Today I participated in the Monsters Go illustration prompt. That’s where professional illustrators recreate monsters drawn by children.
This week’s art was by a kid named Lily N. Here was her drawing:
And here’s my version of it:
And here’s a link to Monsters Go on Instagram.
Radio silence on here usually means I’m busy working on something. This time I’m illustrating a picture book for Entrepreneur Media Inc. The story is about two kids’ basketball teams, the Jack Rabbits and the Sea Turtles. Sports teams always need logos, so here’s a little sneak peek of that detail.
I just finished attending a webinar hosted by the KS/MO chapter of the SCBWI. I have been doing illustration long enough now that a lot of these seminars (in person and online) are sort of reviewing things I’ve already picked up. But I did get a few points that were sort of new, or at least good to be reminded of. And it’s always good to get out there (metaphorically because it was on zoom) and actually discuss things.
The subjects were picture book dummies and working with art departments.
There was a lot of information, but the advice I took away was:
Inktober #28 was Float. Here’s that one colored in.
Here’s a color version of my faceless chef.
Two babies in color this time.
So, since this is posting on Halloween, I thought it should be a Halloween themed image. So, the two things that come to mind with crawl is creepy crawly bugs and crawling babies. Bugs only seem really Halloweeny if it’s a spider or if they’re crawling over a corpse. I already did a spider this month and corpses are gross. Trying to not go for too gross since my target audience are kids.
So, a Halloween-themed baby.
I doodled a baby pumpkin-head, a baby Dracula, a baby Frankenstein’s monster, and a baby zombie. By the way, baby zombie? NO. Not cute. Bad. Very bad.
And I also doodled this baby Death, which is the one I liked best. So, that’s the one I finished off for today.
Whew! This is the last one! I’m done. I hope you enjoyed the month of inktober as much as I did. Thanks for watching!
I considered several possibilities to answer this prompt, but you know what? Sometimes the less you know, the worse it could be.
This is about the cutest concept I can think of today.
When I looked through this year’s Inktober prompt list for the first time, I saw this prompt and I knew immediately what I wanted to do with it. So, I’ve waited all month to do this one, and I finally got to it! Yay!
I may come back to it and add in shadows and maybe colors later. But not today. 🙂
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 