Sea Monster & Butterfly (Drawing Challenge #47 - Squiggle Swap)

[eye_of_toad]

Title: Sea Monster and Butterfly
Artist: eye_of_toad
Rating: G
Fandom: none
Characters/Pairings: none
Content Notes: based on the squiggle prompt by goss (I traced the squiggle so I could work on it in my sketchbook instead of digitally.)

prompt:


final drawing compared to early sketch with prompt squiggle(s) highlighted::

Comments

[goss]

Ohmygosh, this is fantastic! So creative. :D

And I love how you reduced and mirrored the line and turned it into the butterfly!

[mific]

Love how you used the squiggle for both! And that’s a very cool & scary monster!

[adafrog]

Cute! Also, very cool!

[runpunkrun]

What a fun angle! And what a happy little guy.

[amberdreams]

I love this, the dragon just looks so utterly delighted to see the butterfly, it warms my heart.

[minoanmiss]

Oh my word that's AMAZING.

[mekare]

I love the sea monster and the butterfly! Mirroring was such a great idea.

happy little monsters

[eye_of_toad]

For a fun cannot-unsee secret about my dragons and sea monsters ... I'm kind of imagining them all as Muppet sock-puppets when I'm picturing the poses in my head. I immediately saw fingers in the squiggle so "sock puppet monster" was the next obvious connection in my brain.

♥

[eye_of_toad]

This guy inspired a whole other drawing (which I just realized I haven't gotten around to uploading yet so that's next on the to-do list) because I found myself wondering what he looks like from a different angle. (The answer is: still adorable.)

speckles

[eye_of_toad]

Thanks! I've been in a watercolor mood lately so I've been spending as much time with the coloring as the drawing, but I couldn't imagine *not* giving this guy speckled scales.

mirror mirror

[eye_of_toad]

Thanks! Mirroring is always fun.

Re: happy little monsters

[runpunkrun]

Yes! I can definitely see that. I bet that's part of why it seems so friendly to me.