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Halloween Draw off: The Fog

| Peter Ahola

Down now to our second to last illustration of this year’s Halloween draw off, it’s the Fog. The Fog has always been one of my favorite horror movies of all, it’s my favorite John Carpenter film and within my top ten of most rewatched movies. I’m actually very happy that in recent years it’s started to get more attention and grow in fandom.

That being said, I’ve wanted to draw the Fog and it’s “inhabitants” in the draw off for years. I’ve just held back because I haven’t really known how to make it visual interesting. THIS right here is my idea of the Fog, shadowed ghosts with virtually nothing but the glowing red eyes. The less detail you see on them the better, it just makes them scarier. So how do you make “shadowed” creatures visually interesting. Hopefully this will do the job.

Stay tuned, our draw off FINALE is coming right up.

Halloween Draw Off: Zombie Kalwa

| Peter Ahola

We now come to the Kalwa piece of this years Halloween draw off. Our three protagonists have been zombified. I think it was last year I drew headshots of them as zombies and posted it to the Kalwa website, except they had pupils and were a little more lively. These designs were more inspired by the zombies from Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, as they looked much scarier. And for this draw off I’m not looking to do anything cute, I want scary all the way.

Check out more of Kalwa on her own website, link can found up above on our main menu.

More Halloween art to come.

Halloween Draw off: BlackOut

| Peter Ahola

Next up on the draw off is Blackout, from Marvel’s Ghost Rider comics. This nasty murderer debuted in second issue of the Ghost Rider series from the 90’s and went on to become one of the series most recurring villains. Blackout was the one who murdered this sister of the Ghost Rider’s human host Daniel Ketch and even wound up killing Daniel himself, making him possibly the most personal villain for the rider to face. He’s sadly a very unknown character in the Marvel universe and I try my best to give him more exposure when the situation calls for it.

More Halloween art coming up.

Halloween Draw off: Puppetmaster

| Peter Ahola

Puppetmaster returns to the Halloween draw off after a long absence. Blade was drawn alone in the first draw off way back in 2015, but this year he’s back with fellow puppets Torch, Pinhead and Six-Shooter. Essentially all my favorites from the bunch from the movies.

More Halloween art coming all month long.

Halloween Draw Off: Vincent PRice

| Peter Ahola

The Halloween draw off continues with one of the greatest horror actors (and actors in general) Vincent Price. Yes, the charming and lovable man is making he way into this year’s Halloween Draw Off, reading up the works of Poe. This is one of TWO iconic actors who will be featured in this years’s draw off, can you guess the other.

More Halloween art is coming ALL MONTH LONG, stick around for more.

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.