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}

Saturday Sketch: Mango the Mighty

Here we have one of Doctor Fate's early adversaries, Mango the Mighty. Although his name doesn't exactly inspire fear, this sorcerer was murdering people with globes of fire before the Doctor finally shows up.  Mango also summons a horde of angry undead, the Legions of the Styx,  to fight for him against the Doctor but in the end he loses.  Of course.

{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: Paperclip Bird

Here's an older sketch of a creepy bird thing.  I've always found it especially disturbing when inanimate objects start moving around of their own volition.

{8.5x11, Graphite}

Featured Creature: Devil's Square, DEP Agent Boehler

Meet Agent Boehler of the Department of Extranormal Phenomena.  He hasn't appeared in any of the Devil's Square fiction I've presented to date, but he will eventually cross paths and possibly swords with the Square.

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

Saturday Sketch: Golden Age Nabu

Here we have the ancient Egyptian Lord of Order, Nabu the Wise, as he appeared in Doctor Fate's Origin in More Fun Comics #67.  I've always been fascinated by the symbiotic relationship between Nabu and Kent Nelson as the Doctor.

{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: Naga

I've always been disturbed by snake creatures with humanoid heads.  I think at the time I drew this that I may have had something more complex in mind, but it never went any further than this.

{8.5x11,  Graphite}

Featured Creature: Devil's Square, The Nameless One

Here we have the Nameless One in it's native dimension.

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

Psyche Delectus: He Does Not Touch the Ground

Denial is its own gestating darkness.

Recommended Listening:

Access to Arasaka

Raised Subway Platform

from METAX

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

Saturday Sketch: The Fish-Men of Nyarl-Amen

In his early adventures, Doctor Fate encountered the Fish-men of Nyarl-Amen with their electro-dart-shooting tridents.

{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.

Horror Blogger Alliance

From the Archives: Lich

Here's a creepy Lich sketch from some time ago for a fantasy story I was working on at the time.

{8.5x11,  Graphite}

UPDATE 031915:

This piece was Exhumed and reinvestigated with color in February 2015.  Check out the Exhumed image here.

Featured Creature: Devil's Square, Screwworm

Here is Screwworm lurking in a candlelit sanctum.

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

 

Saturday Sketch: Norn Giant

Here we have a Norn Giant from one of Doctor Fate's early adventures.  These guys are several stories tall.  I made him appear more angry than the giants appear in the original strip.  I also neutralized the colors just a tad to make them more palatable.

{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: The Door

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}

From the Archives: Nosferatu

Drawn around the same time as last week's gargoyle, here we have a graphite sketch of an elder Nosferatu.

{8.5x11, Graphite}

Featured Creature: Devil's Square, Scream

Here we have a portrait of Scream in a less aggressive moment.

{8x5.33,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

Psyche Delectus: The Arbiter

He comes to measure the moment.

Recommended Listening:

Kammarheit

Morgonspill

from at the heart of destruction

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

Saturday Sketch: Negal

In his secret origin story, Doctor Fate confronts Negal, the giant ruler of the Underworld of Charn.

{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.

Skin Crawling Comics June Update

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!

Buried Page 4

Buried Page 5
Buried Page 6 

Buried Page 7

Buried Page 8
Buried Page 9
Buried Page 10
The Mulberry Place Page 1
The Mulberry Place Page 2

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

From the Archives: Gargoyle

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...

{8.5x11,  Graphite}

Featured Creature: The Devil's Square, Scratch

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}

Saturday Sketch: Ferryman and the Dead

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.

From the Archives: Devil Head

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}

Featured Creature: Devil's Square, Scrag

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}

Psyche Delectus: Aetherengineer

In the mindforge,
psychotoxins are broken down 
and immunechanisms integrate
the new coping code that remains.

Saturday Sketch: Classic Wotan

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.