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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
2:49 am

gatsby11rel
Spirit of '76

Happy vernacular and slightly belated Birthday, America. Here's a birthday ghost. You can tell by the rakish angle of his hat that he is probably up to no good...

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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
8:36 pm - Fishman

lesmcclaine 		The fishman (or "creature," or "gill man") has always struck me as a daytime monster.  I wonder why that is?

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Friday, June 12th, 2009
3:43 pm - Spot

jodycody 		canine

I like puppies. He's cute!

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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
4:29 pm - What is it?

jodycody 		viney

Originally was going to draw a Triffid, but then it turned into some sort of Lovecraftian amphibious thing.

Crossposted to the MONSTERMANUAL

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12:04 am

calamityjon


#13 The "True People" of the Ot Taaru.
Worshippers of NGastra, the mother-fish of the universe, the True People of the phantom plain of Ot Taaru believe they are descended from the celebrated first of NGastra's brood of thirteen dynasties of life. According to their mythologies, eternally sleeping NGastra stirred the universe into being during a fit of night-spasms, from the whorls of which the worlds, stars and sky were formed. Waking, NGastra chose to populate each of these worlds, that they might be cared for as she slumbered. First, she created the True People, then presented to them the spirits of trees, the spirits of water, and the spirits which inhabited both animals and the wise animals who could talk. NGastra then went on to create the spirits who inhabited fire, the spirits who inhabited the sky, then the things which were unseen, the spirits in darkness, the spirits who lived in words and then bright things which lived in the mind. When Ngastra brought forth the devils, the last and lowest of her children, the light of the infernal incandescence cast shadows behind the True People. It is their belief that these shadows became humanity, a wretched and pale mockery of themselves whom the True People have considered it their sacred duty to remove from the world over which NGastra granted them dominion - putting them in frequent conflict with The Grimhawks ...

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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
3:32 pm - studio monster!

art_lurker

( in the studio... )

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3:53 pm - Owlbear

jodycody

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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
11:06 am - what's up, monsters?!

art_lurker 		i just found this community today. awesome.



( i make monsters )

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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
10:43 am - Here Be Dragons

everyueveryme 		Terra Incognita

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Monday, April 6th, 2009
6:47 pm - Monster Mondays - Bonnacon

boju 		Bonnacon is really a creature where the less said about it the better. So I’ll just go straight to the source. Pliny the Elder, author of the worlds first Natural History Encyclopedia and one of ancient Greece’s most brilliant writers. His Natural History is over 160 volumes long and holds the closest thing we have to a complete record of Greek knowledge at that point. He must have thought no one would possibly read the whole thing when he slipped in this gem.

“Pliny- “There are reports of a wild animal in Paeonia called the bonnacon, which has the mane of a horse, but in all other respects resembles a bull; its horns are curved back in such a manner as to be of no use for fighting, and it is said that because of this it saves itself by running away, meanwhile emitting a trail of dung that sometimes covers a distance of as much as three furlongs (half a mile), contact with which scorches pursuers like a sort of fire.”

Yes, Bonnacon is Buffalo followed by half a mile of flaming dung. But words aren’t enough to convey it’s might. We need ridicules illuminated manuscripts of knights getting buffalo shit on them. Better bring a shield.

Click the link to see Bonnacon doing what Bonnacon do best

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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
1:34 am - Funa-yurei

nenimo

Funa-yurei Page1, originally uploaded by Craig Arndt.

Each year I put out a small yokai beast book, this years yokai book will be different then the last 3. Not only will I be including illustrations but I will be doing some comics too.
This is the Funa-yurei. Basically these guys work like Davy Jones, trying to trick (and sometimes force) people onto their boat and once you're on your damned to be on it forever.
I thought it would be fun if this Funa-yurei was just bugging random people while cruising down the street.


( Does he get on the boat? click to find out! )

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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
2:40 am - Monster Map from around the world

nenimo

Map of a world of Monsters, originally uploaded by Craig Arndt.

Cryptids or Monster from around the world.
Spinning around the dial we have Iku Turso, Mimi, Mapinquari, Umi Bozu, Barometz, Jiang Shi, Frost Giant, Mokele-Mbembe, Thunderbird, Chupacabra, Sphinx, Giant Squid, Loch Ness, Polevik.

The world map is a little rough cause it was totally eyeballed. Also, while creatures are color coded to their continent I found information placing the Polevik in Russia or Poland, and the Chupacabra in Mexico down to Brazil. In both cases I just put them with whatever grouping I thought looked best.


( Want to see just the art? )

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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
12:24 am - COMBINING THE MENACE OF DINOSAURS WITH NAZI ROCKETMEN

manoffeeling

edit: mark 2

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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
10:20 am - For the seafood lover in you...

fossilapostle 		Killer Crab Attack!

I drew this for The Minotaur, a webzine for the Mazes & Minotaurs RPG - and just found out that they're going to use it in the next issue!

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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
7:04 pm - Monster Mondays - Ugjuknarpak

boju

7swims, originally uploaded by Boju.

Todays Monster Monday by Dapper Cadaver comes from the Inuit (eskimo) people of Alaska, behold the mighty Ugjuknarpak! The unkillable sea-mouse of the sea that is also a giant!

Ugjuknarpak's name derives from the gurgling sound his victims make as he wraps his long prehensile tail around their necks and drags them under. His friends call him Ugjuk for short. Ugjuk doesn't have any friends though, because no one goes near Ugjuk's island. Ugjuk has exceptional hearing and speed, and a hide that cannot be pierced by any hunters weapon. Try kayaking over to his place and you'll be dead before you leave the harbor. All that will be leftis your overturned canoe.

Do not f*ck with this mouse!

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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
12:49 pm - The Majestie of the Unicorne

mutleyjames


Remember - should a unicorn get close enough to touch you with it's pingers then you are most likely dead.

In the unlikely circumstance you live in spite of the odds, thrust several fingers into the gonophore sphincter, wherein two or more eggs are likely to be exiting during its excitable state. This should agitate the unicorn enough momentarily allowing you to escape being impaled on the wildly flailing bile duct.

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
10:44 am - Monster Monday - Memecoleous

boju 		memecoleous
Today's Dapper Cadaver Monster Monday creature comes from India, by way of Europe. You see there was a lot of disagreement over what exactly a Manticore was. Some described it as a lion with the head of a man. Some described it as a lion with wings. Some described it as a lion with both the head of a man and wings. Some said it was like a were- lion that men turn into. Some described it as a lion with the head of a man, huge jaws with three rows of teeth, the tail of a scorpion and a voice like trumpets. This man was Pliny the Elder and he was considered brilliant. Some said the Manticore wasn't actually part lion but part tiger. This was crazy and clearly wrong, so they decided if a Manticore was part tiger instead of part lion it was a Memcoleous and it must be from India because that's where tigers are from. This helped a little, but they still couldn't decide what a Manticore was and only agreed on the lion part. This is probably because no one has ever seen a Manticore.

This is not a Manticore but it might be a Memecoleous.

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12:31 am - Cthlulhu!

phinmagic

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
12:28 am - have some monsters in comics.

solmaru 		Hey all! Two of my comic stories have been completed! The Serpent in the Belly, Drawn by Jason Thompson:



And Wicked Temple, drawn by Konstantin Pogorelov:




They will be released in a full color volume along with two other stories in "The Legend of Bold Riley Book 1: The Dusty Road" But for now the Black and White roughs can be read in their entirety at www.boldriley.com All of them feature monsters and other wise odd creatures.

I hope you'll give it a look!
~Leia

(If I broke comm rules feel free to remove!)

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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
1:55 pm - The Kappa

jodycody 		Here is the Kappa:

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