Monster Mash Challenge: 31 Monsters in 31 days.

October 2022: Monster Mash Challenge – 31 Monsters in 31 Days
1.1 – Giant Ants (Them! – 1954)
1.2 – Giant Preying Mantis (The Deadly Mantis – 1957)
1.3 – Wampa (Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back – 1980)
1.4 – Rancor (Star Wars – The Return of the Jedi – 1983)
1.5 – Ro-Man (Robot Monster – 1953)
1.6 – The Giant Claw (The Giant Claw – 1957)
1.7 – The Pale Man (Doug Jones) (Pan’s Labyrinth – 2006)
1.8 – The Faun (Doug Jones) (Pan’s Labyrinth – 2006)
1.9 – The Monster from Hell (David Prouse) (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell – 1974)
1.10 – Frankenstein’s Monster (David Prouse) (The Horror of Frankenstein – 1970)
1.11 – Dracula’s bat form (Gary Oldman) (Bram Stoker’s Dracula – 1992)
1.12 – Dracula’s wolf form (Gary Oldman) (Bram Stoker’s Dracula – 1992)
1.13 – Dr. Phibes (Vincent Price) (The Abominable Dr. Phibes – 1971)
1.14 – Verden Fell (Vincent Price) (The Tomb of Ligeia – 1964)
1.15 – Dr. Giggles (Larry Drake) (Dr. Giggles – 1992)
1.16 – Freddie Kreuger (Robert Englund) (A Nightmare on Elm Street – 1984)
1.17 – Morlock (The Time Machine – 1960)
1.18 – Toxie (Mitch Cohen) (The Toxic Avenger – 1984)
1.19 – Pennywise (Tim Curry) (It – 1990)
1.20 – Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) (It – 2017)
1.21 – The Invisible Man (Claude Rains) (The Invisible Man – 1933)
1.22 – Mr. Hyde (Fredric March) (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – 1931)
1.23 – Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) (Psycho – 1962)
1.24 – Skeletor (Frank Langella) (Masters of the Universe – 1987)
1.25 – Count Yorga (Robert Quarry) (Count Yorga – 1970)
1.26 – King Kong (King Kong – 1933)
1.27 – Pazuzu (Eileen Dietz as the face of) (The Exorcist – 1973)
1.28 – Darkness (Tim Curry) (Legend – 1985)
1.29 – David (Kiefer Sutherland) (The Lost Boys – 1987)
1.30 – Pod Person (Donald Sutherland) (Invasion of the Body Snatchers – 1978)
1.31 – Calibos (Neil McCarthy) (Clash of the Titans – 1981)
1.32 – The Creeper (Jonathan Breck) (Jeepers Creepers – 2001)

Found myself feeling unchallenged and bored after sketching Pennywise so I switched to using acrylic paint to sketch out the remaining monsters. Started with just black and white but then moved to full colour. Some are more successful than others.

Only 1 Monster a day this year as I was also working on a 13 bust collection of horror versions of Breakfast cereals (built around the initial creation of the Count Chocoula, Franken Berry and Boo Berry busts). Unfortunately that project was abandoned despite purchasing all the base latex masks. The conceptual sketchbook can be found here.