(some of) The Misspent Youths gang fifteen years later –
From left to right-
Top row –
Lili Veracruz, Moe, K.Z. O’Neil
Middle Row –
Trouble Coyote (not actually aged a day, I was tired and forgot what I was doing with the characters), Samuel (formerly Detritus), Buffy Crawfield
Bottom Row –
The guy from the fifth issue who wanted to kill everyone at Burger Bopper because his girlfriend was cheating on him, The remnants of the Pile, Treacher Murphy
More monster sketches.
On the left is the psycho girl monster from King Mantis. The sketchbook that features that series-in-development will start being posted next week so I’ll wait until then to say anything more.
On the right is a Frankenstein monster. I’ve developed this strange affection for Frankenstein monsters since I read the novel. Not sure why.
At the bottom is monster of indeterminate species. The image was sitting in my mind. My hands drew it. Don’t know what it is. It’s probably hungry though. Monsters usually are.
I think the name speaks for itself.
Another break time sketch. It occurred to me that most giant monsters (Godzilla, Rodan, the Ymir, Dragons) were some sort of reptile. The mammal giants were apes (King Kong, Konga, and then more King Kong). So this guy is a mammal of some type. Hard to say what species he’s related to. I was thinking of hyena when I was drawing him but he doesn’t really resemble any mammal I can think of.
Another recent sketch. Done during a break at the day job.
A couple of years ago, when Nizzibet and I were still sharing a house with Jason, and we still saw Emily and Marnie on a regular basis, we had the occasional meal together. On this occasion we started joking about what sorts of animals we were. We didn’t self identify, we picked out the animals that the other people were and then invented a combination. It was one of those you-had-to-be-there moments. I no longer remember which of us was supposed to be which animal combination. I do remember that Marnie didn’t care for the combination we’d chosen for her.
A month or so later I sketched out the animals with the intention of doing finished illustrations and giving them to Nizzie, Jasson, Emily and Marnie. But I never got around to finishing them. So here is the first of four.
Usually if I’m going to put a background on a drawing I have the background at least sketched out in the original piece. In the case of the Mutant Bug here I hadn’t even planned to color it when I drew it. I had no background in mind. But a background seems necessary for it to feel finished. The background here was done with Photoshop watercolor brushes and then run through a blur filter.
