Sooo super cheater week ahead! I started getting sick around the 16th, felt like utter poop during the beginning of last week, and at this point I’m mostly better. So these monsters were not made on a daily basis, oh no. The clay monsters were made on Tuesday, and the drawings were done last night. I was going to do a pile of clay monsters yesterday and have a whole weeks worth of claybeasts despite my slackerness this week, but then I inherited my sister’s old Wacom Intuos3 and desperately needed to play with it.

And without further ado, here are this week’s 7 monsters in 2 days:

Days 59, 60, 61 – 3/18/12 – 3/20/12 – The Toothless Maw, the Truffle, and the Parakeet.

Polymer Clay (Sculpey)

Days 62, 63, 64, 65 – 3/21/12 – 3/24/12

the Gimp

Day 63 said to make a mask, so I made a masked monster. Day 64 said to incorporate yourself into the project, so I turned myself into a monster. Day 65 said to use Tangram shapes, so I made an army of evil triangles and went to bed.

Next week, back to normal. None of this sickness getting in the way of important things like monsters!

Day 52 – 03/11/12 – Akrillicus

Yarn

Hastily thrown together, this monster came from a long scrap of yarn I was using as a lifeline in my Catkin project. It became evident that the yarn was too thick to be used  with such small needles, and was discarded until it could reach monsterdom (which is the result of many yarn scraps, whether I’m trying or not!)

Day 53 – 03/12/12 – Jettison

Polymer Clay (Sculpey)

This is another example of mixing the hard-as-rock green Sculpey with the mushy-and-sticky translucent Sculpey. I haven’t quite figured out if this beast belongs in the air or in the sea… or both?

Day 54 – 03/13/12 – Burst

Pointillism (Crayon)

Back in high school I got a 100 pack of Crayola crayons to use in my art class. The project: a huge pointillism of Thor [link], one of the aliens from Stargate SG-1. It was pretty amazing. With the book suggesting to use dots on Day 54, I thought why not try it without a photo and make a pointillism monster from my own brain? The result is pretty cool, though much less striking because I still do not have a great grasp on color and depth. I’m still pretty pleased with it though!

On a side note, if anyone wants to get me a nice big flatbed scanner, I would love to stop photographing the stuff that doesn’t fit on my printer-scanner. Even after tweaking, the colors still aren’t quite as strong as they are in person.

Day 55 – 03/14/12 – Loche

Polymer Clay (Sculpey)

More experimenting with color mixing: before I even decided what shape I was going to make, I mixed a bit of the bright blue with the slightly sparkly medium tan from some of the earlier monsters, and it made a beautiful calm blue. I was impressed, and combined it with the almost-black Chocolate color to make a swimming water monster.

Day 56 – 03/15/12 – The TakeOut

Pen on Recycling

These to-go boxes always seem to have faces, so I decided to flesh one out for this box.

Day 57 – 03/16/12 – Woolly Featherweight

Pencil & Paper

The book’s prompt for Day 56 was to make something heavy seem light, which reminded me of another (personal) high school project where I drew pages of tiny animals with wings. That sketchbook couldn’t be found on short notice, but when I do find it, I promise I’ll share. This creature looks nothing like them, by the way.

Day 58 – 03/17/12 – Warpaint

Pen & Junk Mail

The colors on the newsletter that came with my energy bill seemed a bit violent, so I turned it into a war-painted monster. I had a lot of fun with this one, though I wish I had positioned it a bit better so the E was a little less recognizable.