I just received a wonderful surprise from my mentor and friend Scott Franson. He does these intricate and exquisite little illustrations that I have long drooled over and today I received four of these pieces from him. What a great way to end the day!

(Forgive the graininess and overall poor reproductions - I took these with my phone camera).

I’m fully aware that Halloween has come and gone, but for some reason these little guys didn’t come out of my head until this weekend. I blame it on my new Moleskine since I bought one with a grid this time around. I have concluded that the grid is inhibiting my usual process because I have only been able to fill about 10 pages of it with useless doodles. (Normally by now, I would have about 1/3rd of it full).

Anyhow, these “popped” out of my head when I picked up one of my old sketchbooks (with blank pages) and thought I’d share. What’s curious about them is that as they were materializing on paper, I could pinpoint a certain personality with each. My favoritse would have to be the ware-wolf (paranoid insomniac) and the mummy (smart-alec pessimist).