“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.

After creating Frankenstein, the shrunken head and the devil images for MonsterMonday, I was wondering what they could be used for. I showed the shrunken head image to a friend and the made a comment about “creative juices.” That got me thinking about different names for it and I came up with Voodoo Juice. “Hmm,” I thought, “that would make a cool beer in a store.” I played around with it and came up with the Voodoo Juice label and then the light went on. Why not do Monster Brew’s labels and see what they look like? So I took the three I had done and added a pirate themed one and “BAM.”

I love it when one idea feeds another.

My first Monster Monday drawrin’! (I hope I did this right.)

I worked all weekend, so I feel like a zombie right now.  TGIM! ~ Chops!

Up on the roof top, click, click, click.