Sunday Catch-up: Kaiju

Few weeks ago, we had a kaiju challenge that I was really excited for. I'd been playing around with Godzilla ideas for awhile and thought the challenge was perfect. Too bad I took on more than I could and didn't finish on time. But you are in luck! I finished the illustration and it came out better than the original idea.

Here's the version without the gradient on the buildings.

Taking the extra time to flesh this out really made a difference. I'm trying to find a style of my own and this is one piece that really shows how far I'm coming along in terms of digital art. I'm nowhere near where I'd like to be, but I'm getting there, so I'm pretty satisfied with that!

Kaiju Minis

Hi all, Mark here!
Today's piece is about "kaiju", which are giant or strange monsters.

Kaiju tend to be dark, fearsome & gritty, so I decided to portray them as cute, bright and colorful.  This  illustration would be a logo for a mobile app game where you fight as cute kaiju.  (I would play the hell out of this game)

Fun fact:  I originally drew these out in a different style, before changing to the cute style I adore.  This is how the monsters originally looked:

(Somewhat of a 'Pokemon' vibe here)

Fan Friday!

Hey everyone! Every week we invite our fans and friends to participate in the drawing challenges we do. I have been neglectful the last couple weeks, so I'm doing some catch up here. If you want to submit your art, send it to scribblenerdsart@gmail.com with any information you care to add. If you have sent art and it hasn't popped up yet, let us know on our Facebook page, so we can iron out any issues.

Here are 2 from Danny Limor! He did the Batman and Guardians of the Galaxy challenges with a funny Batman playing the drums and a great, disgruntled Groot!

And Tim Switalski did the Kaiju challenge with the nightmare inducing cute Godzilla!

Keep 'em coming guys! These are great!

XO – Clare

Gaziwwa and a little dose of nightmare fuel

Making monsters cute is so much fun. While I was working on a cute Godzilla (or as I have renamed him, Gaziwwa,) my boyfriend who is also an artist told me I needed to be truer to the original Godzilla design. I told him I didn't know what to do about it. Making it any more "authentic" swung it waaaaaay into the creepy end of the spectrum. He wanted to give it a try, so I handed over my sketchbook. 

Five minutes of a weirdo indie movie on Netflix later, I receive the drawing below, and a dejected sounding "Sorry. You can erase it." I certainly will not! This is the creepiest version of a cute monster I have ever laid eyes on. He is a self-declared novice of cute art, but that's ok because this may be the terrifying cute monster I've ever seen.

XO – Clare

Kaiju + Drax got back

Hey citizens! Ashley here playing catch up from last week so you get two goodies today!

last week was Guardians of the Galaxy and I scribbled a bootylicious Drax for ya during Drink N Draw:

jury's still out though on whether that crack is whack

this week is "Kaiju" or monster and my original sketch is a throw back now updated digitally with some bangin' color! I remember watching a documentary on PBS one time about the human brain and how it interprets images. What was really interesting is how the brain can't stand or is deeply unnerved by even the slightest discrepancy in normal facial features.

I think about that a lot sometimes

so here's a funny drawing about that!

name me ONE good taco joint in France

as always swing by my blarrrgh for more weird stuff!

Valus the Colossus

Godzilla and the Kaiju from Pacific Rim are super awesome, but my kind of Kaiju are of the video game variety.  One of my favorite games is Shadow of the Colossus and The First Colossus, Valus is a favorite of mine.  Enjoy!

Weekly Challenge: Kaiju

RAAAAARRRRRrrrr! (Kaiju for "was-up")
Keep your eyes peeled for strange beasts and ferocious monsters of the city smashing variety.

Scribble Nerds of the World, Assemble!

If you like our weekly challenges and want to join in the fun, then put pencil to paper and submit your great creations to be featured here on the blog!

All we need is a jpg of your art, your name, what challenge your submitting for and a brief statement telling a little about yourself and your art. Send all submissions to:scribblenerdsart@gmail.com!