The Monster Hunter

The Monster Hunter

New work today!

This is the fearless monster hunter, hot on the trail of the fearsome monsters that are terrorising the local village. Will he ever find them? Probably not to be honest, they know what they're up to when it comes to avoiding people. Will the hunter get eaten? Again, most likely not, these guys are not really the terrorising types. But if you leave any cakes unguarded, you'll be forever wondering what happened to them. And the monsters will be getting a little fatter. I like to think of the hunter being similar to the guy from Jumanji, but with more bluster and less skill.

This is a pen drawing, scanned and coloured in Photoshop. Enjoy!

Birthday Cards

Birthday Cards at Doodle Dojo

You can now get hold of some birthday cards at the Doodle Dojo store. They all have a customisable message inside so that you can say exactly what you want to the lucky person who is going to receive them. And of course they have a range of cool characters on the front.

You can get Killer Space Slug, Epic Mummy, Voodoo Doll, Bonkers Bat, Scary Samurai, Funky Skull, Groovy Ghost, Awesome Zombie and Frankenstein's Monster cards. (phew!)

Take a look at these cards and loads more stuff on the store.

Sleeping Birds

Sleeping Birds

This is my entry for Illustration Friday. The topic this week is asleep and I think they fit the bill pretty well. We have budgies and they get into this pose at bed time. They don't get quite as nice scenery to hang around in though!

I wasn't actually intending to enter but I was doodling away and came up with these guys. They just seemed perfect so as its a holiday today I used my time wisely by putting them into vector mode and posting them up. Tried to get away from the black outlines just for a change as well, I quite like the effect in the end.

I'm not thinking about putting these onto anything for the store. They are just hanging around having a snooze in a tree for the fun of it.

Evil Genius Plotting to Rule the World!

The Evil Genius

Every really good movie needs an evil genius somewhere in it, and this is my idea of what he should look like.

I guess he could be a mad scientist but in my mind there's not a lot of difference between them. He's prepared for every eventuality, you can see he even has a plan B prepared just in case the hero manages to infiltrate his underground lair or thwart his diabolical plan. Its something that always seems to be missed out in films. The hero (usually James Bond) always finds the bad guy just before his plan succeeds so I reckon its worth preparing for that. This particular evil genius also has some useful tools, just in case he needs to make running repairs to his latest technological masterpiece. He's like a boy scout. An evil boy scout. Hmm there's a thought!

The only thing he needs now is a private army of minions, ready to do his bidding. So, want to sign up? He's at the store on lots of cool stuff.

Little Blue Worried Monster

Little Blue Monster

New doodle today is the little blue monster. Could do with a better name really but that's what I've come up with so far! Added a bit of background on this one, mostly because I don't usually and its always good to do something different. Tried a new technique on the outlines as well to give them a little more variation. I'm quite pleased with the end result although he does look a little concerned for some reason.

Thought I would include a couple of my early sketches in this post too. First is the original pencil doodle that got me started. Looks a bit angry in this one and I didn't like the horns, but the face has potential, so I did a few more trying to get a better shape.

Then I started on a pen version. I do like getting a bit scribbly with pens and creating a bit of shape with my shading. Still not quite right though, head is a bit big but the face is now pretty much how I wanted it.

Then it was on to the Mac and do it properly. Give everything a good tweak to get it just right, and then post it up for you to have a look at. What do you think?

As usual you can find the little blue monster in the Doodle Dojo store on lots of different suff. Let me know if you think he belongs on something that I've missed out!