Dancing Skeleton Reference Behind-the-Scenes

Here's a little behind the scenes to my October Monster Madness sketch series.... The Dancing Skeleton was based on a famous pose of the late great Fred Astaire! You can see it light in the background. Then I just used some general human skeletons for reference. Using them I sketch atop Fred Astaire's photo where his bones would be. I even drew his shoes. I added a mustache to my skeleton, partly to show that I didn't mean for it to be Fred Astaire's skeleton, but used him only for reference. Remember to see the whole run check out the following link: https://sway.com/GVFZRK_LyCeVz8B9

 

Other Sways I've done for you to check out:
Fat Baby (Children's Book) https://sway.com/eRK3gW0C1t8riQ9M

Matt's Monster Madness 2014

Check out my latest daily monster sketches in the embedded sway below... Swipe up to view more and double-click images to see them larger! Go here if the embedded sway doesn't work https://sway.com/GVFZRK_LyCeVz8B9

Surface Pro Dog Drawing with Surface Pen and Sketchbook Pro

This is my first at length attempt to draw something on my new Surface Pro using the pressure sensitive pen that came with it and the program I had already been using Sketchbook Pro. I think it turned out pretty good. What do you think?

Matt's Monster Madness 2012 Day 4: Swirlygig

As I did in 2008 and 2011, I will be posting a monster of the day during the month of October. There will be a new monster every day. Some may be sketched, some done digitally, some in photo editing, some sculpture, etc...


You can also follow me on Instagram to see the monsters that way too! My username is @mcrosser.

Today is the second one and it's called "Swirlygig". It's an ink sketch with a sharpie. Click on the link below to see all the monsters for each year!

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Matt's Monster Madness 2012 Day 2: Scarecrow

As I did in 2008 and 2011, I will be posting a monster of the day during the month of October. There will be a new monster every day. Some may be sketched, some done digitally, some in photo editing, some sculpture, etc...


You can also follow me on Instagram to see the monsters that way too! My username is @mcrosser.

Today is the second one and it's called "Scarecrow". It's an ink sketch. Click on the link below to see all the monsters for each year!

Matt's Monster Madness 2012

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Matt's Monster Madness 2012 Day 1: Monster in the Dark

As I did in 2008 and 2011, I will be posting a monster of the day during the month of October. There will be a new monster every day. Some may be sketched, some done digitally, some in photo editing, some sculpture, etc...

You can also follow me on Instagram to see the monsters that way too! My username is @mcrosser.

Today is the first one and it's called "Monster in the Dark". It's a simple line drawing to get things started. Click on the link below to see all the monsters for each year!

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Beechcraft - Photo/Sketch Comparison

Here's a couple things I did today on an art hunt. First I sketched the front of the Beechcraft building on North Sheridan in Tulsa. Then I took a photo of it.

Jump VBS - Journeys of Paul

This is a quick sketch for an upcoming Jump VBS curriculum about the missionary journeys of Paul. Here Paul has been shipwrecked! Glub glub!

The Crucifixion Sketch

Here's a quick sketch I did today.

Horse Sketches for Bible Study Project Illustration

These are some quick sketches for a Bible Study Project I am working on for Peru.

Birds of a Feather

Birds I sketched.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 29 - Frankenstein's Monster

Day 29 - Frankenstein's Monster.
After a grueling process of science and madness Dr. Frankenstein raises his monstrous creation during a lightning storm. Does his feat of organized chaos work?

Artist Notes - Pencil sketch with a 2B Derwent Graphic pencil on Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper (28 lb, 100 brightness). Captured on my Motorola Xoom in sepia mode. Then uploaded on Dropbox for access.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 25 - Monster Within

Day 25 - Monster Within.

He sits a docile innocent kitty. What lurks underneath? Behind his large doe eyes and his adorable smile? Could it be a monster within this little one?

Artist Notes - Pencil sketch done with a 2B Derwent Graphic pencil on Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper (28lbs, 100 brightness). Captured in mono on my Motorola Xoom. Uploaded to Dropbox.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 24 - The Mummy

Day 24 - The Mummy.

This is one mummy you won't run crying to when you stub your toe!

Artist Notes - Sketched with a 2B Derwent Graphic pencil on Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper (28lb, 100 brightness). Captured with a monotone filter on my Motorola Xoom tablet. Uploaded to Dropbox and cropped in Windows Live Photo Gallery.

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 20 - Abominable Snowman

Day 20 - Abominable Snowman.

Here's another of my favorite legendary monsters. The Yeti, Arctic Bigfoot or the Abominable Snowman. Here's a link to learn more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti.

Artist Notes - Pencil sketch done with a 2B Derwent Graphic pencil on Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper (28lb, 100 brightness). Camera captured onto my Motorola Xoom and uploaded to Dropbox. Then I used Windows Live Photo Gallery for some light editing (crop here, brightening there).

October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 19 - Slimey

Day 19 - Slimey. I just started sketching and this little squirmy guy came out.

Artist Notes - Sketched with a 2B Derwent Graphic pencil on Hammermill Color Copy Digital paper (28lb, 100 brightness). I used Windows Live Photo Gallery to do some light editing.

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 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 - 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.