31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 28 Scorpion Man

Scorpion Man - Copyright © 2012 Kevin P. Johnson

The Scorpion Man is half man, half scorpion and all awesome . . . well maybe. I actually don't know much about these guys except that they serve as guards outside of the gates that protect Shamash the sun god. It seems to me that there is potential to use these monsters in more movies and pop culture.

When I was doing this drawing I honestly was hating it and was going to start over but I just started drawing in stuff with the Sharpie marker (I usually draw with pencil first) and then I just went fast and loose with the Copic Markers and it turned out as something I like a lot. I guess seeing a project through to the end is always a good idea.

This drawing was done  in an 5.5" x 8.5" Strathmore (400 Series) 60 lb. paper sketchbook with Sharpie Marker and Copic Markers.

Remember a scorpion will rock you like a hurricane,
Kevin P. Johnson

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31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 23 - Slime Monster

 Slime Monsters are found in everything from cartoons and comic books to movies and TV shows. Sometimes they are aliens and other times they are grown from toxic chemicals in the environment and even as ectoplasmic ghosties. These guys don't seem to have any rules and they come in all kinds of colors and shapes. How do you defeat a slime monster? Well that is up for debate as well fire, cold, chemicals, salt or who knows what. Slime monsters are fun because they can take any shape they want or are forced into and even better when they can split into more slime monsters.

See Also: Scooby Doo, Ghostbusters, and The Blob

In my drawing I went with an angry looking Slime Monster with one eye and he's formed hands for grabbing whatever he wants to eat. The colors are Copic Markers.

Glorp, Glorp, Bloop!,
Kevin P. Johnson

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Slime Monster - Copyright © 2011 Kevin P. Johnson

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 15 - Zombies

ZOMBIES! Well if you have not caught your fair share of zombies in the last few years you have not paid much attention to pop culture because these guys are everywhere. The basic premise of zombies are that they reanimated corpses of usually the recently deceased with a hunger for human flesh. At some point it has become popular to say zombies want to eat your brains but they really just want to eat you completely . . . of course your brain may taste best. Zombies have several different versions traditionally they are slow and are easy to avoid by themselves unless you happen upon one by surprise. The problem with slow zombies comes in when there are more of them than their are of living humans in an area. More recently zombies have acquired "Rage" and are fast and capable of running and although still very instinctual they seem to have more intelligence than the traditional zombies. Before you think you've seen it all you might want to think about Flying Zombies . . . yes I said Flying Zombies and they are a whole new ball of wax when it comes to getting away from zombies.

In most zombie stories the key to destroying them is to remove the head or kill the brain and they will die.

I've seen hundreds of zombie movies and read many comics about them here are my starting suggestions:

Movies: Night of The Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Fido, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later and Zombieland.

Comics: The Walking Dead, Flying Zombies

Books: The Zombie Survival Guide

TV: The Walking Dead

In my drawing I went with a zombie that looks like he's happy to see you . . . for dinner. I've drawn zombies before and usually I make them have huge teeth with this one I tried to keep him a little more human but still a bit silly.


The colors are Copic Markers.

As they say in Dawn Of The Dead "When There's No More Room In Hell The Dead Will Walk The Earth,"
Kevin P. Johnson

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Zombie - Copyright © 2011 Kevin P. Johnson