Hand-made book

Austin made a book at Academie Duello, out of wood, paper and string. He bound the pages together with the string, and has decided to turn it into an art book of monsters.

Here are a few pictures of his creations:

In the Island Squid drawing, Austin has provided an idea of scale in a "Measuring Box" to the lower left of the drawing. He compares the squid to an island. Must be a very giant squid!

He has drawn an electric fish that will zap anything that comes within 3 metres of it, with 250,000 volts of electricity. I noticed that Austin wrote out "two hundred fifty thousand," and 200 50,000. He's very good at leaving out "and" when saying numbers (ie. two hundred fifty, instead of the common mistake: two hundred "and" fifty). The "and" is meant to be saved for notating a decimal place in a numeral. I asked Austin how to write the number, 50,000, and he said, "fifty, with three zeros after it." Then, I asked him how to write 250,000, and he said he doesn't know. I asked him how to write 200,000, and he said, "two hundred, followed by three zeros." So, we came back to 250,000, and I think he has a better understanding of how to write it now. He said, "two hundred fifty, followed by three zeros."

"Marinas" is a monster that I drew. Austin asked me to contribute a drawing to his monster book. So, I drew a sea monster with a lot of teeth. Austin recommended adding a semi-circle to the top of the creature's head, for its eye. Good suggestion. Marinas is an eel-like monster, covered in scales, with a small fin on its back and a large tail fin.

In the dragon picture (the monster is named, "Dracna"), Austin demonstrated to me, how to draw wings. It was really neat to see how the wings took shape as he drew the lines, with curved lines joining them. It lends a sense of depth and dimension to his drawing.

Tliskion is an alien creature with two eyes at the top of its head.

Swamposaurus looks like a cross between a Spinosaurus and Therizinosaurus (one of Austin's favourite dinosaurs).