Sketched, cleaned up and colored in using Photoshop CS4 and a Wacom Inutos3 graphics tablet.

This week’s cartoon monster character art “Green Grimace” was sketched, cleaned up and colored in using a Wacom Intuos3 graphics tablet with Photoshop CS4.

The Monster

Once there was a mad and bad monster! His name was Herbert. He was a good monster to the monster family, but, not to the humans! Herbert scared those people’s pants off and I mean it most of the people had to wear underwear! The humans got very cold in the winter. Enough about that. Luckily there was a superHero! His name was Maxeman! He took out any monster anyway any place any time. Maxeman will always save the day! He took out his monster buster and shot that monster! The monster was killed! That day would never be forgot!

The end

“Cap’n Clobber” is this weeks creature for Monster Monday. A gorilla pirate with a skull for a head, complete with glowing eyes. Obviously he needed a peg leg and some swords.

This week’s character arose from a quick sketch. I wanted to work on a full body character, and wanted to add some personality outside of just the face and a hulking body. I started with the skull (which originally had an eyepatch, but it wasn’t reading well once I got to the color art stage so I ditched it).

I started working on ideas for the body, and thought I would give him a gorilla body, and as I worked on it for whatever reason the idea to give him the pegleg came in mind so I went with the pirate theme.

He kinda reminds me of the action figure mashups I used to make as a kid — take apart my brother’s Masters Of The Universe action figures and reattach the limbs and heads to make my own character.

The glowing red robot eyes are an obvious homage to Stan Winston’s Terminator endoskeleton. Which I guess makes this character part robot, part pirate, part ape and part skeleton. Cool.

Rough sketch and final color art worked up in Photoshop CS4 using a Wacom Intuos3 graphics tablet.

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Have a Happy and safe Thanksgiving.

Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses?

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Lovers and Madmen, 1994

Another cartoon monster head for this week’s Monster Monday submission.

I had originally set out to create a minotaur/bull style creature, but I started out with too human of a face. Modifying it was not working so I decided to go with the human version and save the bull for a future post.

Sketched, drawing and coloring done in Photoshop CS4 using a Wacom Intuos3 graphics tablet.