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Halloween Draw Off: Freddy and Haunted Mask

| Peter Ahola

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!

Reverse Flash

| Peter Ahola

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.

The Raptor Queen

| Peter Ahola

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.

Shadow in the Night

| Peter Ahola

I haven’t drawing Sonic characters in a while, but I just felt like drawing my boy Shadow again. When it comes to coloring, I don’t like to make Shadow all black. I draw a lot of my Sonic art from a certain period during the Archie Comics era when the characters were drawn with certain shades and tints. Namely issue 124 (Shadow’s first true appearance in the series) showed him with heavy shades and more of a dark blue tint. That was the first Sonic comic I bought as a teenager and it’s always stuck with me.

Johnathan Crane

| Peter Ahola

Riding off the coat tales of the Rodrick Kingsley art from July, here’s Johnathan Crane, better known as the Scarecrow from Batman’s rogue’s gallery. He also happens to be may favorite super villain in all of comics, provided one doesn’t count Cobra Commander. When doing unmasked pictures like this, my goal is to show the madness underneath the mask. Characters like dear old Crane here really just wear masks to hide their identity, but the real face of evil is what lies underneath…

Kalwa and Kohaku

| Peter Ahola

I’ve fallen pretty far behind on a number of things to upload. I’ve had con prep and a little personal issues that have held me down. So now I’m trying to unload it all over several uploads. Starting with this crossover between Kalwa and Kohaku from Dr. Stone. This is their second crossover, think the other one is on the Kalwa website. So far I’ve loved Dr.Stone season 3 and just kinda sad I got to wait till October for the second half.