Create the Rooms
Build spooky page spreads and little scenes throughout the Mansion — rooms, walls, strange corners and places for our residents to inhabit.
A spooky art-journal adventure
Come inside the Monster Mansion.
We're filling this wonderfully weird mansion one room, resident and unexpected little detail at a time.
Create spooky page spreads, strange monsters, portraits, pockets, hidden surprises and tiny stories — and let your own Monster Mansion grow right along with mine.
Come Inside the Mansion$27 • One payment • Immediate access
The Mansion is built.
Now we get to discover what happens inside.
Now we get to discover what happens inside.
Come inside
Let me show you around the Monster Mansion.
This started as a stack of painted pages. Then the residents began moving in.
In this little tour, I'll flip through the Mansion and show you the rooms, characters, pockets, hidden details and page spreads that appeared as I kept creating.
This is what we're creating inside the course — not a journal
you have to copy, but a wonderfully weird world full of ideas
you can borrow, change and make completely your own.
A peek inside
The Mansion changes every time you turn the page.
A pumpkin patch. A strange little laboratory. A wall of suspicious family portraits. Spider webs, hidden residents and rooms that seem to have stories of their own.
These are some of the pages I've created inside my Mansion. Yours can follow the same projects, wander in a completely different direction — or do a little of both.
And that's really the fun of it: one resident suggests a room, one room suggests another detail, and suddenly you're building a whole world.
Make it yours
Your Mansion won't look exactly like mine. That's the point.
I'll show you how I build the pages, create the residents and add all those strange little details — but you get to decide what happens in yours.
Follow a project exactly. Borrow one idea. Change the colors. Invent a different resident. Turn a pocket into something completely unexpected.
There is no perfect finished Mansion we're trying to reach. We're building a world by playing with the possibilities.
One playful decision at a time,
the Mansion becomes your world.
the Mansion becomes your world.
Build the world
One playful decision at a time.
There is no required order and no finish line. We're simply giving the Mansion more personality every time we create.
Add Interactive Surprises
Pockets, doors, windows, pull-outs, portraits, hidden objects and unexpected paper details make the Mansion something you want to keep exploring.
Meet the Residents
Create wonderfully weird monsters from familiar spooky characters — then figure out where each one belongs inside your Mansion.
Let It Grow
Make the pages you love. Borrow the ideas that spark something. Change everything you want. Your Mansion gets to become entirely your own.
Monster Mayhem residents
Meet a few of the monsters moving in.
I'll show you how mine come together — and then we'll figure out where they belong.
Vampire Cat
Vampire + Black Cat
Pumpkin Spider
Pumpkin + Spider
Zombie Mummy
Zombie + Mummy
Franken-Ghost
Frankenstein + Ghost
Included inside the mansion
Need another resident? Fire up the Monster Machine.
The Monster Machine is my playful generator for getting us somewhere unexpected.
Mash up familiar monsters, exaggerate something, add an oddity and see what happens.
Maybe you get Vampire + Black Cat. Pumpkin + Spider. Frankenstein + Ghost.
The Machine doesn't tell you what to draw. It simply gives you ingredients for an idea.
You decide what the creature becomes —
and where it belongs in the Mansion.
A little monster research
Build your spooky visual vocabulary.
What makes a ghost immediately feel like a ghost? What makes a zombie read as a zombie? What happens when you exaggerate the cat's eyes or make the spider's legs ridiculously long?
Monster Studies are quick explorations of familiar spooky characters — ghosts, bats, zombies, witches, cats, spiders and more.
We'll notice the features that make each one recognizable, experiment with exaggeration and build a little library of ideas to pull from as we invent our Mansion residents.
Keep the cards nearby — or tuck them right into the Mansion.
They're not about drawing the "right" monster.
They're about noticing possibilities.
Inside the Monster Mansion
Everything you need to start exploring the Mansion.
Come inside whenever you're ready. Explore the page projects, create wonderfully weird residents, experiment with interactive details and choose the ideas that make you want to keep playing.
Monster Mansion Page Projects
Guided spooky spreads and scenes to help bring
the Mansion to life.
Interactive Mansion Details
Portraits, pockets, doors, pull-outs, hidden surprises
and other playful paper ideas.
The Monster Machine
A playful generator for creating unexpected
Mansion residents.
Monster Process Videos
Watch Vampire Cat, Pumpkin Spider, Zombie Mummy,
Franken-Ghost and future residents come to life.
Monster Studies
Quick character explorations to help you build
your spooky visual vocabulary.
Printables + Mansion Ephemera
Useful little pieces created from the world as
the Mansion grows.
Monster Mayhem
Follow along as new residents, rooms, pages and
peculiar discoveries appear throughout spooky season.
Make It Your Own
Follow every project, make only your favorites,
change my ideas completely or simply use them
as inspiration.
Haven't built your Mansion yet?
The basic Monster Mansion construction tutorial is free. Build yours first — or jump straight into the paid experience and start collecting ideas for everything that might happen inside.
The basic Monster Mansion construction tutorial is free. Build yours first — or jump straight into the paid experience and start collecting ideas for everything that might happen inside.
Monster Mayhem
Watch the Mansion come alive.
Monster Mayhem is my spooky-season experiment: what happens if I keep creating inside one wonderfully weird Mansion?
Some days a new resident might move in.
Other days we might build a portrait gallery, discover a hidden staircase, make a peculiar pocket, decorate a room or find somewhere to stash our Monster Studies.
I'll keep sharing what happens — and adding selected projects, videos and creative ideas inside the course.
Follow everything, make your favorite pieces, change my ideas completely or simply use the Mansion as inspiration for your own.
Come play
Come inside the Monster Mansion.
$27
One payment • Immediate access • Create at your own pace
- Monster Mansion page-spread projects
- Interactive paper features & surprises
- Monster Machine generator
- Monster Study projects
- Vampire Cat process video
- Pumpkin Spider process video
- Zombie Mummy process video
- Franken-Ghost process video
- Printables & Mansion ephemera
- New Monster Mayhem content throughout spooky season
Hi, I'm Jen
I make whimsical characters and tiny worlds — and invite you to come play.
I love taking simple shapes, painted paper, ink, watercolor and little unexpected details and seeing what they might become.
Monster Mansion is exactly the kind of world I love to create.
We start with simple materials and a few strange ideas — and slowly they become characters, rooms, stories and little places that didn't exist before.
You don't need to make your Mansion look like mine.
I'm inviting you inside mine so it can spark ideas for yours.
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