Day 28 calls for: GHOSTS A GO GO
Day 29 specifies: BLACK CATURDAY
The go-go dancers implied in this prompt necessitated some early 60s dance moves and surroundings for the spirits.
To complete the crossover in the sketchbook spread, I decided on “cat” as a slang term for a cool dude from the following decade and drew the cat in the finest 70s blaxploitation environment I could mange quickly on a Saturday afternoon. Groovy and Solid!
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Combined with Day 26, which is: THEY CAME FROM OUTER SPACE!
Day 27 is: CALL OF C’THURSDAY!
Matt Groening’s Kang and Kodos won’t be laughing at the foolish Earthlings once H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic old one gets hold of them.
Day 26 is: THEY CAME FROM OUTER SPACE!
i chose to draw Kang and Kodos from the Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horroe Episodes. Sketchbook is buffered by their action figures.
Day 22 is: BATURDAY
Day 23 is: SUPERSTITION SUNDAY
I didn’t want to go with Batman for “bat” two years in a row, but I couldn’t help it. He’s so much more interesting to draw than a plain bat. Also, since I had to combine it with “superstitions” on the next page, I found his extensive Rogue’s Gallery provided some ready superstitious opportunities for Bruce to be afraid of: Penguin’s notorious umbrella being opened inside the house! A black-suited Catwoman crossing his path! Both of them apparently about to walk under a ladder! Spilling salt! I forgot to add a broken mirror, but Mirror Master is Flash’s nemesis anyway…
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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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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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.
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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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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