OPEN SOURCE MONSTER 23

Good evening. How are you? While I’m noodling around on Weekly Monster 123 for tomorrow, I thought I’d finally post the great Open Source Monsters you sent me for Blot 22, along with a new blot for you to play with.

If you haven’t thrown yourself into the giddy frenzy of monster creation, maybe this is your week! Here’s how it works:

Download OPEN SOURCE INK BLOT 23, print it out, and have at it in any way you like: Draw, paint, origami, film, sculpt, create a dance for it. Just scan, photograph, or otherwise document the result and send it my way at opensource@344design.com and I’ll put the result on the blog right here. If you can, please make your file 480 pixels wide. If you can’t, don’t worry about it.
I’ll resize it for you.

In the meantime, please take a look at these excellent drawings for OSM22:

Wongemily22
Rynkowskigregor22
Mark22
Laframboisebrian22a
Laframboisebrian22b
Falboandrea22
Bickleycasey22

I got in on the action, too:

Osm22

Kyle Yost bypassed the Open Source Blot
and just made his own damn monsters!
Kudos, Kyle! Nice work!

Yostkyle01
Yostkyle02
Yostkyle03
Yostkyle04

As always, you guys astound! What excellent monsters! Thank you very much for all your brilliant energy and your most fearful creatures! No question: 344 LOVES YOU

4 Comments

  • Maria B
    9 January 2008 12:28 pm

    Wow, those are so great. Impressive range.

  • 8 September 2010 9:14 pm

    I agree, I especially like the last three. They are very simple in terms of composition but stylistically I find them to be breathtaking. I really love the one second to last one, the tree island-esk. The subject matter is just awesome.

  • 12 September 2010 3:30 am

    The blown ink lends itself so beautifully to plant life. And Kyle’s just doing it instinctively, too.

  • 10 January 2011 5:04 pm

    Thanks for the shout out Stefan.

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