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Pennywise

Color Pencil Drawing
8.5" x 11"

Recently I was shuffling through an old folder of mine with some drawings I had done for Art in high school. I would like to take this time to say, holy s**t that was 8 years ago, it was 2001, but I digress. What I found was the image you see up above, an illustration of Pennywise the dancing clown from the TV miniseries It. Personally I've never had a real fear of clowns, but it is definitely the exception.

It is quite possibly one of my favorite things to watch as a kid. I attempted to read Stephen King's novel, but just holding the 1,000 plus page book was intimidating.

This drawing might be my best use of color pencil. I don't typically do anything like this, solely because I just love simple line drawings. Above all else, I don't have a strong grip on shading. This isn't too bad, is it?

*Note: This image has been manipulated.

Vader

Micron Drawing & Digital Illustration
8.5" x 11"

Per request. The Dark Lord of the Sith. Darth Vader.

...I Am...

Micron Drawing & Digital Illustration
8.5" x 11"

Nothing is more painful than knowing that the Dark Lord of the Sith is your father. How f***ed up, I mean really. You just dedicated two weeks of your life to defeating the Empire and then you have this s**t laid on you. Not only do you get the worst news of your life, but you lose a hand for it. No justice for Luke here. I guess it was the Empire who struck back in this movie anyway. Vader revealing to Luke, I am your father, was maybe one of the best twists ever. Leia being his sister, not so much.

In any event I needed to attempt to do something different and here it is. Space and geometry the current guilty pleasure. I don't mind doing it for this piece, just cause it doesn't really matter.

Dead

Micron Drawing & Digital Color
5" x 7"

Recently I watched Shaun of the Dead again. Michelle had yet to see it, so I thought it would be nice for her to check it out. She really enjoyed it.

During this maybe third or fourth viewing I began to realize just how clever the social commentary is, on a few levels. One of which is simply, through routine and repetition in our daily lives we kind of already are zombies. Secondly, the fact that we are all kind of oblivious to the goings on in our world. If there were some zombie infestation, just how many of us would know it right away? The last thing I feel a personal connection to is Shaun's need to have to break out of his routine. This happens but only under extreme circumstances, and that shouldn't have to be the case. Just realize the need for change.

Saw

Micron Drawing & Digital Color
5" x 7"

The other day I began thinking to myself how can I make things a little different? I came to the conclusion that maybe instead of one drawing I make a series of drawings for any particular film franchise. The first franchise I decided to focus on was Saw.

Above are just traps from the first five films, Billy and the antagonist Jigsaw.

To be perfectly honest I really do enjoy the Saw series, but at this point I haven't been able to keep up with the ever evolving story. As a pure horror film it's fun and entertaining. How the plot grows from movie to movie I couldn't tell you. There are too many constant twists and surprises to keep track of.

And to be honest, I think seeing all the traps in a sequence at the Hollywood Horror Nights' maze might have had something to do with my decision to do this.

Tricks

Pen Drawing & Digital Illustration
11" x 17"

An anthology of horror.

Halloween has many tricks 'n treats for everyone.

Sometimes things aren't quite what they seem.

Panic

Pen Drawing & Digital Illustration
11" x 17"

Michelle and I running scared from the hoards of undead at Halloween Horror Nights as we made our exit. Exhausted and worn down, there was sheer panic hearing 15 chainsaws all explode in a sound of fury. We ran scared and lost a few in our party, but thankfully they made it out alive.

You don't know what you're capable of until you are put in unordinary situations.

*Note: This image has been manipulated.

This is Halloween

Micron Drawing & Collage
8.5" x 11"

For my countdown to Halloween I thought I'd visit one of my all time favorite movies Halloween. Not just favorite scary movie, this movie is in my top ten.

I just drew multiple Michael's and digitally collaged the pieces I thought looked and worked best together. Then I digitally illustrated and badly Photoshop filtered an image of young Michael with his adult portrait superimposed. A pretty literal interpretation of Michael really just being a broken boy.

To me this is Halloween.

Gangrene Bath

Pencil Drawing & Digital Collage
8.5" x 11"

This should have been my Friday post, but I never got around to it. I had the image and idea in my head, but I had some other business to take care of.

This is the scene in The Shining where Jack comes across an alluring woman in the bath and soon discovers she's been in a gangrene bath. The woman it turns out is a ghost of the Overlook hotel. Sometimes you need to be careful what you wish for. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy, better than getting it on with a decaying geriatric woman.

Tony

Pencil Drawing & Digital Collage
8.5" x 11"

I never fully understood the little voice in Danny's throat (Tony), but I have to admit it was very creepy. It seemed to know everything and played a pivotal role in Danny's survival.

Thanks Tony!

Redrum

Pencil Drawing & Digital Collage
8.5" x 11"

To the two folks that actually view my blog, I know I've been gone a while, but I was a little busy this week. Although I've been gone it's actually given me some time to think about my latest entry, which was in some very odd and strange way art directed by my lovely girlfriend.

We recently watched 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and I have to say it was very aesthetically beautiful, aside from being a very interesting tale. She had some thoughts on the film. But the reason I mention it is, my girlfriend's favorite film is The Shining directed by Stanley, and based on these two little tidbits of information I did this very draining collage.

REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM!