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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

What I Drew Sunday, August 26th – Top 3

Disney was strong with the most liked sketches drawn in Sunday’s session of What Shall I Draw Today?

Here are the top 3:

#1 – DuckTales Cast Exiting the TARDIS: suggestion by @tsfogg


Here I chose to depict the main cast of the 1987 Disney Afternoon animated adventure series to tumble out of the Doctor Who famous TARDIS. I hold nothing against the new, current series, but some followers may have noticed that I tend to reference early if not original character designs for my WSIDT sketches. 

In my mind, the suggestion was quite clear and the composition could not vary much from what I drew. Launchpad, being the tallest, naturally got set back and naturally the last of the group to stumble out of the TARDIS. Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby duck-pile on top of frustrated Scrooge McDuck for easy slapstick. Little light-bulb-headed Little Helper was a late addition, because he fits. Well, he kind of fits in most places doesn’t he? That kind of implies that Gyro Gearloose is involved if not nearby.


#2 – Mulan with Lightsaber: suggestion by @noreeneb20

Mulan wears several costumes in the original Disney animated feature film. Because of it’s similarity to something that Obi Wan Kenobi and other Jedi have worn in the Star Wars films, particularly in the infamous prequel trilogy, depicting Mulan in her Ping warrior/ training clothes worked out pretty well. 

I then gave her a green bladed saber. It’s kind of her color and it’s a good-guy color in Star Wars. 

I wonder what prompted Mulan to power up the lightsaber. Could it be a hun with Darth Maul styled face tattoos?


#3 – Bagheera meeting Black Panther: suggestion by Kinzey

What happens what a black panther meets Black Panther? Respect, an exchange of respect.

Although not explicitly noted, I drew the Disney version of The Jungle Book big cat. This was for expedience and because there wasn’t a compelling reason not to. T’Challa has removed his helmet/mask because all of the Marvel movie heroes seem to keep doing that.

Of course, with one little sketch, I’m not writing a whole story and much less a novel. I do like to at least imply some storytelling. A lot is suggested by the cool blues of the moonlit color scheme. The rest is left to your imagination.


Maybe the pair later went to get something tasty? Ice cream? It doesn’t always have to come down to ice-cream. But it could be ice-cream.


And here are the rest of the 10:

Wonder Woman & Dole® Whip

Sashi Kobayashi (Penn Zero Part-Time Hero)

Det. Rosa Dias (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

Lady Jaye (G.I. Joe)

Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

Strawberry Shortcake & Custard

Gretchen, Regina & Karen

All ten of these sketches are going into the collection of original art for sale on hand at my table at Long Beach Comic Con in a few weeks.

Please check out my Instagram feed for these and more: @monstergram7

Leftover suggestions may yet be drawn and posted in the next few weeks.

The last WSIDT session of the year is scheduled for September 23rd.


All art – black ink and color pencil on cut Bristol Board.
DuckTales & TARDIS - 12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)
Mulan and Bagheera with Black Panther -  6.35 cm x 8.89 cm (2.50 in. x 3.50 in.)

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

What Shall I Draw August 26th?

This approaching Sunday, What Shall I Draw Today? goes back to basics with a now-standard single 8-hour session.

What Shall I Draw Today?
Sunday, August 26th, 2018
Eastern Daylight Savings Time:  12pm noon - 8 pm
Pacific Daylight Savings Time:  9 am - 5 pm

This will be this year’s penultimate (second to last) such session. With no specified theme, suggestions are open topics-wise. I will say, however, that with Long Beach Comic Con fast approaching, comic book and pop culture topic may be favored, since everything created will be put up for sale at the con.

So post your best suggestions at any of the following social media places where you spot the above promoting image:

Blog:  monotonae.blogspot.com (here in the comments)

Instagram:  @monstergram7

Facebook:  @I'm a fan of Bryan Mon

Check the above WSIDT tab for answers to FAQ’s.

Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks & Teddy Lupin
(The Wizarding World of Harry Potter)
Black ink and color pencil on Bristol Board.
12.70 cm x 17.78 cm (5.00 in. x 7.00 in.)

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Disneyland’s 63rd Birthday

A new Autograph book with Jimmy Cricket Tag-a-Long

Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, California, Tuesday, July 17th, 2018 – For the fourth year in a row, I took advantage of being a Disney Cast-Member to use a day’s vacation time to celebrate Disneyland’s birthday by being in the parks and doing some sketches.

Per usual, I purchased an autograph book on site and began. Sometimes I was promoted by my environment, sometimes by stream of consciousness. On the day as I went along, I posted on Instagram the sketches in front of sights from the parks.

It happens that this book has over 100 pages if you count fronts and backs. That’s nearly triple or quadruple the page count of the books I had previous purchased. I response on the day, I tried to sketch something at least every 30 minutes. Executed in that manner, I fell into a walk-then-draw continuous cycle for the first 6 hours. In practice, I only drew on one side of each page, so only about 50 pages ahead of me.

Here are the drawings scanned (click on images to see them larger):


















Having many leftover blank pages and untapped Disney suggestions from previous months’ sessions of What Shall I Draw Today?, I finished the book with small batches of the following drawings in pen and monochromatic pencil shading.














The final five sketches we're done August 8, so in all, I didn’t require quite a full month to fill the book.