{"id":5256,"date":"2014-08-29T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2014-08-29T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T15:43:59","slug":"a-grid-of-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5256","title":{"rendered":"A Grid of Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a grid of monsters I drew as a pinup for Jess Smart Smiley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/jess-smart-smiley\/spooky-silly-comics\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter book<\/a>, <em>Spooky Silly Comics<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Spooky-Scary-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5257\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=5257\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Spooky-Scary-color.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1201\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Spooky Scary color\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Spooky-Scary-color-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Spooky-Scary-color-1024x1024.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5257\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Spooky-Scary-color-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Spooky Scary color\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Spooky-Scary-color-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Spooky-Scary-color-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Spooky-Scary-color-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Spooky-Scary-color.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really love bestiaries and things of that ilk so (after a bit of machinating about other possibilities) I decided that&#8217;s the route I&#8217;d go here. For projects like this, I like to introduce some randomness&#8211;just to spur creativity a bit. What I did in this case was use this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seventhsanctum.com\/generate.php?Genname=monstername\" target=\"_blank\">online monster name generator<\/a> to generate 100 monster names. I then rolled two ten-sided die for each slot on the page to determine what monster to draw.<\/p>\n<p>The image was drawn traditionally on Bristol board with dip pens and then colored in Digital Manga Studio. The original will be on display (and for sale) closer to Halloween at a local Halloween-themed exhibition. I&#8217;ll post details once I&#8217;ve got them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a grid of monsters I drew as a pinup for Jess Smart Smiley&#8217;s Kickstarter book, Spooky Silly Comics: I really love bestiaries and things of that ilk so (after a bit of machinating about other possibilities) I decided that&#8217;s the route I&#8217;d go here. 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