31 Days of Monsters: Day Seven — A Shallow One

I'm about to head out the door to Trick 'r Tiki, and I realized that I haven't posted today's monster.
I love H.P. Lovecraft, and all of his various creations.  For today's monster, I started to draw a Deep One, one of the fish-human hybrids that swim off the coast of Innsmouth, but he ended up more amusing than terrifying. Putting him in a cheap Fruit-of-the-Looms undershirt and Bermuda shorts, I decided he was from the shallower end of Innsmouth Bay, where the townsfolk were a little too eager to greet their watery kissing-cousins in days gone by. Ew.

31 Days of Monsters: Day Six — Troll

Trolls come from Scandinavia and make their homes in lonely mountain areas, deep caverns and isolated caves. They are fairly stupid creatures, unhelpful, and often violent. They are usually satisfied with poaching sheep, goats and the occasional cow from rural farms, but occasionally, trolls have been known to kill and eat humans who come too near their homes.

31 Days of Monsters: Day Five — Werewolf

In folklore, werewolves weren't always the tragic figures they are now. In the old days people, usually witches and warlocks, chose to become werewolves, by taking part in dark rituals involving animal skins and special ointments made from human fat and herbs.
Today however, most people know werewolves from the movies, where we get the standard mythology — full moon, silver bullets, etc.
To me, werewolves will always be cooler than vampires, which will become apparent when I cover them in an upcoming post.

31 Days of Monsters: Day Four — The Kraken

I have no idea why the Kraken was in "Clash of the Titans." The Kraken comes from Northern European mythology, not Greek. Although most often portrayed as a giant squid or octopus in modern times, was originally Kraken was largely undescribed. What descriptions there were said the Kraken was large enough to be mistaken for an island, and it's main method of destroying a vessel by creating a whirlpool when it submerged that would drag ships below the surface.

31 Days of Monsters: Day Three — The Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins

In 1955, two families found themselves under siege from strange creatures at farmhouse in rural Kentucky. For hours  goblin-like entities terrorized the residents by peering into windows, and grabbing at anyone who ventured outside. Several of the creatures were shot at with rifles, but bounced back up into the air after being hit, seemingly unaffected by the bullets, and even gravity itself. The arrival of the creatures was accompanied by strange lights and sounds in the sky, which leads many UFO buffs to believe the whole event may have been an attempt at alien abduction by the beasts.

Give me your monsters

I have a long list of subjects for 31 Days of Monsters, but I want to make it more reader friendly. If you have a monster you'd like to see me drawn, send me an e-mail message or drop me a line on Facebook and offer your suggestions. If I like your ideas, I'll put it on my list.

The Offering

Here's another image for the Trick 'r Tiki show. This one is actually my favorite. Hope to see you all there Friday.

31 Days of Monsters: Day Two — Frankenstein's Monster

Behold, the Creature!
In Mary Shelley's original novel, Victor Frankenstein isn't really a mad scientist, as much as he's a bad scientist. He's a cocky student with an unseemly obsession about creating life, and he sets about proving his theories without any thought to what the results might be.
When the creature, cobbled together from corpses, is brought to life, Frankenstein's theories are proven, but the man himself is horrified by what he has made.
Repulsed by his handiwork, Frankenstein rejects the creature and sets off one of literature's greatest examples of a child acting out to get attention from a parent.

31 Days of Monsters: Day One —Children of the Candy Corn

It's the first day of the holy month of October. I'm feeling ambitious and reckless, and I think it's time for a challenge.
So, here's the deal: I am going to post a drawing of a monster ever day leading up to the big event — Halloween.
I will be drawing from literature, film, mythology, folklore, reality and my own imagination. Works will vary in scope and medium, but the key is no duplication and a new post every day no matter what. Challenge extended and accepted. Enjoy.