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Erzulie Mansur-Loa of Love

2012-01-30T10:45:00.000-07:00

I did this piece for the conceptart,org CHOW #275
Unfortunately, I didn't see that the deadline was GMT(Grenwich Mean Time) so, I didn't get it in on time...
Anyways, it's based on Rada Erzulie, which is a Haitian/African/Voodoo spirit of love.
Most people seemed to be going in a hot voodoo direction and so I didn't, or at least not the traditional dark direction people associate with voodoo.
I went more spiritual and which from my study is more what she is. I incorporated the colors associated with her and symbology like the heart, dove, and white lily. I also did not make her 'western' hot and went with more of what would come across as a still beautiful but not modern idealized and more matriarchal interpretation.
It was a fun piece to do even though it won't be used for the intended purpose.

Hello...can you hear me?

2012-01-10T13:05:00.000-07:00

Did this Demonic Nobility portrait a little here and there. It eveolved from a quick sketch which I found to have interesting shapes. Just for fun and to be a bit silly.

Draw Night-Venom

2011-12-08T07:50:00.001-07:00

So it's been about a month...
Tim Odland gave me some crap about posting something up so I did a little more to this piece than just the stuff I did at draw night, but not much.
It would really be nice to get back into posting once a week. I'm not brave enough to post my crappy sketches anymore, mostly because I don't want people in the professional world to see them, lol.
Hope you dig.

The Sandman

2011-10-19T10:01:00.000-06:00

Morpheus. Dream of the Endless. Lead character from one of my fav comic series of all time.
Painted this one up fairly quickly a month or so ago. Thought I'd posted it, but guess not.

Invincible Update II

2011-10-17T21:44:00.001-06:00

Some things I like about this update... Same things I don't. Mostly I think I liked the face /head better before, but everything else better now. Threw the logo in there for good measure.

Lena Portrait

2011-10-17T21:37:00.000-06:00

Did this one last wednesday at the Bountiful Davis Art Center life drawing session. Mike Call decided switch mp the pose for the last half hour so I didn't really get to work it as much I would have liked.

Sarah Portrait

2011-08-10T21:48:00.000-06:00

Did this one tonight at the Bountiful Davis Art Center figure session. I tried a little different process than I normally use when painting digital, doing a monochrome under painting first, then laying Color on top of it. A little less than 2 hrs total working time and I'm quite pleased with the results. I'll probably hate it tomorrow. . .
Lemme know what you think and thanks looking.

Aerin(?) Portrait

2011-07-30T22:02:00.000-06:00

My first painting from life on my new slate PC. Had a lot of fun and minimal frustration working on it.
I've been reading/studying 'Color and Light by James Gurney. He is an amazing painter and is very insightful with his Study of the subjects. For me, the way he explains the ideas things comes across very clear. I recommend it highly if you are interested in the subject.

Invincible Update

2011-07-14T23:15:00.001-06:00

Just updated this with some linework, added the background, cleaned up the painting, and generally tightened it up.
I may make one more update on it, we'll see.

Got my slate running so smoove, it's really great to work on. Now I just have to learn to paint better. I'm trying to really up my game. I'd like to paint exciting pieces and reach that next level that seems to keep eluding me. If you have any pointers, I'm all game.
Thanks for looking,

M

Invincible

2011-07-07T07:24:00.001-06:00

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Another from the slate here. I sketched it while waiting for an appointment yesterday morning, then painted it while sitting in front of the tv last night. My wife may come to hate this thing, all the time I've been spending with it.

Draw Night: Hunky Shaman

2011-07-05T22:43:00.000-06:00

Did this tonight on my new Eee Slate PC at draw night. Spent most of the time messing with getting the Bluetooth keyboard to work again and making some other tweaks. Getting all my shortcuts and everything going as I was sketching this. After I spent some time on painting it up, then a few touchups at home.
I think I'm going to love this new little machine.

Gastank

2011-05-17T22:47:00.000-06:00

I know, this drawing is pretty dumb. What the hell? You got jipped.

Flying Elbow

2011-05-16T22:07:00.001-06:00

KCHAWWW!!

This was from Draw Night. I never know what to draw there, but it's moui fun to go and chill with some other artists and just sketch or whatevs.

Sackhead

2011-04-07T12:13:00.000-06:00

Just a quick character sketch I did while bored. He's a serial killer type. Thanks for looking.

Mortifera

2010-09-14T11:11:00.000-06:00

Hi, it's been a while. Too long actually. I don't know if anyone still checks this think out. If so, sorry for the lack of updates. Life has been very busy. I thought anyone who does check this would like to see this piece.

I did this pinup for the comic Mortifera that my friends Sarah Partington (Poot) and Stephan Frost are doing. I think their comic is neato and you should check it out. Buy a copy, buy a shirt.

Hope you enjoy the looking as much as I enjoyed the doing.

A Spell of Blood Red Roses

2009-12-02T17:33:00.000-07:00

I started this piece with intention to do a flyer for my bands show on the December 4th. I wanted it to have the poster art look. I didn't succeed, nor did I get it done in time to do anything with it, and it's really not done now. But I doubt I will ever go back in and finish it, so here ya go.

Has this become a dumping ground for my unfinished crap...no. It's always been a sketch blog anyways.

Season of Change CD Cover

2009-12-02T17:22:00.000-07:00

Back in the month of May, my band and I went into the studio and recorded a 4 song Ep. Unfortunately, money has been tight for everyone and we have not been able to get any printed. I took the 'Opposition in Unity' piece and did a bunch more work on it and turned it into our Ep cover. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

Lenscap

2009-11-22T23:16:00.002-07:00

This guy here popped up on one of my sketchbook pages that I scanned today, so i thought he'd be neat to paint.

Style Tests with Bats and Friends

2009-10-25T23:32:00.002-06:00

I'm messing around with this style again. It's been years since I have done stuff like this but had to do something at work in this vein the other day. It reminded me how much I like this style and how much easier it is to pull off when you can add and subtract both. When I did it before it was either with inks, or on scratchboard. All good, but very unforgiving. Either get it right or go home. Digital allows a lot more room for error and the ability to fix errors while still keeping those happy accidents.

Here are some straight Black and Whites, and also some painted versions.

Let me know what you think.

Skeletor

2009-08-20T08:46:00.003-06:00

This is for Mitch, though it's probably not exactly what he had in mind. I went a little extreme with it. I just always remember the ridiculous size of the He-man characters, so I went a bit sill, goofy, ridiculous with my concept.

I was never a fan, this sketch is based purelyon Mitch's description and my vague memory of the character. i have no idea what his costume really looked like. I forgot to put him in a pose where he could be holding a staff, so i put a rams head on his belt.

Maybe I'll do a little more serious version of him later on. I think it would be better for Mitch to focus his description more on the personality and story of the character, than on the look of him. That way I can kind of come up with my own thing.

Further down the road,

Miles

Milo's Midnightt Monster No. 112 - Mr. Creeps

2009-07-16T08:44:00.003-06:00

Sometimes I find things in my sketchbook that I forgot I drew. Once I see it I remember drawing it, though...for now.

This guy kind of pulls off a creepy, funny look at the same time. It's a fairly simple/quick sketch...maybe that's why I forgot.

Something better than nothing?

Incubus tonight at Usana Ampitheatre...great live band, and we have good seats, I'm super stoked.

Until next time,

PEACE!!

Oh, and if you ever liked Alice In Chains, do yourself a favor and check this out

www.aliceinchains.com

Now, noone can ever replace Layne, and the new singer William isn't doing much on this song, but it blew me away. Hearing Jerry playing with Mike and Sean again is awesome!

Fascination

2009-07-13T08:10:00.005-06:00

This is a photo paint. Let's just get that out in the open and out of the way. What is that? It means I took a photo and then opened it up in Photoshop, and made some adjustments, and started painting over it. It's kind of cheating, to a certain extent, but not really. The art is still mine, just some different tools added in there. This is a huge leap from what the original photo looked like.

I did this over the weekend in short spurts. I ran into this photograph I had taken of Jerrica staring intently at a piece of grass. I don't think she ever knew I took it, which was part of its charm.

I hope your week is as wonderful as i hope mine is, and I'll cya next time,

-M

Edit: So I've added the original photograph because someone said they'd like to see it.

Lightning Jack

2009-07-10T08:02:00.003-06:00

Hey, hey...two posts in one week!! WOW!! I think that's a record for the year, hah!!...no, it isn't.

This is one of the little teeny sketches from the sketchbook pages I posted a while back. I decided it was cool and painted it up kinda quickly. Was just concentrating on my pallet more than anything.

In other news, if you don't know, my band has a show tonight at Liquid Joe's, should be a good one!! We're playing with the awesome Splitlid, and Krypled and Vocative. Show starts at 9, we're in the 3rd slot. Message me for free tix, I'll leave your name at the door.

PEAS!!

Kick Something!!

2009-07-05T19:21:00.002-06:00

Hi...

Sure been a long time hasn't it!? Not sure what the deal is lately. Just haven't seemed to be making the time or having the time to draw for the blog. I know all 5 of you are sorely disappointed, but...I do really wish I could seem to get back into the swing of things. At least getting out a couple of monsters a week.

I just felt the need to get something out today, so here you go. Just a feeling I had, you know the one. The undeniable urge to just kick something about as hard as you possibly can. And, when you do, you always have this image in your head, of how your going to absolutely destroy whatever it is that unlucky enough to take the brunt of your emotional outlet. Unfortunately, things rarely work out the way we see them in our heads, and kicking whatever that object turns out to be usually doesn't do the expected/envisioned amount of damage, or it just ends up hurting you almost as much.

Painting it's a little safer and a lot more satisfying all said and done.

Cya on the flipside,

Frankenstein Junkie

2009-05-27T23:28:00.001-06:00

Hello...

long time no see.

I've been kind of MIA from my blog unfortunately, and I really don't think this is any kind of return. I just don't seem to be able to find the time for it.

Anways, i still have some stuff tucked away that some of you have not seen, and this is one of them.

It started out as a one hour painting exercise at my old job. One of the other concept artists had arandom word/phrase generator and a random picture viewer. So we used the word generator to get a subject and the picture to get our basic color scheme or look for the piece.

I wasn't happy with what I came out with in the hour we had so I brought it home and put a few more into it. It still has some stupidness to it but there are some things I really like like.

I had actually thought I already posted, which I did on deviantart, but I guess I didn't do it here.

So...

Enjoy, and hope to see you soon.

Peace,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 111- Unity in Opposition

2009-04-02T08:22:00.002-06:00

I've spoke before about the themes of duality in my artwork. Or, at least i think I have. Anyways, this one's a pretty blatant representation of it.

I've probably drawn this piece or ones similiar to it many times. in fact the sketch that I used to paint this was at least a couple years old, but more likely 5 or 7. I ran across it in my old lyric/poem book as I was flipping through the other night and decided it would be a fun one to update. And I was right. :D

One thing I'm not super fond of is the fact that he's nakee. Well, he has no parts down yonder but still. I'd like to design some sweet ass armor or some kind of clothing for him, but that's work for another day. I did recently design some angel armor for the old company that I worked for. Maybe I can steal some ideas from that.

Y'know, I think this piece would probably make a neat poster or t-shirt. Maybe I'll think of some such usage for it.

Also, my band has another show tomorrow night at the Club Vegas. 445 South 400 West in Salt Lake. It's $5 to get in and we're probably going on at about 9:00. Hope to see you there.

Peace,

Environment stuff

2009-03-30T09:01:00.005-06:00

Yes, yes, more of the rare and elusive environmental pieces by Milo.

The first one is a piece I did for the Brash published Tale of Despereaux movie tie in game. It was to concept the chandalier area of the library, which I recently found actually got cut from the game. Oh well, it was a fun piece to do anyways. Notice the small Despereaux hiding on the chandalier. When I did this I had been doing environments for a couple weeks and I needed to do a character so I threw in the head mistress lady.

the second piece was for...well, I don't remember what it was for. Probably nothing important. But it's a beach resort restaurant at dusk.

Hmmm...somehow the picture order got flipped after the upload. i don't know how to change the formatting or anything so. Just read first one as second one :D

Have a nice Monday.

More 2 tide U OVR

2009-03-26T08:36:00.002-06:00

Just an older piece here to tide you over while I don't have any monsters. It should be new to most of you. I did this piece while at Sensory Sweep for a pitch document. And as I'm sure this is as dead as anything they are doing right now. Not to mention they owe me over 10k in back wages still. I decided to post.

Le Witch Doktour Rev. 2

2009-03-25T13:44:00.003-06:00

This one was a morning monster sketch at one time as you may remember. I also had it posted up on my deviantart account, which only about 10 or so of these monsters are, and a guy named Mike D. from New Jersey contacted me about it. Apparently he's an amateur MMA fighter, and a is starting a clothing company, and wants to use it for his T-Shirts. Something like that, I'm not sure of the specifics, but yeah, he wanted to use the piece.

So the original was only like 600x800 px. Not enough resolution to print, so I upped the res and did a couple more hours worth of work on it. There's no point in posting it as large as I did it(4500x3300) as you could never display that on a monitor, bst it larger than usual. I'm never sure when I go in and do more finished stuff like this if I like it as well or not. I think most artist have this problem. Things tend to lose the flair of spontaneity they have as a sketch sometimes when detailed out.

What do you think?

Carry on!

ESP Art Test

2009-03-24T11:44:00.002-06:00

Seeing how there's some serious slackage on my part when it comes to new monstercapades I thought I'd give you guys some kind of new arts to look at.

This was the art test I did to secure my job at Eat Sleep Play. The brief called for an abandoned idustrial building with a muscle or sports car parked in front. After a little web searching and not finding any buildings I was particularly inspired by I went ahead and hopped in the car and drove around taking pictures and got some I liked. This particular bulding is based on one that's down around 13th south and I-15. The car is based on the new 09 Hemi Challenger. It's not exact, but I wasn't going for exact.

Season of Change

2009-03-16T08:37:00.003-06:00

So I don't ahve a monster to post this morning, so I thought I'd post this piece. It's kind of an amalgam of 3 unsuccessful pieces into 1 partially successful piece. I put it all together originally for the slipcase of my portfolio CD that I sent out to prospective employers, then I decided to use it for my bands MySpace page.

This is an appropriate piece to post as my band has a show coming up this Thursday at Club Vegas here in Salt Lake.

The address is 445 South 400 West.

I have tickets for sale. Normally $5, I'm selling them for $3.

If you are currently or were formerly employed by my old company Sensory Sweep, I know you're hurting for money so I'll give you tickets for free. Email, Text, IM, Call....whatever, get ahold of me and I'll hook you up.

Hope to see you there,

Peace,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 111 - Scary Birdman

2009-03-13T08:40:00.001-06:00

So in doing this piece, I realized that I do bird people or bird creatures more than probably any other single type. You may not get to see this because I don't post everything y'know but, I do. And theres is history and precedence to this. I think it plays into what eventually made me decide I wanted to do art for a living.
To appreciate this you need a little history.
Me growing up, I didn't do an exceptionally large amount of art. I liked drawing well enough, and was probably even a bit good at it, but never got into painting or anything like that. I remember I would copy band logos, like 'Metallica', 'Slayer', whatever, and make them look pretty sweet. In church I used to draw these stick figure war scenes with massive armies battling it out. The whole thing was shot from the side and I'd try to make a game out of it. Each side had their mountain that was a fort where the archers and spearmen would fight from afar and in the middle a large plain for the swordsman to do battle. Sometimes they would have guns instead of medieval weaponry and I woudl try to make a game out of the confrontation between the two sides.
I'm getting off the subject here a bit.
I liked to draw other stuff as well like creatures, monsters, people, and I never thought a whole lot about drawing or what it meant to me. I just did it to pass time when I was bored or had something on my mind I wanted to see on paper. I really was terrible at coloring in coloring books though. I just could never get the crayon or the colored pencil or whatever to go down like I thought it should.
I took art classes in school and I never particularly shined above any of the other students as far as I remember. My works were always OK and it was just something I liked to do. My parents never really encouraged me to do art and neither did any of the art teachers. At least as far as I remember.
In fact I remember one art teacher in particular in Junior High who did more than any other single person to discourage me from doing art. I drew a picture of a girls face and head and I remember thinking 'Wow, this is really good, I can't believe I did this.' Thinking back I can't help but still think that piece was pretty good even though its been more than 20 years since I've seen it. But this teacher...She had this favourite student. Blaine Taggart. I had actually gone to school with him in Elementry. He had moved away, then I happen to move into the same school zone. And his dad was the Superintendent of the school district I moved into. Which is really beside the point but...
Anyways, Blaine was this art teachers star pupil. He had his own little corner of the art classroom all to him self with a little easel setup and his own paints and the teacher just adored him. I can't remember the teachers name...Anne something maybe? Meh, anyways. She didn't like me very much and she may have had good reason. I was a bit of a troubled, angry child and more than a little bit of a smartass. Which authority figures don't seem to appreciate. I had been in her yearbook class a semester or so before and apparently had offended her somehow. Even though I worked my butt of to get that yearbook stuff done. Even staying after school to work on it. When I think back I can't help but think 'Bitch'...and here is why.
I turned in above mentioned portrait of random girl. She asked who it was. And it really wasn't anybody. So, that's what I told her. I just drew it out of mixture of girl I had a crush on in school, and some random piece of photographic reference. Apparently it didn't fit the assignment or something and I got a less than stellar grade for it. Even though it was probably one of the three best pieces that any of the students turned in. I got no encouragement from the teacher and it was many years until I took another art class that involved drawing. And that teacher was no better than other was as far as fiving me any kind of encouragement.
I did however continue to draw my own thing periodically and I still enjoyed it. In fact I was frequently prone to doing this while I was supposed to paying attention to a teachers lecture or doing in class work or something. In Math or English class, that was generally fine due to the fact that those classes were always fairly easy for me and in general I would be ahead of the rest of the class anyways. In Science or History, not fine. I hated those classes, and still do to this day. I have probably forgotten 95% of what I learned, or memorized for the tests, from those classes. And I refused to dissect animals in Science.
Really, this all does have a point, and I'm getting to it...be patient.
So, Sience. Mister Ellis. Junior High Science teacher. We hated each other. Really. We were like two politicians from opposing states who could barely stomach to be in the same room together. I hated science, and I think he probably hated my hate and total lack of interest for it. We butted heads on everything and I think he just eventually gave up on trying to teach me anything. But I would draw in his class. And one day, I think it was soon after seeing The Dark Crystal for the first time or something, I had done this drawing of a bird person. Just from the shoulders up, and directly from the side, so nothing dramatic or anything. And it was a pretty good drawing, and a pretty neat looking creature, from what I remember. And I think it was aorund The Dark Crystal time period because I remember the picture looking like one of the kindly ones but not as nice. I think that's what they were called. Anyways, them and the Skeksis both were kind of bird like.
So, yeah, Mister Ellis saw me drawing this piece and I was pretty much done with it. So he comes up to my desk and I thought 'Oh, man, here we go again, I'm in trouble." But no. No, not at all, Ellis said to me something to the effect of, 'That's a really nice drawing. I think one day you'll be a really good artist Miles. May I have your drawing?' And I was surprised. I gave him the drawing and it kind of changed our relationship. I still didn't like science. But I think I tried a little harder in his class. And, I think he gave me a little less grief after that.
So, he was the only teacher, probably the only authority figure in my younger life, who ever gave me any kind of encouragement to ever become an artist. Not the art or ceramics teachers, but the science teacher.
I didn't know at the time that people actually made a living from doing art. In fact, I didn't really realize this could be done until I was around 19 or 20. But, I want to thank Mr. Ellis of T.H. Bell Junior High in Washington Terrace (Ogden), Utah for being the only teacher to plant the seed in my head that maybe there was some kind of future in this for me.
And all the art teachers that didn't encourage me at all, you can SUCK IT!! Because I can probably draw/paint circles around your pathetic public shool art teacher talent by now, and I certainly make more money at it than you do.

And thanks to you loyal friends, family, followers, for all your encouragement, critiques, and sticking it out thorugh my long winded tirades.

Peace,

M

Milo's Morning Monster No. 110 - NXTC The Biter and the Bitten

2009-03-05T08:11:00.003-07:00

So, I haven't posted all week. Boo hoo.

I drew the blue linesketch for this about 4 or 5 months ago after watching a vampire flick on the IFC.I really liked the film but can't remember what it was called. The sketch was really loose and none of the clothes, hands, or background were worked out. So I spent a couple of hours last night tightening it up a little bit.

I also started puttin some value into it in PShop. Maybe I'll post that if I get the lighting a little further worked.

It's a little romance novelish. What of it!?! Wanna start sumthin'!?

Just kidding, Have a great day,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 109 -Ugh!! Spider Thing

2009-02-25T08:35:00.002-07:00

This piece came out of the same background as yesterdays, but it is not the one I referred to yesterday. I think this has a pretty nice feel, cool monster, good comp, yeah...

I'm having dreams that are texture nightmares. That's all I've been doing at work for the past couple weeks. Painting textures. And some of them are nightmare inducing in complication. Hopefully some concept stuff will be dropping in my lap soon so I can get a bit of a break.

I've been playing a bit of EA's Dead Space. Pretty good game. It seems to want to be Bioshock really bad, but it isn't. It doesn't even really seem to be as scary. It's supposed to be more so. I guess Bioshock really wasn't 'scary'. But it was intense. Dead Space tries to be scary. And it is creepy. Maybe I'm just desensitized. Anyways, it's still pretty good.

Well, gotta get to textures...

Pee

Milo's Morning Monster No. 108 -Big Ole

2009-02-24T08:15:00.002-07:00

I did this one last night. Spent a couple of hours on it. More a study in perspective composition than anything else. I don't really think it's anything special, but it was somewhat successful. The base was another piece which I may or may not post up here. Have to get it to the point where I at least kind of like it.

Snoochy Boochies,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 107 -Devil Underlit

2009-02-20T08:50:00.003-07:00

Heres'a really stupid post for you. Well, it has some redeeming qualities.

I like the face alright if it is a bit classic feeling. What it going on with his arms though!?

Wierd and lame.

And yes, there's another sketch poking through there. i don't care.

I didn't have anything to post but crappy scraps so that's what you get.

On another note;

My wife was nice enough to get mad at me this morning over something absolutely stupid. I unplugged her cell phone from the charger and plugged in mine last night. Mine was beeping like it was dying and I didn't want it to beep all night. I meant to plug hers in when i got up, as i get up earlier than her, but i forgot.

Ok, so it's pretty much all my fault. But, c'mon. How much can you over react to something so trivial!? She could have just taken the charger to work and plugged her phone in there. Not like she answers it when she's at work anyways.

Suffice it to say, not a great way to start the day.

Ok, this blog isn't meant to be an outlet for my personal problems except through artistic expression so...

sorry about that.

Onward and upward.

Have a great weekend!

Milo's Morning Monster No. 106 -Burning Doubt

2009-02-19T08:04:00.002-07:00

Good morning...

gah, I'm draggin today.

I woke up on time, but soooo tired.

I had something I was going to say about this guy, but I can't remember it right now.

This was kind of the same process as the last one. In fact the sketch was on the same piece of paper. He only had one arm so I added that in Pshop as well as put value on him.

You like it?

I like it.

Have a nice day.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 105 - Lollipop Girl

2009-02-18T08:20:00.003-07:00

Well, the last couple of monsters must have been underwhelming as noone had any comments on them. That's ok. they can't all be winners.

Somehow my wife and I have been sucked into watching American Idol this year. I don't even know how it happened. So the sketch for this was done while watching it, and the look of her face was inspired by a girl on the show. I can't remember her name. L'il sumthin, or ...idk, sounds like a rap name. The sketch was also just the head, torso and part of her far arm. I added everything else in Pshop and didn't really take too much time to tighten it up.

I woke up really late this morning. Haven't even showered yet and that's usually the first thing I do when i get up. Maybe I'll just skip it.

Have a good one,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 104 - Cow Dog Thingy

2009-02-17T08:16:00.003-07:00

Hmmm...

not a lot to say about this one. She's ugly. And would walk pretty funny. Eats plants...

fshhshhshhshshhs

t'sall i got

ciao

Milo's Morning Monster No. 103 - Snakehead

2009-02-16T08:23:00.002-07:00

Ok, so I hope I didn't get anyone too excited thinking I had some special stuff coming up this week. No, no. Just normal stuff. But I might be able to manage one a day.

This guy was another I did just before New Years as part of the group of pics that hit at the 100 milestone. I decided not to post him then, so I'm posting now.

Milo's Midnightt Monster No. 102 - Plague Rat

2009-02-12T22:23:00.003-07:00

"Midnight Monster"

see, i flipped it :)

Cuz I really did this at night. Course, i did most of them at night.

Yeah, yeah. It's really just a strange looking rat.

What is it with me and rats? I mean, it seems like I do a lot of 'em. Or, creatures that are derivatives of them. But, looking back, I guess not.

i have a few other things up my sleeves here. So next week should be full of monster goodness.

Til then, peace, and good night,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 101 - Dracon

2009-02-06T08:22:00.002-07:00

A close relation to the dragon who never developed or lost it flight ability.

HI!!

It's been a while. What? A month, just over? Well, hopefully it's not that long until the next one again. It's nice to finally get a monster out.

I started a new job at a new game studio. It's called Eat Sleep Play and is founded be David Jaffe and Scott Campbell. If you've never heard of these guys, go look em' up. They are the creators of such major games as Twisted Metal(Campbell and Jaffe ) and God of War(Jaffe).

Suffice it to say these guys know how to make great games and I'm excited to be working with them and the rest of the team. There are some great people at ESP with solid track records and we get to work on my favorite platform, the PS3. Plus everyone's been real nice.

The job is going great and I'm enjoying it. I'm learning new things everyday and my head has been spinning out of control over the last couple of weeks trying to take some of it in. It's been a little stressfull but I think I'm settling in nicely.

My official title is 'Production Artist' which means I do Concept Art, Textures, and Storyboards...or whatever they need me to do that is within the range of my skillset, or I can learn quickly enough.

Well, I gotta get down there. Enjoy the monster, and enjoy your weekend.

Peace,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 100 - Evil Eye

2008-12-31T17:07:00.002-07:00

Hundred!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Happy New Year!

I made it. By the skin of my teeth, man.

Not with tons of style maybe, but hey...

This was for me, not for you, and the satisfaction on my part is great.

These last six pieces were all done in a matter of about 3 hours from sketch to current state. The sketches were all between a half and two inches square.

A toast for tomorrow,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 99 - Desert Cat

2008-12-31T17:04:00.002-07:00

Even faster job. Cereal like 10 minutes. go, GO, RUUUUUUUUUUNNN.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 98 - Clamshell

2008-12-31T17:02:00.002-07:00

I don't know why i named him 'Clamshell'. Just seemed to fit.

Again, super fast job here.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 97 - Megalardadon

2008-12-31T16:59:00.001-07:00

What the!?!

Super fast job on this one...obviously.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 96 - Big Bunny-or-The hunter becomes the hunted.

2008-12-31T16:50:00.002-07:00

What can I say, I was on some kind of bunny kick.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 95 - Bunny By A Door

2008-12-31T16:46:00.002-07:00

Not really a monster per say. But for my uses, it is.

6 More to go before New Years.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 94 - Nightmare Hound

2008-12-10T22:47:00.002-07:00

Woot!! A monster!

It's been a while, and I kind of cheated on this one. It's an older piece, but I refined the painting. I think it looks pretty BA.

I'm going to try and 100 monsters by years end. So I have a little under 3 weeks to do 6 pieces. I can do that no prob.

Send me your ideas if you've got em.

Peesout,

Funny Hat

2008-12-10T10:57:00.001-07:00

Painted this up yesterday when I had some free time.

It's on one of the many scribbles on the sketch pages found below and I liked it so...

Even More Sketches

2008-12-09T08:42:00.002-07:00

It's all I got...

Cowabunga Dewd!!

2008-12-03T08:53:00.002-07:00

Never have been a big Turtles fan, mostly because I thought the cartoons were pretty dumb. I did like the look and animation from the newest 3D movie though. Here's my take, Donatello in a toughguy pose.

More Skeetches w/geerls

2008-12-03T08:49:00.003-07:00

Still don't have any monsters really. I guess there are a few on these pages. This is really all I've been doing as far as personal art goes and there's some true crap in here, but also some gems. Mostly it's been to mess around with some costume design.

Sketchbook pages

2008-11-28T13:49:00.004-07:00

It's been a while. So to show that I haven't totally fallen off the face of the earth, I thought I'd just post up some sketchbook pages. Nothing special here, just scribbles as I'm watching TV.

More Clean up

2008-10-24T08:58:00.002-06:00

Okay, I'm thinkng this is finally done.
I've got about 5 hours into it at this point. I'm done even if it isn't.
If there are things you don't like about it. Feel free to share them. I'll try to keep it in mind for the next piece.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 93 - Zombie Alien Thing

2008-10-23T10:25:00.002-06:00

I really don't like this. I think it could be cool if I worked it a bit more. Just wanted to post something.

Not feeling to positive about my art in general lately. That's okay though, I'll get past it.

Clean Up

2008-10-23T08:41:00.001-06:00

Nothing new right at this second.

Cleaned this one up a bit.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 92 - Hellboy

2008-10-20T08:44:00.002-06:00

Obviously, I didn't make this guy up.

Just thought I'd take a stab at him as it had been a while. Did this last night in a couple hours. Tryin to keep it a bit loose. I might do a little more work on him though. If I do, i'll update here.

Sorry it's been so long since I posted.

Have a good week,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 91 - Throkmorian Spinner

2008-10-08T08:23:00.002-06:00

A creature with a crab like exoskeleton, the spinner props itself up with its smaller legs and spins quickley on the larger three. The spines on the larger legs are used for traction as well as ripping through the flesh of would be attackers. It's eyes are built into stalks and do not spin when the rest of the body does.

A good thing about participating in the Creature of the Week contest was that I did about 30 little thumbnail sketches of various creatures adn i can use these thumbnails to do larger drawings like this one.

I'm reminded prior to this process how effective it is to do these little thumbnails. The original drawing of this particular creature was about a half inch square. It's plenty of room to get everything across that I personally need without allowing me to get bogged down into uneccessary details. I said this was what I was going to always do initially a couple of years ago but for some reason I'm prone to forget the processes that are effective to me and recently I had seemed to be sketching larger and larger to the point it took a whole 8.5 x 11 page for one sketch. That should really be room for 20.

Maybe I'll post up one of these pages of little thumbnails after I go thorugh and get all the creatures I can from it.

Til the morrow,

Miles

Milo's Morning Monster No. 90 - Bullistics Frog

2008-10-07T08:50:00.003-06:00

This creature was painted up for a weekly contest over at conceptart.org

They posted up a sound clip and artists had to create a creature based on it.

The sound clip is here

CREATURE SOUND

Here's my description:

The way my fella works is to suck air into the big sack under his neck, which is the groaning or mooing type sound. The sack feeds the tubes on his back which he can stuff things in, and thus launch whatever he has stuffed in there. In this case, the bugs that kind of look like purple potatoe bugs with fiery insides, we'll call em cinder bugs. So the thudding sound is coming from the launching process, you know, built up air that is releasing. And the squeels in the background of the audio track could be the squeel of the cinder bug as it's flying through the air toward the Bullistic Frogs' target.

I took the day off yesterday to get some work done on our second bathroom, which is the only reason I had time to do this. I had someone else doing the work, while I sat and painted:)

Milo's Morning Monster No. 89- Bucky

2008-10-03T09:05:00.001-06:00

Not much to say about this lil feller.

Have a good friday.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 88- Spikey Blob

2008-10-01T08:29:00.002-06:00

Not a very clever name, I just couldn't come up with anything else. This creature interesting features are it's "Hair" which are actually scent glands, and the small spikes sticking out all over its body.The small spikes are actually currently in a retracted state and can extend appraximately 10X the current visual length and are used as mostly as defense but can also be offensive. They are also used a s a means of locomotion. By extending them in sequence the creature is able to roll itself surprisingly fast. The creatures tentacle are used to shovel food into its' large mouth where an acidic gland secretion paralyzes prey and starts the digestion process.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 87- Stem-A-Dactyl

2008-09-30T08:13:00.001-06:00

Not

Thing

Say

Milo's Morning Monster No. 86- Rakasha Demon Dog

2008-09-29T08:36:00.002-06:00

This is my 100th post!! Woot. 86th Monster. Not too bad.

My 100th monster will be quite a milestone. I'm looking forward to that. Not sure what I will do after. Maybe change it up a bit.

No Morning Monster...Lions

2008-09-26T08:18:00.004-06:00

For some reason I had the urge to draw lions last night. I was thinking about the shape of them for some reason. These are done with no reference, quick like out a my head off the cuff, stylized. So no monster today, but I'd certainly run if one of these were coming after me.

Have a good weekend,

Milo

Milo's Morning Monster No. 85 - Liiizzzzzard Mannnnssss

2008-09-25T09:43:00.002-06:00

He'ssss gonnnaaaa kiiiiiiilll sssssomeone.

Just a quickie this morning, real quick. Thus the shading's not worked out to well, jsut slapped in. Added a little bit of armor since I seem to go for nakedness more often than not.

That is all,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 85- Moment of Tenderness

2008-09-24T08:14:00.002-06:00

Every monster has one. A soft spot for something. This monster design was stupid so I had to add that little bit of story telling.

Milo's Morning Monster No.84 - Trashlidmouth

2008-09-23T09:33:00.003-06:00

I think I can safely say this falls under teh category of strange and different. Maybe not extremely so, but at least to a certain degree. Press his tail, and his mouth will pop open. I doubt you'll get behind him to be able to do that though.

Heroes Season Premier was last night...Awesome. The first half of the second season blew chunks, but truned around in the latter half. This one's stroy seems to be a bit convoluted, but intriguing and full of suspense all the same. So, go online and watch it if don't happen to have Tivo or missed it last night.

Ciao,

M]]]

Milo's Morning Monster No.83 - Someone Needs a Nap

2008-09-22T09:24:00.004-06:00

Cuz it looks like he's just throwing a tantrum, not really doing anything. Maybe many monsters are driven by the same anguish that seemed to be the major cause of Grendel's pain in the recent Beowulf movie. People just making too much dang noise, and lack of sleep because of it. Maybe if they could all just get a good night's rest they wouldn't be so angry all the time.

Anywaysm I just wanted to do this pose on this guy since it's been a while since I did anything action oriented and wasn't too sure I could still pull it off easily. I did this at work in about 10 or 15 minutes as a warmup for this monday morning while I was waithing for my computer to install windows updates. I probably should have spent a little more time on it, since my computer still seems to be updating half an hour into it.

Heroes starts it's new season tonight, I'm super stoked. One of the few shows on television I reallly look forward to. Even though last season started out real lame, it got good the last half. It's raining today, reminds me of Germany. A year ago almost to the day, I was just getting back from a nice Euro Vacation with the fam. It was good times. Since I was born in Germany, I've always had a real affinity towards it's climate.

Well, too much said. Enjoy the rain, try to stay dry.

Miles

Milo's Morning Monster No. 82- Is How I Feel

2008-09-19T08:45:00.003-06:00

Sometimes...

Suffice it to say there's a lot of hidden meaning in there.Take from it what you will, I'm not going to explain it.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 81- Prowler

2008-09-18T08:30:00.002-06:00

Still not a lot to say. Mush.

Maybe I need a vacation...

Milo's Morning Monster No. 80- Razorback Parapendulator

2008-09-17T08:00:00.002-06:00

Hmmm, hmmm. My animal anatomy book is at work. Too bad, I would have liked the anatomy to look less humanoid.

Ummm...I've had a really hard time falling asleep as of late. I don't what the deal is. Makes me feel tired all the time. My brain is mush right now.

Maybe i should do a tired monster who's brain is mush. hmmmm.

GET BACK TO WORK!!
M

Milo's Morning Monster No. 79- Sphincter Beast

2008-09-16T08:56:00.002-06:00

This is for Jeremy. Not because he asked for it, but because he deserves it. Mostly for dissing on Metallica.

It was a little graphic, and totally disgusting, so I self censored.

I have a few monsters done in blueline, but I'm not too happy with them. I'd love to get this back to a daily thing, I just don't seem to be able to make it happen. We'll see what I can come up with for the rest of the week.

Asta,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 78-Fire VS. Water:Steampunk Style

2008-09-12T07:52:00.003-06:00

So this is the other half of yesterdays post and I put the two together. Just a little different take on mondays' fire and ice. I decided to ditch the grey background I used yesterday, didn't like it as much. If anyone else has any thoughts on that please let me kow.

It's a whole lot easier to keep up on monsters when I'm not trying to paint them. Drawings don't take as much time, and the thought process is different, more relaxed and freeform. The paintings certainly show much nicer, especially when they are in color. Hmmm, well I think I'm going to go back to doing mostly drawings, and then an occasional painting, that way I can satisfy both urges and not have the pressure of doing paintings all the time.

Well, I've already got the next couple lined entries lined up. As always, if you have ideas, shoot em' my way, I'm always happy to sketch em up how I see em'.

Take care,

Miles

Milo's Morning Monster No. 77-Fire:Steampunk Style

2008-09-11T08:11:00.002-06:00

OK, so this is the redo I mentioned on monday, well at least half of it. Water should be coming up tomorrow. I just thought of a little different approach. Mmmm....pencil, it's good. Doot, doo, doo.

New Metallica album owns...serious, best thing they've done since And Justice for All, so if you've ever liked them, even a little...yeah, get it.

That's it,

caio,

Milo

Milo's Morning Monster No. 76-Bezearus Bat

2008-09-10T07:46:00.003-06:00

Ahhh, there's something so liberating and enlightening about a nice sketch. It's such a more free feeling art than painting. Don't get me wrong, I like painting. But drawing, It's always ben my first love. I don't have any expalanation for this one, it just is what it is. I will say, it's not what it started to be, but just kinda what came of some random lines.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 75-Fire and Ice

2008-09-08T08:02:00.004-06:00

This was a request my young cousin Desmond. Well his request was actually for Fire and water monsters facing off against each other. I did Fire and Ice Elementals, Ice is water after all, and I think looks more interesting than water itself would. I mad the fire creature younger looking, like the firey spirit of youth, and the Icy one older, to represent the hardened exterior that sometimes comes with age and experience.I had another idea how to approach this as I was making breakfast this morning, maybe I'll try that one too.
Have a great day,
M

Milo's Morning Monster No. 74-Manimal Mystic

2008-09-04T11:26:00.002-06:00

Not a Furry!! Don't get any ideas sickos...

She's just kind of a protector of natural spaces, a shaman.

Goat horns=4 and the face is more like a cats, I know, it was intentional, I already did a goat guy a while back so I just thought I'd make this different. he was more of an old soul, hers is more young.

Quickie background with some brushes I got out of ImagineFX. Can't remember at the moment who made them...sorry.

I took the day off work today to get some personal stuff taken care of, and to get a little R&R which I missed out on over the passed holiday weekend. FYI that's why I'm posting this a little later in the morning...I slept in too. Hmmm...that' about it.

Oh, maybe I'll get around to painting this in color...probably not, i kinda like it B&W.

That is all...

Milo's Morning Monster No. 73- Furry Cyclops

2008-09-03T08:54:00.003-06:00

Just a quickie for you this morning. This took maybe 15 minutes. I know it shows... Just messing around with some Photoshop brushes again.

Qwest=Hate

If you have Comcast high speed, what are your ping times averaging? I'd like to know.

Onward and Upward,

Miles

Other Stuff

2008-09-02T07:58:00.002-06:00

In addition to drawing monsters, I also like to do some logos once in a while. Once in a while I'm also forced to do so. This one was of my own accord. Not a font. All lettering created from scratch.

It's for my band...

Those who know me personally know I have been in bands on and off for the past ten years or so. I sing, or scream, or whatever is appropriate. Pretty much just singing in this project. We've kind of got a Hard Bluesy Rock with a little Funk and a little more metal thrown in sound.

Anyways, we have our first show coming up this Friday at Club Vegas in Salt Lake. We're on first , doors open at 8:00. Come support us if you can.

:) Smileys :)

Milo's Morning Monster No. 72- scorpion-metal-thing

2008-09-02T07:47:00.004-06:00

This is for 'Seth'.

Somthing like this I could work on for hours and hours to really make cool. This was 2. It turned out Ok, if a little thrown together... I think I need to fill my brain with a greater number of robot parts to work from.

'Til Next time

Milo

Milo's Morning Monster No. 71- Arachnoid

2008-08-26T07:36:00.002-06:00

Meh, I just feel like this is something that's been done before...

I was pissed when I painted this it didn't really go too well. F'n Qwest! My DSL has been running half speed or lower for like the last month. I tried to play Soul Calibur IV online last night. What a joke. Seriously, tap a button, and hope that sometime in the next couple seconds it'll do the move you told it to. Most likely not though. So, I don't know if this is just a symptom of fighting games online, or my DSL connection. It's total bull whatever it is.

Grrrr.

I had pissed off dreams all night and I'm still a little pissed this morning.

I gotta snap out of it.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 70- Hellbilly Bob

2008-08-25T07:43:00.003-06:00

He loves his mom almost as much as he loves beer. Course if he was smart enough to realize how much his Ma cheated him in the genetics department he might not love her so much. Then again, he might love her more. Ewww...
Nice to be back in the groove, feels like I was gone way too long.
peaSOUT!
M

Sorry!!

2008-08-13T22:31:00.001-06:00

Well, for you faithful followers of my blogscapades and my monsters, a big apology. I have been SOOOOO busy I haven't been able to find the time to crank out anything except stuff at work. I wish I could show you that stuff because what I've been doing is pretty neat. Maybe in a few months I can post it.
Hopefully I'll get back off the wagon and get some more monsters up. In the meantime, if you have any idears, send em' my way, maybe they'll inspire me.
Peace out!!
M

Milo's Morning Monster No. 069- Robo Muncher

2008-08-05T08:05:00.004-06:00

This guy's so fat and lazy, he has this machine that he's forever attached to that will eat anyone or anything and pump it directly into his stomach. It's also eco-friendly as it recycles his body's waste product into food.

Did this one up reall quick like an hour and a half. Wasn't really too happy with it but, oh well, something's better than nothing. I would have spent more time making the robotic parts cooler, and fleshing out the far side. Maybe some kind of food grating apparatus in the mouth.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 068- Le' Witch Doktour

2008-08-04T07:55:00.002-06:00

It started out kind of as me as a lich, then I thought that was lame, so I changed it. Now he's a voodoo slingin priest of the dead from down the bayou. Watch it.

Peace

Milo's Morning Monster No. 066- Spirits of the Wood

2008-07-30T08:46:00.004-06:00

So this startetd out as a simple brush experiment painting the texture in the background. Also due to periodical conversations about color schemes I wanted to steer away from my typical orange/blue and try something with a red/green.

I thought it looked neat so I carved the face out of it. This was in a half hour or so at work yesterday. Then there was a big accident on the freeway and I didn't want to drive home until I wouldn't have to sit in traffic(Took my wife an hour to make a normally 10 minute drive) So I stayed at work and worked on this, and put the finishing touches on it when I got home. It's about 3 hours total.

I'm pretty happy with the results I got out of it.

Edit: So my friend Jeremy gave me a suggestion in the form of critique in the comments section as to the lighting on the 'treant'(D&D) or Ent(Tolkien)((F.Y.I's).

I made some updates accordingly, that's why there are now two images up:)

As a further note; I had played around with adding some lighting to him early on but it didn't work out satisfactorily. Guess the second time was the charm.

Thoughts?

Milo's Morning Monster No. 066- Soul Taker

2008-07-29T08:01:00.003-06:00

Painted from an old, super loose, sketch. I couldn't remember what was going on with most of it. This one took me about 2 hours. Not sure why really. Maybe it was that I felt I had to be true to the sketch to some extent, or maybe it was that I had to figure what was going on with certain things and how to handle them in the painting. I guess this one has a lot of surfaces I wouldn't normally put into these sketches. I'm trying to work more with those surfaces so I can paint them faster, better.

Lemme know what you think.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 065- Death and Love

2008-07-28T08:10:00.003-06:00

Much like the fish man, is he swimming up, or is he swimming down, but a bit more profound. Is She love, or is she death? Is her touch regenerating or she about to deliver the last kiss?

I seem to have a habit of putting in this kind of duality into pieces at times. Sometimes intentional, sometimes not.

This is based off of an old sketch and an even older idea. It reminds me of a cover for a vampire romance novel or something. hmph.

Well I spent 6 or 7 hours on it or so here and there over the weekend in between games of Pain, cleaning the house, and just trying to relax this weekend. Pain is pretty fun for some stupid reason. It came as a freee download for my PS3. You slingshot a guy into building and objects trying to get a highscore through combos and such that use the 'HAvok' physics engine. It's a very 'arcade' feeling game, and good for some cheap laughs especially for kids, though it certainly has some very adult trappings...

I also inked up this piece by coworker Shawn Bird.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=8438195&albumID=291801&imageID=46009601

The original was just a sketch, you can see it here

http://thenetisfordorks.blogspot.com/2008/06/at-10-i-shaved-my-head-and-tried-to-be.html

Scroll down 5 or 6 drawings and you''ll see it. I can't directly link it. For some reason his drawings don't come up bigger on screen when you click them.

Anyways, onward and upward,

Miles

Milo's Morning Monster No. 064- Lich

2008-07-25T08:04:00.003-06:00

Hmmmm.....

No clever name for this post and nothing much to say.

I could have taken this a bit further, but then I probably would never get it done. That's what usually happens.

Happy Friday!!
Woot!

Woot!

Milo's Morning Monster No. 063- Interdimensional Salesman of Doom

2008-07-24T11:14:00.003-06:00

I'm a slacker, I know...

I won't bore you with excuses, rather I'll just give you a new piece that will hopefully satisfy your cravings for monsterish artistic renderings.

So this piece is based on my bro's idea of a "daper" (edit to 'dapper') cyclops. I took it a bit further since he never gave me any further ideas. This guys a traveling salesman of doom, like the title says...He loves his job.

Part of the motivation with this one was color and light. I wanted to capture the feel of a classic portrait piece and borrowed my color pallet to some extent from the amazing Justin Sweet. His art is the bomb-diggity. Check him out. He has an amazing sense of composition as well as story telling ability, and I just love his coplor pallets. One day maybe I will be able to pull off the amazing things he does. If you don't like his stuff, you're lacking in taste.

Until next time,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 062- Out of the Fire

2008-07-22T08:24:00.003-06:00

This piece really isn't working for me, I tried some fancy lighting and am just haveing a rough time of it. But I don't have anything else to post, so I fugure something is better than nothing.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 061- Funky Chicken

2008-07-18T08:42:00.004-06:00

I had enough fun and a good result with the last piece that I decided to do the same kind of thing again. I'm liking the fact that I'm cranking these out at a decent speed and getting fairly good results. This was about an hour and 15 minutes again.

I'd like the monsters to be a bit more creative or have a bit more wierdness to them and for them to fit within their environment. Well what I mean is not have the environment/ background seem like an element that is seperate from the creature, but to have the it all blend into a finished piece.

I'm also definately going to be uploading JPG's as they keep color much better than GIF's do.

Have a good weekend,

Cya on Monday,

Milo's Morning Monster No. 060- hyperpottymouth

2008-07-17T08:23:00.009-06:00

To make up for missing yesterdays post I decided to give you all a special treat along the lines of a painted piece. So I painted this up real quick like last night...when i say quick like, it took me about an hour and 15 minutes. I don't think it's spectacular, but it's cool. Maybe one of these days I'll actually get to sit and dsign a cool monster instead of just whipping something out off the top of my head.

I would like some help in deciding a color choice with this one.

The first pic is how I painted it, and the second is after some color adjustments. Which do you like better? And Why?

Thanks!!
Hopefully I'll post again tomorrow.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 059- Itchy Gonads

2008-07-15T07:56:00.002-06:00

"AAAAhhhhhhrrrrrgh! It drives me crazy when they Itch like this!"

I really just named it that because it looked like his hand could be scratching down there, y'know?

This was a quickie. 20 minutes. Not a lot of thought, thus the lame design and crosshatching.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 058- Xetltacleckztrall-and-Bobo

2008-07-14T08:06:00.003-06:00

Try pronouncing that name! Or don't, really it was kind of just a bunch of letters I typed, then added subtracted to make something that might be pronouncable. He looks kind of like E.T. huh.? he could either be getting home from or ready to leave for some big space mission, where he's traveling to other planets, kidnapping it's denizens, and experimenting on them in some strange invasive fashion. What a monstrous thing to do...

;)

Milo's Morning Monster No. 057- Mopey Little Feller

2008-07-11T08:08:00.005-06:00

I don't know what's up with his had gestures really. I think he lost his knife, or his keys, or maybe his head hurts, maybe he's trying to screw it back on straight, maybe he's just thinking hard, maybe he wishes he had more hair, or less eyebrow, or some decent shoes.
I know one thing. He captures my mood yesterday. I don't know what was up, just in a funk. Nothing went particularly wrong. I slept well the night before wierd thing is, my wife asked me when I said goodbye to her in the morning "You okay? You seem a little down." She was still asleep when I went in to say goodbye, and half so when she said that do me...
Maybe she caused me to feel that way by suggesting that maybe I already felt that way.?
Nah...
Well. I got this drawing out of it, which I'm a bit fond of actually, so, that's good. I don't neccessarily think it's because of the character, just because he captured my strange mood.
Here's to a better day.
Miles

Milo's Morning Monster No. 056- Damn Flies

2008-07-10T08:15:00.003-06:00

They just won't leave him alone, he's just out for a stroll and they're buzzing all around him.

The legs on this were SO bad, I had to put him in the water.

Milo's Morning Monster No. 056- Big Mean Ogre Type

2008-07-09T08:24:00.002-06:00

I got a new book yesterday "The Art of Paul Bonnner". Brilliant! He's amazing. If you haven't seen his stuff, look him up online, a lot of the work in the book can be seen on his website as well.

Point is, it kind of inspired me to do this piece. Not as cool as his stuff by any means but...If I would have had a couple of hours to work on it, I would have gone ahead and thrown armor on the guy and whatnot, but, I only spent about 40 minutes on this, still kinda slow.

Those who care may have noticed I missed posting the last couple of days, sorry about that. I have no excuse other than laziness, except busy-ness...I'll try to get back onthe ball here.

Cya

Miels

Milo's Morning Monster No. 055- Fishman

2008-07-03T14:44:00.003-06:00

Is he swimming up, or swimming down?

This one's kind of a mix of the two styles seen thus far for my monsters. It has both the pencil sketch lines, and grey scale digital painting. I could paint it more, take out the lines, gussy it all up, fix the perpective/anatomy issues, but I think it's good where it's at.

He seems not so much a monster, but just a creature.

I won't be posting tomorrow as it's a Holiday and all, so have a good Independance day.

See ya on Monday,

Miles