Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Chades Challenge: Claustrophobic Kelpies

These are a couple of "claustrophobic kelpie" drawings for Austin Madison's Chades Challenge. Kelpies are man-eating water horses from Celtic mythology. They are said to mainly lure children into riding on their backs, and often stalk their prey from underwater, with only their one eye exposed (like a crocodile). A kelpie's skin is adhesive, and once a person is fixed to the horse's skin, it will gallop into the river, taking its victim to his watery doom. Here are 3 claustrophobic kelpies I drew...they all ended up being in 3 different styles for some reason, probably because of the different mediums used:

A kelpie regretting his decision to hunt in a ball crawl (brush pen/digital):



This kelpie accidentally ran through a little league game (col-erase/digital):


And a kelpie in a bottle (digital):


Hope you all have a happy new year!!
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15 comments:

  1. Chris SilvaDecember 29, 2010 at 12:55 PM

    These are all very Jawesome. I'm loving the little league sketch.

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  2. Carrie LiaoDecember 29, 2010 at 4:14 PM

    Man, I feel for the poor kelpie with the ball pit. Doesn't it know how many kids just GO in those things?

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  3. Megan Nicole DongDecember 29, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    Chris--hahaha, thanks, ya Street Shark.

    Carrie--he didn't before....he knows now.

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  4. Daisy ChurchDecember 29, 2010 at 5:35 PM

    ha ha!! AWESOME! : D I love the kelpie in the bottle one... heh.. (and seriously, how did I not now about such an awesome mythological horse?!?)

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  5. KenDecember 30, 2010 at 2:28 AM

    LOL...

    Kelpie in a ball pool = awesome!

    Ive met a Kelpie you know... they are everywhere in Scotland... especially ball pools.

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  6. UnknownDecember 30, 2010 at 12:40 PM

    Sweet stuff, Nicole! I especially love the ball pit gag. I see a bit of your love of sharks coming through.

    I love the kid in the pipe noticing the kelpie. Again, like sharks, it's always the one IN the water who's the last to know about the danger.

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  7. Carrie LiaoDecember 30, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    hello hello, I have a question! I wanted to add a thumbnail link list (that you now have and that I see a lot of other places), since thumbnails look so nice. :)

    Is it just a blog list gadget? Did you have to copy/paste all your links into it (which seems rather inconvenient)?

    Sorry for the bother!

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  8. UnknownDecember 31, 2010 at 12:49 AM

    WICKED!! Happy New YEar!!

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  9. L RossiDecember 31, 2010 at 2:19 AM

    Can't believe I haven't seen your blog before!
    Really great work - I especially love your 'boards (and the Rainbow story!).

    Someone I know had about 4-5 different fish posing as the same pet... and when they didn't even look the same (i.e they had gotten spots or markings), she was told it was just going through puberty(!)

    All the best for 2011!
    L

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  10. UnknownDecember 31, 2010 at 12:39 PM

    hahahaha thanks for puttin a smile on my face! Best wishes to you and yours in the comin year

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  11. Cons OrozaDecember 31, 2010 at 12:44 PM

    You have an awesome blog! 8D

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  12. SamiJanuary 3, 2011 at 11:19 AM

    hey... love these :) love your sense of humor!

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  13. Megan Nicole DongJanuary 3, 2011 at 3:02 PM

    Thanks you guys and hope you all had a fabulous New Year's Day!

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  14. Josh 'Hat' LiebermanJanuary 3, 2011 at 3:16 PM

    Thanks for the comment Megan Nicole Dong!
    I love your name and your artwork.

    Happy new year.

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  15. Ryan GreenJanuary 3, 2011 at 9:44 PM

    Kelpie in a bottle is awesome! That'd make a nice business card.

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