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October 10, 2006
october is monster month!
by sven at 4:28 pm
Stopmo buddy Jeffrey Roche has declared October "Monster Month!" 'Tis the season to draw many horrible things and then share them on your blog. The thought brings a big goofy grin to my face. :-D
The past few weeks have been insanely busy, what with building armatures at Bent Image Lab and then attending the H.P. Lovecraft Filmfest... But I've been doing my part to celebrate Jeffrey's vision. I've drawn dozens of creepy critters in my sketchbook so far -- and have many more yet to birth unto an unsuspecting world.
Today I uploaded the first 20. They're scheduled to appear two at a time on the Scarlet Letters blog, at 8:00am each morning for the next ten days. Enjoy!
This is a variation on a monster I've been drawing for years: "Spikey." He has knives for legs, praying mantis scythes for arms, a chicken-with-its-head-cut-off neck stump, a barrel-chested ribcage, and an emaciated belly/pelvis. In the center of the chest -- where his heart should be -- there's usually a gaping hole. Sometimes there's a window where you can see someone trapped inside. This time I put a red velvet-lined cell in the chest, where an unhappy prisoner resides.
This ghoulish beastie has tiny black eyes set into a bulbous head, a severe under-bite, double-jointed arms, a frame that seems to be stretched twice as wide as a human's, and a scar on its belly where its mother tore off the umbilical cord in terror.
posted by sven | October 10, 2006 4:28 PM | comments (4) | categories: bestiary, sketchbook
Comments
You're alive!! Thanks for sharing the vision, man, and with an awesome openning sketch at that! I love this Spikey guy, great colors too! And 20!?! COOL!! The next ten days are made a little brighter :)
Posted by: ubatuber at October 10, 2006 7:13 PM
Yep, I'm alive. Or maybe "back from the dead" is more like it... ?
Aw, man, I gotta thank you, 'tuber. I've been having a blast with these sketches.
I'll warn you in advance -- most of them aren't colorized. I'll try to remedy that in some of the sketches that follow this first big batch.
Y'know, I could just keep on drawing critters forever... Drawing monsters -- it makes me feel very much like I'm home. (Uh, even when I'm already at home.)
Brilliant idea, Jeffrey. It deserves wider circulation.
Posted by: sven at October 10, 2006 9:07 PM
Cool!! Me likey da Spikey!!
Posted by: Mike G. at October 10, 2006 9:54 PM
Sven!! So good to hear/see you. Love the monsters! And your explanations/descriptions.
Posted by: shelley Noble at October 10, 2006 10:09 PM