Skin Crawling Comics September Update

The Skin Crawling Comics website regularly posts pages to the individual stories of the anthology every Tuesday and Thursday.  I'll be doing an update at least once a month with links to the newest pages.  Drop by and check out the latest updates!

FVK Page 6

FVK Page 7
FVK Page 8
FVK Page 9 
The Night Market Pg. 1

The Night Market Pg. 2
The Night Market Pg. 3
The Borley Reports Pg. 1
The Borley Reports Pg. 2
The Borley Reports Pg. 3

If you haven't already, check out last month's pages.  Also check out Skin Crawling Comics on Twitter and Facebook!

Featured Creature: The Ushtohc

Excerpted from Marge Hollander's Digest of Demons and Devils:

"The Ushtohc are an invasive other dimensional race.  They insert a portion of their consciousness into innocuous everyday objects and remain hidden while their influence grows.  They slowly infect the immediate reality with their presence until a suitable mobile host presents itself.  Once they have invaded a mobile host, they are nearly impossible to exorcise without great psychic effort.  Luckily, their transmission into the earth realm seems to only coincide with very rare celestial alignments."

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

 

Featured Creature: Cow Demon Robot

I've been drawing alot of humans in the Featured Creature lately and this week I wanted to get more creature back into the posts.  This image however, turned out more comedic than scary.  I figure though that somebody somewhere must be afraid of cow demon robots even if they're smiling...or maybe because they are smiling. 

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

My Neatoshop Grand Opening Giveaway!

For the next two weeks, I will be regularly posting new designs to my Neatoshop.  Please drop by and check out the designs and leave me a comment with this post as to which design is your favorite.  Either here at Zombie Bites or on Facebook is fine.  I'll be checking both.  While you're at it drop by the Neatoshop Facebook page and give them a like.  I wouldn't have this opportunity without them!

On October 4th, I'll put the names of everyone who left a comment into a hat, bag, or bowl and draw to see who will win a free tshirt!  I'll announce the winner later in the day on the 4th.  Here are my designs to date, but keep an eye out until October 4th for all new designs!

Also, if there is an image here on Zombie Bites or at any of my other blogs that you would like to see as a tshirt design or made available as a print, send me an email with the link at frostyjake@yahoo.com and I'll make it available as soon as possible!

Featured Creature: The Ghost

"The spirit of malevolence that had attached itself to the structure suffused everything with a suffocating aura of hopelessness, suffering, and despair."

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

Exhumed: Rotting Appleteeth

Rotting Appleteeth is a goblin of indulgence and decay.  Rotting is quick, selfish, and most certainly dangerous.  Legend has it that he used to have a mouth full of bright white teeth, but they decayed and fell out because of his lust for eating sweets and drinking Nog all night.  His empty heart is jealous and craves all things, especially the teeth of others.  When he sees a beautiful set of polished ivories, out comes his dagger!

Surprisingly, his breath is rather sweet, but that is only a lure to get a victim close enough to cut out a few molars.  Although he will not pass up any tooth, he is known to prefer the teeth of children.  His nighttime attacks are responsible for the innate fear of dentists that many children possess.  He is a mortal enemy of the tooth fairy and the two have warred repeatedly over a single stolen tooth.

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

My Neatoshop - New Designs 091014

If you haven't stopped by yet, here are my designs I've most recently added to my Neatoshop!  Some of the images are older posts refitted to be a better tshirt design, but some are all new designs.  Drop by and check them all out!   Also if there is an image here on Zombie Bites that you would like to see as a tshirt design or made available as a print, send me an email with the link and I'll make it available as soon as possible!

Featured Creature: Moonlit Were

I'm going to take a break from the Devil's Square focus for a bit and pursue some straight up creature sketches.  This week we have a more painterly were-creature.  I've been so controlled with my compositions lately, I wanted to try something a little more organic and expressive.  I also haven't been getting nearly enough practice painting in Photoshop, so I've added that to my to do list.  Expect more in this style.
 
This piece also has an element of whimsy in it that surprised me once I'd finished it.  The overwhelming darkness of the world lately has been a bit much for me so I don't mind a bit of whimsy here.

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

 

From the Archives: Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Here are some delicious golden brains at the end of the rainbow.  This was the header for the month of March 2014, celebrating Saint Patty's in the Zombie Bites style!

Featured Creature is Two Years Old!

Today marks the second year of Zombie Bites Featured Creature!  Here's a bit of creepiness to celebrate the day!  I had a bit more planned for celebration, but my recent computer woes threw a gigantic wrench into the works.  We'll see what the rest of the month holds.

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop} 

Psyche Delectus: Between the Two Towers

Within the corridors of Night,
a mystery deepens.

Recommended Listening:

The Cure

A Forest

from Seventeen Seconds

{8x5.33,  Digital Images manipulated in Adobe Photoshop}

With this post, the Psyche Delectus Tenebrarum takes up a monthly frequency.

Skin Crawling Comics August Update

The Skin Crawling Comics website regularly posts pages to the individual stories of the anthology every Tuesday and Thursday.  I'll be doing an update at least once a month with links to the newest pages.  Drop by and check out the latest updates!

Hoard Page 15

Hoard Page 16
Hoard Page 17 

Hoard Page 18

Hoard Page 19
FVK Page 1
FVK Page 2
FVK Page 3
FVK Page 4
FVK Page 5
  

If you haven't already, check out last month's pages.  Also check out Skin Crawling Comics on Twitter and Facebook!

Crawling towards Connectivity

My computer issues are on their way to being solved, but it may be a week or two before I'm back up to full speed.  I haven't gotten my Adobe suite back up and running yet so Featured Creature and Saturday Sketch will be on hold until I am able to create again.  Things may be a little choppy here until I can get things back in order, but I will be back to semi-regular posting.

Featured Creature: The Devil's Square, Dr. Liam Hofstadter

Drafted into the service by the the Department of Extranormal Phenomena, Dr. Liam Hofstadter has become the unwilling agent of the secretive agency.  Though primarily a man of research and writing, the longer he stays within the department the more he finds himself drawn into greater and greater physical danger.  His research and his actions within the DEP will inevitably lock him onto a collision course with the Devil's Square.

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

 

Introducing My Neatoshop!

Thanks to a referral from Jeremy over at Being Retro and Horror Blogger Alliance, I was recently invited to join the artists over at Neatorama.  I have a developing store front there now.  Thanks Jeremy!  Thanks also to the guys over at Neatorama for inviting me!  Click the banner below to get to my storefront.

Although I will be posting new images regularly, at the moment I only have a few images at my Neatoshop.  If there is an image here at Zombie Bites or at any of my other blogs that you would like to see made available as a t-shirt, poster, or some such, send me a link to the image and I will post it at my shop.

Psyche Delectus: The Return

Ocean depths hold the mystery of all that has ever been.
With the passing of each tide,
old mythologies are born anew.

Recommended Listening:

Raison D'être

Towards Desolation

from Requiem for Abandoned Souls

{8x5.33,  Digital Images manipulated in Adobe Photoshop}

From the Archives: Happy Valentine's Day

Here are some delicious sticky treats for your significant zomb-other!  This header ran for a portion of the month of February celebrating VD in the Zombie Bites style!  

Featured Creature: Devil's Square, The Bloody Gem

This mysterious gem possesses a deadly and addictive power.  To the untrained eye the gem looks much like a gaudy piece of costume jewelry.  However, when exposed to blood, the gem glows with a pulsating red light and the terrible power within it is activated.

The history of this gem will be revealed in several upcoming Devil's Square stories.

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

 

Exhumed: D'spayre

Here we have a reinvestigation of a previous sketch of one of my favorite dark Marvel comics characters, D'spayre.  With the color, I wanted to clean the drawing up a bit and give him a dreary backdrop to look menacing against.  I also made the line work in the image part of the color.  As I began I had redrawn all of the line work in black, but I found the contrast too harsh.  With the color line work he takes on a phantom quality which suits D'spayre very well.

{8x6.18,  Graphite with color added in Adobe Photoshop}