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Welcome to PooBahSpiel, the online voice and home of the creative mind of Mark Monlux, Illustrator Extraordinaire. Prepare yourself for an endless regaling of art directly from the hand of this stellar artist. And brace yourself against his mighty wind of pontification. Updates are kinda weekly and show daily sketches, current projects, and other really nifty stuff.

Monday, October 31, 2016

Drawlloween 2016

A new holiday tradition for artists, both armature and professional, is to participate in month long drawing challenges. Inktober is for those you are strictly staying within the pen and ink medium. Drawlloween is for any medium. Each provides a calendar in which suggested themes for each day are given. Once your image is ready you post in on social media with a hash tag so that others who are participating can see what you what you came up with. Aside from that there are no rules. In years past I followed Inktober’s website and posted images to his blog there. This year I decided to do the Drawlloween calendar, but to still stick to an ink brush as my medium. I was successful in doing one a day and here you can see my whole collection for the month. Happy Halloween!


Day 1 - Return from the Dead

Day 2 - Carnival Creeps


Day 3 - Mummy Monday


Day 4 - Tentacle Tuesday


Day 5 - Better Gnomes & Goblins


Day 6- Urban Legends


Day 7 - What Lies In the Mist?


Day 8 -  8 Legs & 1,000 Eggs


Day 9 - He's A Dummy, Doll.


Day 10 - Demonday


Day 11 - Slimy Swamps, Foggy Bogs

Day 12 - I've Got A Hunchback


Day 13 - Thursday the Thirteenth


Day 14 - Scarecrow Row


Day 15 - Drive-In Creature Feature


Day 16 - Full Moon


Day 17 - Mad Science Monday


Day 18 - Nosfera-tuesday


Day 19 - Witchcraft Wednesday


Day 20 - Horses & Headless Men


Day 21 - Phantom Fhriday


Day 22 - Bat-urday


Day 23 - Superstition Sunday

Day 24 - Mechanical Monstrosity


Day 25 - Entombed Tuesday


Day 26 - They Came From Outer Space!


Day 27 - Call of C'thursday


Day 28 - Ghost-A-Go-Go

Day 29 - Black Caturday


Day 30 - Skulls & Skeletons

Day 31 - Trick 'R' Treat!

I'm looking forward to participating next year.