The Wonderful Thing About Monsters

WonderCon is happening this weekend in Anaheim, CA!
If you’re attending, please stop by my Monster Enterprises table and say “hi” to Merrill* and myself, peruse our offerings, perhaps buy something.

WonderCon

March 31 - April 2, 2017

Anaheim Convention Center

800 West Katella Ave.

Anaheim, CA 92802

Monster Enterprises

Small Press: SP-89

Despite our valiant efforts to complete and have printed issue #3 of Unstoppable Tuff-Girl, it will require us a couple of additional months to get there. However, we will have available a few copies of the issue #3 preview!

As always, I will be doing commission drawings and selling pre-drawn original art including most of what I have been posting in Instagram in the past year.

My base prices are as follows...

Full single character inked and colored with pencil 12-inches: $80

Single portrait inked and colored with pencil 12-inches: $40

Prices may change based on paper size and drawing complexity including multiple characters, with prices posted at my table.

I hope to see you there!

Me (Bryan Mon)
I won’t be wearing a tie and vest at WonderCon.

* Merrill is due to appear Friday and Saturday.

What I Drew Sunday – March 26th

Here are the top 3 liked pieces of the 10 that I could squeeze into the 8 hour Sunday, March 26 session of “What Shall I Draw Today?”:

#1 – Marilyn Monroe: suggestion by @laurangraab.

#2 – Scobby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. Gang as Hogwarts Students: suggestion by @michaelrmullin.

#3 – Jaylah from Star Trek Beyond: suggestion by @panda_mestas.

And here’s the whole set of 10 drawings:

All of these and more will be for sale as little pieces of original art at this coming weekend’s WonderCon in the city of Anaheim, CA.


Thank you to everyone who submitted drawing suggestions. If I wasn’t able to draw yours last Sunday, it may yet pop up in the next few weeks before the next WSIDT.

Thank you to everyone for “liking” and following.

All 10 drawings may be viewed on my Instagram @monstergram7.

What Shall I Draw March 26th?

Happening this Sunday, March 26th, is my next session of “What Shall I Draw Today?” during which I draw selected suggestions posted on Instagram, Facebook and here on the blog (specifically in the comments of this post). Because the 6 hours of the two previous sessions weren’t quite long enough, while “all day” still hinders significant progress on issue #3 of Unstoppable Tuff-Girl, I am try expanding it to 8 hours.

The virtual suggestion box will be cleared out of previous ideas to make room for fresh, new ones. Suggestions may be posted from now until the end of WSIDT at any of the following places where you see the image above:

• monotonae (this blog):  here in the comments.

• Instagram:  @monstergram7

• Facebook:  @ I'm a fan of Bryan Mon #BryanMon

Again make sure you post your suggestions where you see the image above for March 26th. I may not be catch them in the comments of other posts.

Moomin
Color pencil and black ink on Bristol Board.
6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.).

Check out the “WSIDT” tab at top for answers to FQAs and the 2017 schedule.

Singing Harp (Mickey and the Beanstalk)
Color pencil and black ink on Bristol Board.
6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.).

Thanks and see you Sunday.

What Shall I Draw Today?

Sunday, March 26th, 2017

12:00 noon - 8:00 pm EDT

Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey, Dirty Dancing)
Color pencil and black ink on Bristol Board.
6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.).

Pieces drawn will be put up for sale at WonderCon at my Small Press table “Monster Enterprises.”

Potter Your World

Black India Ink and color pencil on Bristol Board.
17.8 cm x 12.7 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in.)

Here’s my conception of “Sorcerer Stone” era Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger drawn in 1950’s Disney style (think Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland). It’s based on the young actors from the 2001 Warner Bros. first entry in the feature film series: Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. I chose the films as a reference point because it’s the films and not the books that are my entry into J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World.

Pencil and ink before color.

I took a suggestion pitched during on of the “What Shall I Draw Today (WSIDT)” sessions and ran with a style that felt to me like a good match, even though a style overlay wasn’t indicated in the original suggestion. Subliminally I probably connected the character designs of Wendy’s brother John Darling with Harry.

Disney was still doing hand-drawn 2D animation the year “Sorcerer Stone” was released (see Atlantis: The Lost Empire). I wonder what Disney would have done if it had gotten the film rights to the Harry Potter series and opted to do animation? That, in fact, could be an interesting character design assignment. What I rather see, however, is the Potter books recreated in something like a Netflix series.