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Friday, October 25, 2013

Monsters Should Be Able to Celebrate Halloween Too

This is a Halloween comic I did for the UVU Review. A little background on it. My younger son and I are dressing as Mario for Halloween. . . Big Mario and Little Mario. My older son is dressing as Iron Man. I joked that he should dress as Iron Man with a Mario hat and Mustache. Then I thought it would be really funny to see Frankenstein's Monster and Dracula dressed up for Halloween. It is also inspired by the art of Charles Addams, the creator of the Addams Family.

I slipped in two references to other horror films. Find them and post in the comment section below.

Happy Halloween!

Thanks

Friday, October 18, 2013

Mark Twain - Complete

I finished this a month ago, or so, and had never posted it. I was showing a friend my blog, and couldn't find Mark Twain… oh well. Here he is now. Mr. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910)

“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company” — Mark Twain

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Fun with watercolors

These days I mainly paint digitally. I haven't touched tradional media in a year or so. The other day I really wanted to do a watercolor. I just wanted to have fun, without any pressure to make an amazing piece.

It's not anything massively important, but it was fun to do, and I think it came out pretty good. So here it is. My reference was a photo of an Italian villa. I used pencil, ink washes, watercolor, and a crows quill with ink.

Have a great week and thanks for looking!

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

London After Midnight - Complete

Here is the complete painting of Lon Chaney, and my submission to 'The Gallery of Terror'. I'm actually quite happy with it.

If you didn't read my last post, this is Lon Chaney from 'London After Midnight'. It was directed by Tod Browning ('Dracula' and 'Freaks') and was released in 1927. Unfortunately, the film doesn't exist anymore. The last known print perished in a 1967 MGM vault fire. I've always found 'the man in the beaver-skin hat' (as he was known in the film) to be a thoroughly creepy character, and a great icon from the silent film era.

I painted it in Adobe Photoshop without an under-drawing. I normally do a pencil drawing first. But this time, I painted it straight. Then I add filters and effects to make it resemble an 1860's daguerreotype.

Until next time

Cheers!

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

London After Midnite

This is a great post title. It's 2:40 am, and I'm ready for bed. Happy October! Time for Halloween paintings. It's Lon Chaney from "London After Midnight" (1927). It was directed by Tod Browning (the director of 'Dracula'-1931 and 'Freaks' 1932) Unfortunately the last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.

Maybe I'll add color to it later, but I'm submitting this painting into a Halloween show tomorrow.

Thanks again

Cheers!

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Less Than Zero. . .

Here's a quick Elvis Costello sketch, I did while watching him in Austin Powers. It's funny the things you notice while drawing someone's face, you've never seen before. Like Mr. Costello's caddy wampus, reversed crossed eyes. Well I am super-tired. So have a fantastic night.

Thanks for looking. . .

Cheers

Monday, September 9, 2013

A Frankensteined, Bride of Frankenstein. . .

I was going through some scans of old sketches, and found a Boris Karloff I did couple of years ago. I'm expanding the sketch into a full illustration. I normally prefer to draw on paper. But since I'm sort of Frankenstein-ing this (forgive the pun), I've decided to do the whole thing digitally. . .

When it comes to painting it. I'm planning on using a wild color palette similar to the 1970's Pop-Horror Artist Basil Gogos. I've been wanting to mimic his style, for a few years now. With Halloween coming up, I now have a perfect excuse.

Until next time,

Cheers!