Adding some more detail. I am not sure about the shadows.

@hannahmccaffery Yes! I just have to figure out how to do it properly. I took it into Photoshop the other day to add rudimentary shadows, but it did weird things when I re-opened the file in ClipStudio Paint, so I deleted the layers. After I did that I realized I could've locked layer opacity and painted over the 'shadows' and gotten the same effect that I had in Photoshop. Oh well. I'll re-add them at some point, though.

@art-of-b Thank you! I kind of like the idea of monstrous hamster, ha ha.

It's gettin' a little woolly here.

Great idea, @KathrynAdebayo ! Thank you!

Playing with some color. I did have it as daylight, but I decided to change it to sunset to up the spooky factor a little. I need to dim the kid in red down some and add shadows so that the monster is the focal point. I tweaked the composition some, too.

Thanks @Chip-Valecek @Ailantan @rcartwright That's what I was thinking, but it's good to hear it from other people.

These are amazing!

Hi all,

I've done some sketches for this month's prompt "Misunderstood Monsters." Which do you think is strongest? And what do you think needs improved?

Here's the first one:

And here's the second one:

@sas The dog is a Schipperke/Chihuahua mix. She was supposed to be my step-daughter's dog, but my step-daughter is more of a cat person, so she ended up becoming my husband's dog. Coincidentally, her name is Trouble, and she lives up to her name! I'm gonna name our next dog Considerate or something, lol.