I Dont Often Have Nightmares (in The Sense Of Dreams That Have A Real Feeling Of Terror Rather Than Just

I don’t often have nightmares (in the sense of dreams that have a real feeling of terror rather than just horror imagery) but I do often see monsters in my dreams. Lately I’ve been doing watercolour sketches of some of the ones I remember. In related news, I think I’ve finally got the hang of wet-on-wet watercolour painting. (The pictures have captions if you like flavour text.)

My poor Mum is in hospital again (she’s very healthy but has had really bad luck for the last couple of years) so I made her a get well soon card. She really likes Poppet so I hope it will cheer her up.

Two more dream sketches which I thought were scary enough to go in the monster set. These two were from the same dream. The ‘baby’ was found wrapped in newspaper, and you had to stay out of the searchlights. (previous 6 monsters)

Do you remember the Pocket Witches? Introducing Pocket Witch Vox! Before she took shape Vox encountered a little girl who loved to sing, she had no ear for music at all and was horribly out of tune, but she was too little to know it and loved to listen to the radio and belt out songs at the top of her voice, pretending to be a pop star. It made her so happy that Vox was able to take form from her happiness, and took the shape of a song! Unlike the little girl, Vox is an excellent singer who can mimic any voice and change her outfit to match the song she sings. She likes to hang around humans who love music and sing along to whatever they’re playing, she doesn’t care if you’re any good, only that it makes you happy. Karaoke bars are her favourite place in the world.

@sammyborras told me off for DMing her my sketches instead of tweeting them, so here are some I’ve been sharing on twitter. She might have just been bored because she’s not a Resident Evil fan and the inscrutable exhortations of my soul demanded Resident Evil 4 fanart. I will never stop being disappointed that the context cue ‘piggyback’ does not result in an actual piggyback ride, but I love how neither Leon nor Ashley will climb a ladder.

Lately I ordered some nice pen accessories, including a cartridge converter for my Rotring pen and some coloured cartridges for my cheapo £5 cartridge pens, so I drew Nettle and Spider while I was messing around testing them. I’ve never done spot colour with ink and water, it looks pretty nice I think. Having said that, I’m not a fan of this ink. It’s a weird colour called Bilberry that can’t decide if it’s blue, purple or black. (I tweaked it in photoshop to make it more purple.) They do one called Imperial Purple that might have been a better bet. Ah well, next time.