About bre bro

Brent Brown is a person who lives here and draws things. Sometimes they are caricatures, sometimes they are cartoons or airbrush type illustrations created on the computer and sometimes they are crowds if the caricatures are free, and there are even a few, very few, times that he draws a paycheck. So, be sure to tell everyone you know to buy more of his stuff, so that he can let his wife quit her day job one day, maybe.

Drawlloween 2016: Days 20 and 21

Posted on October 21, 2016 by bre bro

Day 20 is: HORSES AND HEADLESS MEN

Day 21 is: PHANTOM FRIDAY

I wasn’t sure what to do for day 20 other than, obviously, the Headless Horseman, so I put it off until I did day 21. I saw “Phantom” and wanted to do the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon of “The Funky Phantom” and looked for a reference. Amazingly, I found a comic book of the cartoon and the cover had the phantom flying away from The Headless Horseman! It was perfect! So I basically copied the thing but made it fit over two pages:

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Drawlloween 2016: Day 19

Posted on October 19, 2016 by bre bro

Day 19 is: Witchcraft Wednesday

Trying to make the two drawings work together in the sketchbook spread, I wanted to make the shadow on the other page coming from something unexpected on this page. I ended up with a mutating Great Pumpkin on a giant vine that Sally Brown has brought to life though some type of occult spell of which she is capable as she is a witch. All of this is freaking Linus out.

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Drawlloween 2016: day 18

Posted on October 18, 2016 by bre bro

Day 18 is: NOSERATUESDAY

Specific ones like this don’t leave you much room to be different or creative, so I just pick one of the cool images from the F.W. Murnau’s 1920s silent film and tried to emulate it as best I could with just a pen and paper and my eye looking at a reference shot.

It sort of leaves the blank page next it creepier than usual.

Drawlloween 2016: Days 16 and 17

Posted on October 17, 2016 by bre bro

Day 16: FULL MOON

Day 17: MAD SCIENCE MONDAY

I cheated on this one and re-used the double illustration from Drawlloween 2015 for MOON and FRANKENSTEIN. Iit still fits though. Especially since Frankenstein is the name of the mad scientist, not the monster.

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Drawlloween 2016: Days 14 and 15

Posted on October 15, 2016 by bre bro

Day 14 is SCARECROW ROW

Day 15 is: DRIVE-IN CREATURE FEATURE

I drew Dorothy Gale happening upon a row of scarecrows in the corn field. One from the MGM musical, one from Batman, another from the books, and the rest just in shadows.

On the opposite page of the sketchbook for Day 15, I extended the cornfield to surround a drive-in movie theater that is currently under attack form some sort of giant reptile, the likes of which would probably be playing on the screen.

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Drawlloween 2016: Day 13

Posted on October 13, 2016 by bre bro

Day 13 is of course: THURSDAY THE 13TH

I almost phoned in another one today, but spent a little more time on it than the copout yesterday.

I figure Jason Voorhees must feel like he has the day off when the 13th is on day other than Friday, so he probably stays home eating popcorn and watching shows that come on Thursday nights, like…..

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Drawlloween 2016: Day 12

Posted on October 12, 2016 by bre bro

Day 12: I’VE GOT A HUNCHBACK

Okay, I know nobody reads this blog, but I also have been posting on Instagram, Twitter and two Facebook pages. Yesterday’s post represented a lot of work creating, drawing, inking and coloring, but after posting with all the pertinent hashtags, the consensus of the viewing public seems to be: “Meh.” So, considering I have other things to do, and I’m only working on these for “likes” instead of pay and yet still I’m underpaid, I decided to just phone it in today.

Tomorrow may be even less effort, let’s see how I feel.

Fuck all you assholes!

Drawlloween 2016: Day 11

Posted on October 12, 2016 by bre bro

Day 11: SLIMY SWAMPS, FOGGY BOGS

In order to connect to yesterday’s drawing, I continued the theme of a DC Comics and Harvey Comics mashup, turning Richie Rich into John Constantine and Casper the friendly Ghost into Deadman Boston Brand. The main character for the swampy bog is, of course Swamp Thing (body based on Little Lotta) and the DC occult stars start to bleed over into Hot Stuff/Demon territory in the two-page spread version.

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Drawlloween 2016: Day 10

Posted on October 10, 2016 by bre bro

Day 10 is DEMONDAY

Demon Day, or De-MONDAY? Either way, this is probably how Harvey Comics would have done Jack Kirby’s Etrigan The Demon showing up to work with a case of the hellish Mondays.

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Drawlloween 2016: Day 9

Posted on October 9, 2016 by bre bro

Days 8 and 9 of Drawlloween 2016 are: “Eight Legs, One Thousand Eggs” and “He’s a Dummy, Doll.”

Trying to connect these two really specific prompts was a bit tricky. I decided to go with a “Charlotte’s Web” theme on the first, with all of Charlotte’s spider babies hatching out of the egg (I think spiders lay only one big egg sack, so I don’t know how accurate the “thousand eggs” bit is, but to be fair, they prompt never mentioned spiders) and webbing up poor Wilbur the pig.

If you wondered why Wilbur looks like Hamm, the piggy bank from “Toy Story”, then you would be informed of the reason when I added the other characters from that Pixar/Disney movie: Jessie and Woody, the western dolls. On day 9, they show up discovering a ventriloquist’s dummy who happens to be Edgar Bergen’s famous “Mortimer Snerd” character. Thus, the assigned phrase coming from Woody to Jessie now makes sense, and so does the fact that Hamm is the terrific pig that Charlotte wrote about in her web.

Here they are combined in ink in the sketchbook, and then scanned in and colored digitally.