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I've been wanting to get back to drawing regularly again for ages upon ages, but I've just never quite been able to get the necessary fire in my belly. Today, though, I had a bit of an inspiration. A project, if you will. A challenge for myself.

Every night at work, I have a lot of free time on my hands, in a private office. Usually, I spend this time listening to podcasts and the like, and just kind of fucking around, creating abstract art and whatnot that I never bother to show anyone. But then I thought: What if I were to spend whatever free time I have at work each night coming up with some new monster? Setting for myself the restriction that whatever I've got at 6:00 AM (when I go home), that's what I upload? The challenge of it was oddly invigorating.

So! Here's my first monster-a-day (which I guess might be more aptly "monster-a-work-day"), which I intend to try to do every day for a month. It's kind of going easy on myself; easy and familliar territory, just to ease my way into it. What I have in mind for tomorrow should be more of a challenge. What I had in mind here was to come up with something a little bit like a centaur, only rather than an equine body, that of something like a gorilla, only made with crustacean parts, and the upper half looking something like a cross between a shrimp and a centipede. It's all a bit of a mish-mash, but it didn't turn out bad for, like, the second thing I've drawn this year!

If anyone's curious, I had the idea at about 1:00 AM today. I spent about half an hour doing the line art in pencil, then scanned it, tidied it up, and then coloured like crazy. Probably about three to three and a half hours of work here. I silently curse myself for the little odds and ends that I didn't get to on this thing, but wanted to start off right, and that meant finishing at 6:00, even with some stuff not done yet.

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I've been wanting to get back to drawing regularly again for ages upon ages, but I've just never quite been able to get the necessary fire in my belly. Today, though, I had a bit of an inspiration. A project, if you will. A challenge for myself.

Every night at work, I have a lot of free time on my hands, in a private office. Usually, I spend this time listening to podcasts and the like, and just kind of fucking around, creating abstract art and whatnot that I never bother to show anyone. But then I thought: What if I were to spend whatever free time I have at work each night coming up with some new monster? Setting for myself the restriction that whatever I've got at 6:00 AM (when I go home), that's what I upload? The challenge of it was oddly invigorating.

So! Here's my first monster-a-day (which I guess might be more aptly "monster-a-work-day"), which I intend to try to do every day for a month. It's kind of going easy on myself; easy and familliar territory, just to ease my way into it. What I have in mind for tomorrow should be more of a challenge. What I had in mind here was to come up with something a little bit like a centaur, only rather than an equine body, that of something like a gorilla, only made with crustacean parts, and the upper half looking something like a cross between a shrimp and a centipede. It's all a bit of a mish-mash, but it didn't turn out bad for, like, the second thing I've drawn this year!

If anyone's curious, I had the idea at about 1:00 AM today. I spent about half an hour doing the line art in pencil, then scanned it, tidied it up, and then coloured like crazy. Probably about three to three and a half hours of work here. I silently curse myself for the little odds and ends that I didn't get to on this thing, but wanted to start off right, and that meant finishing at 6:00, even with some stuff not done yet.