Monster Monday: Weekly Monster & Creature Sketch & Illustration Blog

I went back in one of my sketch books and dug up this cool looking Robot (Overlord) Protector. Just a doodle I did one day. The arms will whip out and grab the fleeing masses to be brought back into the protection of the metallic ones and with laser beams out of their eyes they can (incinerate any who oppose them) protect us who need their watchful care.

Gouache on cardstock, cut to shape. Kind of a Heavy Metal-influenced piece. I was mainly interested in trying to get the translucent, kind-of-slimy skin texture looking right; the little dancing figure he’s holding was pretty much an afterthought.

I pieced this night mare together in Photoshop for a zine called HOWiezine. When I was a kid this is how I pictured a nightmare.

Gouache on cardstock, cut to shape.

Edit: Oops – I meant to schedule this for Monday afternoon – got the date wrong, I guess.

Very cool to have a new outlet for posting monster artwork. To get things started, I wanted to post some recent artwork of my all time favorite monster, The Creature from the Black Lagoon. This was created entirely in Photoshop CS3 using a Wacom Graphire tablet- No photo manip.

This sketch of a cartoon cyclops character is my first entry for Monster Monday. Sketched out and colored in entirely in Photoshop using a Wacom Intuos3 graphics tablet.

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