Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Monsters Go

Dad has a new book out called "Monsters Go Night-Night," (find it here!) and all the characters are based off drawings Elijah made when he was 4 & 5 years old!  Many of those drawings are stored right here on this blog.

Here's a video Elijah and I made about it:



Well, I thought it would be fun to see how other artists would interpret those same original monster drawings that Elijah had made.  So I whipped up a Twitter page (@Monsters_Go) and put out the invitation.  I had no idea if anyone would play along, but this whole amazing little community sprang up around Elijah's drawings!  Artists from all over the world started doing Fan Art of Elijah's drawings in their own fantastic, diverse styles in a #MonstersGo drawing challenge.  Over 60 Artists made nearly 200 drawings based off Elijah's monsters!!  Here's a small sampling:

"Smag" by Elijah:

by @edwardiantaylor:

by @AdamDix:

by @Flodego:

by @HiAdamReed:

by @HarveyBeardman:

by @morenoarte:



"Tweap" by Elijah:

by @joshalves:

by @akhdraws:

by @DebIllustration:

by @MH_illustration:

by @AdamDix:

by @pixeltomu:

by @edwardiantaylor:

by @starkelstar:

by @geeksarecool:

by @westinchurch:



"Ippity" by Elijah:

by @edwardiantaylor:

by @SamShawDraws:

by @katowokato:

by @pixeltomu:

by @IanSummersart:

by @geeksarecool:

by @amymariestad:



"Splue" by Elijah:

by @pixeltomu:

by @starkelstar:

by @morenoarte:

by @Drewvis_UK:

by @TheJasonMartian:

by @westinchurch:
by @markaaronyoung:



"Grubba" by Elijah:

by @katowokato:

by @Dave_Windett:

by @Flodego:

by @TheJasonMartian:

by @bluelily17:



"Wobb" by Elijah:

by @westinchurch:

by @katowokato:

by @geeksarecool:

by @starkelstar:

by @jodie_bowden24:

by @SamShawDraws:



"Numsy" by Elijah:

by @markmeyersart:

by @david_buist:

by @TheJasonMartian:

by @katowokato:

by @jodie_bowden24:



And a couple of group shots that came in:
by @geeksarecool:

by @MH_illustration:


It was lots of fun!  So after we made it through the seven original monsters, we decided to keep going.  Now I post one new monster each week by any of the Z-Kids from out of the Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty archives.  Check it out here!  And if you're an artist who would enjoy a fun morning warm-up prompt, I invite you to come join the fun!

To get a copy of "Monsters Go Night-Night" click Here



1 comment:

Adrian Stuehler said...

Hi guys,
These are absolutely wonderful. Art at its best and purest. You made me so happy - thank you!