Personally, I don’t like to mix my holidays but the prompt, “Ghast Christmas” said I had to. For all I know they were going for something like possed presents, from Nightmare before Christmas, when they put this on the list. Either that or some sort of evil version of Santa Claus.
But for me, if you want to mix Halloween with Christmas you have to go with the best Christmas boogieman, Krampus.
A very Happy Birthday to Mr. Dizzy Gillespie!
Let’s celebrate by listening to his theme to Cool World! No, not that one.
I had mixed feelings about today’s prompt, “Cadaverous Cowboys”. On one hand, I had a really good idea. On the other hand, I can barely draw a decent horse when I cheat and trace.
Other than that concern I think it came out okay. The basic idea for it was a cross between “Ghost Riders in the Sky“ and the “Blind Dead“.
I’m kind of satisfied with today’s prompt “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Friday” but otherwise meh.
I confess I wasn’t looking forward to doing this one. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is hard to spell out in one drawing. (personally, the only image I could think of was Hyde walking down the street looking for whores and booze like he does in the novel. Unfortunately, if I did that all the viewer would see would be a Victorian, slightly bestial, thug. No, if you want to do Jekyll and Hyde you either have to do something with either the transformation or the duality.
To make matters worse I got a bit of a late start and most of my blue pencils which made the initial sketch sloppy.
Still… I guess it’s kind of okay.
Today’s Prompt, Nightmare Nomads, had me puzzled. For the longest time, all I could think of was pastoral steppe nomadic horseback cultures, which would be too similar to what I had planned for day twenty one, Cadaverous Cowboys. In the end, I went with the nomadic culture best connected with Halloween, Gypsies.
Now, at risk of sounding overly politically correct, I get really tired of the racist “Gypsies are evil” stereotypes lazy writers fall back on. So I really tried to keep fantasy gypsies separate from the very real Romani.
Having said that, I think this is one of the weaker sketches of the batch. I rushed the rough sketch a little too much and couldn’t find my dark blue pencil to tighten it up before inking… Let’s just say had to touch it up a LOT in post. I think I salvaged it though.
THe “Real” Ariane just provided another cool footnote for her side of the story. According to her, she provides the ride so Brian can’t escape. Looks like Brian has his work cut out for him.
