Acknowledging the pun, but still taking it literally, I used the characters from Nickelodeon’s “Aaahh! Real Monsters!” 90s cartoon and portrayed them as the classic Universal movie “reel” monsters from the movies Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Day 10 is:
So, in another hilarious mashup, I combined the Xenomorph from “Alien” with the lovable extraterrestrial from “E.T.” and the result is below:
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To show how this one works with the drawing from yesterday, I scanned in the whole two-page spread of the sketchbook:
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Day 9 is:
EYEBALL
I inked in a character from AAH! Real Monsters, KRUMM, but drew him as realistically as possible, rather than in his normal cartoon form. Also, to add to the hilarity, replaced one eyeball with a Magic 8-ball (because the prompt only said Eye BALL, singular) to stay within the rules.
Starting now, I plan to try to combine the days that appear on a two-page spread of my sketchbook, as they are seen that way in person when looking at it and I think it will add an additional, fun challenge to the process.
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