The Vampire Lovers

So, I haven't posted any Hammer film fan art in awhile so here's a good way to (almost) end the year. 'The Vampire Lovers' from 1970. This is one of my faves, and Ingrid Pitt is just fantastic in this one.

Make wise decisions this Holiday Season...

Well, I probably should have posted this before Christmas, but it's still the 'holiday season', so remember: Make wise decisions. I will have a few other posts before the end of the year, sort of a 2009 dump. Not to make light these posts, it's just a few things I didn't get around to posting because of the big Halloween Countdown. So stay tuned...

Animala at Christmas

I posted recently about 'The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra' and posted my first 'Animala' piece. I did another one, just in time for the Holidays. Oooooh, Shiny indeed!

Twilight Madness??

Here's something I know nothing about. 'Twilight'. I decided to go ahead and do a piece for this weeks Art Jumble topic & this is what happened to be the topic. My feelings about this final piece are luke warm. Lately I'm finding myself unable to get excited about my personal work. Hopefully that will change soon. I think I'm beginning to pressure myself too much, thus the process isn't fun anymore. And that's bad, because it's suppose to be fun for me. That's why I started up drawing again. I am thinking about doing some pieces that are related to cartoons & toys from my childhood, that may prove to be quite fun. We shall see.

Any way, I've never seen 'Twilight' but I'll admit that I'm curious about all the hype. To get the general idea of what the first movie is about, I settled for the 30 Second Bunnies version.

No YouTube on this one, if you want to watch it, follow the link.

A Christmas Story

Here's something about Christmas that I like, 'A Christmas Story'. It is probably my favorite Christmas movie. Has nice up lifting feeling without being to sappy or syrupy. Every year TNT runs the movie for 24 hours starting Christmas Eve night. So if you've never seen it, this will be your best opportunity.

Blue Steele

Even though I've posted several things over the last couple of days, I'm beginning to feel like I'm in a rut. My sketches don't seem to be working out the way I would like them to, and my main source material (my monster movie books), have just about exhausted themselves. So what's the perfect thing to tackle when you're having trouble making things work? Draw one of the people whose likeness gives you the most trouble. That's what I did. I drew a Barbara Steele a few months back, and while graphically it was pretty nice, the likeness wasn't all that great. I like this one much better. It actually kind of looks like her now.
I'm still working on some commission pieces and trying to work on some other personal pieces. I'm also trying to join Art Jumble, as I am already thinking about my 2010 New Year's Resolution, and how I would like to take on that challenge. I am still waiting to hear back from the administrators there. (fingers crossed ladies & gents).

Rower!

I'm a huge fan of Larry Blamire's film 'The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra', and I'm surprised at myself for not getting around to drawing some of this films great characters before now. This is a very 'toon-style' version of Animala, the woman made from 4 forest animals. I did a sketch of the Betty character some time ago, but haven't gotten around to making a final. I have so many ideas of 'Lost Skeleton' pieces that I would like to do, I guess I will just get around to them as I can. So this is Animala 1.0.

And if you've never heard of 'Lost Skeleton', check out the trailer below: