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Monday, October 28, 2013

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Monster 28 - Death's Brother, Melvin

Did you ever wonder if Death had any family? Well yes he does he has a much less successful younger brother Melvin. Melvin is much less a Grim Reaper and more of a Grim Sleeper. Melvin is the guy who doesn't like all the work of taking people to the afterlife so instead he just makes them oversleep and end up late for work and school and stuff people need to do.

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

Thanks for looking,
Kevin P. Johnson

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Sunday, October 27, 2013

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Monster 27 - The Mummy

Well I had to bring back the worst monster of them all The Mummy . . . thanks to Wheatus and the song Teenage Dirtbag for the quote (that I screwed up and forgot to write in the word "Baby" at first).

This makes 27 monsters drawn on the 27th day . . . that's what we call catching up like a boss . . . or an assistant to the regional manager.

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

Thanks for looking,
Kevin P. Johnson

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31 Monsters in 31 Days: Monster 25 - Zombie

A weird crazy looking Zombie.

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

Thanks for looking,
Kevin P. Johnson

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 13 Zombies

ZOMBIES!,
Kevin P. Johnson

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 9 Skeleton Army

The worst army ever assembled! I don't think there is anything else to say about these guys. Good for scares but they are only gonna have like 3 or 4 hit points.

The drawing is done with Copic Markers, Prismacolor Markers and Sharpie on 11" x 14" Bristol Board.

You Got This,
Kevin P. Johnson

Friday, October 5, 2012

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 5 The Mummy


The Mummy - Copyright ©2012 Kevin P. Johnson

Hey everyone sorry that this one was a few hours late I've been sick and the next few days might be a bit later if I can't get back on the schedule I was on.

Anyway The Mummy . . . I still think this guy is a joke but I had to bring him back (check out last years version of The Mummy to see my opinions on this guy). For this year I decided to make him a little funny so I gave him that little head tilt thing that dog's do when they are curious about something, a few buttons and his wrappings kinda look like they might be bacon . . . probably is bacon . . . mmmmm bacon.

This drawing is done with Copic Markers and Prismacolor Markers on 11" x 17" Bristol Board

Thanks for looking,
Kevin P. Johnson
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Vampire

It's getting to the time of year when Vampires come out most often I thought I'd take a stake to one . . . yeah that was a bad joke but I'm sure you giggled a tiny bit on the inside.

This is a sketch done with just pencil and copic markers I wanted to try to do without the black edges on everything and see how it would look. I really like the look of it and I should be doing more drawings like this in the future.

Thanks for checking out the drawings,
Kevin P. Johnson
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 29 - Skeletons

Skeletons . . . as far as the undead go these guys are the least scary and least effective. Usually when you see skeletons in movies they are the minions of some evil character and used as an army. When there are many of them and they are armed they put up a good fight but on an individual basis they are really easy to defeat as their bones are easy to break apart. The only purpose of a skeleton is to serve its master.

Even though I made skeletons sound a bit lame they are really fun to draw. In my drawing I've gone with the style of skeleton that I've developed (I do zombies like this as well) with giant teeth and loose fitting clothes. I think the teeth make them fun if not funny and make them more interesting to look at.

The colors are Copic Markers.

My bones are aching,
Kevin P. Johnson

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Friday, October 28, 2011

31 Monsters in 31 Days: Day 28 - Vampires

Rule #1 Vampires can not walk in the sunlight
Rule #2 Vampires do not sparkle
Rule #3 Anyone who believes Rule #1 and 2 are false should be staked

Vampires, these are the blood suckers of the undead that live in darkness and are smooth stealthy killers. Now the basic rules for vampires are the can not walk in the sunlight or they will burn into dust, they must sleep underground or in a casket during the daylight hours, they must feed on human blood (they can turn a human into a vampire or allow them to live through the process without killing them if they please), they can not enter a home without being invited, they can glamour a person, holy water and crosses and silver are usually items that will burn them, and they move at a rapid pace and sometimes they can fly. Sometimes they vary in what their powers are but if it walks in sunlight it's not a vampire. Stakes through the heart kill them as well.

Now not long ago I had the argument of weather vampires are evil or not? I said that they indeed are and this is how I argue that point. Now being undead in itself has been related to evil and devils but not enough of an answer but not what I'd call solid enough to defeat the point of "well they are just trying to survive and they need blood to do that." Vampires know that they need blood and they know that they do not need to kill to get it or even turn the human into a vampire unwillingly. Vampires will out of rage or blood lust slaughter an innocent living human to save it's own life, I see that as evil . . . and a bit bad ass. Vampires were once fully human and the laws of good and evil apply to their existence as well.

There are tons of movies, books, comic books, and TV shows about vampires. I suggest starting with Buffy The Vampire Slayer, True Blood, The Lost Boys, 30 Days of Night and check out the first vampire movie Nosferatu its a silent film from 1922 but creepy and crazy.

In my drawing I based my vampire on the original film character Count Orlok or Nosferatu as he is one of the most recognizable characters in Vampire lore. The colors are Copic Markers.

Nibble, Nibble,
Kevin P. Johnson

P.S. Do not watch any Twilight movie . . . ever.

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

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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