Thank you!!! 🐟

This guy represents all the doubt and insecurity any artist can feel, and he must be overcome to reconnect with creativity. The Month of Monsters let me do just that–I’ve gotten to play around with tons of techniques old and new. And color, too!!

Thank you!!!!

Oooo! Love this geometric approach! 🤩💖 Lovely!!

I wasn't sure if I would finish the initial sketch, but once I settled on a simplified, geometric approach, it all clicked for me! It just took some time to piece it all together.

I've really had a ton of fun playing with texture this month! The linework here is done with a Pilot G2 gel pen, and then most of the shading is done with Copic marker ink that I keep in a refillable brush pen. The gray textures are done with a gray Prismacolor pencil!

This was actually my second drawing of Trap Jaw for this series. The first one didn't quite work, and it put too much focus on his giant gun-arm. 😵‍💫

The original sketch of Karen was pretty simple, but then I spent way too long on all the background stuff! (You can see Hexadecimal's leg from earlier this month!)

I stuck really closely to this original drawing. It was just tricky deciding on the final colors! Night scenes are tough.

I stuck pretty close to the original sketch, but I like how clean and angular it is compared to the final version. Sometimes less is more!

This started out as a fairly small, simple drawing. I changed quite a bit for the digital version--especially the mouth and helmet!

This was one of the first monster pieces I started this month, but it took me the longest to finish! I went a little overboard with the shading in the original drawing, so it was tricky to translate to the digital version. I also simplified his costume a lot! (The character designs in MT are wild!)

The weird musculature was tricky to capture in the sketch, but it did help establish the volume and extreme perspective!