The Edge of the Map

This week's theme is courtesy of Mike Pell - Sea Monsters.  Whatever manner of beasts or creatures from the depths of the sea that our artists can imagine.  This should be fun. 
Have a great week!

Otherworldly Watercolors and Space Tigers

Jenaro Pagan broke out his watercolors for his space-themed piece this week!

Mystic Golden Kung Fu Space action from James Bukauskas.

Happy Alien Day!

Marlin Shoop created an Alien tribute by combining this week's space theme with scenes from the original Alien movie.  Hug someone's face today!

Wednesday Warm Ups

Warm up by Jenaro Pagan 

A mouth study from Drew Moss.

And the winner is...

The results of our logo poll are in and the monkey with the most votes was drawn by Drew Moss.

His monkey has already been added to the banner at the top of the blog. 

The theme for this week is: SPAAAAAAACE

Have a great week!  Go make some art!!!

Huntress

Just a few more hours left in our logo poll, so please take a minute to vote.

This morning's sketches all feature the Huntress.

First up is a head sketch by Marlin Shoop.

Jenaro Pagan did this sweet, time slip Huntress.

James Bukauskas reimagines Huntress as a member of Marvel's X-Force. 

This scarred Huntress by Drew Moss is inspired by Battle of the Planets.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

More Monkeys

Back when Mike Pell started at Archie in the art dept they had Zip Disks. They were like gold, each person was rationed one, no more unless it was broken. So obviously being new, everyone kept taking his and he would have to ask for a new one. Which was not pleasant.  His plan was to draw monkeys (the best animal to draw, ever) on his Zip disks to keep it out of "enemy" hands. It worked for a longtime too. The fez wearing monkey with a bubble pipe is still Mike's favorite

James Bukauskas sent along his own Draw Monkey.

Sergio Toppi warmup

Today’s warmup/study comes from Drew Moss and is inspired by Italian illustrator Sergio Toppi's The Collector. 

Toppi’s uses framing and hatching to make texture and shadow. The elegance of his line is amazing.

Poll & Robert McGinnis warmup

We added a poll in the sidebar.  It will be open until Friday so please vote to help us pick the blog's logo/banner art.

Instead of jumping right into themes and characters we thought we'd just share a bunch of different sketches and drawings from the group.

Here is a warmup from Drew Moss inspired by the work of Robert McGinnis.

And here are some of the tools Drew uses (from left to right): Pentel Pocket Brush, Scharff round No. 2, ColErase in Carmine Red, Quill with a Zebra G nib, Mimik round No. 6, Kuretake no. 55 Brush pen, 2mm leadholder F lead, Posca White paint marker, and a manual air brush (top)

Have a great week!

Draw Monkey by Larry Watts

Draw Monkey by Jenaro Pagan

Draw Monkey by Marlin Shoop

Draw Monkey by Drew Moss

Anthropoid Artists, Assemble!

Welcome to Draw, Monkey, Draw!!!, a sketchblog for comic artists to encourage, support and inspire one another. 

Each week the group will create artwork based on a character or theme.  It could be anything from a warm up sketch to something more polished - whatever the artist, or their schedule, chooses.  

First up... Draw a monkey with art utensils. 

We'll let you vote on your favorite and use it as the blog's logo.  Themes will be chosen on Sundays and the art is due on Fridays.   

Only three days left so get to work, you monkeys!