The Worms Crawled In

When I am left alone with my sketchbook and Pigma Micron pens, it's a pretty good bet that I am either gonna draw a skeleton or a zombie. In this case, the zombies won! Zombies are just "oozing" with so many detail possibilities, and since I am crazy for details they make a lot of appearances in my artwork. In the "coming soon" department, I will be doing some artwork of a "zombie chick" as an art trade for my good friend Chrissie, who drew an off the dial picture of the Bride of Frankenstein for me earlier this year.

In other news, I picked up the new Alice Cooper CD "Along Came A Spider" yesterday ( I only had to go to FOUR different stores trying to find it- Best Buy didn't have it, FYE didnt have it, and Circuit City didn't have it!! Finally, Wal-Mart came through for me and had it... Man, sometimes being a horror fan in Utah can really suck!!)
All I can say is- Alice is still the reigning king of horror rock. I love the packaging on the CD, the music is TOP NOTCH, and the overall theme is way cool. Just listen to the whole thing and check out the cool dialog from Alice at the end. Creepy and cool all the way across the board!

Moonlit Morgue at Midnight

This one was really entertaining to work on. As usual, this undead creature came to life at work, sketched out with a ballpoint pen. I scanned him in, and was ready to post him as another sketch, when the creative impulse kicked in and decided it was time to give this poor zombie a digital facelift. I modified a lot of his facial features, and added a lot of the background. Also spent some time adding in some tones and shades to make him a little more realistic. Then added the sepia tones to make it look a bit more aged. That's one of my favorite things about art- you never know where it will take you. Sometimes it seems like these monsters really do have a mind of their own and decide where they want to go.
The watch this guy is wearing was inspired by a photo hanging at my desk at work. This is quite a fashionable zombie with his big old Fossil watch and oversized hoop ear ring.

Dirty Scary

Airbrushed T-Shirt. Painted this one several years ago as part of a contest I did with some of my cartooning students. Stole the classic Clint Eastwood pose and turned him into a skeletal gunslinger.

Zombie Pumpkin

I was looking through some old photos last night and stumbled upon this one. This is a zombie pumpkin I carved many years ago. The zombie was designed from a Bernie Wrightson sketch. The odd little circle on the right of the photo is the full moon that was in the sky that Halloween night. I propped the pumpkin in the window at my parent's house and angled the camera to catch the full moon in the shot! I don't get much time to do cool pumpkins these days since I tend to do a lot of makeup work around Halloween, but I love doing them when time permits!