Sir Kyla ([info]kylavanderklugt) wrote,

Here be Monsters

It's been a long time since I did any finished pieces in black and white, so I figured I ought to brush up on my greyscales before diving into the mini comic I've been scripting. And what better way to practice than with fan art! It's, uh, all part of the process. I'm not putting off finishing that script. Really.

Doctor Warthrop and Will Henry from Rick Yancey's wonderful Monstrumologist series.

I could imagine this scene perfectly because, living in the country, my windows are awash with buzzing masses of flies every fall. I think my flies crawl in through the walls, though... not out of the slowly decomposing body of a bedridden sea captain.



Upon that massive hill of steaming manure.








An anthropophagus turns his frown upside down.


If you haven't read The Monstrumologist, I highly recommend you give the series a go! It's packed full of monsters, and people being eaten by monsters, and people turning into monsters and people generally being monstrous anyway.
Simon & Schuster canceled the series after the third book and I was pretty much ready to start making ritualistic sacrifices to the literary gods to make them change their minds, but luckily a lot of people who are far more pragmatic than me actually wrote to S&S - enough people so that the horrible order was rescinded, and there will be one more book.

Point being, the series is great. It's a horror story and a love story... and Warthrop would probably tell you there's no difference between the two.

Now go forth and buy it!

And have some more random doodles, too.









Tags: recs, sketches

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  • 14 comments

[info]secondlina

February 13 2012, 03:12:49 UTC 3 months ago

Gorgeous, as usual. I love how you can create moods so easily.

[info]kylavanderklugt

February 13 2012, 23:25:15 UTC 3 months ago

Thank ye! :)

[info]joobry_pokery

February 13 2012, 03:44:20 UTC 3 months ago

holy shiiiit these are amazing, the compositions in both are sooooo good and goddamn they are eerie I AM SO TAKEN

[info]kylavanderklugt

February 13 2012, 23:29:58 UTC 3 months ago

Haha, yes, let my illustrations take you away, to a world of corpses and poop

[info]joobry_pokery

February 14 2012, 02:46:42 UTC 3 months ago

lmfao thats my kind of world

[info]craqued

February 13 2012, 04:37:37 UTC 3 months ago

AAAH im really intrigued by that series now!!! gorgeous illustrations, that scene with the flies looks eerie and rad!!

[info]kylavanderklugt

February 13 2012, 23:30:59 UTC 3 months ago

I am glad to have intrigued someone! I hope you check the books out!

[info]roselet

February 13 2012, 06:38:27 UTC 3 months ago

Beautiful! The greyscale pictures remind me a little of the illustrations in A Monster Calls (written by Patrick Ness) which is also an amazingamazing book which everyone should read.

[info]kylavanderklugt

February 13 2012, 23:31:41 UTC 3 months ago

...So I just did an image search for this book and then immediately ordered it. It looks gorgeous! Thanks!

[info]chamonkee

February 14 2012, 12:07:40 UTC 3 months ago

wow colour me inspired. awesome stuff as always!

[info]kylavanderklugt

February 15 2012, 20:18:34 UTC 3 months ago

Thanks!

[info]chamonkee

February 15 2012, 22:10:52 UTC 3 months ago

I'm currently working on grayscale stuff for an rpg book and your black and white pics are really making me up my game.

[info]finkenstein

February 18 2012, 02:27:50 UTC 3 months ago

Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL!

[info]kylavanderklugt

February 19 2012, 03:13:36 UTC 3 months ago

Thank you, thank you! :D
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