Monster Fact: Monster breath is terrible. Many beautiful would-be monster relationships are de-railed early on by halitosis*.
(*See also monster diets)
Showing posts with label monsters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monsters. Show all posts
Tuesday 22 July 2014
Thursday 17 July 2014
Monster Facts #5
Monster Fact: The dark is composed of at least 70% monsters (& at least 10% horrible creepy crawlies) - very much like the percentage of cocoa solids in posh chocolate but much SCARIER!
Labels:
children's illustration,
chocolate,
dark,
fact,
illustration,
monster,
monster facts,
monsters,
pen and ink,
shadows,
steve may
Wednesday 16 July 2014
Monster Facts #4
Monster Fact: You know when people say "they won't hurt you they're just being friendly"? * or, "they're more scared of you than you are of them"?*
These are abject BIG FAT LIES. Run away now!
(*see also big vicious dogs with dumb owners)
(*see also spiders)
These are abject BIG FAT LIES. Run away now!
(*see also big vicious dogs with dumb owners)
(*see also spiders)
Labels:
dogs,
illustration,
monster,
monster facts,
monsters,
pen and ink,
run,
spiders
Monster facts #3
Monster fact : Vegetarianism is EXTREMELY uncommon. Their favourite dinner is invariably YOU!
(yeah, yeah, wear the monster deflective tofu armour if it makes you feel better #futilegesture)
(yeah, yeah, wear the monster deflective tofu armour if it makes you feel better #futilegesture)
Labels:
children's illustration,
futile,
illustration,
meat,
monster,
monster facts,
monsters,
pen and ink,
steve may,
tofu,
vegetarian
Monday 7 July 2014
Silly Name for a Monster!
The fact that I laughed out loud when I first received the text was definitely a good start & I thoroughly enjoyed illustrating this. It's a hilarious book with a big scary monster, some cowardly knights & a little boy called Stinkpot. Can he succeed in defeating a monster with such a silly name?
I'm not going to tell you that. You'll have to wait until August 7th until it's actually released so there!
In the mean time, here's a sneak preview...
Thursday 26 June 2014
LOOK! NEW ANIMATION!
I have become acutely aware that to iPads/ iPhone users the little 'Bat Van' animation on my website homepage which has served me well over the years has been unviewable due to technology issues too dull to be spoken of here. (something to do with a hissy fit between Apple & Adobe etc. etc.)
Basically, instead of a pleasing animation loop all the Apple device based punter would see was a white space...now I like minimalism as much as the next person but...
....LOOK! NEW ANIMATION!
I've just introduced these little rascals in preparation for a bit of an overhaul of the site in the next few months - do come in & have a look at http://www.stevemay.biz
Basically, instead of a pleasing animation loop all the Apple device based punter would see was a white space...now I like minimalism as much as the next person but...
....LOOK! NEW ANIMATION!
I've just introduced these little rascals in preparation for a bit of an overhaul of the site in the next few months - do come in & have a look at http://www.stevemay.biz
Tuesday 27 May 2014
Wednesday 14 May 2014
Tuesday 13 May 2014
Friday 11 April 2014
Monday 17 March 2014
Tuesday 11 March 2014
Mind that seagull!
Labels:
character design,
colour,
creatures,
illustration,
monster,
monsters,
pencil,
seagulls,
sketch,
sketchbook,
steve may
Friday 28 February 2014
Werewolves, killer tomatoes & mummies...
A werewolf trying to find a job, a sad tomato & a mummy wrapped in pink toilet paper from 'Making Monsters Happy' by Susan Gates.
Labels:
children's books,
children's illustration,
horror,
illustration,
killer tomato,
monsters,
mummy,
sheep,
steve may,
tomato,
treetops
Tuesday 18 February 2014
Splashing into the streets
Wet night in Soho last night reminded me of the line 'The boys just dive right off the cars
And splash into the street' from Time by Tom Waits (very little relevance apart from that but it's always good to have context)
And splash into the street' from Time by Tom Waits (very little relevance apart from that but it's always good to have context)
Labels:
children's illustration,
creatures,
fishing,
illustration,
monsters,
pen and ink,
rain,
sketch,
sketchbook,
Soho,
steve may,
street,
streets,
tom waits
Monday 17 February 2014
Thursday 2 January 2014
Dogs & demons
More over Christmas sketchbooks, I bought a new fountain pen after forgetting my usual one, it's made me go all cross-hatch-y!
Labels:
animals,
demons,
dog,
dogs,
illustration,
monsters,
pen & ink,
pen and ink,
sketch,
sketchbook
Thursday 31 October 2013
Friday 23 August 2013
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Mr Procrastination
Caught in the tentacles of procrastination (yes, & I even drew it yesterday, that was proper 5 star procrastination with a side order of 'f***ing about for England'!)
Labels:
illustration,
monster,
monsters,
procrastination,
sketch,
sketchbook,
tentacles
Thursday 13 June 2013
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