Except for Mara up in the left corner all the sketches here are of various b-movie monsters. Any guesses as to what movies are represented?
The Deadly Spawn
Today’s creature is from The Deadly Spawn. I can’t say I’ve altered the critter any. I can’t think of a way to “improve” it or make it more interesting.
More Blaisbells
More reinterpretive sketches of Paul Blaisdell monsters – these folks are from The She-Creature and The Invasion of the Saucer Men. Except for the profile at the bottom, that’s a version of The Monster of Piedras Blancas.
World’s End Mutant
The text says “World Without End”. At the time I did this sketch I didn’t have access to the internet so I had to go with the movie title I remembered. This is another revision of another Paul Blaisdell monster suit. It was featured in the movie The Day the World Ended. I did another version of this guy here.
It Conquered the World
Paul Blaisdell was responsible for some very striking monster suits in a series of low budget monster movies in the fifties and sixties. Most of the suits are pretty goofy looking but that’s part of their charm. Blaisdell went that extra mile to create creatures that were unforgettable.
“Beulah”, the Venusian from It Conquered the World is a prime example of Blaisdell’s goofy imagination.
This drawing is one in my ongoing series of re-interpreting old b-movie monsters, combining what (little) I know of science and biology with the basic designs of the originals to make something new. With this one I went with the idea that Beulah was some sort of crustacean (those claws are suggestive of that) and this is the result.
Not Worth Dying For
The Other Master
For the Mandate of Heaven kung fu dictionary I planned to have two characters demonstrating the moves. One was the male I’ve shown previously. Here are some of the work sketches as I tried to figure out what the female kung fu master would look like.
The Forest Brothers – The Bad Brother
This is the bad brother. The one that eats people. He’s blue. Snow precedes him wherever he goes.
In the King Roach story they are ancient avatars of winter and summer who have gained physical form. King Roach teams with the summer (good) brother to defeat the winter (bad) brother.
The Forest Brothers – The Good Brother
Of the kaiju I considered “borrowing” for King Roach the Gargantuas are the only ones I thought of a King Roach specific story for. In their movie they were brothers (sort of). One was brown and “good” (he just hung out in the forest by himself) and the other was green and “bad” (he came to the city and ate people).
This is the good brother. If he were in color he would be brown.
Kinda Sorta Varan
I have not seen Varan. I think it’s available on DVD but I really only spend 5 or 6 hours a week watching movies and then it’s almost always with Nizzibet. She fails to appreciate the glory of giant monsters stomping on tiny cities. When I did this drawing in 2003 Youtube didn’t exist either. These days if I need to see a monster in action I can usually locate some footage there. So this is a version of Varan for the King Roach series that, like the version of Anguirus earlier this month, I’d likely never actually use in the King Mantis series.
