#closet monster

[doctorbeth]

A happy colorful monster

Have you heard of My Pet Monster? It's a cartoon from 1986, which had one season (also apparently there's a live movie). You can stream it if you like. But for the purposes of this story, the most important fact is that the star was a very colorful smily, monster. And in January of last year, one of the cuddly plush versions was discovered in the back of a closet (so I guess he was a moonlighting as a closet monster?).

In any case, his original person found him, and wanted to gift him to his own daughters, but this monster had clearly had a rough time in the closet. Here is one of his diagnosis photos:

You can see the wound on his chest, and that his teeth are coming out. His feet and hands were vinyl, and had gotten that sticky feel that old vinyl sometimes gets.... and he needed a bath!

It took almost a year, but in December, the monster's family wrote again. Could we schedule treatment and an appointment for him?

Of course! The hospital was pretty full at the beginning of the year (not uncommon) so we scheduled his appointment for early March.

He arrived and the first step was a spa. He's quite large, so he got the large pink tub. :-)

Next he got restuffed, with a heart of original stuffing included ... who knows where his magic is stored, so it's important to keep at least a bit of original stuffing!

For his feet and hands, I can't replicate the printed nails on vinyl, but we didn't really want to do vinyl again anyway for the feel. So his person and I agreed to recover his feet and hands in new black velvet and then give him new nails from felt in the same teal as the originals. Here he is showing off his manicure and pedicure:

And here he is all better... even his fabric surrounding his tusks has been reglued:

and so he flew home to Colorado!

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[samsdei]

Connor Jessup

[cinemistery]

Oscar Madly | Closet Monster (2015)

[slauterhause]

Ugh this is gonna be a lot to explain

Video is a drawing of me and my boyfriend's idols, with some music from one of the side shops you can't enter in Splatoon; we think the track fits them :)

Second is a ref of Ebony that is more toony, made it for someone who is attempting to make a 3D model from it

Third and fourth image is of a new OC I made, he's a villainous engineer in the memverse and all that, Idk I'll probably never explain him if nobody ever asks

Silly lineless drawing of @toothpaste-for-the-skin 's silly inkling!! Go follow them, they're pretty rad

This drawing of Shockwave is not the best imo? It's good but it could be tweaked a little bit; it was a test reference for his more realistic features

Redesign of one of my personas from a couple months ago, I indeed favor this one the most out of the rest

Last two images are some Sonic OCS I've cooked up, but that first one is more of an inside joke between friends, nonetheless still a very serious character :)

[lifewithdedee]

Dedee's Room

[connorjessupfan]

[splatteronmywalls]

[shujubeelamoglia]

Connor Jessup

Rollacoaster

Photography by Bartek Szmigulski

[andguesswhat]

[beastmode-daily]

Not everything that tries to scare you wants to keep away.

[samsdei]

Connor Jessup

[cinemistery]

Wilder | Closet Monster (2015)

[slauterhause]

Back at if with the new art style testing lineless with a Splatoon brush (first two images) and using my on artstyle with the Splatoon brush!! (Last image)

Two band guys are from a Splat band I'm making that's a play on Deftones (The splatband is called Depthtones see what I did there) anyway yeah

[aliveinthedark]

One of the best memories was when Robbie showed me his favorite film 🍿

[imlikenowhere]

strangers / ethel cain 2022

closet monster / dir. stephen dunn 2016

preacher’s daughter and closet monster have meant so much to me in 2022. as the child of a pastor from newfoundland, these two projects are very very close to my heart for reasons that are entirely too obvious :,) <3