From the Archives: Dark RPG Versus

Here we have an armed man struggling with some shadowy denizen.  This piece is from a older portfolio that I had created to present to RPG companies.  I think White Wolf had just exploded at the time.

{8x2.2,  Pen and Ink}

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}

Saturday Sketch: Golden Age Mister Who

Another of Doctor Fate's early foes, Mister Who gained shape changing and size changing abilities from ingesting Solution Z!  Mister Who showed up later in Doctor Fate's chronology, fighting against the All-Star Squadron as member of the Monster Society of Evil.

{2.5x3.5,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

I claim no copyright for the properties represented in the Saturday Sketches.  All copyrights and trademarks are retained by their respective owners.  I make no money from what I am presenting here.  It is presented for portfolio and appreciation purposes only.

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}

 

Saturday Sketch: The Legion of the Styx

Conjured by Mango the Mighty to protect himself from Doctor Fate, this mob of shrouded dead are known as the Legion of the Styx.

{2.5x3.5,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

I claim no copyright for the properties represented in the Saturday Sketches.  All copyrights and trademarks are retained by their respective owners.  I make no money from what I am presenting here.  It is presented for portfolio and appreciation purposes only.

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}

 

Skin Crawling Comics July Update

The Skin Crawling Comics website posts pages to the individual stories of the anthology every Tuesday and Thursday.  Drop by and check out the latest updates!

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

From the Archives: Dismay

Here we have a more recent sorrowful sketch from a paint brush exploration session in Photoshop. 

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

Featured Creature: Devil's Square, The Ruddy Skull

A human skull covered in rust, the Ruddy Skull continually sheds flakes but never seems to lose any of its mass.  The metallic ball in the eye socket appears to be silver and is unaffected by the corrosion.  All attempts to remove the silver ball have failed.  Those who have held the skull claim to see visions of the past, of distant locations and people, and sometimes of the future.

The Ruddy Skull has not yet appeared in any Devil's Square fiction to date, but will feature prominently in an upcoming Devil's Square story.

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

 

Psyche Delectus: Forgotten Places

In the absence, places remember.

Recommended Listening:

Dead Can Dance

Windfall

from Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

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