Eyes Closed Monsters: 0001

Hello, hello. Let me introduce: Eyes closed monsters!

Eyes-closed drawings among my friends and I were born almost a decade ago when Rhymi and I used to spend a lot of time coming up with 'games' to play with a paper and pen at Kerbey Lane or Flipnotics. We had lots of games, but a favorite was "close your eyes and draw ________". Sometimes we would do it with people we knew and then try to guess at who the other person had drawn. But generally, bugs and monsters were the biggest hits. Years went by and I would occasionally think to ask people to close their eyes and draw me a monster. Eventually I decided it would be a good art project and got dozens of submissions from friends and my (then) new coworkers at BookPeople. Sadly, I never did anything with all of the drawings other than love the hell out of them. Now I want you to love them too. And, ideally, this will spawn an eyes-closed monsters boom. Cory made me a button of his eyes closed monsty, and all of them just beg for stuffed animal adaptations. The spirit of eyes-closed monsters if mos def 'open source', so if you have any great ideas for these guys: do it!

And if you draw a monster with your eyes closed, please email me your drawing and I'll put it up, and maybe someday get a tattoo of it or something.

For my first 'eyes closed monsty' post, I'm featuring my mom's purple and, let's face it, kind of adorable monster. Not scary at all, but that's what mom monsters are for.