Monsters, Class of 2007

It might seem as though I stopped working on monsters after Grouphug last year. Really, I just went underground. I was making monsters as Xmas gifts, and some of the intended recipients read this blog, and I didn't want to spoil the surprise.

With Groundhog Day fast approaching, and monsters sent only barely late, the surprise achieved its Best Before date. Thus, pictures.

(l to r) They are [unnamed], Gumption, and ZOMG.

[unnamed]: I sort of forgot to name the guy on the far left, so his new owner, Stan!, has the joy and burden to name him properly. What you can't see very well on [unnamed] is his red tail that matches his red head spikes and red tongue. He's also got three other head spikes that you kind of lose in the Christmas tree in this photo.

The tongue is cute and it works up close, but I forgot one of my lessons from Ulorg, i.e., when you're going to try something, try big. Next monster with a tongue gets a big ol' freakin' tongue.

Gumption: Turned out well, and I understand is doing wonderfully out of corgi range in the home of Monte and Sue.

I dig the nightvision-green buttons I used for his eyes, but they're a little expensive at retail, and I can't find them online anywhere. I also learned about color working on Gumption. He is named truly.

ZOMG: Again, hard to see in the photo, but ZOMG has four legs and a long sticking-up tail. He's probably the friendliest-looking of the trio, and went to Scott.

In addition to quadruped life, ZOMG has the radical difference of TWO buttons on each eye, a black button stacked on top of a white one, if you can even believe. The wide-eyed look contributes to his friendly appearance, I think.


Also, you can see a tag attached to each of them. They say, "Monster by Jeff Quick" and were made by my crafty, crafty, sister-in-law, Alison. Since she took the Handmade Pledge, she got a monster too, but I didn't have it done in time to make the yearbook photo. Here's the after-Christmas phonecam shot:

Might be hard to see here, but Alison's monster has baby blue irises in its gold eyes. One of the color secrets I learned from Gumption is that you can make things more girl-oriented by making them with lighter colors. ALERT THE MEDIA.

The lips were a wild success on this monster. I got good color contrast, and they're awesome-fat so I'm pretty pleased about that.

I forgot to name Alison's monster too. Oops.


I've started a new monster this month, and I have a bunch of pieces cut out for another one that is so experimental, it might be an awful failure. So I guess I'm doing this now.

Between running a nonprofit organization, managing the for-profit freelance aspect of my life, running D&D games, taking on an increasing leadership gig at church, and hanging out with Meredith, I didn't know I had time for a new hobby.

But I guess I do. So the next step is to scrape together money to buy a decent sewing machine, because doing all these by hand takes a freaking long time!