Featured Creature: Eagle of Vz Part II

Continuing the fiction from the Featured Creature post, Eagle of Vz:

The Eagle of Vz

Part II

As soon as the Eagle's spotlight eye landed on me, I took off.  I used the same trail I'd followed up to the house, but I still nearly broke my foot several times running helter skelter through the darkness.  As I leapt over a large root in my way, the angle of the hillside sharpened suddenly and I lost my footing.  I slid the last fifty feet.  I finally stopped, a cloud of dust swirling around me.  I jumped up immediately, knife in hand.  I had landed on the next street down and just several yards from a street lamp.  I could hear the beast screeching far above me.

From the Archives: Currents of Midnight

Here's a more recent bit of play where I was exploring brush options in Photoshop again.  This piece harkens back to earlier styles.  Not a whole lot going on here other than me playing with some color.  However I feel like I was able to get close to the effects of Prismacolor pencils within the Photoshop program and that in and of itself will be useful later on. 

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Featured Creature: The Bogeyman

He waits just on the other side,
calculating the turns of tide.

When the walls 'tween worlds are thin,

that's when the Bogeyman slips in.

He comes as shadow,

He comes at night,
He comes to fill you up with fright.
And when you overflow with fear
that's when the Bogeyman draws near.
A single touch to make you scream
and then he's gone just like a dream.
First he's there and then he's not.
He's hiding in the Bogey spot.

The Bogeyman isn't here or there,
The Bogeyman is everywhere.

{8x5.33  Digital Images created in Adobe Photoshop}

 

Psyche Delectus: Hunter

Within the cauldron of experience,
the masks of time are shredded
to reveal the true essence.

Featured Creature 2012-13: Last Bites Part VI, Dreaming the Dark Night

In June I took a departure from how I'd been approaching the Featured Creature posts.  In many of the fiction pieces associated with the Featured Creature posts, artifacts of mystical power had appeared and I wanted to take a more time to shine a spotlight on those objects and their individual histories.  Beginning with the Chaska of the Chaldean Abyss, I presented these items of power while continuing to push forward with the new color aspect of my work.  Sadly, June would not be as uneventful as May and complications began immediately on June first that would challenge my ability to move forward with any regularity.

Featured Creature: One Last Candle Before the Dark

As the Autmunal Equinox passes and we enter the dark half of the year, here's one last candle to celebrate the light.  This wraps up my month long celebration of the one year anniversary of the Featured Creature.  I hope you've enjoyed everything so far and will stick around for what's to come in 2013-2014.  Thanks for viewing and reading!

Delays and Apologies

The past two days have been crazy busy and I missed that I had left the most recent Featured Creature post, Eagle of Vz, in draft mode and it failed to post on time yesterday.  I didn't catch it until this afternoon.  My apologies for the delay.

Featured Creature: Eagle of Vz

The following is a continuation of the fiction begun in the Featured Creature Spawn of Vz Post:


"I had just finished spreading the salt in a circle around the house when the flames began to show through the windows.  I took a small vial from my pocket and moved to each of the four directional points on the circle.  I sprinkled a splash in towards the house at each of the points. The tincture of blessed oils and water would seal the little bastard in and make sure the fire did it's work.  I had to stick around until I was sure that the spawn was dead, but I needed to be far away when the fire department arrived.  I stepped away from the house and picked up the duffel bag I'd brought with me.

From the Archives: Dark Corner

When I drew this, there was a person I was working with that I strongly disliked.  I often imagined dark things growing in the corners of our office due to the poisonous environment.  The building was older and had a slight musty / moldy smell and our section of the building got very little sun...lots of dark corners.

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Psyche Delectus: The Red King

He waits.

Skin Crawling Update: That is not dead which can eternal lie...

Although Skin Crawling Comics didn't make its Indigogo funding goal, all is not lost. There are plans afoot that are paving a future for SCC, but I can't say at the moment what those plans are, but I'll share more as things coalesce.  In the meantime, if you haven't already, please check out Skin Crawling Comics on Twitter, Facebook!

Featured Creature 2012-13: Last Bites Part V, Winds of Change

The month of May brought a revelation of understanding and some small amount of peace of mind.  After surviving the trauma of March and April and finally getting things back up and running with my new laptop, I jumped back into the rhythm of production.  I sunk my teeth into the work of coloring the comic book story, Buried for the Skin Crawling Comics Anthology and began a path of learning that transformed me with each step I took.  

Featured Creature: Singing Candle

Following the single candle theme of the Featured Creature One Year Anniversary, here is a sorrowful creepy singing candle.

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From the Archives: Sub Basement

Here we have a creepy super science sub basement where something horrible escaped.  This was a development sketch for a comic book story I was working on at the time.  It kind of went to the back burners, but it may come back eventually.  Like zombies, stories rarely stay dead forever.  :-)

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Featured Creature: The Thing from the Sky

The following is an excerpt from a Burkens County police report of an eyewitness account of the accident that occurred at Highway 14 on December 3rd, 2012:

The fog was so thick that day you couldn't see no more than five or ten feet in front a you.  I told mama to slow down as we hit that curve near the top a' fourteen.  Didn't wanna bump into nobody.  That section a road is a bit tricky.

Psyche Delectus: If It's War You Want

The temptations of raging against ignorance and greed are many.  The withheld action is a potent tool for learning.

Skin Crawling Comics Indigogo Fundraiser Ends at Midnight!

The Skin Crawling Comics Anthology Indigogo Fundraiser ends at Midnight tonight!  As I type this we are at about third of what we need. Please check out Skin Crawling on Twitter, Facebook, and the fundraising page at Indiegogo! Help make Skin Crawling Comics a reality.

Featured Creature 2012-13: Last Bites Part IV, The Devil's Crucible

Despite the globally explosive second half of April, personally, the months of March and April were the most dramatic turning point of the 2013.  I began March determined and hopeful.  I was fully recuperated from my winter illness and was now being treated at local low income clinic should any new physical illness manifest.  I felt optimistic.

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: Last "Buried" Teaser Art - Only 1 Day Remaining

Here's the last of the Buried teaser cards!  Buried is written by Bryant Dillon with art by Chris Thorne and colors by yours truly!  Unless something changes dramatically before tomorrow, these cards may be all you'll see of the story.  If you like what you see here and would like to see the whole story, support Skin Crawling Comics!

Featured Creature: It Is Better to Light a Candle...

Here's another creepy, candle themed treat to celebrate the first year of the Featured Creature!  I've actually turned this one into a greeting card as the very first item at my Zazzle Store.  Check it out!

{Digital Images created in Adobe Photoshop}

 

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: Fanboy Comics Interview for "Night Terror" - Only 2 days Remain

Here's a Fanboy Comics interview with Edmund Dansart and Heather Royston for their SCC contribution Night Terror.  Check it out!

From the Archives: Angry Guy

Occasionally my angry faces will go a bit cartoony.  Here is one such from the traveling sketchbook.

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The Featured Creature: The Maltus Incident

Excerpted from Dr. Liam Hofstadter's report to the Department of Extranormal Phenomena concerning the Maltus Incident :

At approximately 1300 hours Pacific time, The USS Peregrine with full compliment was en route from Hawaii towards the International Dateline.  The Peregrine's mission was to locate and intercept any remains of the fallen Maltus satellite.  The Maltus was a remote NASA experimental satellite with the mandate of testing of drug combination and manufacture in zero gravity.  Once located, the remains of the Maltus were to be recovered by the USS Santa Fe, also en route to the location when the incident occurred.

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: HorrorTalk.com Highlights "Hoard" Preview - Only 3 Days Remaining

Horror Talk.com highlights the Hoard Preview from Rachel Pandich and  Ashley Lanni.  Check out this free preview and support Skin Crawling Comics!

Skin Crawling Comics Today: Monster Island Resort Podcast - Only 4 Days Remaining

Here's Skin Crawling's tireless Editor in Chief, Rachel Pandich, giving the Skin Crawling Comics Story to Monster Island Resort.

Psyche Delectus: Emergence Into Understanding

Many are the paths to knowing.
Discomfort is one.
Pain is another.

Skin Crawling Comics Today: Fanboy Comics Interview for "The Jack" - Only 5 Days Remaining

Here's an Interview at Fanboy Comics with Star St. Germain and Jeremy W. Kaufmann about their contribution to SCC, The Jack.

Skin Crawling Comics Today: More Teaser Art from Edmund Dansart - Only 6 Days Remaining

Some more teaser art from Heather Royston's and Edmund Dansart's story for Skin Crawling.  If you'd like to see more, I posted some other art from their story here and here.

The Featured Creature 2012-13: Last Bites Part III, Crawling From The Wreckage

A new year dawned and I began to fully recuperate from my bout of Bronchitis. Within me, new fictions grew from the sorrows of the previous November.  I slowly began to put my life back together and crawl my way back towards health.  The first  Featured Creature of the year, a nasty three tongued demon, was also the first color creature of the year.  It would be spring before I would create another color creature, but by that time a lot would change for me personally and professionally.

Skin Crawling Comics Today: More "Buried" Teaser Art - Only 1 Week Remaining

Here's another teaser card from Buried.  There's a neat short Youtube video based on this panel here.  Check it out!  Buried is written by Bryant Dillon with art by Chris Thorne and colors by yours truly! If you like what you see here and would like to see more, support Skin Crawling Comics!

Featured Creature: Another Juicy Birthday Treat!

Here's another juicy birthday treat to celebrate The Featured Creature's first year.  Also, this piece is to help add a little more zombie action since the living dead have been missing around here for awhile. Enjoy!

Skin Crawling Comics Today: "The Borley Reports" Teaser Art - Only 8 days remaining

Here are some beautiful preview images from The Borley Reports, by Anissa Espinosa, Lauren Burke and Greg Sorkin.