Today’s sketch almost felt like a cheat. When I pulled Black Dog from the Halloween drawing box my immediate reaction was: “But I did a canid on Monday!” And started to obsess about how to make it different from that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Drew another one that was challenging, because it was potentially boring and cliche, again. This time it was a ghost. Nothing specific, just ghosts. Not wanting to do the usual cliches, like the sheets and chains. But then once you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was another one I wasn’t crazy about to the point if I do this again next year I will take more time thinking about my list. So… Mummies… I confess having seen too many real mummies in museums I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was another one I think I knocked off too fast. My knowledge of the Jersey Devil was vague enough that it’s the first of this series that I needed a visual reference to remind myself what it looked like. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Minotaurs are yet another one on the list I wasn’t looking forward to and I have a sneaking feeling I might be subconsciously cribbing a New Yorker cartoon but despite being another rush job I’m rather happy how this one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry this one was kind of late due to my first day of house sitting in Capitol Hill which included walking and cleaning up after a geriatric and incontinent Dalmatian and then taking a car to a garage for service[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I pulled today’s monster “Jason” I almost didn’t realize what I was talking about until thirty seconds later I realized I meant Friday the 13th and put Jason in quotes to have it mean “generic masked slasher” Growing up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a hard one. I pulled the slip of paper that said Witch and I couldn’t think of a damn thing… Or more accurately I couldn’t think of anything new. You see witches are one of my favorite denizens[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another critter I know next to nothing about, the Chupacabra. I knew the basics of course but I still had to go to the image files to refresh my memory. This gave me everything from what was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one was a challenge mainly because drawing horses has never been one of my strengths. But anyway for doing the Headless Horseman I tried to keep away from that everybody knows, that being the one that appears in Washington Irving‘s story. Or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
