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 something more in the line of Roald Dahl‘s Vermicious Knids.
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 stories where the quality of the story was the shock value of the punchline.
Also I’ve found the story a lot less scary ever since I saw the Robot Chicken skit where he and several monsters offer roadside assistance to a terrified driver.
In the end the big challenge was how to draw someone you don’t actually see in most of the stories.
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 betrayal, murder and revenge certainly sticks in the mind.
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 intern one of their jobs will be to thump me whenever I get the urge to do any sort of woodland scene) For our aliens themselves I used the Hopkinsville Goblins as a template.
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 him as interesting as possible without thinking of the version from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (that’s long hair and a beard, not tentacles, honest!)
I did the Goblin Market last year, But I thought I’d give it another try since I thought the last one, while interesting, was a bit of a mess. I’m afraid I don’t think this one’s much better. Maybe it’s an image that needs more planning then these half an hour sprints allow.
