Odd Artists
People making work about cryptids, folklore and the strange things beside the road. A different one featured every week. Every link goes straight to them.
This week
Changes Wednesday, September 23 at 9am Eastern
Everyone
Douglas Bailey
A self-taught mixed-media artist working in found and reclaimed materials on the Lake Erie shoreline, whose subjects include a lake monster, a Lake Erie alligator and a fairly tired-looking Bigfoot.
Mixed media, found and reclaimed materials, graphic design · Erie, Pennsylvania
Hillary Deweese
Polymer clay curiosities from Baltimore County, including a small standing army of Mothmen with red eyes and very serious eyebrows.
Hand-sculpted polymer clay · Baltimore County, Maryland
Jett Yates
Watercolour, ink and gouache cryptids from Lexington, Kentucky, by somebody who has gone and stood in most of the places first.
Watercolour, ink and gouache · Lexington, Kentucky
Lisa Russell
Cryptid Comforts — plush cryptids, pet toys and assorted accoutrements, every design her own. Also a cohost of Squonkapalooza.
Plush, pet toys, illustration
Brett Manning
Ink illustration out of a rural Indiana farmhouse — folklore, old stories and unusual creatures, drawn in close detail. Also photography, watercolour, and goblin plush toys.
Ink illustration, photography, watercolour, plush · Indiana
Emily Crabtree Stephens
Folklore, nature, illustration and horror, worked through diverse mediums and bold colour until the line between reality and fantasy stops being clear.
Illustration, painting, mixed media
Eerie Eric
Buys old thrift-store landscapes and paints Bigfoot into the tree line. Also tattoos, cartoons and caricatures, out of Erie, Pennsylvania.
Painting, tattooing, cartooning and illustration · Erie, PA
EmelouTuesday
An artist and illustrator blending graphite with digital painting to make biologically grounded creatures — beings that could genuinely exist within their own worlds, rather than monsters to be afraid of.
Graphite and digital illustration, creature design, trading cards
Glitter and Toadstools
Hannah Mathis takes folklore, fairytales and cryptids — the ones usually drawn as frightening — and reimagines them colourful, whimsical and playful. Prints, stickers, pins, card decks and shirts.
Gouache, acrylic, pencil, ink and digital illustration
Samantha Murphy
SMMorbidCreations — acrylic painting, sculpture and tattooing out of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, finding the beauty in decay, darkness and the unusual.
Acrylic painting, sculpture, tattooing · Meyersdale, PA
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