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In keeping with not wanting to go obvious (in this case being a treasure chest), I hit upon this idea. I'm having extra fun with these prompts referencing the things that have influenced me. I pretty quickly decided that instead of a bag of sand, Plunger Monkey Jones would replace the idol with a

These prompts are getting tougher, especially when you're trying NOT to be quite so literal or are trying to avoid the more obvious choices. It took me a day or more of ruminating to come up with this. "Tread" has a few different meanings and uses, and "to walk" was what I settled on.

After how happy I was with my "misfit" idea, it was disheartening how much I struggled with "sling". I figured it would involve a slingshot, and it was initially PMD getting ready to launch a giant plunger or some bananas, but it just wasn't working for me. So, I decided PMD would be launching

Pine. Needles. Do I need to say more? I thought about doing a straight up redrawing of the PMD ornament I made in 2016, but opted for something a little different. He's supposed to be one of those reflective, colored glass ornaments, not sure the material comes off like that, though. Then I decided

This was another tough one to come up with a PMD-themed idea. When that happens, I usually look up the definition of the word, not because I don't know the meaning, but because I hope something in the explanation or examples will trigger an idea. That's what happened here, one of the explanations mentioned

One of the first ideas I had for "legend" was this one: that infamous still from the Patterson bigfoot footage. Not sure how many people will recognize what this is unless they are or were a believer in or fan of bigfoot, but it made sense to me to do this, so I did.

I had a few different ideas for "overgrown". One was to have PMD covered in weeds and other foliage. Another was to have him super hairy. The third was to draw him as Gorilla Monkey Dynamo (yeah, it makes less sense than Plunger Gorilla, but it sounds better and nothing in my head makes

I seriously struggled to come up with an idea for this one. "Ash" just didn't inspire anything particularly exciting. So, I defaulted to using PMD as a conduit to express myself, which is very much what he is anyway.

I got a little carried away with this one...It has been well documented (by me) that my wife loves dragons, so this Inktober illustration is by default for her. I'm reasonably happy with it, but if I wanted to spend another several hours on it, I probably would have pulled up a lot of

And yet again I am paying homage to the great Bill Watterson. The only thing missing is a "Calvin", as in this particular reference, PMD is Hobbes, who was building a snow tiger while Calvin rolled snow balls shaped like decapitated heads. I suppose I could have been the Calvin in this one, but

This one was a pretty obvious way to go for "pattern". I'm still enjoying what I'm coming up with, and I'm pretty pleased with my execution for the most part, but this one in particular is one that I feel I could have pushed the gesture a bit more.