Monsters.

I tend to go through phases of drawing monsters and creepy people in strange/amusing situations. I like working this way, it allows me to slip between reality of drawing people and places to big monsters and zombies the next day.
I have always had an interest in the darker characters, zombies, aliens, monsters, anything that is intended to be scary. People associate monsters and zombies with fear and death, destruction - horrible things. Sometimes I like to turn that on it's head and think up ways to make those characters more human, or how to add a comedy element. It takes a bit of that fear away and suddenly you are able to relate with the monster, or laugh at it. by doing that it sort of creates a whole different experience.



1) I like to have fun and play around with monster based work. Take these two monsters here for example, the actual description of the drawing sounds grizzly and horrible. "two wrinkly blue demons sat in a bath of blood". However to look at it's funny, not laugh out loud funny, just amusing.
It is important to point out the facial characestics of the demons, rather than looking like blood hungry evil demons, they have a more human look to them. They seem quizzical, bored, more like little old ladies or bored children at bath time. It is funny because they look like something we can relate to.

2) This is a interesting one as it is one of the rare occasions I work with a black background. I wasn't so keen on making the characters this time. I wanted to see how the colours worked and the range of colours and what colours blend best. I think it works quite well - the brighter colours really pop out at you. Again, they are all horrible monsters but because of their stance it adds an element of humor.