I could have sworn I posted this already, but this was our TRDL Helloween 2009 pic. This year, Joao and I each chose a monster or halloween-ish themed mainstream character. I drew Ghost, and Joao drew Vampirella. I put together the background digitally. I think my favorite detail in the whole thing are the wyrms carrying housepets away. But hey!

Process notes:

Here’s a detail of Ghost’s face:

Here’s Joao’s Vampi coming together:

Here’s the build-up of the background:

And here’s the sepia variant:

I tried to do a creepy old sepia type image for this, which was in fact, the root concept, like it was an old placard from an archive discovered in a collection of lost manuscripts or what have you. The background certainly speaks to it. However, true sepia wasn’t working for me due to the medium tones of the two man characters (one is all white and flesh, and the other a lither red, and flesh again… just didn’t punch enough)… I tried a version with color but muted, which is shown below. Ultimately, though, I liked full color for the main figures the best, and thats what we went with.

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You can find a medium version of this pic here and a large version here.

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