Monster Island Back Cover Art

My progress on finishing up my Monster Safari book was temporarily put on hold due to the birth of our first grandchild this past weekend. Now I'm back on track in the race against time to finish up the book. I have school appearances coming up and I must have my book available for my upcoming school dates.

There are 12 monsters featured in the book. Now there's 13 with this guy, who is as yet unnamed. I needed art for the back cover, and this dude just missed the 12 monster cut, so I figured that rather than start a new drawing from scratch, I might as well dip into my stack of monster rejects and make some fortunate creature the star of the back cover. You can't tell by the expression on his face, but he's thrilled.

Look, George! It's a Furpent!

The Little Beastie parade marches on, or slithers on, if you prefer.  This time with a creature of the serpent variety. What? You've never heard of a hairy serpent? Well, then, you've never been to Monster Island. 

Airborne Beasties

Yet another little beastie crawled out of my sketchbook this morning and quickly took flight. It's more than a bit unnerving to try to concentrate on my work while a little pterocroctyle creature and his bug-eyed, bulb-nosed hairy companion are darting about my studio. I tried opening a window, but they don't seem to want to leave. Perhaps I'll just have to learn to live with them.