If you enjoyed the weekly Animal Alphabet drawings that myself and a number of other cartoonists just recently completed… well, we’re at it again.
This week starts AlphaBeasts where we’ll be drawing fictional monsters and creatures. I think there’s going to be a nice turnout of artists contributing to this one so check them out as they’re posted at http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/. If you’re interested in contributing (and I highly recommend it, it’s a great drawing exercise) there are some simple rules posted here: http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/rules
With Animal Alphabet I did each piece with a pentel pocket brush pen, a micron for fine details and a brush for some ink washes. I got really tired of doing those washes towards the end even though I think I got better at them as I went. This time I’m going to add some color while still trying to keep it as simple and efficient as possible. I always tried to not spend more than an hour on each drawing last time but for my first entry here I spent a bit more than that but partly because I spread the work out over the past two weeks and partly because I wasn’t happy with my first drawing and wound up redoing it. I’m still using my trusty pentel brush pen and my Micron 01 tip drawing pen but I’ll be doing a bit more Photoshop work on these to give them a different feel than the last project.
Anyway, I haven’t planned too far ahead in the alphabet but I hope by the time I get to Y I’m not regretting having used up the “Yeti” option on this first letter. I always preferred calling it the “Abominable Snowman” anyway.
Aw. Lonesome yeti is lonesome.
That’s a really nice mood piece. An excellent start for the project!
nice work Rich. I was gonna do the Abdominal Snowman (kinda like the Situation) but I want to make a set and thought I should stick with what I had. I really like the use of the monochromatic graphic look.
I love drawing monsters! I actually went through and did the whole alphabet of monsters to teach myself how to use the new tablet I’d gotten
Always nice to learn new tools while doing something fun.
Of course, now I’m trying to release those pages as a digital children’s book. Do you guys have any similar plans for your works, or are they ultimately just for funsies? (not that there’s anything wrong with that!)
Thanks so much, guys. This one was really fun to do.
Jaydot, I’m not sure yet. I’ve had a couple of people express interest in books or prints of my Animal Alphabet pieces so I can’t say I’m not thinking of doing something with these in the future but as for the Monsters we’ll have to see how they come out I guess.
Please let us know if you are doing any prints or books of these. I’d love to buy just the A version as a print