RIP Maurice Sendak

A moment of silence please.

Some new sketches

Anguiras, of Godzilla fame.

An everyday scene on the Island of the Fighting Monsters

Crocazill and his noble steed

And lastly, an Astronaut Shark.

Oid design

Presenting for your consideration: an Oid, a prominent monster in the first Crocazill story arc. How big is it? To give you an idea, Crocazill is about six foot four and even he only comes up to a head above the first eye.

Extremely tough, they were the dominant predators on their planet, and Crocazill and Skylla had their work cut out when they were stranded there. But with the world's destruction, the Oids were brought to earth, hiding in fragments of their former home.

Although originally I had the Skullweeds as the Oid's main prey, I decided to make it so that they were the larval stage, because I think they're too cool to appear only in flashback and it was easier to come up with a design for the Oids that way. Though Oids do still eat them. Oids eat anything, really.

See, Skullweeds are kind of like a living eggshell. They serve as a vessel where the adult grows inside, then when they grow to be about twice as large they crack open, hatching an Oid.

Skullweeds!

Skullweeds are roughly crab-sized carnivores that dwelled on the planet where Crocazill and Skylla found themselves.

Their name comes from the obvious fact that they resemble human skulls with seaweed trailing behind them, which they use to camoflauge with the vegetation. Though formidable in packs they are hardly the planet's most dangerous predator...

I got the idea for these things in a dream. One was peeking out at me from a rock in a forest. It was my friend Joe's idea to make the teeth look a bit more like spider legs.

Squiggle sketches

A series of drawings I did to expiriment with a different shading style. By the way, Skylla is the drawing on the lower left-hand corner. The way you can tell the difference between her and Crocazill above is that she has differently-shaped head spikes and a slightly shorter snout. Otherwise I drew a woman's hair, my fist, and a mushroom cloud. I don't know if this is a style I'll be using extensively though.

Crocazill design

This here is Crocazill, my pride and joy, and my best character so far, probably since I've been working on it for so long. A lizard/human hybrid with the ability to climb walls and super strength (but don't worry, Spider Man he isn't). His story begins after he lands on a meteor-devastated Earth after having spent a long time on a distant planet with Skylla, another lizard/human and fellow traveller, and the adventures that follow as they meet old friends and new threats.