Davy Jones is one of those figures out of folklore where pretty much all you ever know it that he exists… or more accurately that “Davy Jones Locker” is a sailor’s euphemism for a watery hell. I tried to make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a UFO enthusiast I’m a little tired of Greys. So when I was doing my Inktober list I went with the much more traditional Little Green Men from Space. This went well (other than if I ever get an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wanted to do something different than just a generic ghosts this year so I dipped into Japanese folklore with Yotsuya Kaidan. I’d first come across the story of Oiwa from an art book about traditional Japanese monsters and the story of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For day ten of this year’s inktober challenge I did, that star of urban legends, The Hook. I can’t say this has ever been my one of my favorites. It always seemed to be like one of those campfire ghost[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Alien Xenomorph from Ridley Scott’s Alien was so scary to me in the sixth grade that the photo novel gave me nightmares! Anyway I tried not to rip of H.P. Giger’s designs off too much and went in thinking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the magic Tupperware told me I was I had to draw a vampire I was almost tempted to cheat and see if it had something better to offer. I’v already done vampires two years in a row and for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the thirteenth day of Inktober we have one of the great ogres of Northwestern Native American Folklore, Dzunukwa aka Basket Woman aka the Whistling Woman. Dzunukwa is an interesting figure in Kwakwaka’wakw mythology on one side she’s a bogey figure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wasn’t sure about today’s picture, because quite frankly I’ve never found spiders scary. My father is an ecologist who studies crab spiders (he’s sited in the article I just linked) he used to pay me and my sister a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was a busy day yesterday which include anticipating a big storm, that turned out to be a false alarm. That’s my excuse for not posting this until now… Mia Culpa! So anyway on my this years list I had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I mentioned in my first Halloween sketch challenge, one of my greatest desires is to make mermaids scary again. This is easier said then done because most people are distracted by the sexy while forgetting that’s just what the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
