Days of Halloween, 9-14

I usually don't do backgrounds. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I saw a similar background and wanted to try it out. This one has a Halloween feel. You gotta know that person in the middle is gonna get got by something.

We did some alternate Wizard of Oz sketches in 2005. This was the Scarecrow showing that he didn't have a heart. Then I realized it was the Tin Man that didn't have a heart. The Scarecrow didn't have a brain. So this is just an interesting Halloween sketch now.

This was a watercolor I did for Aaron in 2006. It also isn't Halloween related but it is kinda creepy. It is from a poem or something describing some internal conflict as Kafkaesque fight with oneself in an old greasy cardboard box. I think it was called Lute dos Intestinos (Fight of the Guts).

A 2005 sketch of the Mad Hatter from some Alice in Wonderland concepts.

This guy is from a nightmare I had a couple years ago. I sent the original to Aaron but I still had the watercolor and pencil sketch so that I could put it together again for this post. The background was watercolored by Mylie. The pencils were scanned and photoshop colored.

I did this quick sketch of Andi and then decided to add a little Halloween in the background. What a cutie. Andi is pretty darn cute too.

Days of Halloween, 7-8, more heads of Halloween

Here is another sketch page from 2009 of Halloween heads. I think the paisley one would make a nice t-shirt. I can't find my page of many skulls - I had a great time doing skull studies.

This one isn't really Halloween related. It is a sketch of still shots from a video by a band called System of a Down. It is a great song and I have seen the band members in other places and they seem like regular guys, but they freak me out in this video. I thought this sketch had a halloweeny feel to it.

Sorry that some of my sketches from work are on the back of old used paper so that when I scan it, you can see the print from the other side.

Oct. 6 - More heads of Halloween

Scary Pac-Man by Mylie.

I had to have a black and white picture taken for our company website a couple years ago. Since I sometimes feel like a corporate zombie, I thought I would take a stab at looking like one. If you ever see me like this in real life, please don't hesitate to hit me in the head with a shovel, because I'll do likewise if I see you all zombified.

Oct. 4 - 3 more days of Halloween: faces, puppets and gorillas

This was another follow-up sketch I did for Aaron last year.

Another sketch for Aaron in 2009 of Gretchen the Puppet Master. I don't know the story behind this picture.

I am most afraid of gorillas. I don't know if it is because I consider them to be powerful and intelligent or if it is because of that Donald Duck cartoon I saw when I was 5 years old where a gorilla gets loose from the zoo. I remember living in Prescott, AZ, during my kindergarten age and never having the courage to push open the blinds on my window at night for fear that a hulking black gorilla would be millimeters from the other side of the window, staring at me with bloodshot eyes, like the one from the Donald Duck cartoon.

What animal are you most afraid of?

Oct. 1 - First Day of Halloween Month

I'm gonna try and post something Halloween related every day for the rest of the month.

This first one is a sketch I did for Aaron last Halloween.