The Skunk Ape

AKA the Abomidable Swamp Slob

So seems to me a few too many of you have fallen off as of late so we’re going back to our roots to try to drag a few of you back into the fray. Everyone loves drawing bigfoot! Make him from the south east so he’s poorly educated and smelly and I’m not entirely sure we can go wrong. So this week it’s the Skunk Ape! The Southeastern United States’ swamp dwelling, stink line leaving, kitten throwing squatch.

Descriptions of the size of the Skunk ape vary pretty widely, some say its like feral escaped orangutang size others give it the 10 ft tall 1000 plus lbs scope of his pacific northwesterly brother. Some say he’s black/brown others say he has a filthy once fawn coat and still others give him a reddish hue… What doesn’t vary is the fact that he smells, like a lot, and not like lil bit of backyard mud smell… we’re talking that dead goose slime that you childhood dog would return from who knows where reeking of mixed with a hearty dose of ass! Plus my monsters spotter’s handbook claims he’s been known on at least one occasion to throw kittens at people, and it’s not like I’m not going to repeat that as law!

So draw us up a sasquatch, cover him in ass, and give him an artillery belt full of felines and we should be able to have some fun with this!
judgement Is Complete

our judgeOur Judge this week is Mr Dan Henrick, part of the original Playboy office beast drawing crew, and a talented and truly unique individual with a knowledge base that gets so vague and deliciously nerdy, even I wonder if he’s just making it up! Now-a-days he and his wife are building up biz for their lil animation shop, http://catsuitstudios.com, so hopefully this will provide the only bump they need to make them rich and famous ; ) but if not I’ll just say welcome back and thanks for playing!

The Skunk Ape Entry # 7

The First Place Skunk Ape Entry

So there were a couple weeks where i sorta bounced back and fourth whether i thought this artist was really drawing our own Sneurat as beast in a counter to her Seanist movement… with this one there can be no doubt…. cause she really loves kittens… jeeze… where did you think i was going with that?

Judge’s Commentary – Something about the big brown eyes, and maternal pose with the kitties gets to me. (Yes, I realize those cats might get thrown.) Reminds me of Gorillas in the Mist, or at least Congo. Soulful, but with stink-lines.

The Skunk Ape Entry # 2

The Second Place Skunk Ape Entry

“The skunk ape is a born entertainer, skilled in cat juggling!” – you know this one actually does a really nice job at being gross. Those feet is good and I like his missing toofess.

Judge’s Commentary – I love the goofy face, and the poo-party the squatch seems to be glorifying in. Like a pig in shit. Or a squatch in shit. I love the missing tooth too.

The Skunk Ape Entry # 9

The Third Place Skunk Ape Entry

So I have no idea if the real Sean has in fact changed his hair stylings to be what could be read either as three musketeery or much more swampy, or if it’s just the artist taking liberties but I know I’m pretty damn entertained and it sucks that the poor lil kitten is obviously about to get ate… but you can see that decisions already been made and there’s nothing we can say to stop it…

Judge’s Commentary – The facial hair totally wins me over. Is this squatch from Logan Square, Silver Lake, or Williamsburg? I don’t know which, but something tells me that those kittens are locally-sourced and artisanal.

The Skunk Ape Entry # 1

The Skunk Ape Entry # 1

So somewhere in this, there is 100% a joke about skunk apes predictably always having something on their minds…but I’m going to skip that in favor of appreciating his giant manly ass chin and his remarkably picasoesque eyes!

The Skunk Ape Entry # 3

The Skunk Ape Entry # 3

I love that the nostrils could also be mustache and I find it even more entertaining if you look at it as a frontal shot with him leaning back cockily with his crazy giant smoking skunk tail aimed at the sky instead of a left arm…

The Skunk Ape Entry # 4

The Skunk Ape Entry # 4

So I spent a decent amount of time in Florida as a kid… from what i could tell the main difference in there and here was the dudes there loved mustaches and sunglasses…

The Skunk Ape Entry # 5

The Skunk Ape Entry # 5

Man alive does he look high! I love the cloud of filth and flies and I’m endlessly entertained with a skunk ape using tools and in doing so, keeping it rated G by blocking our view of his swamp junk, as he’s looking pretty naked.

The Skunk Ape Entry # 6

The Skunk Ape Entry # 6

In my book, beyond stink lines, nothing says smelly and gross more than some finely yellowed nails, Gotta appreciate the Gremlins stripe, I totally love how his hands sorta just descend into fur shape and whether it was done on purpose or just a result of going on top of the darker background those backlit stray hairs are kinda fantastic!

The Skunk Ape Entry # 8

The Skunk Ape Entry # 8

OK so the lil cat peering out over his/her shoulder might be my favorite thing this week so far, points for the cone head that looks vaguely like a steaming stack of poo and call me crazy but with the width and size of the main guy and the lil cockeyed ears looking like feathered horns on the kitty… my brain reads the whole thing as owl!

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