well here she is my least favorite and least inspired of my older MIMP drawings, I must have felt like crap drawing it and I remember not enjoying inking this at all, it is the number one priority on my list of redos after I finish inking a few more recent drawings. Oh and sorry for all the people who don't follow my blog or have even looked at this. All of this is experimenting and such from my posts and drawings, I'm still trying to find sweet spots in the balance between images and wordy information. It seems like I've been mostly on info overload as I did with my Wolfman and Mad scientist, which is another drawing I think I could have put more justice into, I'm going to try adding more pics and less esoteric stuff to maybe even the playing field. and for those who also care my post are very sporadic because I absolutely hate typing in blogger and that is what is usually drives me to half finish a post and come back to it around a week or two later. Well as for my progress the inking is OK, but I still think I could have had a large value range and I really think I could have just done more overall with the designs and everything, well that will be for another day so here is some fun info on your favorite biblical monsters.



Leviathan and Behemoth are monsters that appear in both the Hebrew bible and the old testament, also among Arab writings and stories. They are primarily featured in the book of Job as monsters God had created to test the Hebrews. Leviathan is usually pictured as a large cycling fish or spiraling sea serpent that stretches for miles of ocean and could swallow ships and all beasts of the the sea whole. Behemoth is usually pictured as some kind of lumbering horned mammal, consuming mountains and rivers in its wake, however it is herbivorous and only eats plants and such, but it seems it is m ore likely to basically eat EVERYTHING accidentally. The beasts could only be slain by their makers, otherwise only God or the Hebrews, and their flesh would make the finest banquet for the world and their skin to be made into canopies for the world to rest under, which would apparently happen in "the end of conflict" or essentially when world peace would be struck, which at this rate is basically as impossible as it was then.

What the basis of these monsters were off is a mystery. Some say it was things like mundane animals like goats and fat catfish that someone hyperbolied into true fish tales that hooked peoples attention. Others believe it may have been large beasts like hippopotamuses and great sharks that inspired people with their massive sizes and unparalleled power. Also Behemoth is male and Leviathan is female, so go ahead and start writing you biblical fan fiction immediately!

well there isn't too much more I'd like to add until I have something decent to merit a big post so stay tuned as I reveal more monsters.

Credits go to wikipedia articles and the book of Job itself I suppose for summarizing the monsters

This is my first real post, but these are not necessarily my first drawings. When I began I only started drawing the most interesting monsters to me. I didn't have much to go off from the hard imagery of these characters, only really their figures. I had really enjoyed the chaotic act the poltergeist figure was making, I could on discern that it was molesting potatoes, balancing glassware and badly juggling cutlery, all which seemed very amusing to draw in one sweep. Slaughterford was even more limited. I only had the figure and nothing more other than what limited verbal information the Internet had. These two have been some of the most fun to draw, with the lunacy of the poltergeist and the morose vengeance of Slaughterford. I though it would be helpful to get some information about the monsters in order to have a better understanding of where they came from and from what mythology and stance they serve.

Poltergeists, coming from the combination of the German words poltern, meaning to make noise, and Geist, meaning "ghost" or "spirit." Their have been various incarnations over the world of poltergeists in cultures from England to Brazil. One of the more notable incidents was the Borley Rectory in Borley, England where a an force had seemed to ring bells, illuminate windows, and throw stones at valuables and glass. There had been many books written about the event and photos were take of the alleged ghosts that caused the phenomena. Another high profile case the Rosenheim Poltergeist coming from Bavaria, Germany where a lawyer's office had things like light blow out telephones ring with out a caller, drawers opening and closing at whim and lamps being destroyed. The Borley and Rosenheim cases have been called on for being fraudulent and that evidence was spotty at best and they had been propagated to get insurance money or to garner attention. The validity of poltergeists and ghosts in general have been a debated topic where there is no hard proof to back up the claims. but they still continue to haunt and frighten people when things can not be explained or determined.

This is essentially the only image of Slaughterford that I could find that wasn't the location of the same name or some unrelated horror film. Christopher Slaughterford of London was executed in Guildford July 9, 1709, for the murder of Jane Young, his fiancee. His case is very important, as he was the first person in modern England executed for murder based exclusively on circumstantial evidence. He is also famous for supposedly finding his fiancee's killer, one of his servants, in the form of a ghost. He was found guilty in court even though there was strong evidence proving his innocence such as his alibi and his cooperation with the police, however despite the evidence he was hung. He had left the world a long message before his fate at the gallows taleing that he had forgiven those who wronged him, proclaiming his innocence and his request to be reunited with his love in heaven. After his death he is said to return to the earth as a ghost in chains, with the cut noose around his neck, holding a staff in one hand, and a burning brand in the other, crying "Vengeance, Vengeance!" According to the legend, the guilty servant saw him and killed himself.

credits to Wikipedia and various other independent sources I have forgotten