{"id":3089,"date":"2011-06-14T04:44:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T09:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2019-11-25T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:05:00","slug":"how-to-draw-monsters-by-larry-evans-undersea-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/06\/14\/how-to-draw-monsters-by-larry-evans-undersea-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Draw Monsters by Larry Evans – Undersea Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>More from the late, great Larry Evans’ fabulous how-to book for kids from 1977.<\/p>\n

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\"\"This is from Chapter II of one of the most important books I got as a kid. It was a fun art book rather than a strict step-by-step book. Mr Evans invited you to play and have fun, and from his drawings, you could tell he was having a ball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More from the late, great Larry Evans’ fabulous how-to book for kids from 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,318],"tags":[191,405,392],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-technique","tag-191","tag-how-to-draw-monsters","tag-larry-evans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-NP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2972,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/06\/01\/how-to-draw-monsters-by-larry-evans\/","url_meta":{"origin":3089,"position":0},"title":"How to Draw Monsters by Larry Evans","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week I wrote a post about the how-to-do-it book I got back in 1977 that has probably had the most influence over my illustration work. 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