Halloween Sketch Challenge Day 14

by on October 14, 2014 at 10:07 am
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For today’s sketch we have an old favorite from the genius of Charles Schultz, The Great Pumpkin! When I first envisioned the Great Pumpkin I pictured some sort of shrouded wraith with a glowing jack-o-lantern for a face… but in trying to think of an original approach it occurred to me that something like that would be worthy of a scripture quoting idealist like Linus. So instead I decided to go for a truly great pumpkin risen above it’s peers to reward a young boy for his faith.

Great-Pumpkin

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Halloween Playlist Day 1

by on October 14, 2014 at 8:49 am
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Regrettably I think I used all of the good stuff last year, but I’ll try to find some material to keep the mood going.

So let’s start things off with Toccatta in Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. I’m pretty sure Bach would not have approved of this being considered halloween music but it seems to be the first thing that comes to the mind of every raving madman or vampire as soon as they get access to a pipe organ, and it certainly sets the mood.

I was tempted to go with the Fantasia version but I figured that was a little too colorful for the the season. So here it is performed by Rolf Uusvaly from 1972 in Riga

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Halloween Sketch Challenge Day 13

by on October 13, 2014 at 9:29 am
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Okay I knew I would have to get to this one sooner or later… today my Halloween instructions were to draw a Werewolf (there wolf! Sorry.) I’m coming to dislike these more “traditional monsters” not because they’re too easy (When trying to knock off the daily requirement in under a half hour I like easy!) It’s just a case of trying not to do all of the things that every one does. Since I’ve been watching a lot of the “classics” right now I automatically tried to avoid the furry fanged people that are featured in those movies and conversely I’ve been trying to avoid to avoid the furry, frequently digitigrade humanoids with wolves’ heads that are all the rage in a most of the current versions.

For today’s version I went with a more medieval approach with something that was mostly a wolf but with enough human features that it would have to be really dark to mistake it for a real wolf.

Werewolf

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Halloween Sketch Challenge Day 11

by on October 11, 2014 at 10:09 am
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Today the little box next to my desk told me I had to draw goblins and I didm’t have the slightest idea what to do. So I scribbled for a half hour and came up with this. The problem is that once you get past all of the D&D stuff and go straight to the folklore what you have is just another flavor of brownie, which while very scary when in a bad mood the average person on the street do not know that. I think I was going for slightly malevolent tricksters messing with someone’s office but after doing Gremlins it feels kind or redundant.

goblins

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Halloween Sketch Challenge Day 10

by on October 10, 2014 at 9:42 am
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This one I kind of botched.

For me the term Ghoul is interesting in modern parlance it’s kind of merged with modern meaning of  Zombie and for the most that works… But the thing is I’ve read some of the Arabic folktales they come from and in those they seem like some kind of dessert ogre, thin, fast and deadly, kind of a jackal to the ogre’s wolf.

And that was kind of what I was going for in the first sketch giving it kind of a snarling baboon face and even though I wasn’t happy with the picture as a whole it did the trick as far as the parameters of this exercise went….But Then I got a better idea that I just couldn’t let go of. So I ended up with two sketches for the price of one today… even though the price tag feels slightly higher.

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