This piece was originally part of the Interior Life set. With the Interior Life set I tried to find a middle ground between my more emotive works and my sequential art. That set held some of the ideas and thought processes that would grow into much of my intent here at Zombie Bites. I had imagined this hungry door as fiery from the moment I drew it. With the color reinvestigation I wanted to bring that feeling of furnace / fireplace to the fore.
{8x6.503, Sharpie with color added in Adobe Photoshop}
Drawn around the same time as last week's gargoyle, here we have a graphite sketch of an elder Nosferatu.
{8.5x11, Graphite}
He comes to measure the moment.
Recommended Listening:
{8x5.33, Digital Images manipulated in Adobe Photoshop}
In his secret origin story, Doctor Fate confronts Negal, the giant ruler of the Underworld of Charn.
{2.5x3.5, created in Adobe Photoshop}
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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.
The Skin Crawling Comics
website began earlier this year and 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!
Here is a graphite sketch from some time ago of a gargoyle type creature. Perhaps this is how some of the inmates of Arkham Asylum perceive Batman...
Here we have a loose portrait of Scratch chained in his cage. Here he's looking kind of sad and more fearful than his usual malicious, but that chain is on him for a reason.
{8x6.34, created in Adobe Photoshop}
In one of his early adventures, Doctor Fate journeys to Hell in search of the soul of Wotan and encounters the Ferryman and a group of the dead. Doctor Fate bullies the Ferryman into allowing he and Inza to cross the River Styx into Hell.
{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.
Here is a quick sketch of a devil's head. I've always been fond of the design quality of light emitting from within the eyes and mouth of a dark face.
{Sharpie}
I'm going to take a break from posting fiction for awhile. My batteries are running very low and I need to refill. In the meantime here is the beginning of a set of portraits of The Devil's Square. I haven't posted much about them in awhile, but I have been working on them in the background.
{8x6.37, created in Adobe Photoshop}
In the mindforge,
psychotoxins are broken down
and immunechanisms integrate
the new coping code that remains.
The first time I saw Wotan was in Doctor Fate's origin in Secret Origins #24. There was something unsettling about his skin tone that frightened me. I think perhaps I was flashing back to the Wicked Witch of the West. When I saw the Wizard of Oz as a kid, she scared the crap out of me. In the More Fun Comics Doctor Fate stories, Wotan seemed to be a charismatic cult leader as well as master sorcerer.
{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.
