Dr. Evil ManBun

 Color version of a drawing from some years ago.

INKY FRIDAY!

 For Inky Friday... Appearances can be deceiving sometimes. With these bigger than usual monsters, they may look menacing but they are friendly and like looking after their neighbors. Be safe this Halloween season.

Nightmare landscape

 Today's Halloween season post is about nightmares. We've all had plenty over the course of our lives. Weird dreams and nightmares are usually the result of some stress or anxiety we have during the day. Occasionally nightmares can happen without stress or anxiety. Possibly those are a result from seeing a difficult or imaginative movie, show or story we've read.

This drawing was from a dream that had a shape shifting landscape that I remember as being less of a nightmare and just a fascination with the ability of the landscape to do such a thing.

Wednesday Randome Art Post

 A lot of scary things from childhood remain in your subconscious for the rest of our lives and sometimes they can float up to the surface and you see that they aren't all that scary. For creative types (like me), we can use those feelings and images to create something fun and consequently that helps to dispel those old fears. Perhaps that's a cause for Halloween.

When I painted this one (acrylic on canvas) I titled it "You don't know me".

Pumpkin Witch

From a few years ago when I was doing one ink drawing per day for my Ink-tober post. A living pumpkin wearing a witch hat with octopus tentacles in the background and some sort of brimstone smoke.

I got used to drawing in public from working for game companies where sometimes I had to demonstrate my concepts on a white board in a meeting. I would also draw a lot during meetings (sometimes just to stay awake in a boring meeting), so I'm used to people observing me while I draw.

And it's just good to get out of my studio space and have people around to inspire some of that drawings that I do in my sketchbooks.

 

Jolly Roger

 Some years ago while working on a project and wondering what would be a good Halloween-ish ornament for a fence, I thought about the skull and crossbones (AKA... the Jolly Roger) on pirate flags of the 17th and 18th centuries, and what kind of interpretation that I could do. So I came up with a skull that was made with planks of wood with wooden dowels for the crossbones, surrounded with a metal compass with a wood and steel base with an iron flower at the top.

Another seasonal drawing using a ploychromos dark red #225 pencil.

Little Monsters

 Monsters can take a variety of forms, like this one that was based on examinations of bugs/insects, with some liberty taken. Those little critters can occasionally be helpful but mostly we regard them as a nuisance. I can only feel itchy when I think they might be crawling on my body. Which is creepy.

And isn't that what Halloween is about?

Halloween Art Post Day 3

 Today's WRAP (Wednesday Random Art Post) is, of course, seasonally related. This one was a concept for a project some years ago. The Monster Mom is trying to distract the Monster Child from fits of crying with a rattle/toy, of sorts. Obviously it worked and the child was fascinated.

More Seasonal art coming for the rest of October, so stay tuned.

SKETCH31

Life sometimes brings together unlikely friends that can last a lifetime and these buds are an example of that, with their one true bond being the fascination with the season of Halloween. Stay tuned each day this month for more fun Halloween drawings, illustrations and designs.

 

NEW COPIES

I got 10 author copies of my SKETCH31 book recently. Turned out great and is a lot of fun to read  

through. Get yourself a copy on Amazon.com

Extra iPad Pro paintings from October.

These creatures were done for the Halloween month.

SKETCHTOBER!

These are all the drawings I did for SKETCHOBER this year. Using a Dark Blue Polychromos #19 pencil on sketchbook paper.

Halloween illustration

I've done a a few new Halloween illustrations and here is one of them. Halloween buds.

NOT Halloween already!!!

This is from last October's INKTOBER drawing month. It's one of the last few. I did a couple of extra drawings that month and they are all included in my INKTOBER book that is available on Amazon and other book sellers. Get your copy before INTOBER gets here... and I'm taking this year off from that but will be back at it in 2020, because that's going to be an intense year.

More from this last year's INKTOBER.

Two more from INKTOBER 2018.

One more Scaretober painting...

Last color illustration for the Halloween season.

New Sketchtober drawing...

Frankenstein's monsters take a selfie!

Scaretober painting...

The Cellar room... where sorcery happens

Today's INKTOBER drawing... doodle...

Coffee GHOSTS!!

We've all had that coffee that has been sitting around too long...

Tonight's Sketchtober drawing...

The Flying Goblins of Wednesday night.