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Halloween Draw Off Round 4

| Peter Ahola

We’re rapidly closing in on Halloween time, which means we’ve got a draw off to finish. Here comes round 4 for this year’s draw off.

Our three subjects for this round are as follows. Samhain (with his goblin minions) from the Real Ghostbusters cartoon, my personal favorite Ghostbusters villain I should add. HP Lovecraft bring forth the mighty Cthulu. Then we finally have Godzilla for the first time in one of these draw offs. He’s always been one of my favorite fictional monsters but I’ve been to nervous to do him espeically since non human subjects aren’t my specialty. But I feel I’ve grown as an artist far enough to finally tackle him.

More Halloween art coming up.

Halloween Draw Off Round 3

| Peter Ahola

Round 3 for our 2024 Halloween Draw Off gets into some unique subjects. First up a little more of an innocent piece, the three main protagonists of Digimon Tamers Trick or Treating as their Digimon’s Mega Forms. This was inspired by a wallpaper I downloaded from Pintrest that had Rika dressed as her Digimon Sakyuamon.

Next up is our Owl House piece for the month, a crossover with Freddy Kruger. This was not originally planned as a Halloween piece, it was actually meant as a standard crossover for earlier this year. But I just kept putting it off and then when I couldn’t think of a Halloween Piece for this year, decided to whip it out.

Then we have the Balrog from Lord of the Rings. I said this year it would be all monsters and scary things, I never said it all had to be from horror related media. I first drew this guy as a lunchtime sketch I think last year and he was so much fun I wanted to make a real drawing of him.

More Hallowen art all month long.

HALLOWEEN DRAW OFF ROUND 1

| Peter Ahola

It’s officially October, the best time of the year. You all know what that means, its time for the Annual Green Raptor Halloween Draw Off. Since I first started operating under the name Green Raptor Studios back in 2015, it has been a tradition to go all out at Halloween time drawing monsters, demons and anything scary from pop culture, as well as few Halloween themes to our own original characters… and a few things here and there. While it started off as a small thing on Deviant Art, over the years it’s grown only larger and is always one of the biggest events I look forward to all year.

This year we got FOURTEEN drawings planned that we will be putting up all month long. Starting off our parade this year is Pinhead from the Hellraiser series and the Ghost Host from the Haunted Mansion. Pinhead has constantly been denied every Halloween Draw off till now. While he’s one of my favorite horror villains, I’ve always been intimidated at drawing all the pins in his head due to complexity. But I’m feeling a bit more confident nowadays and he’s finally showing up for the parade.

The Ghost Host is this year’s Haunted Mansion piece, they almost always find their way here. First the Hatbox Ghost made his debut in this draw off early on when it first started and then last year it was Constance Hatchaway, the bride. Now it’s time for the Ghost Host to make his debut in this draw off. Happy October and stick around, I’ll be here all month long.

Kalwa Chapter 29 debuts TODAY!!!

| Peter Ahola

Well it’s been a long journey here. Since chapter 28, I’ve been pursuing other projects. I also attended a few cons to rest my mind and the process was a little slow getting the script rechecked. But we’re finally here everyone at chapter 29. Today we got THREE pages up for your consumption, more are complete and we will be uploading weekly on Sunday. In case something causes interference I’ll give a heads up.

Down below is page one of our 29th chapter, to read the other pages just click the page. And if you like what you read or just want to for the sake of it… comment on our chapter below, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Wargreymon

| Peter Ahola

Just posting a little more work before this site turns to spook central next month. So here’s a piece I did of WarGreymon, my favorite Digimon. Despite my desire to draw him one day, I had no idea what to do for a pose. This was kinda just a spill of the moment, though I’m still happy with the way it turned out.

Movie Shadow the Hedgehog

| Peter Ahola

Ever since the trailer dropped, my heart is soaring for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. This movie’s gonna feature Shadow the Hedgehog, a character I’ve held so very close to my heart since I was a kid. More importantly they look to be following his original origin and character from Sonic Adventure 2, which I’m hoping will finally do away with edge lord rival Shadow and bring back the classic tragic hero Shadow I know and love. So right now I’m kinda on a Sonic craze fueled with Nostalgia.

Big Head (the Mask)

| Peter Ahola

Been years since I drew this character, but here’s a brand new illustration of Big Head, better known as the Mask to the public. This is NOT based off the Jim Carrey film, which honestly I can’t even watch anymore. This is based off the more violent and gory comics that inspired the films, which are most likely the most underrated comics of all time.

Unlike the Jim Carrey film in which the Mask was portrayed as a wacky “superhero,” the comic version was violent vigilante. The title the Mask actually referred to the mask itself and not the character it unleashed, and the mask itself actually had multiple users. Within these stories the mask would find it’s way to troubled people who were down on their luck and had pent up aggression towards the world around them. The mask would essentially turn them into powerful gods and give them the power to unleash that anger on the world. Some users were real criminals while some like Lt. Kellaway were more like violent anti-heros.

The comics had a theme of when an innocent joke went to far. The characters would lash out at the world around them, but sometimes catch themselves hurting those close to them, and the drama would drive them into a state of terror. I really hope with the success of R-rated films like Deadpool that we may one day see a more faithful adaptation of the Mask comic, heck I’ll even help fund it.

Kang the Conquerer

| Peter Ahola

This project was started before the news broke at SDCC about the future of the MCU. It was originally just supposed to be a project showing my love for the Marvel villain Kang, whose my second favorite villain after Dr. Doom. But now I suppose it’s a tribute to what has been lost.

Although I’m happy that Dr. Doom is finally entering the MCU (though not too happy about the actor playing him), I’m pretty upset that the whole Kang story is just getting dropped. I was looking forward to a possible adaptation of the Kang Dynasty storyline, and now the great Kang the Conquerer is now trapped to only be in an Ant-Man movie. It’s so sad because the character has so much more potential. As a time traveler, he’s equipped with virtually all weapons across time. Weapons from the future, tatics from the past and knowledge of historic events. Truly Kang is a very creative and overall fascinating character see.

As a multiverse hopper, the MCU could’ve produced essentially the same results. But sadly we’ll never know now, and Kang will probably go down as that “big bad” that just got dropped. Very sad, but at least we still have the comics, where us Kang fans can only dream of him being properly portrayed on the big screen.

Miku Nakano

| Peter Ahola

I’m so behind on my uploading. This image is quite a few weeks old. So here’s Miku Nakano from the anime the Quintenssential Quintuplets. She’s my favorite of the sisters, plus she’s voiced by Felicia Angelle who also voices Kohaku from Dr. Stone (pretty sure you know how much I like her).

This was drawn on the some extra time. I was rewatching the Quintessential Quintuplets for like the tenth time while working on Kalwa pages and just felt like drawing her in a fanservice like pose.