Inktober Catch-up...and drawing Real Monsters.

 I have to tell ya, having a bunch of really talented artist friends can really make you feel like shit when it comes to the month of October...or 'INKTOBER' as they like to call it. October, basically becomes a showcase for everyone's mad inking skills, unbridled creativity and a way for the world to see how awesome you think you are...that is until you see everyone else's work.

If you didn't know it already, artists tend to be a very sensitive, insecure, sometimes self-loathing group of individuals - and yet we continue to put oversells out there for the world to critique. AND with the advent of Social Media and the Interweb(s), now you have the possibility of someone in the deepest jungles of the Congo saying your work is shit and derivative. Pretty crazy if you ask me.

Artists also deal with peer pressure as well, as you can see by this stupid post. SO, in the spirit of Halloween I thought I'd have fun drawing some REAL Monsters. Monsters from Nickelodeon's 1994 animated show: Aaahh!! Real Monsters to be exact. Why draw these you may be asking? Basically because I'm lazy and it's October 17th and I had to bust out a bunch of ink drawings to catch up to my contemporaries. They are also easy to draw and didn't require any fine brush work, score one for me!

The other reason I did them was because this was the very first Monster line of toys I ever designed when I worked at Mattel, before I left to make other monster toys for my own company, so I thought it would be fun to revisit the gang.

So here are my first official INKTOBER drawings (17 days late) for you to critique. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it going on a daily basis starting today with number 17...I have no idea what the hell I'm gonna do.

This is GROMBLE: He's the Headmaster of the Monster Academy, he's been known to literally chew up his students and spit them out. I love that he wears patent leather pumps...

This is ICKIS: He's the shy neurotic one, but has the ability to grow huge, eyes turn red and his teeth become pointed fangs.

This is KRUMM: (My favorite) He smells like ass and holds his eyeballs

This is OBLINA: You could say she's a haunted Candy Cane with a special talent for reaching down her throat and pulling out all kinds of hideous shit.

This is SNORCH & ZIMBO: Snorch is really big and stupid, and is basically the bouncer at the academy and Zimbo is his sidekick/translator. Trivia for you, Zimbo was voiced by Tim Curry.

This is SIMON: He's the Monster Hunter, plain and simple...

...Now I gotta think of something to draw...AND use my Windsor Newton Series 7 Brushes to do the inking instead of the 2 shitty Tombow Black Brush Pens with the split tips...God those things suck ass.