October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 13 - Hook Man

Day 13 is the Urban Legend Hook Man. Everyone's heard the story of the escaped lunatic convict that had a hook for a hand and the couples he would stalk that were out of gas on the side of a lonely highway. Here's the Hook Man himself. Maybe Scooby and the gang could catch him.

Artist Notes - Pencil sketch done with a 2B Graphic Derwent pencil on Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper (28lb, 100 brightness).

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 12 - Lizardo

Monster 12. Okay, here is a "flat" image of a lizard-like monster named Lizardo.

Artist Notes - Done completely in CorelDraw X5 on a Windows 7 Dell Laptop.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 11 - Gremlin

Growing up there were two kinds of Gremlins (besides the model of car, that is). There was a one you didn't feed after midnight in the movies and there was the one that was immortalized in cartoons. That gremlin came from WW2 airplane mechanics. If something weird went wrong with a plane, they blamed it on invisible creatures called Gremlins. Roald Dahl, the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of the original creators of the cartoon Gremlin. In fact, there were discussions with Disney into making the cartoon gremlins into a feature film during the early years of Disney Animated Movies. Alas, this is one of the shelved Disney projects.

Here is a photorealistic version of what a gremlin might look like if they were real. Don't look at this before going to bed!

Artist Notes - I used a photo I found off the internet for the face and added a nose, fangs and bottom jaw of a bear. I used CorelDraw X5 and Corel PhotoPaint X5 to combine the photo elements and add color.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 10 - Cyclops

Monster 10 is a Cyclops.

Artist Notes - I started this with a BW pencil sketch. Then I captured it onto my Motorola Xoom. Then I used Sketchbook Mobile Pro to trace it and color it.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 09 - OU Players

Monster #9 is an OU football player, because to a Texas player they are monsters! This is in honor of OU's 55-17 win over Texas yesterday in football, simultaneously making my day and moving the Sooners one step closer to the National Championship.

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Artist Notes - This sketch was done with a 2B Derwent Graphic pencil on Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper. Then captured onto my Android Honeycomb powered Motorola Xoom tablet. Then uploaded to Dropbox.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 08 - Who's the Dummy?

Here's Monster #8, a simple ventriloquist dummy. I actually like them, but I know many people that find them creepy. This is for you. In either case, if you walked down the hall and something about two and a half feet tall was peering around the corner at you, then you'd probably pass out. Especially if you thought you were the only one in the house.

"Where's Bobby?"

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Artist Notes - This was sketched with a 2B Graphic Derwent pencil onto Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper (28lb, 100 brightness). Then captured onto my Android Honeycomb powered Motorola Xoom tablet and uploaded to dropbox.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 07 - Mermaid/Siren

Monster #07 the Mermaid/Siren. From the depths of the oceans, seaman feared this creature most than any other. The beautiful dreaded siren with a call to men that could not be rejected. Here is my interpretation of one.

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Artist Notes - Sketched with a 2B Derwent Graphic Pencil on Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper (28lb, 100 brightness). Then colored with Prismacolor colored pencils. After that, scanned onto my Dell Windows 7 laptop and prepped for upload in CorelDraw X5. I also added the fangs and claws in CorelDraw. Below is a list of the Prismacolors I used:

Mermaid:
Metallic Gold
Rose
Black
Peach
Light Peach
Goldenrod
Light Aqua
Dark Brown

Mermaid's Tail:
Metallic Gold
Light Aqua
True Blue
Chartreuse

Water:
Ultramarine
Light Aqua
True Blue
White

Sky:
Light Cerulean Blue
True Blue

More NOLA Article Art

As mentioned in a previous post, A Study of New Orleans, I wrote an article for our organization's annual magazine entitled TELL. My article was on a mission serving in the New Orleans area and I have been working on various contributing artwork for it.  Here's a few more.

I took the two I recently made and combined them as a combo seen above. Maybe I'll add in the trumpeteer that I had recently done so I can have a silhouette jazz trio.
Artist Notes - these were pencil sketches with a 2B Derwent Graphic pencil on Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper (28lb, 100 brightness) then scanned onto my Dell Windows 7 Laptop into CorelDraw X5 for coversion into silhouette.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 06 - Son of Frankenstein

Didn't know what this one was going to be at the beginning. I kind of threw him together. Come to think of it, Dr. Frankenstein probably didn't know what his "creature" was going to be either! So here he is in all his gory detail, the Son of Frankenstein, otherwise known as Francis.

Artist Notes - This monster was created completely in CorelDraw X5 on a Windows 7 Dell Laptop.

October Monster Madness - Day 05 - Snakes Alive

This is the entry for day five. I call it Snakes Alive. I wonder what's in that belly of his? Click it to see the full size.

Artist Notes - Pencil Sketch on Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper with a 2B Derwent Graphic pencil from England.