Here we have a raging horned snake demon. This creepy crawly was created using the Purple / Yellow technique. At first I was a little trepidatious of adding tones to this piece. The stark black and white wanted to remain so, but as I began working on it, I tried a bit of hand toning with the airbrush tool in Photoshop and it all made sense. The more detailed shading added a quality to it that reminded me of graphite drawing. As always, a nod here to the genius of H. R. Giger.
He hangs midair like a ghost,
Here's a touched up portrait of H. P. Lovecraft I created to hang in my space. I wanted a portrait of the horror master to inspire me when I was working, but I didn't want something plain. I ran the standard image of him through several photoshop filters and voila, H.P. visits Silent Hill!
Here we have another zombie from the ongoing outbreak. This one seems pretty harmless, but beware the unguarded ankle! That's why you have to check everywhere and under everything when cleaning out spaces for Z. You never know where a half eaten corpse might be animating. All it takes is one bite.
Beneath my skin I drown,
After this week's mention on my process with the purple and yellow sharpies, I wanted to share the original color scan for Autumn Winds. I actually enjoy this piece a lot in its original form. I spend so much time looking at black ink on top of grey pencil that the variation is very refreshing. It's like artwork from some weird other world where the light is odd and the laws of physics are different, or the color green doesn't exist. Check out the original post to compare it to the finished piece.
This piece was done in an experimental style I developed when I worked
at Kinko's. I began using it when I discovered that bright yellow
generally doesn't photocopy well or at all. Specifically, I'm talking
about neon yellow, but a bright yellow sharpie will do the trick.
The air bleeds with the ichor of dismay.
