Feeps on tumblr

I've started a tumblr page for the Feeps. I feel like tumblr might be a better fit for the type of photo blogging I do, so I'm giving it a try. I'll be posting several new feep pix over there, including a little photo essay starring that mysterious new feep up above, so if you'd like to follow along just click that link.

Skeleton Cat Monster - Feeping Creatures monster figurine

Here at the House of Feep, it's pretty much Halloween year round. That said, I don't often make Halloween-specific feeps for some reason. My goal this October is to rectify that, so I've been working away on ghosts and vampires and skull monsters.

Of course, I'm going to be out of town for, like, the first half of October, more or less, so posting will continue to be light for awhile. But my plan, my hope, is to spend the couple of weeks in the run-up to Halloween posting tons of pictures of the monsters I've been working on. So! Fear not, there will be many a feep in the near future.

Feep-o-Lantern and Purple Cat on Haunted House Porch - Feeping Creatures

IS IT OCTOBER YET

Samurai Feep o' Lantern - Feeping Creatures monster figurine

Posting may be a bit sporadic over the next few weeks - lots of projects, and a bit of travel. I'll update here as often as I can, but don't be surprised if it ain't every day.

Also, damn. Look at how much crappier my photos with the old camera were. But hey, if you're not improving here and there you're doing something wrong.

Halloween Feep-o-Lantern

It is, of course, time for the annual showing of the feep-o-lantern. This year's offering is something of a mad scientist type who just drank the transformation concoction:

Grinning Feep-o-Lantern

What February really needs is a bit more Halloween.

Samurai Feep-o-Lantern

After three solid months of easy themes I was trying to think of something that typifies January. Were I up north it would be snow, snow, and more snow. But here? Just kinda cold(ish) and gray. Not a very exciting theme. So instead, let's just keep Halloween going.

Glow-in-the-Dark Feep-o-Lantern

It seemed an appropriate subject matter for glow-in-the-dark.

Eyeball Feep-o-Lantern

Welcome to 2011, y'all. My glasses broke last night, so today I have even more empathy for my little one-eyed creations than I might ordinarily.

Grimace Feep-o-Lantern

This is from a recent commission to make some feepy pumpkins. The feep is hanging out with a handful of burr oak acorns, so it's not that the feep is unusually small, but rather the acorns are unusually large.

Halloween Snat and Austin Comic Con Madness

This show is officially insane! I really had no idea what to expect, since this is the first year it's been in Austin (Wizard World Texas used to be in Dallas, for those of you keeping score). I'd done the Dallas show a couple of times, which had ranged from meh to really good. But the Austin incarnation is officially my biggest sales bonanza ever, and there's still a whole day left to go.

This means I will have to hit the ground running to get a bunch of new feeps made for online holiday sales. Not the worst of problems to have, really. And it means I get to make more Snats, one of my favorite designs to do.

Feep-o-Lantern Alight

Well, my carving tool broke while I was working on this one, so I had to finish it with a knife. Not the ideal circumstances for making a feep-o-lantern, but what can one do?

Happy Halloween, y'alls.

Halloween Snat

Spookytime is creeping ever closer ...

Feep-o-Lantern

Spookytime is checking out your bookshelf, judging your selections ...

[Last year's feep-o-lantern. I'll be carving this year's on Saturday. Expect to see those eyeball candles again.]