Monster Monday: Weekly Monster & Creature Sketch & Illustration Blog

I don’t know if this mermaid really falls into the “Monster” category but it is a creature of myth and fantasy so I figured I would share it. I actually created it for as a t-shirt design for a group of ladies that goes to the beach each summer. They call them selves the BeBe’s. They requested a “busty mermaid drinking a tropical drink” and this is what I came up with.

It’s been awhile since my last post. I’ve been busy with work projects with lot’s of parts. Having to make sure each item is correct and names are spelled correctly, all I could think was “devil’s in the details.” So… I made it the theme of my monster for today and did a devil. Thanks to Von Glitschka’s “Crumble. Crackle. Burn.” book for the background.

Painting for a new business card — liquid watercolor, india ink and coffee.

and all I got was a shrunken head. I decided to play with some voodoo this week and shrink a head for Monster Monday.

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.

Although it might look to the contrary, these monsters are having a ball! Swinging their antennae and jiggling their tentacles and horns and… such. Won’t you join ‘em?

Here’s my first post, all done in Photoshop CS3

Last week I did a sketch of Frankenstein. This week I give you Franky in full color, or as my daughter calls him Franken-ogre.

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.