31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 23 Phoenix

Phoenix - Copyright © 2012 Kevin P. Johnson

The Phoenix . . .  being that I'm not feeling too great tonight I'm just going to quote Wikipedia on this one. "It is described as a bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (literally "sun-city" in Greek). It is said that the bird's cry is that of a beautiful song. The Phoenix's ability to be reborn from its own ashes implies that it is immortal, though in some stories the new Phoenix is merely the offspring of the older one. In very few stories they are able to change into people." the rest of this article can be read at Wikipedia.

This drawing was done  in an 5.5" x 8.5" Strathmore (400 Series) 60 lb. paper sketchbook with Sharpie Marker and Copic Markers.I had planned on doing a different drawing for this but I liked this simple little line drawing enough that I decided against doing another drawing.

It rose from the ashes,
Kevin P. Johnson
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Little Ghostly Ted Comic Book Announcement

Announcing the Little Ghostly Ted Comic Book.

Thanks,
Kevin P. Johnson

Merry Christmas - Christmas Tree vs. Snowman

Hey there boys and girls,
First I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday season. May you be safe and happy and all your hopes and dreams come true in the next year.

The second thing is I wanted to let you know that this blog will continue in 2012 I have just had a shortage of funding for art supplies because I will be doing the Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con in January. I should be up and running soon on this blog as well as making new comic books and making more art in general.

Thanks for checking out the drawings,
Kevin P. Johnson
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Christmas Tree vs. Snowman Christmas Card 2001 - Copyright ©2011 Kevin P. johnson

Practicing Coloring A Monster With Adobe Photoshop

This is just a random monster that I drew so that I could practice with coloring in Adobe Photoshop. It's really pretty basic what I did but I hope to do more coloring with my comics and I need practice. I'd also  like to step up the color techniques I use a bit. There are a lot of things I need to work on but I didn't want to go too long without a new monster. Enjoy.

GROWL,
Kevin P. Johnson

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Color test monster - Copyright © 2011 Kevin P. Johnson

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 31 - Halloween Man

 Well for our last day in the 31 days I decided to do an original monster I've called Halloween Man. He's the guy that you run into when you are out Trick or Treating that looks like he is part of a Halloween yard display but then jumps out and scares you.

I hope that you have enjoyed the 31 Monsters in 31 Days I'll be back doing more monsters shortly. The schedule will not be daily because I've got to gt back to making comic books but I will be updating as often as possible and there will be more black and white and digitally colored art to try to keep the cost of art supplies down.

I will be making the 31 monsters done so far available as a sketch book very soon.

The colors are Prismacolor Markers and Copic Markers.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!,
Kevin P. Johnson

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Halloween Man 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