The Halloween draw off continues in full force. Here’s a new face to to draw off, Imhotep from the 1999 version of the Mummy. I recently discovered the films and love the first one at least, not too crazy about the other two. I kinda wanted to make this an amalgamation of his various regeneration forms hence the skin on the head. Though adding muscles to bones is a little hard when you’re kinda going for a corpse look, so I just did whatever.
More Halloween fun all month long!
It’s officially October 1st, which means it’s time once again for the annual Green Raptor Halloween draw off. This tradition started back in 2015, the time when I get to embrace my inner demon and draw up all things horror, including characters, monsters and more. Course it won’t just be pop culture icons, Kalwa and Amber will also be partaking in this event.
Starting off the party today is a double feature with Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm street (after sitting out last year) and the Haunted Mask from Goosebumps (a first for this event). The Haunted Mask here is a bit of an original touch on the concept, with Carly Beth’s skin turning green as well as the mask starting to sprout her hair, implying that the mask is truly fusing with her whole body and not just her head..
More Halloween art coming all month long!
It’s that time of the year everyone, October is upon us and that means it’s time for the annual Halloween Draw off I do every year. Yes those who follow my work know that I love horror and every October I do a number of horror based/ Halloween based drawings as October is the time to embrace my inner demon.
Of course there will be pieces for Kalwa and Amber, but we’ll also be doing pop culture icons and more. And yes there will be an Owl House related drawing. The first piece will be going up on October 1st and more will follow all throughout the month of October.
Down below are a couple of pieces from years past, just to get everyone here hyped.
This has been sitting on my desktop all year unfinished and I really wanted to finally finish it. So it’s been a while since I’ve used my character Reptileena (aka) Brit. I’ve done even less with her partner Maria, so here’s a little revival of the two.
Those unaware of their backstory, this is a costumed vigilante team that resides in Scottsdale AZ. Brit was once the lead cheerleader at her high school till she was kidnapped and spliced together with a variety of reptile DNA and became a one woman reptile kingdom. Maria is the daughter of the Scottsdale police chief whose always dreamed of fighting crime ever since losing her mother at a young age. Together the two of them team up with Brit acting as the city’s mutant vigilante Reptileena, while Maria acts as her tech support assistant.
Pictures from last week’s comic con in Tuscon Arizona, our first con with published books. I haven’t attended a con in so long, and my first experience was EXHAUSTING. I was pretty much on my toes for nine hours which you would think wouldn’t be so bad given my day job, but interacting with the cosplayers and potential customers left me drained, call it a first experience.
That aside, the convention was a great success, in the end we sold four Kalwa books and six Amber books (there was also a sale off con just yesterday). Also got in contact with several other on tips for future cons. I’m gonna try to find a cheaper printer for the books so we can hopefully sell them at a cheaper price, hopefully even get a ten chapter Kalwa graphic novel like I originally wanted.
I’ll start posting products to my Etsy store soon after some personal life stuff. We’re a bit short on books at the moment though I do have a very small number as of now. If interested, send a message to our contact page and I can sell you a copy.
I’ve had an artwork of Eobard Thawne, the Reverse Flash, on my desktop for months. Just kinda sat there unfinished, and I finally decided to do something about it. However this would up being a complete remake rather than a finish. Had a lot of trouble getting the pose so I drew it in my sketchbook at lunch and then inked it at home.
Thawne is kinda a newly discovered villain for me, but he’s quickly become my second favorite DC villain after the Scarecrow. Thawne is such a fascinating character in that he is a stalker of his nemesis Barry Allen, the Flash. Fact is that Thawne is truly motivated purely by trolling Barry’s life and basically causing Barry to seek him. In truth Thawne is a fan boy of his enemy and by doing everything that he does, he gets to spend quality time with his hero, even if it is on the opposite side of his fists. Thus Thawne is a perfect bland of obsession and madness.
More art of Kohaku from Dr. Stone, this time as a Surfer Girl. I originally planned to do this a lunchtime sketch, but didn’t have time that day so I came home and did it a digital piece.
Recreating this famous scene from the Owl House, as I was short on inspiration at the time.
New character I’ve come up with, the Raptor Queen. Originally this role was kinda an alternate universe version of Kalwa, but I’ve since grown kinda uncomfortable depicting her in such a way, and the concept is too good to waste, so I’m making it into an original character.
Her backstory is she starts of as teenage intern at an archeology site, she’s also incapable of talking, but can make various sounds. After the site finds a strange stone she is flung back in time and ultimately taken in by Raptors. She grows up in the jungle with the pack, communicates with them through screeches and over time starts to grow the pack into a kingdom from various members of the Raptor family.
I’m looking to do this as a stand alone graphic novel, that would be much like Genndy Tarvakosky’s Primal show, with stories being driven more by visuals than dialogue. For the most part only sound effects would be the written words of the book.
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