Decided to do an “Inktober” – though, since yer man who claimed inktober as his own that turned out to be a bit of a dick like many, I’m doing my own. Immediately regretted not doing an octopus themed sketch month where in I could call it “Octo-ber” and be all smug about the joke, and instead decided to do something like a classic monsters thing (trying to avoid anything copyright infringy) with a plan of putting a sketchbook together and making it available from amazon as a print on demand book.
(Why Amazon, well, I tried Lulu a few years ago and amazon is cheaper and easier and I think I’m using the monsterous machinary of amazon to my advantage since they can self publishing in every part of the world so a book I do in the UK if bought in the states is then self pubilshed in the states, thereby minimising postage – though I accept this is still an ethical roadmine and I’m a terrible person with horrible values)
I’ll update this once a week here, with some thoughts, on the process so far, rather than updating every day.
Day 1: Frankenstien (yes, it’s the monster) Traditional ink and brush – was advised that you can dilute black indian ink with alchohol (I used an alchohol hand wash) and actually, I think it might be better than water (or even distilled water). Worth a try anyway (my ink was horrible gungy, having spent most of a year unused in a not-quite-air-tight seal. I offered this online for sale, not even a sniff of interest. So that’s poop. I thought it’d be funny to wrap the octopus theme in to create an OCTO-ber MONSTER MASH-UP. But I admit, that joke wore thin on me by day 2.
Day 2: Dracula. Started a traditional picture with pen and ink, wasn’t sure where to put some tentacles, so rubbed out the inks with a view to appraising it, and goddamn it but I forget ink has to dry and smeared the black stuff everywhere. Sodding stupid thing. So back to the digital drawing board. The octopus in this is the Vampire Squid. But I may lay off that nonsense the joke is already a dead horse/octopus.
My prompts are as follows:
1
Frankenstien
2
Dracula
3
The Wolfman
4
The Mummy
5
Creature from the Black Lagoon
6
Invisible Man
7
Jeckyl and Hyde
8
Masked Slahser (freddie)
9
Godzilla
10
BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
11
Them (giant ants)
12
The Blob
13
The Metaluna Mutant
14
The beast with five fingers
15
Gwangi
16
The Thing from ANother world
17
War of the worlds tripods
18
Aliens
19
Predators
20
Terminators
21
50 Foot Woman
22
Killer tomatos
23
Death Race 2000
24
It terror from beyond space
25
Fiends without a face
26
The abominable snowman
27
the fly
28
the creature that walks among us
29
the aligator people
30
the H man
31
The Return (of your favourite monster)