Everyone should have a monster to call their own. Mine would be one that’s a little rough around the edges, scruffy looking with a gruff voice, but a big heart (and one with a smile goes a long way too.)
If there ever was a lady who could translate my perfect monster onto paper, that would be Emma Kidd of Benconservato. She’s based in Australia, and is an artist, illustrator, printmaker, and photographer who’s always busy dreaming up and drawing monsters!
She’s giving away a set of Monsters Behaving Badly Colouring Book and a 6-pack of Colour Me Happy Gocco Party Invites to ONE lucky reader if you’ll share with us your favorite monsters (real or imaginary!)
Giveaway ends on 16th March 2010 and the winner will be announced via email!
UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks so much for participating. The winner of this giveaway is stephanie morgan rogers.
i love your blog and your Etsy shop too! Where the heck do you find the time!!!!!! 🙂
The Aswang is my favorite monster. Mostly because it sounds so ridiculous I can’t take it seriously as a monster.
Like, if it applied for a job as a monster and I was the employer, I’d have to try not to laugh.
This coloring book, however, is no laughing matter. I have to marry my crayons with it’s spooky pages 🙂
My favourite monster has always been Sully from Monsters Inc. Cute and fluffy but big enough to protect me, and of course he would be great at making me laugh!
A coloring book! Oh, I love those. I miss coloring (and trying hard to stay within the lines).
Hi, lovely work!
Its difficult for me to choose as I’m surrounded by monsters drawn by my son…
http://rudisdrawings.blogspot.com
Its even started rubbing off on me….all my doodles are sprouting legs!
Cheers
Sarah
(I hope this counts as a monster) I always loved The Blob from that eighties movie, remember??
My favorite monster for the moment is the one I just finished for this week illustration friday. He is the scared scary monster that is even afraid of its shadow
you can check it out here http://karo-design.blogspot.com/2010/03/illustration-friday-brave.html
That’s probably the greatest coloring book ever! My favorite monster is probably Eduardo from “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.” He’s so adorable!
My favourite monster would be a big and clumsy one who couldn’t help step onto people’s feet and who would steal all of my red licorice.
Please, count me in. That colouring book looks fantastic!
My favourite monster would be strong, powerful and damn right hot…..like the beast out of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Some people would call him a a monster. Or even King Kong…..cause those characters have a deep and loving side. The beast has this really sexy voice so that would have to be a major characteristic in my ideal monster.
p.s. That colouring book is amazing and I want it NOW!!!!!!!!!!
The cookie monster!!! Isn’t that a given?? 🙂
My favorite monster is the one who startles me out of a sound sleep by crawling into bed with me late and night, wiggling its cold, little feet against me and saying, “Mommy, I had a bad dream. Can I sleep with you?”
El Chupacabra! Of Course!
I love colouring book!!! My favourite monster (or creature) is Kamaji, from Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”. I love how he uses all his different legs and I love his big moustache 🙂
Tash from Narnia used to horrify me
my favorite monster has always been, and will always be “cookie monster” from “sesame street”…to me he will always be awesome!
thanks for the giveaway!
Elmo is the best!
My favourite monster is my son when he wears his slips in his head and in his hand a plastic sword saying he´ll save me from everybody because I´m his “prinseta” (princesa in spanish).
I am creeping in to say how much I love everyone’s monster stories.
Hi don’t like scary monsters, but I love the sweet and fluffy ones. For example the ‘Morflins’ that Amsterdam based artist Anita drachman makes of old stuffed animals (see my favourite: http://anita-morfling.blogspot.com/2005/12/suspiscio.html)
my favorite monster is the rancor from star wars!! i love your blog so much. no idea how i found it, but everything you post is everything i love 🙂 thank you!
I love monsters and I have a lot of favorite ones, but right now my favorite is Linier’s Olga! Take a look:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3620/3293372013_28b48dda50.jpg
first of all, Happy (late) Birthday to Pikaland!!
now, of course i love monsters! specially, if you can collect them or color them with pretty crayons and markers, like these one from Emma Kidd.
i’d go back to my childhood years spent in front of the TV watching cartoons and kids series: my favorite monsters are Count Duckula, and Count von Count (often known simply as The Count) from the Sesame Street! i can’t choose between one of them, sorry!
so, these lovely spooky creatures are from the 80s, i wonder if anyone else commenting here remembers them?… oh boy, now i feel old eeeekk! i might be old, but i still love spending time with crayons and coloring books, how’s that? 😀
ahhh, so good to be back in Pikaland!!
i just looove emma kidd!
my favorite monster? definitely the sasquatch, i grew up in the northwest u.s. so he was a real threat when we went camping! i’d scour the woods for evidence, like hair stuck on branches ( i was told it was moss )
i love that he has become a sort of illustration icon these days. he is scarey, wise, magical and real all rolled up into one big weird monster!
I just love all these monsters. They are so fun! I personally love Celia Mae, the Medusa-like monster from Monsters Inc. I love her attitude and how her hair reacts to her mood.
I had some help from my younger son with this, because I was quite happy with the choice of bunyip, but he insisted that the icycalus was a much cooler monster!
(And he thinks he will be using that colouring in book, should we win…I will be colouring in! ;D )
These are so pretty! The style is amazing.
i would love these! so aawesome
So, so nice!! I adore Emma’s work – she’s pure talent!
Oh, I LOVE me a good bad-behaving-monster, and I’d definitely have to pick the Little Monsters, from the movie; particularly Howie Mandel’s character of course!
my favorite little monsters lie up the street and don’t value following the coloring instructions.