HC2 continues with my illustration of a zombie.  And who doesn’t love zombies?  I’m a huge fan of Tony Moore’s work, and The Walking Dead was an absolute favorite of mine when he was still on it.  Moore actually applies the completely realistic detail of the lips and tongue being the first couple of things to visibly decompose or be consumed by maggots.  This piece can be compared to THE CURSED KING and CHILD OF ALCHEMY, with biggest difference being the blankness of the stare, which the other two pieces didn’t have.

Wasn’t really in the mood to work on this rainy Saturday, so I decided I’d revisit a theme that was great fun for me the first time around.  And here I kick off HORROR CLASSICS II, with the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Like most people, I do a grayscale version of the artwork to define dimensionality in the piece.  This phase used to take me forever to do, and though I haven’t drastically changed anything in my coloring process, the use of a tablet certainly makes it a shit ton faster (and less painful).

Most of you can probably also tell that I drew a lot from Monster Squad, coz I feel the original version of the creature just looks a bit too dopey.  I like to think of it as a piranha-frog man, and that fed it into what you guys see above.

Well… not really.  Hey look, I bought a tablet.

Got stricken by a bastard duo case of insomnia and anxiety last night, so I couldn’t quite hit the desk and be as productive as I wanted to be.  After a third cup of coffee and a stale tuna sandwich, I said fuck it and decided to finish the Werewolf piece.  I use a mouse to color, so the annoying little hairs made my weird manic state a little useful.

Where with the Mummy I used yellowish dusty hues and with Frankenstein I used cadaverous greens, this time around I made a conscious effort to use earth tones.

Prints available

Just trying something out…