, by way of ink and gouache on tan paper…

 

If a bandito with four arms challenges you to a duel, politely decline.
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2017 Monster Month: Day 4 – Pennywise

Last month a new version of Stephen King’s It was released in the movies. I have not seen it. Despite enjoying creating monsters all the time, I embrace the silly, not really the spooky. Also, I remember seeing the television version of It back in the early 90s, and it ruined me. So, no thanks to any new scares.

It was the television version that I returned to for inspiration for this birthday card I made for a friend this past summer. Tim Curry’s version of the creepy clown Pennywise has done more than its share of damage to my dreams thank-you-very-much. So, here’s my silly ink and watercolor version for Emily’s birthday card…

 

I’m sorry, but all that candy and what-not can’t possibly be very sanitary down in the sewer.

 

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2017 Monster Month: Day 1 – The Dayton Flyer

Here it is, the first post of 2017’s MONSTER MONTH!!! For the first monster of the month, I thought I’d post one that was actually published this past year!

I was asked by Frank Pauer, the editor of the University of Dayton Magazine, to reimagine the university’s mascot in a sci-fi way. Frank asked a number of artists to do their own versions based on different themes, but sci-fi was definitely up my alley. Any excuse to include a monster, right?!

So, created entirely in Photoshop utilizing my handy dandy Cintiq monitor, here is my Dayton Flyer attempting to deliver a basketball against an opponent who couldn’t care less about fouling.

 

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