To keep with the holiday season I decided to start viewing some dark fantasy films (my threshold for horror is mixxed at best. I prefer the subtler supernatural over the raw terror of a slasher film so a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s sketch we have the star of the Ring franchise… Sadako! It occurs to me that along with fitting well into the traditional Japanese Ghost lore (specifically the Onryo) She also fit’s into the much more modern paradigm of urban legends.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch I had down on the list as Merrow, the irish name for mermaids, which I thought would allow me to circumvent all of the romantic connotations going around, but then I looked them up to refresh my memory[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s admittedly late sketch (it’s Sunday. Give me a break.) is of one of the stars of Irish folklore, the Banshee! To keep things interesting I did the Scottish version, the Bean Nighe, washing the blood stained shroud of the nearly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The topic for this week’s halloween feature is one of my favorite monsters, the Werewolf. The first on my list, Hammer film”s Curse of the Werewolf directed by Terence Fisher starring Oliver Reed, is one I’d been curious about for years. First[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
