WhatchamaDrawit Game Drawing

Each member of the class was assigned a WhatchamaDrawit prompt to create visually, and as each prompt was something ridiculous and random, I was assigned the prompt "draw a friendly monster with 3 heads, 14 eyes, 8 arms, and 1 mouth."

I began sketching an idea I had with a B graphite pencil, erasing periodically and occasionally pressing too hard. Once I was happy with the way the sketch looked, I outlined it with a dark 6B graphite pencil. For the background I chose to stick with graphite, lightly sketching in an island scene.

I chose to stick with graphite because WhatchamaDrawit typically has a time constraint, I doubt it is difficult to do much more than a sketch in that time. This piece Welcome to The Island, is an extended sketch, somewhere between rough and polished, but left there intentionally.

The inspiration for the island scene in the background of Welcome to The Island is inspired from a chapter in The Odyssey by Homer. In it, the Greek hero Odysseus and his men land upon a fertile island, but one that is home to a cyclops—a one-eyed monster—that captures them, eats two of the men, and locks them in his cave for future meals. However, my monster lives in a hut and has thirteen more eyes than the cyclops, making him a friendly monster who is welcoming the visitors to the island. While the monster does walk on its many hands, and is holding a frying pan, he (or she) never intended to scare the visitors, she just had been frying fish when she was interrupted. More evidence that this is a friendly monster comes from the fact that there is a hut in the background, presumably where the monster lives. The cyclops lived in a cave, but seeing as this one is friendlier, it lives in a hut, so it can see the ocean.