When the little box of paper told me I had to draw zombies I was very reluctant because let’s face it in the past decade zombies have been done (sorry!) to death. At first I thought I’d go with “real’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s Sketch I was assigned to do Gorgons. For this I confess I went pretty straight pretty much sticking to the original story though I have a sneaking suspicion I was slightly influenced by the take on them in Jim Henson’s Storyteller. So[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is one of my favorite cryptic/close encounter, Mothman!
Today’s Halloween sketch was one of the ones I thought I was looking forward too. I’ve done numerous sketches of the Kappa and am rather fond of my basic design. But when I got around to having to my sketch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I almost wanted to tear this assignment up and pull another one, but I think that would have broken one of my unwritten rules. But while stories of Will-O’-The-Wisps, Jack-o’-Lantern, Foxfire, or whatever you want to call them, mysterious lights that will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well today the slip of paper said to do Kaiju. Not any specific kaiju just… kaiju. Since one of the rules of this exercise is to do it in the ballpark of a half hour that means I didn’t have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I did it! 31 monsters in 31 days! So the last sketch is that of the Gill-man from The Creature of the Black Lagoon (If anyone is curious my remaining two options were spiders and kitsune.) Anyway this one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, Now that I finished the Halloween Challenge I can get back to doing this. One of the current exhibits at the Seattle Art Museum “City Dwellers: Contemporary Art From India” a selection of contemporary art from all around India.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hadn’t been to the Seattle Asian Art Museum so I was back to drawing a few old friends. This one of a Monk Achieving Enlightenment from the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) is one I’ve drawn many times (nothing in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketches are a couple of northwest coastal masks from Seattle Art Museum’s collection. From left to right they are 1. Kumkwaml – Underssea chief 2. Nulamala – Fool Dancer 3 Nuxalk – Human bird face 4 Nuxalt – Human face My apologies[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
