Category: Sketchbook

2016 Monster Month: Day 14 – Sketchy Characters

Earlier this month I shared with you a page from my sketchbook, which is where most of my monsters have their beginning (and sometimes their finish). You all enjoyed that previous post so much (CLICK HERE to see it again) that it seemed like maybe you would enjoy another page.

Well, here it is. There is no rhyme or reason to it. These doodles are just the product of a random mind unsure of what will flow from the pen at any given flick of the wrist.

Sketchbooks are so much cheaper than professional therapy.

 

The pens I buy just always seem to draw this kind of stuff.
The pens I buy just always seem to draw this kind of stuff.
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Art: Inking Character Designs Monsters Random Doodles Sketchbook

2016 Monster Month: Day 13 – Scared Stiff

If you get scared stiff by this monster, double-check to make sure you aren’t actually just stiff from the cold because he isn’t particularly scary. However, it is a little unnerving to see him shake a bit from the frigid temperatures.

This was just an ink sketch on the back of an envelope that travelled through the postal system. He would have been warmer had he been enclosed inside the envelope.

 

jk
Hopefully the postal carriers kept their fingers away from those teeth.
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Art: Drawings Art: Inking Art: Photoshop Character Designs Monsters Random Doodles

2016 Monster Month: Day 12 – Big Bad Wolf

Today’s monster comes from the world of fairy tales. The Big Bad Wolf huffs and puffs his way into Monster Month from a page in my sketchbook, featuring a cameo appearance of the three little pigs’ derrières.

 

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon? Me either.
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon? Me either.
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Animals Art: Colored Pencil Art: Drawings Character Designs Monsters Random Doodles Sketchbook

2016 Monster Month: Day 11 – Fancy Lad

Sometimes, despite the scaly skin, the fire breath, and the ogre-like eating habits, a monster just needs to be fancy now and then.

 

Sometimes a top hat is just a necessity.
Sometimes a top hat is just a necessity.

 

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Art: Inking Art: Photoshop Character Designs Illustrations Monsters Random Doodles Sketchbook

2016 Monster Month: Day 9 – The Face

Some faces are such that only a mother could love. While there is little evidence to confirm this, we like to think that Igor’s mother truly loved his face. However, judging by his willingness to serve Dr. Frankenstein with the doctor’s hideous experiments, love may not have been a part of Igor’s early years. Perhaps he stole brains and dug up dead bodies under the cover of night all in the hopes of getting the parental acceptance he so longed for that was deprived of him during his childhood.

Yet, in all the sadness that he must have felt inside, Igor remained a positive person, always ready to lend, or dig up, a hand with a smile on his face. If only we could all be more like Igor.

 

Igor always looked on the bright side of life.
Igor always looked on the bright side of life.
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Art: Drawings Art: Photoshop Character Designs Monsters Random Doodles Sketchbook

2016 Monster Month: Day 8 – The Artist

Now what artist doesn’t welcome the chance to create something wondrous from observing a beautiful live model? Art history is filled with amazing masterpieces of those who have gone on before us who utilized models in their work such as da Vinci, Rembrandt, and believe it or not, Picasso. However, there are also those who pretend to be artists just so that they can spend time with a pretty model. These are truly monsters.

 

She's just going to LOVE his rendition of her.
She’s just going to LOVE his rendition of her.

 

This actually is a drawing I did for my nephew who has an interest in art. I gave him his own sketchbook this year with this as the first drawing in it to help get him started. I’m sure he’ll have fun letting his imagination go wild!

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Art: Drawings Art: Inking Character Designs Monsters Random Doodles Sketchbook

2016 Monster Month: Day 7 – Green Dragon

Often when I reach for a sketchbook, I don’t really know what will come forth. This was one of those times. With a blank page before me, I just started doodling an eye, and then another, and a nose, and eventually this dragon just came out of that magic pencil.

Sure glad I bought that pencil and not a different one. No telling what would have come out of a another pencil!

 

He's just so lovable looking that you want to reach up and hug him, if it wasn't for all those lousy spikes on his skin!
He’s not a fire-breathing dragon. Since he was drawn on paper, fire-breathing would result in an accidental suicide.

 

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Art: Drawings Character Designs Monsters Random Doodles Sketchbook

2016 Monster Month: Day 4 – The Eyes Have It

Would you like to see a typical page from my sketchbook? Not everything is great that goes into it because this is where you need to work out the bad drawings. So, some pages are just a real mess to try to look at, but this is one that is worth sharing. It still isn’t full of the greatest ideas, or the best draftsmanship, but it helps lead to those kind of drawings. It works out nicely that this page just happened to be full of monsters.

 

It is fun to play around with eyes. So many expressions can be conveyed just in the eyes.
It is fun to play around with eyes. So many expressions can be conveyed just in how you can draw the eyes.

 

If you love drawing, by all means, get yourself a sketchbook and keep it handy at all times. I often use my sketchbook to experiment, to practice drawing, to figure out new ways to do things, and even to work out early concepts of things I wish to illustrate. I have made it a habit to travel with a sketchbook so that it is handy to do all of the above, plus it helps kill time while on the road. These sketches were created while traveling through Israel this summer!

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Character Designs Monsters Random Doodles Sketchbook