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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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!
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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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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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.
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Day 8 is: “Eight Legs, One Thousand Eggs”
In an attempt to comically combine the two days’ drawings, I opted to take the prompt “What Lies in the Mist” literally. Therefore, the hook that Archie and Veronica found dangling from their car door yesterday, we see today belonged to an unfortunate trick or treater dressed up as a pirate and for some reason walking along the deserted rural highway.
“What Lies in the Mist” inks. Click to Enlarge.
I was apprehensive about joking around about a kid getting killed while trick or treating, but other than the equally-potentially-offensive idea of having the hook turn out to be yanked from an amputee by the road with a sign asking for help to buy a new prosthesis, it was the only way I could think to have a surprise ending that was not the expected one of the hook hand killer.
Just to assure anyone who is upset by it, the kid is okay! He was just stunned and was taken to be checked out and was back home eating his slightly run over Halloween candy that night!
So many urban legends to pick from, but I chose the notorious campfire story about the bookman and the couple on Lover’s Lane.
The whole story seems kind of 50s to me, so I put a classic 50s car in the drawing and populated it with a couple that seems to resemble 50s comics characters Archie Andrews and Veronica Lodge. It seems they have narrowly escaped the hook-hand killer, but have they? Stay tuned for tomorrow’s thrilling conclusion!
“Urban Legends” inks. Click to Enlarge.
Having upped the ante by making myself combine two days when they share a spread in the sketchbook, I’m glad Drawlloween upped the ante also, by coming up with some punny and more elaborate categories this year. Since the prompt is meant to sound like the “Better Homes & Gardens” magazine title, I opted to have Goblin-Gnome hybrids tending to their bumper crop of tentacles left over from Tentacle Tuesday yesterday.
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Here they are on their own page in ink only:
“Tentacle Tuesday” and “Better Gnomes & Goblins” in color. Click to Enlarge
… and here they are sharing the spread with the previous day and scanned in and digitally colored to get that storybook feel they deserve (well, it’s a really creepy story book, where farming tentacles serves some function..)
Day Four and the first part of the newest combined drawing spread will be a lovely farm of tentacles inked in the sketchbook. Stay tuned for Day 5 tomorrow.
“Tentacle Tuesday” inks. Click for larger picture.