Friday, November 15, 2019

Picking Up the Gauntlet: MS Paint Monster Manual Challenge

OK, so Tristan at Bogeyman's Cave threw down the gauntlet of choosing (or opening to a random page and putting one's finger on) a couple of monsters from the Monster Manual or Fiend Folio or another bestiary and MS Painting them and fearlessly sticking them on one's blog. 

The point is, the images are only done when YOU, the blogger, decide they are done.  The drawings are good enough just because they exist and you felt like making them exist. 

This is like painting naked... or skydiving naked... or doing that public speaking exercise when you imagine the audience is naked - except YOU are naked, giving a rambling speech, wildstyling, not advancing the PowerPoint slides, making your lawyers burst into flames, and not even caring! 

Sooo - I swiped from Pixabay free images, shredded them in MS Paint:

Gelatinous Cube, of course

And pure freestylin' freehand MS Paint drawing:

Larvae, the souls of unhappy jerks...
I almost psyched myself out looking at David A. Trampier's perfectly mood-suffused woodcut-looking India ink masterpieces, but then I looked at some of the WTF D&D?! pieces and charged once more unto the breach!

I hope more people feel inspired to do this.  It deserves a hashtag like #Inktober. 
How about MS-Paint-vember?

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