Step
1: The Assignment
Through a comic book message board, I got wind of a contest
hosted by Morpheus Forge Entertainment in which participants can choose
a character from
their comics line, and enter an illustration of that character in some
sort of Halloween-ish scenario. Prizes for the winners include cool stuff
like art supplies and free comics, so I decided to give it a whirl.
The
details of the contest can
be found here, by the way.
The character that interested me the most was "The Drunken Monkey" (who is, near as I can tell, an alcoholic ape with some sort of magical techno-glove. I'm fairly sure he fights evil or something, but don't quote me on that). Most of the other entries that I've seen thusfar have involved bombastic, blood-hungry babes and trenchcoat-clad magicians battling it out with monsters... and that's pretty cool, but I thought it would be nicer to illustrate something a bit more fun, like pumpkin-carving. To me, it's a much more fun and sensible way to spend Halloween. I decided that the the Drunken Monkey would probably agree.
