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Sunday, January 26, 2014

The Power of Christ Compels You?


Well, believe it or not, here is my second Horror Kid, Regan from 1973's THE EXORCIST. I love this film. I've always said that my favorite horror films of all time were the unholy trinity of ROSEMARY'S BABY, THE OMEN & THE EXORCIST. I have an old sketch for a ROSEMARY'S BABY piece, maybe I can work it up and add it to this series.

I do have two other Horror Kid sketches that I want to work into final pieces, so maybe I'll have another one next week. I've been working on several different things at once, including new Halloween art for 2014's countdown. I'm trying to get ahead since I always feel like I'm dragging behind...

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Lil' Damien Thorn & Pal


For awhile I've had this idea to do super cutesy illustrations of kids from some of my favorite horror films. This first one is Damien from 1976's THE OMEN. This is the second time that I've drawn this little devil. Here he is in a piece that I did back in 2011.


I still like the old one fine, but it's interesting to see them together. It illustrates how my drawing style has shifted over the past couple of years.

Right now I'm working on art for a group show at ZaPow coming up in February called 'Creepy Cute'. I'll post those closer to the show date. In the meantime, I'm continuing on, finishing up unfinished art business. Until next time.....

Friday, January 17, 2014

First Post of 2014



Well, here is is almost half-way through January and I'm just now getting around to doing my first post of the year. I did do a new banner for 2014, as you can see. I'm trying to get myself refocused and get this year started off as a productive one. In addition to the new banner, I just completed this piece:



If you're a regular reader here, you know that I'm primarily a digital artist, but have been experimenting with paint makers & cut paper. I am most comfortable doing digital versions of my original sketchbook drawings. Doing paintings or cut paper tends to slow me down, because it isn't as familiar to me. Cut paper takes more thinking & planning and painting/paint markering stresses me out because I feel like I'm performing surgery. When doing original pieces like that works, it's great. But when you spend a bunch of time working on something that ultimately you abandon because it's not turning out quite like you thought, it can seriously shake up your self-confidence. I had to abandon at least 3-4 paintings that I started in the last 4 months. I do want to continue to pursue both mediums, but if for some reason things aren't coming together in the final, I don't want to feel like my time was completely wasted. 
So having said all that, this is a digital version of what will possibly be a painted piece, coming in the near future. Fingers crossed that it works out because I would really like to do more work in this style.

Here are some paintings that I did back in November, that I actually finished and got down to the gallery. These sold as a set last month.