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Adventures in Sketchtopia Part 38: ABCs That Go Bump in the Night

A is for Abomination...  

I found some drawings that looked like an attempt to go through the alphabet and draw various monsters for each letter.  I didn't get terribly far, only to D.  Still, there are enough of them to compile for a single post.  Here they are.  B is for things that go Bump in the night.

A times three: The Azman is a skeletal bowman with unearthly aim.  The Axer is a goblin-like monster who, given its namesake, wields two axes.  The Agony Weaver is a humanoid spider that spins webs for use in capturing and torturing prey.

A  addendum: The abyssal fiend is a massive demon with an extra long neck.  Its likeness was captured in an earlier Clayland post.

B beginning: The Blood Demon is similarly large, but covered in hard scales and sports massive talons.

B plus C: The Changeling Fairy deceptively appears as a small child.  The Bogeyman is a looming presence in the darkness, rippling with muscles and spines.  The Creeping Cleric is another skeletal humanoid, serving some dark devotion antitheta to a true clerical calling.

C and D: A Changeling has difficulty staying in one form.  A Cyclops stare ahead.  A Dark Dwarf swears revenge on his bretheren. 

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