Psyche Delectus: Queen

Centered in darkness, She waits.

Recommended Listening:

Lacus Somniorum

Sentient Abyss

from Tideshaper

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

Coming Soon: Third Annual Halloween Outbreak!

As the days grow colder and darker, the walls between the worlds grow thinner.  Strange entities wait just on the other side of the veil. Each year on All Hallow's Eve they break out and overrun the world of the mundane. 

My Neatoshop Giveaway Extension

Apparently the link to my initial post about my Neatoshop tshirt giveaway did not transfer over to my facebook. Thanks Mercury retrograde!   To make up for lost time, I am extending the deadline for the giveaway one week.  It will wrap up on October 11th.  I'm kind of grateful because this will allow time for me to squeeze in a couple more designs.  :-)

I'm including the giveaway details below again:

Saturday Sketch: Silver Age Abel

A companion piece to last week's image of Cain, here we have Abel, caretaker of the House of Secrets.

{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 Easter!

Here comes Peter-Cotton-Zombie shambling down the zombie trail!  Happy Eastaarrrhhhh!

Here we have the header for the month of April 2014.  My fear of people in full body mascot costumes, especially in public places, informed many of my choices within this piece.  Making the person inside a zombie and well...I'm done.  The color for this piece was fairly challenging.  In general, I'm not a big fan of pastel colors.  Dealing with those colors as my main palette and trying to maintain a sense of horror simultaneously was challenging.

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}

 

Saturday Sketch: Silver Age Cain

Here is Cain from the House of Mystery.  I first met Cain and his brother Abel in the early issues of Sandman, but they both appeared long before.  Doing my research for this piece I never realized that Berni Wrightson was so involved with the House of Mystery.  I also did not realize that it was such a long running title.  I've got some back issue tracking to do.  :-)

Also, this piece is much larger than the normal Saturday Sketches.  I was in a groove when I began working on it and before I realized the size difference I was mostly finished.  So this one isn't sketchcard size.

{8x5.71,  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: Moon Mystery

Done in an older contour style, here is a sketch of an embodiment of the mystery of the moon.  There is an echo of ancient Egyptian style to the imagery and a faint feeling of the Goddess Isis within the image.  These choices were not intentional at the time.  I often drew in this style ecstatically with no planned intention when I began drawing.  I would just begin drawing to see what emerged.  This process is what evolved into the process I use to create the pieces within the Psyche Delectus Tenebrarum.

{8x5.78,  Graphite}

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!

Saturday Sketch: Silver Age Agatha Harkness

An ancient witch of incredible power, Agatha Harkness first appeared in Fantastic Four #94.  She was governess to Franklin Richards for many years and later became mentor the Scarlet Witch.

{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: Rock Rage

Here is an older unfinished sketch portrait of an angry stone faced creature.  With this piece I was specifically trying to give the face the texture of a lava flow that has begun to cool and turn to stone.  I can't remember if my intent for this piece was a rock like race of people or a single creature.

{8x5.64 Sharpie}