Mara Winikat is the current alter ego of King Roach. This image is a scan of the first page of a sketchbook from 2002. I did this sketch soon after I’d realized that Brian Daniels, my original choice for the human half of King Roach, was going to drive me crazy if I had to live with him as protagonist. Poor Brian is unfortunately too much like me – whiny and reluctant to act. Bad enough I have to hang out with me all the time. Mara is actually excited about being able to turn into a giant bug.
Author Archives: skook
Sketching the Ghouls – Viking Takedown
This is the last of the preliminary sketches for the Ghoul sourcebook that I currently have scanned in. Work still continues on the book.
Tomorrow I start posting from a sketchbook from 2002.
Sketching the Ghouls – In the Tunnels
If these guys are lucky the ghouls are well fed and only want to play.
Sketching the Ghouls – Mordiggian’s Dinner Table
If the ghouls don’t get you, Mordiggian probably will.
Sketching the Ghouls – An Unfortunate Aroma
Ghouls, even those who still look mostly human, kinda stink. Once they embrace their ghoulishness they’re usually happy about it.
Sketching the Ghouls – An Offering for Mordiggian
In Zul-Bha-Sair all the dead belong to Mordiggian the charnel god. No one knows what the priests of Mordiggian look like behind their masks and under their robes – no one but the dead.
Sketching the Ghous – Pickman, After
Edward Pickman in his studio in the early 1930s.
Sketching the Ghouls – Pickman, Before
Edward Pickman, when his studio was not as far underground.
Sketching the Ghouls –
As a human transforms into a ghoul his memory of his human life fades. Objects that were once sentimental treasures become simply sparkly bits of distraction.
Sketching the Ghouls – The Magnificent Mythos Seven
These gentlemen are Sixtystone Press’s Magnificent Seven – the seven authors of weird fiction whose work helped to form the Cthulhu Mythos. From left to right – Arthur Machen, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, HP Lovecraft, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith and Frank Belknap Long.
