Day 16. The Prompt Was Arabic/Islamic Mythology. I Decided To Do An Ifrit. Here We Go.

Day 16. The prompt was Arabic/Islamic mythology. I decided to do an ifrit. Here we go. 

Red ink, black ink, brown paper.

Day 21. The prompt today was Mesoamerican mythology. I ran into a problem with this one; mainly, there seems to be a huge gap in the scholarship about folkloric monsters in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures. Oh, sure, I found lots of gods and the like, but defining gods as monsters seems like dodgy territory to me. If anyone knows of non-divine supernatural creatures or spirits from those cultures, please send them my way, because now I have The Curiosity.

In light of not finding a huge amount of material to work from, I went with the idea that dogs, and specifically the Xoloitzcuintli dog, was believed to be a guide to the underworld. Now, psychopomps aren’t monsters strictly speaking, and the god associated with the dogs, Xolotl, isn’t a monster either, but there you go.

Dry media to mitigate page buckling.

Day 15. I think this is the halfway point? Anyhow, this is a bird monster. Specifically, it’s a gender-neutral harpy, because abusive parasites who barge into your home and destroy your life needn’t be female by default.

I accidentally took design cues from Yuka Ota’s maw creatures, which I didn’t notice until it was too late. She does really cool designs and work that I love, though, so have a look at her stuff sometime. 

Number 24. Sea monster. 

I told you about the yokai, right? How I could do a Japanese monster every single day and be moderately pleased with it? I told you. Don’t say I didn’t.

This is Umibozu, a dark and towering figure that appears in the ocean and then terrible things happen. This yokai is very famous, but here’s the wiki link anyways. 

Brown paper and ink, with a new red ink that I don’t like as much because it bleeds like the dickens.

Weirdo is celebrating and so am I. Thank you, people who have decided this blog is worth their time. 

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Day 17. This is yesterday's monster. The prompt was Australian Aboriginal mythology. This is a bunyip. I feel like refried butt today, so I am just going to link to two bunyip-related things. 

Bunyip wikipedia article

Dot and the Kangaroo, a movie I saw when I was a kid, had a bunyip song that I always really liked. Bunyip song.