Three Creatures

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The final three monsters (of nine) from 2000 or 2001.

The creature on the left is some sort of giant leech thing, inspired somewhat by the Flukeman in The X-Files and the giant leeches in Attack of the Giant Leeches. Giant Leeches freaked me out as a kid because it was one of the first movies I saw in which the monsters weren’t all destroyed by the end of the story. They were still out there, waiting to suck again.

In the middle is a version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

On the right is a Mummy. The Mummy is one of the “classic” monsters that I’ve never really understood the appeal of. Sure, if I were stalked by a relentless, reanimated corpse in real life I’d be plenty scared. But I’d be scared if I were attacked by giant flesh eating bunnies too. Lots of things that would scary in real life are not so scary in the movies. One of these days I’ll have to watch the original Karloff film to see what the appeal is. If nothing else Karloff is always entertaining.

Three Things

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Three more monster portraits from 2000 or 2001.

The first Thing on the right is a Golem. The middle Thing is one of the eyeless demons from the original run of Deadworld. On the left is Frankenstein’s Monster. This version was done before I’d read the novel.

Three Monsters

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I’m guessing these three monster portraits were done in 2000 or 2001. I know they were done at about the same time as the nine portraits of women that were posted over the previous three days. So those portraits might have been done in 2000 or 2001.

How do I know that these monsters were drawn before the women. Because, when I’m practicing, I always draw monsters first. Always. Some people sketch fruit. Some people draw sexy babes. I draw monsters to loosen up.

From right to left we have: a vampire, a werewolf and a zombie. But that was obvious wasn’t it?

Three Ladies

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Three more cartoon portraits of women done in 2000. The first two are one-offs, done without a specific character in mind. The last one is my version of Cruela De Vil. But that’s obvious, right?

Three Women

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I am not going to complain about how much I’ve been working. I am not going to babble on about the Day Job. I am not going to bore you with the details of data entry or finicky Ustream feeds or our customer’s failure to understand that we do not control the internet or their computer.

Instead I’m just going to post these three portraits from 2000. They are not from any particular project. I was doing them as part of series of practice drawings. I do a lot of practice drawings. Or I try to. I haven’t gotten a lot of drawings, practice or otherwise, done recently. But I’m not going to say any more about that.

Section H Final

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This the illustration that grew out of the sketch I posted yesterday. It’s not bad but, honestly, I think would have done a better piece (and finished it faster) if I’d done the whole thing in pen and ink or in pencil. I spent a ridiculously long time playing around in Photoshop trying to get the look and effects I wanted. Still, I learned a lot in the process. (Mostly that trying to do everything in Photoshop was doing it the hard way.)

Section H Sketch

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The Day Job has been keeping me pretty busy. Busy enough that I’ve honestly been forgetting to post. It’s a lame excuse even if it’s true.

This is the original sketch for the first illustration I did for The Black Seal #1 back in 2003. I’d learned just enough Photoshop that I deluded myself into thinking I could use the program to create an illustration from this sketch. Tomorrow I’ll post the result and you can decide whether I succeeded.

The (Vampire) Kids are All Right

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I spent yesterday getting readjusted to home and work and thus missed posting. My apologies.

This illustration was the last piece in the watercolor sketchbook that held the figure drawings and the previous post’s Black Molly illustration. As I think I written previously, most horror writers and fans have a vampire story they want to tell. This is a glimpse of what mine might have looked like if I’d started drawing it in 1992.