missmonster grew up in south Texas wrangling monsters and wrestling werewolves. She now lives in Chicago where it's far too cold. She makes costumes, sculpts monsters and paints...a lot. She has worked with many different art mediums and projects: an animator for A Scanner Darkly, pushing pixels for a major cell phone company, museum exhibit fabrication, gallery work, comic book illustration, and tons and tons of commissioned work. She now freelances full time and loves it.
I can't seem to stick with one medium and dabble in painting, sculpting, digital illustration, tattoo design and even costuming. I love experimenting with new things and techniques.
Statement on "Anachrotechnofetishism":
I work in many different mediums but in every one I try to make a character or object that has a story behind them. The mechanical skulls I make are actually ancient keys that must be assembled and operated in the correct sequence to unlock and awaken a huge old machine. They are shaped into animal skulls to help conceal what they really are. Will this machine save or destroy the earth? The Dapper family is a family of upper crust monsters that harrumph their way through life. My monsters always border on menacing but I almost never allow them to cross that line. I like to see how far i can push the teeth, bristling horns, and spiked fur without losing a twinkle of a smile on that sharp mouth.
