Today’s Rhapsody is Doc Severinsen’s Rhapsody for Now.
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All right I finally got a good one! The gods of causality and Inktober were gracious and the slip of paper I found in the magic Tupperware container had the words “Danse Macabre” on them!
An easy one!
Well… Easy creatively anyway… logistically? Heh heh heh…
Anyway I thought it came out okay… enjoy with some musical accompaniment.
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Looks like I’m stuck with Scottish Folklore with another day.
I know I keep saying I’m bound to get to all of the cool monsters for this Inktober challenge any day now, but what the heck possessed me to put a Selkie on the list? They’re not even scary! (or at least I’m not aware of them doing anything any more malevolent than the usual menfolk mischief)
Also it looks like surf is another thing I can’t draw without a reference.
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I’m really beginning to wonder if I could have written my Halloween Inktober list if i’d been drunk because I’m really wondering what in the name of the lords of causality possessed me to put the Kelpie in there.
Granted if you know the stories this is one of the most malevolent, dangerous and downright evil water spirit that Scottish Folklore ever created but visually someone is going to look at your picture and say… “it’s a horse”.
This is not helped by the fact that the horse is one of those animals I can’t draw without a minimum of five visual references in front of me.
Any way I think adding more teeth helped… a little bit.
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I must confess when the Inktober tupperware container told me to draw a werewolf I was completely uninspired. This is depressing as the werewolf is generally my favorite critter in the Halloween playlist. Normally when coming up with one I either take a cryptozoological approach or deep really deep into the original folklore, but today thanks to other deadlines I was working on I had nothing.
Fortunately I’d just seen Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein last week so the poor Mr. Talbot was still fresh on my mind.
So here it is a nice Universal/Jack Pierce inspired Wolf Man!
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I think I drew another fragment of the same children’s list I touched last time. This time the Inktober tupperware wanted me to draw a Jack-o’-lantern presumably just mounted somewhere on a wall, or a window or the steps to the house, or perhaps even still in the pumpkin patch already carved and lit… What fun.
Fortunatly I remembered the story of Mean old Jack.
So here’s Jack carrying his lantern looking for a place to rest while waiting for judgment day. Remember those traveling at night do not follow… You will be led into bad things.
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