#Drawtober2018 31-Hallow Queen

I was influenced by The Conjuring 2 (which scared the shoes off me) on TV while drawing this.  I imagine a "Hallow Queen" to be a lady REALLY GOOD at hallowing (making holy), and thereby good at dispelling demons and vampires.  I imagined the demon disintegrating like old crackly paper, whereas the vampire would turn to dust. 

I also discovered that HallowQueen is a big LGBTQ Halloween festival.  I have no idea how to draw this, but I hope everyone there had a fun and safe holiday.

Drawtober2018 was a blast for me; I worked hard, went through a lot of paper and pencil, and I think I improved my drawing abilities a little.  I also had something to strive for, and I am proud of delivering a drawing EVERY DAY.

Sadly, Google has threatened to destroy Google+ next August.  This makes me very sad.  I'm not sure which social media platform I will switch to.  I hope against hope that Google will reconsider their decision.

#Drawtober2018 30-Dream Eater

I was originally going to depict an unfortunate starving man dreaming of food, but the implications seemed so bleak and depressing.  I decided that a glutton would be funnier.  I may resemble the glutton in the drawing. 

#Drawtober2018 29-Black Widow

In D&D, there are spider-elf hybrids known as "driders."  Here I present a female drider mourning her mate, tragically crushed in a cave-in.

Female black widow spiders are notorious for eating their mates, but studies have shown that if the female is well-fed, she is extremely unlikely to eat her mate.  It makes sense when you consider that the black widow's venom is limited, and if she squanders it by poisoning a mate, then she may be incapable of defending herself during a time when she really needs to protect her vulnerable young.  A fertile female will advertise how well-fed she is with her pheromones, and male black widows will avoid poorly-fed females if given the choice. 

I'm not suggesting that black widow spiders are cuddly; they're still deadly bugs, after all.  However, it's not impossible to imagine that spider-people might have genuine feelings for each other besides food. 

#Drawtober2018 28-Rusty Cauldron

Of course Billy Mays is the inspiration for the Kettle Klean pitch man, and Elizabeth Montgomery is the inspiration for the witch homemaker.

#Drawtober2018 27-Trickster Treat

I created Snake Eye Rodent Jerky for my D&D campaign, as a tasty snack popular with monsters.  I figure both coyotes and ravens eat rodents.

#Drawtober2018 26-Grotesque Music Box

Grotesque kids and their grotesque dog listen to the soothing tones of a music box.  Entertainment is sometimes hard to come by when you live out in the country and you don't have a lot of money.  When you're a grotesque you learn to stay away from people who pick on you.

#Drawtober2018 25-A Murder of Crows

If your D&D party is not fulfilling a quest, just wandering from town to town killing random monsters and small-time villains, many will sneer and refer to you and your fellow D&D adventurers as "murder hobos."  Of course a group of crows is known as "a murder of crows."  If your D&D characters are also crows, they might be called "a murder of murder hobos."
I was way more loose and cartoony putting together this drawing, but it still turned out all right.

#Drawtober2018 24-Twisted Horns

The "Twisted Horns" here are shell trumpets on the left and right; snail shells naturally have a spiral twist to them.  At center left I put a log drum player, at center right I could not resist putting a turtle shell lyre player. 
I drew a whole 4-person band out of pure short-sightedness; they took so long to draw!  But then mermaids are known for being hard to resist.

#Drawtober2018 23-Plant Gore

Albert Gore Jr. was a mild-mannered former Vice President of the United States, desperately trying to save the world from global warming.  He met with scientists developing a "supertree" serum, capable of transforming ordinary trees into carbon-sequestration powerhouses.  A tragic accident infused Al Gore with this serum, giving him an inhuman tree-like appearance, but also granting him amazing tree superpowers!  From then on, the public would know him as... PLANT GORE.

#Drawtober2018 22-Nightmare Demonsion

Sure, he's a big important demon, but he still has nightmares that he is naked in school, and he can't remember his locker combination, and he is late for his big tests.

#Drawtober2018 21-Bone Cutter

I am very disappointed by how the warrior turned out, especially his arms.  But if I don't challenge myself, I will not improve.  I was hoping to draw the skeleton more cleaved than exploded, but I just ran out of time.

#Drawtober2018 20-Poisoned Hollow

I grew up 15 miles from Love Canal: a housing development built on a leaking toxic waste dump.  You can still visit the area, and even virtually visit it with Google Street View.  It's an eerie, eerie ghost town today, because you know it was abandoned due to poisons invisibly permeating the area.  I saw the 2015 re-make of Poltergeist, and the premise of a home built on corrupted land was very relevant to me due to the very real specter of Love Canal.

#Drawtober2018 19-Under Wraps

...Tortilla wraps.  Here Quetzalcoatl & Tezcatlipoca enjoy conquistador-itos.

#Drawtober2018 18-Harpy's Nest

The nest is where the harpy keeps her babies safe.

When planning this out, I realized that a baby harpy would be covered with fuzz, like a baby chicken. 
This drawing is dedicated to my mom, who had a birthday recently.

#Drawtober2018 17-Hell Hound

Wiener dogs are technically classified as hounds.

Drawing this made me hungry for the great charcoal-grilled hot dogs at Ted's Hot Dogs.

#Drawtober2018 16-Sewn Shut

A rip has formed in the fabric of spacetime, allowing a huge demon to wreak havok on Earth.  Crusaders attempt to occupy the demon, while angels attempt to stitch the rip with celestial filament.

#Drawtober2018 15-Parsel-Tongue

I drew this too early.  The tongue part comes later.

#Drawtober2018 14-Delicate Decay

Here you can see the slender elegant mushroom princess addressing her adoring subjects.  Although they have an advanced culture, fungi are a form of decay.

#Drawtober2018 13-Creepy Crawlers

They're creepy, and they crawl.  It's a play date for monster babies!  Here you can see that the nice Mummy boy has made a well out of blocks for the Ring girl to climb out of.

The symbols on those blocks come right out of my Egyptian heiroglyphics primer. 

#Drawtober2018 12-Ghoul Drool

Ghouls eat the flesh of dead people.  Vampires count as "dead," and ghouls are not harmed by sunlight.