For this week batch of vampire films for Halloween, I went back to what I was trying to do last week with arty foreign vampire films. To sweeten the pot just a little bit I added “ones with a slight[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was not looking for to today’s prompt, “I know a Sarcophoguy”. Mainly because ever seeing the Mummy’s Hand, I’ve been sick to death of gauze wrapped, shambling revenants. The problem is when you’re doing these quick sketches there’s really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m really pleased how today’s prompt, “Franken Friday” turned out. I got an early start on it and the initial sketch flowed really well. If it wasn’t for a comedy of errors regarding the pen I’ve been using for this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m never completely sure how to do ghouls. As I mentioned in previous challenges it’s really inconsistent what they are in folklore. I generally go with an unknown nocturnal hominid that fits the same ecological niche as a hyena.
Today’s Prompt, Sunday Bloody Sunday, was one that I wasn’t looking forward to. For one thing, I hadn’t the slightest idea what to do with it. I’m pretty sure it was trying to get me to draw a slasher film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The one downside of these Halloween Sketch Challenges is you start recognizing numerous cliches. This list was chock full of them. So I was not looking for the second to last prompt, Cauldron Crones. First, because the list had about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m Happy to say that I’m finally done this sketch challenge with a couple of Trick or treaters! So in hindsight, I think this went okay, with only about three duds in the lot and several that I really liked.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After two weeks vampire films in a row (three if you ignore the brief respite with a week of alien invasion) I ended the Halloween season with films about haunted houses. To keep things interesting I went with two extremes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I officially declare the Halloween season started, and to start things off in my month of horror films the subject vampire girls! The first on my list was one I’ve been hearing quite a bit about Ana Lily Amirpour’s A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week a did an old vs new take on a perennial Halloween classic, the Cat people. The first the films is one of Val Lewton‘s films directed by Jacques Tourneur. Telling the story of Irena(Simone Simon), a Serbian immigrant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
