IF MONSTER HIGH WAS ACTUALLY TERRIFYING 

I think it would be funny, and maybe even a little bit scarier, if the horror version of Draculaura still had an aversion to blood. She *has* to drink it in order to survive, but she's fighting the urge to throw up every time, and is probably pretty emaciated from going as long as possible without feeding. Though maybe that's being a little too cruel to the poor girl

i honestly would love to see a more mature take on monster high that doesn't default to "edgy teen netflix series" solely because watching monster girls be actual monsters would be so cool imo

The doll with the stone texture-skin *was* a Monster High doll! Her name was Rochelle Goyle She also had a love interest who was also a gargoyle named Garrett, and I think he had the stone texture-skin, too

Man imagine a Monster High reboot where the characters are actually scary

Monster high could have been so interesting with less doll like designs. If it was an indie show for teens/adults it would be so interesting to see what it could have been.

One aspect that I thought could be incorporated into Cleo is having her look a little more rotten/run down. Female mummies aren't as well preserved as male ones because Egyptians would wait for the body to start decomposing, this way the people mummyfying them wouldn't mess with the body. Cleo having to struggle with her body not being preserved well would certainly fit the horror aspect, albeit in a more psychological way.

I feel like Monster High is like one of the only kids properties that would genuinely work well as a horror series since it’s entire concept is already horror oriented But if I’m being honest it’d be kind of funny if the Monster High characters, even in this gorey and spooky retelling still act like their canon selves. Like oh yeah they kill people without a second thought but they still act exactly like their original counterparts

Idk if you've seen the newer Monster High cartoon, but they had a lot of fun takes on the monstery aspects of the characters. Cleo in particular has all of her organs in jars in a purse, and if she gets too far from them she feels a physical effect. Like if she gets too far from the jar with her inner ear, she can't balance or walk straight. I just thought that was really cute practical character building and you might enjoy it when thinking about Cleo.

Monster high has a reboot now and one of the new cleo dolls actually comes with a jar with her heart inside. It is a really cute detail.

I would have of made Cleo bleeding from her nose because you know they used the hook in that area but other than that I love all the redesigns :D (Edit: HOW TF DID THIS GET 1K LIKES 😨 TY)

Honestly though something cool that could’ve been cool or scarier is showing her starving or something, because she refuses to eat blood, so she’s thin, like she crumble at any second but she still refuses to eat what is meant to keep her thriving

“I loved all kinds of media that I probably wasn’t supposed to be watching.” same, girl, same (ps. congratulations on beating your nightmares! i feel like people underestimate how horrible it can be to have them)

I think if monster high got a teen/adult reboot, it should be a horror comedy, because lately these edgy teen reboot of our childhood shows have taken the fun out of it with all its serious themes. I feel monster high would be the cutesy creepy teen show with some dark humor and puns

A small fact to do with werewolves. In France literature werewolves were often used as a name for child predators. Hence were the plot for little red riding hood came from

hey haley, I know you probably won't see this, but you were SO important to me on my art journey. My art started to significantly improve once I started watching your videos. Not just the tutorials, the redesign and other vids too! They are all so educational, even unintentionally, and entertaining! I copied some of your techniques, tried to copy your art style ( I have my own style now fyi) and took on ALL of your tips. Even in recent years, I always, whenever doing digital art, think of the tips you gave me. The "by the book" series is one of my favourites ( i adore all of them) because the little incorrect bits in books-turned-movies always bothered me.I *LOVE* your books and your art. Thank you so much.

I would kill for you to make a sequel to this video, maybe with Frankie or Rochelle? I think she's the one that had the grey stone skin you mentioned. I grew up obsessed with monster high and I love how spookier stuff looks in your art style.

I'm SUPER into monster high so it was really fun to see your take on their designs!! Your artstyle really complements the dolls's and shows's aesthetics really well! A fun fact I wanted to add is that in g3 Cleo canonically has had ALL her organs removed and she carries them around school in actual canopic jars which I find. So delightfully morbid and funny lmao Also the stoneskin character you were talking about is most likely Rochelle Goyle, who IS a monster high character! She's a pastel goth gargoyle :>

The terrifying versions of monster high characters look cuter than the actual characters themselves in my opinion

I wonder what Dollightful would say about these designs! She loves both cute and scary stuff!

I had a monster high doll as a kid that would weirdly trigger a very specific, very horrifying nightmare that i would have multiple times a week. It was weird because I loved the doll, and was never scared by it at all, but whenever I woke up, I somehow knew that the dream happened because of the doll. I got rid of it, and the dreams stopped. My chronic nightmares kept happening, but i didn't have that one again.

If I’m remembering correctly but female mummies are more decomposed than their male counterparts because families would wait for them to begin decaying then start the process to avoid necrophilia among tomb workers

5:48 Fun fact: After the publishing of the Malleus Maleficarum, the popular beliefs around werewolves shifted negatively, and eventually, werewolf became a synonym for serial killer, especially in Europe. Fascinating to research, would recommend

i miss watching monster high 😭😭

16:49 you are thinking of Rochelle Goyle! She was introduced in Friday Night Frights. She was on the opposing team during a roller derby game. She’s super cool I love her!

the mangus archives have a great desciption of a vampire-like monster that i think you would love

They still slay… just literally! These remind me of the more mature doll repaints.

12:04 if I remember correctly (I could be wildly wrong) these mummies with more realistic paintings over their wrappings were of romans/ roman decent. Since Egypt and Rome had a strong relationship, their people would usually share and mix religion and beliefs. Romans tended to make more realistic paintings, rather than the stylized art in Egypt

M O N S T E R MONSTERS MONSTERS YES WE ARE!!💀💅🎀

I would love to see you redesign the Tinkerbell cast! I think doing things like incorporating their jobs into their outfits more, as well as giving them a bit more variety, since they definitely suffer from the “we all look the same so they can just make one doll base” syndrome.

Can’t believe they passed up that goodwill find I bet they’re kicking themselves now Wonder how much it was being sold for

If I remember correctly, there were episodes that explored Cleo having her organs in jars. Like, she has to carry her heart with her at all times and she becomes immobile if her heart gets too far away.

I think another thing that could make cleo more interesting is how important death was to the ancient egyptians, and that she is undead. I really loved the video , I too was a kid who loved horror and watched horror stuff that I probably shouldn't have. It always annoyed me how little horror for kids there was.

kinda want a Dollightful and Lavender Towne collab. it's pretty unlikely, but I can dream

really random but i really loved cleo because 1 as a kid i was OBSESSED with ancient egypt stuff, and 2 since I live in Turin and there we have the second biggest ancient egypt museum in the whole world and i would ask my parents to take me there all the time. I think I've been there atleast 10 times throughout my entire life, and I'm 17

This is a really cool concept! I feel like they kind of don’t completely read as the characters though, since a lot of their unique outfit details aren’t there. Clawdeen especially doesn’t really feel like Clawdeen since she doesn’t have her original color palette. But I still think the designs are cool!

16:54 Rochelle! Rochelle Goyle, the daughter of the Gargoyle. 💖

I've always adored Monster High, even as I've gotten older. Seeing these girls in your style is so interesting, and I absolutely love it!

Darn it! I really wanted Frankie to be in this video! But other than that, your monster designs look great! (Also, pls make a part 2 for this because I want to see Frankie! (:)

It’d be cool to see you do a video on the evolution of your art style (like how you stylize anatomy or your lineart and coloring?)

11:14 in g3 one of Cleo’s dolls (the core refresh one) comes with a jar with her heart inside, of course it’s not an anatomically correct heart, but it is still very cool. I don’t watch G3’s show, but if I’m not mistaken she can’t be too far apart of her heart or she will pass out. Also in her music video the lyrics say that the further away she is from her heart, the more she acts cold and distant (heartless)

I never got to watch monster high as a kid😭

I saw a picture of a disembodied mummified foot without any wrappings. It was horrifying, and even though all the designs were beautiful, the Cleo one brought back that image. I’m facing the consequences of not looking away vefwkjhnefv

Draculaura's eyes are purple tho, Also werewolves got origionally popular when wolves could just wander into country farms and attack someone taking a nightly piss

Monster High was one of my favorite things growing up, and now being into cute and creepy things i still think its such a great balance of the two (for a younger demographic.) Their character designs will always be some of my favorites. These re designs are so fun!! (Also fully obsessed with Clawdeen's redesign!! 😍😍)

I seriously love these ideas, but i NEED to see Frankie in this style! Justice for horrifying Frankie please!

Love your videos Lavendertowne!! I love the concept, my issue with monster high was always that they don't really fit the convention of monster, more like a yassified version of the creatures, but you solved it perfectly! Keep being amazing and talented!

10:31 Girl learned from last time XD The hate is so unwarranted. You’re an amazing artist, it was an honest mistake! Love these designs!!

COME ON DON'T BE SHY, MONSTER HIGH 🔥 🔥 🔥

I would love it if you made fully unrestricted horror art on patreon or something, I feel like youtube can be very limiting when it comes to violence or macabre subjects and I'd love to see what you could make without worrying about censorship

PLEASE continue this series! I would love to see how you draw Frankie and Ghoulia, heck even Abbey in your style! It really fits the Monster motif!

The doll with the stone skin is Rochelle Goyle! She's a gargoyle.

i never watched monster high but I used to have a doll of the vampire oneand i loved her so much and then she went missing and I was so sad 😭😭 i called her Frankie 😭

I would die for a part 2 to this video they all came out so awesome! I’d love to see Lagoona or Spectra! 💖🖤

I love these designs! But I also feel like maybe boogie-girl would have been a bit better if her makeup was added. I could imagine her wanting to spruce up her looks and try and put on makeup, but it’s just really bad and ends up making her look more creepy.

Honestly as a huge werewolf fan, one of my fav female werewolf characters is ginger from the horror movie ginger snaps. It's more on the body horror side of werewolves but also because of ginger herself was more of an outspoken character and the overall antagonist. So I love seeing more erratic female werewolf characters in media.

I LOOOOOVE the glassy texture of Draculaura’s eyes, you absolutely. NAILED. IT. ugh im addicted to them. btw, the stone skin doll is Rochelle Goyle! I love her as well! I think her skin and color palette are very cool and well done.

I own a monochromatic Frankie doll from Skull Shores!! She’s completely in grayscale, while still holding up being an interesting doll!

I was the exact same way as a child! The more horrifying it was, the more I was drawn to it. I wonder why that happens to some of us. No one else in my family enjoyed anything of the sort. Hmmm...

The doll you’re thinking of with the stone skin is probably Rochelle Goyle. Additionally the Reel Drama collection is entirely black and white with just a splash of the girl’s signature color as an ode to the early movies they were based off. I wish you had made Clawdeen’s outfit purple instead of blue, but not much to do now. Still love all the designs.

In monster high they actually have her with jars of her organs and such! In the reboot I remember an entire episode about her with her heart in a jar and all her scarab pals

I imagine Chloe as excessively vain, so as her body disintegrates, she replaces it with stolen features that she likes, kind of like Frankie, but as a killer.

I like that Claudine went from a werewolf to a psychopathic therian, lol.

0:08 Meanwhile, I was yearning for the mines

The Draculara one reminds me a lot about that one scene in the show where she gets seen by some humans when she was eating a tomato and they run away screaming because they thought it was a bloody heart. Love your videos!!

Lavendertowne AND my current hyperfixation??? I'm knawing at the bars of my enclosure right now

I couldn’t stop thinking about the game “The Quarry” when you did clawdeen, I love the way they made the werewolf’s in that game

OH MA GOSH I LOVE THEM ALREADY AND I'VE ONLY WATCHED 10 SECONDS!! But, in all honesty, you are you of my BIGGEST inspirations and role models when it comes to art. I can honestly say that if i hadn't watched you when i was younger, my art/artstyle would **not** be the same at all. I love you and your artwork so so much, and i just wanna say thank you for continuing to post, even after all the dumb 'controversies' you've been in. I love you! And congratulations again on the nominee!❤❤ Ok, i watched the whole video, and i LOVE the boogie girl!! She's amazing, and i love very much. Like, the kitchen tile teeth? The neck?? The fingers??? The ribcage???? Yes please!! It'a my headcannon that she always has a dark shadow over her, no matter how bright it is out.

love these designs!! and you totally nailed it with twyla, her whole thing in the movies and tv shows when she shows up is how she sticks to shadows and can sort of disappear into them, so having that harsh shading really made the whole thing pop!

I loved this video. I grew up with monster high loving their high fashion vibe but I also really enjoy how you transformed them and made the dolls work in a more creepy setting. I'd love to see you do Lagoona as some creepy undiscovered sea creature. Also I believe the doll you were thinking about to be Rochelle Goyle who is meant to be a gargoyle girl.

Now that you finished making Unfamiliar (for now!) I’d love to see more behind the scenes stuff from it such as character sheets, timelines, scripts, ect. I think it’d be really cool to sort of get an insight into your creative process and it could inspire other artists to make their own stories! Love your videos

Nicely done making the ghouls scary.

16:54 By that description alone I think that could’ve been a doll for Rochelle Goyle (Hope I spelled her name correctly), since she’s a gargoyle and has a comparatively less saturated colour palette with more focus on pastels!

My sister is literally obsessed with monster high. I sorta wish it was more scary tho

Interesting fact, mummification can also happen when the body is in incredibly humid and damp places like bogs and ships at open sea.

1:22 I never watched Monster High and never had any of the Dolls {They look soooo cute though} The Vampire is a Vegetarian and faints at the sight of Blood, a Vampire that faints from seeing Blood, that's Interesting, different. I like it 8:37 I was also a very Morbid child, just for me it's in Truama... And getting comfort on Cutesy stuff that happen to be dark, it's why stuff like Happy Tree Friend's are soooooo cool to me, my Favourite anime is Madoka Magica, an Iconic dark Magical Girl anime 11:55 They seem to do that alot... Male characters. Creators: Let's make him cool {Or in horror} Let's make him creepy and grotesque Female characters: Creator: Doesn't matter what her context is, make her hot, make her attractive, which I don't like, If you're making one gender grotesque, make the other grotesque to 14:22 Salad Fingers reference, this Boogieman girl is *_AFTER THE RUSTY SPOONS_* 15:52 My Momo story: Back when I slept on the Couch {For reasons I don't want to go into} My Parents where out, and my Mother texted me that night _"Momo is watching" and I had the back door behind me, and openblinds, the pitch black outside, I didn't know what Momo was so I looked it up... That night I couldn't sleep {Not just because of the bad Insomnia} but also because of Momo, and my fear continued for weeks witg me seeing Momo in my Head, and my mind played the screams and music from _S u i c i d e_ Mouse.avi... Jeff the Killer and Momo have those terrifying smiles, but Jeff the Killer never scared me like Momo did

Omg I loved this! I used to love monster high and would watch it and play old DS games with my sister. I think this was a really good take in all of the designs! Love you Lavendertowne! I can tell how much you’ve improved your art and I hope you keep improving!

watching this while redoing a draculaura doll!

I would LOVE to see you do more of this with some of the side characters, too! Like a version of Valentine that literally ate his past grilfriends heart?? Maybe Jackson oroginally being a human boy with an interest in science who flew a little too close to the sun and ended up becoming Holt?? There are SO many good possibilities here!!

❤❤❤ I adore her art

boogey girl is giving the magnus archives, it’s giving michael distortion, i love it 🔥

Honestly, I feel like you made them look edgy, not spooky at all, and absolutely stripped them of any of their personality just to make them "spooky" concepts related to death. You just grabbed them, threw blood and very unimaginative body horror and called it a day.

Honestly, I find your versions far more charming. More personality in the art style.

When are you coming back to draw my BitLife 0:02

Stone skin? Probably Rochelle Goyle. If it's Rochelle, then yes, she's a Monster High character. She's a Gargoyle I also would like to see her as scary in your style too, if you'll make a part 2 of course

Twyla has always been my favourite Monster High character and I ADORE your design for her!! I love how unsettling she looks!

Between ages 12 and 14, I was OBSESSED with Monster High. Binged the webisodes, the movies, loved the theme songs.

I've recently read Carmilla. In lore of that particular book a vampire is a human corpse hunted by a ghost of a person, that commited s**cide. That's truly terrifying, even though I'd say the book itself is pretty family friendly.

9:05 makes the fact that G3 Cleo keeps her organs in jars make a LOT more sense. Love these spooky redesigns!!

I’m not sure if you’d be willing to do this, but I’d absolutely LOVE a part 2 of this video, there’s so many more characters that you could put your own creative spin on and I think that’d be really neat!

oh my god i love the wolf mask and the salad fingers design and all of the lore for cleo!!!! all of the redesigns are so delicious and unique and i love the thought put into each one. bravo!!!!! ;3 (AND THE JEKYLL & HYDE MOTIF!!!)

I loved this video! Being a Monter High fan since childhood and a horror fan as well, seeing this designs made me really happy. If you would like to make a part 2 of this, could you please include Lagoona Blue in it? She's my favorite. But I only have one request If you made a second part to this: Could you use her OG look? I still don't really know how to feel about her being pink now... Thanks for posting such cool content, huge fan.❤

so much fun!!! my favorite characters were Clawdine and Draculaura, but honestly i think if i could've kind of combined them into one character it would've been better to me. you definitely didn't go too far haha if anything I'd love to see more I'm so glad you don't have to deal with so many nightmares anymore!!! 💖

I like to imagine all these designs still being friends and getting up to normal-ish high school stuff.

I remeber my line from an assembly and it was "THEY PULLED THEIR BRAINS OF OF THEIR NOSE!!" Fav line from that assembly

i personally think that twyla is the scariest redraw! like the unknowingness of her intentions and how uncanny she is, is just freaky

That doll with the stone texture was infact a monster high doll! i actually have that doll myself, I'm pretty sure the name was Rochelle Goyle or soemthing along those lines

The pictures aren't the scary part, it's your description of the art and your thought process that's scaring me. And if doesn't help that I have to go to bed in 5 minutes

Congratulations on not having nightmares anymore, that must be a huge relief for you! ❤

Clawdeen being a Jekyll and Hyde type monster would actually be a very interesting take on the idea that she’s only a “half-werewolf”. She wasn’t bitten by a werewolf, and Becuase only one of her parents was a werewolf she can’t fully transform and is either always stuck as a morbid half wolf monster or is only able to transform halfway.

I would love to see a part two of this with some of the other monsters. The stone texture girl was Rochelle Goyle, I’d be super interested in seeing your spooky take on her!