If I only had a heart...

I don't think I'd ever drawn a dragon before I started this blog...

It's true! And suddenly I find myself drawing them all the time.

Nervous Monster colored

Ogre kid

Lazy Cat

Bobblehead Baby

A wee purple beastie

Just a really quick (sligthly sloppy) digital color job. I love using fanciful colors on these sorts of characters. I'm sure that stems from my love of the Muppets and all their colorful creatures.

Monkey Boy

Kid with big hair

or a big head.

Another Dragon

Going for a simpler look. I think this guy will be yellow.

Lil' Smokey gets some color

Another sad monster

This may have been subconsciously inspired by Hooter in Captain EO.

Little Brother

My 6 year old daughter loves to play a game called "Little Brother"- basically I pretend I'm her two year old brat of a brother, and she gets to be the older sister (usually 16-20 years old). Little Brother is obsessed with Spider-Man and Lightning McQueen and is always getting into trouble: getting into the candy jar, picking his nose, playing in the mud, and generally being a pain. This is what I picture him looking like. They were not done to specifically depict little brother though so this kid is a bit older, but the personality is the same: loud and obnoxious, very self assured. The part Sabrina loves about the game is she is the authority figure and gets to tell little brother , "No!". She gets to grab his shirt as he goes for candy or drag him to bed without supper. Little Brother is a fascinating game to play with your kid, if for no other reason to hear their approach to child rearing, but it's also exhausting. It takes a lot of energy to be a bad kid.

Rough babies

I don't know why I didn't continue to put a cleaner line on these... but I kinda like them as is. Especially the one on the left.

Harmless little fellow

Isn't he cute?