Tufted Owl Beast – My First Monster Manual

This installment of the My First Monster Manual blog series is the Tufted Owl Beast. Environment:  Forest and Woodlands Monster Type: Neutral Color:   Male: Blue and White, Female: Grey and White, Yellow eyes and beak. Features:  Short feathered eye ridge, tufted ears Abilities:   Excellent vision, hearing and smell. Silent Flight Recommended Equipment:   Padded body wear, […]

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Straw Golem – My First Monster Manual

This installment of the My First Monster Manual blog series is the Straw Golem known as Jack-O-Lantern. Environment:  Any Monster Type: Varies Color:  A Golem can be made from any material and will be the color of the material. Features:  A range of sizes depending on the maker’s design. Abilities:  Poison and disease immunity, Resistant […]

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Twilight Fairy – My First Monster Manual

This installment of the My First Monster Manual blog series is the elusive Twilight Fairy named Madeleine. Environment:  Gardens, Forests and Wildflower fields. Monster Type: Neutral Color:  Pale skin, black or grey wings, and light pastel hair. Features:  Tiny, long limbs, bat like wings, and extend claw like toes. 3/4 SBL Abilities:  Night vision, Shadow […]

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Basilisk – My First Monster Manual

This installment of the My First Monster Manual blog series is the delightful young Basilisk named Fennel. Environment:  Dry regions with sparse vegetation. Lairs are underground or in caves. Will travel for food thus can be found in any warm area. Monster Type: Neutral Color:   Young are emerald green. Mature are rusty brown. Ancient are […]

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Relaxing With Time

Relaxing With Time I feel that I am a very lucky person. I appreciate all things in life from the small such as the smell of coffee when you open the bag to make a pot to the large such as getting a job you always wanted. I do not know if it is inherently […]

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The Human Factor

The Human Factor In order to draw a crowd, or more specifically sell a product/idea, the creator seems to need to link the product with some type of connection to people. In the creative world, we tend to go beyond to just appealing to our sense of “betterment”. Our sense of “betterment” would be something […]

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Reassuring Smile: Applied Learning

Anyone who has spent any time studying art quickly learns one inevitable truth about the profession. You never, ever, stop practicing, learning and improving. From the tiny baby pasting their first piece of colored macaroni onto construction paper, to the master painter who has been practicing daily his whole life. So you keep working, and […]

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Every Single Minute

Every Single Minute My brother once said to me that he knew he was expendable by the time he was nine. My response to him was that he beat me; because, I made the discovery the summer I turned ten. I cried off and on for two weeks. Incredibly you grow up pretty fast under […]

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