This is the third year in a row that I have participated in Drawlloween. To see the previous years (of which I skipped prompts and also added my own, click here. I did draw ahead by three days and do not wish to illustrate a bride (I already did that this year), nor Frankenstein (I illustrated the monster last year and I have no interest in doing that again, or illustrating the actual Doctor Frankenstein. So, ta-da! Here are my twenty eight (I skipped Haunted Object as well) illustrations for this years Drawlloween. Also, please excuse the poor scanning quality. I don't know what drugs my scanner/printer is on these days. Some of the images scanned just fine, some were slightly blurry. I just didn't care all that much. Day 01:: Witch - She's a witch who lives in the swamp and who is missing an eye. Day 02:: Black Cat - He came out blurry, but he's a black cat, you get the gist. Day 03:: Cryptid - The Alligator Gar is not a cryptid, however, if he were to grow to a monsterous size he would be. Also, perhaps he is what people are seeing and then proclaiming the sighting was of a cryptid. Plus, they're also pretty scary and live in the waters around here. (Drawn from a few photographs.) Day 04:: Mushroom - you get mushrooms, instead because I liked the photo. (Drawn from a photograph.) Day 05:: Laboratory - This illustration was cobbled together from various photographs (a video game mixer, and several 1950's Sci-Fi film stills) as well as the memory of my dad's vacuum casting machine for fine jewelry (that bubble on top). Day 06:: Ghost - A lady in white (ya know the jilted bride trope), because I didn't read ahead that I'd have to do a bride at the end of the month. Day 08:: Yokai - The Bakeneko. The bi-pedal, extraordinarily long tailed, towel wearing, dancing, human speaking yokai cat; here shown with leaders of her wolf & undead armies. Day 09:: Spider Baby - A jumping spider illustrated from a photograph. Day 10:: Lagoon (Creature) - I give you the Nixe, which is lagoon dwelling mermaid of Germanic origin. Day 11:: Bat - This was drawn from a photograph of a bat in flight. So, he just looks like he's fabulous and knows it; coupled with the scanner being wonky, he came out super tiny. Day 12:: Vampire - She's a sleek urbanite who's always hooked up to a blood bag that she carries in her pocket. Day 13:: Grave/Coffin - I chose a seventeenth century headstone, the wording is cobbled together from three different era appropriate headstones. Day 14:: Skeleton - An anatomical female skeleton drawn from several photos. My scanner refused to scan her. Day 15:: Owl - Drawn from a photograph of a Great Horned Owl in a mossy tree bough. Day 16:: Goblin - I prefer the illustration of the first goblin I ever drew for these things, but you do different each year, so here we are. She's not bad, just I do like the original. Day 17:: Werewolf - I like her teeth and claws, however my entire family thinks she's a cat. I put her in red because of the French story I read where the little baby black wolf, he wore a read cloak, so he was actually Little Red Riding Hood and I liked that. Day 18:: Rats - So, I rarely draw animals and when I do they are entirely too fat (as is that one rat in the top right - and others that you'll see further on). Sometimes I scribble all over my art. This one says, "Apparently I can't draw rats... But I <3 them!", "Wait... they're not that bad coloured in. Huzzah!", & "I should name this one GusGus." ya know because he's super fat and all. (Yes, I realize that GusGus in the animated Cinderella was a mouse, but who cares.) Day 19:: Séance - So, I drew a lady dressed as a mystical Gypsy contacting the other side for two berieved sisters during the last half of the nineteenth century. The proportions are pretty off, but I love this one. I especially love how the sister on the left side is pretty much all, "I'm done here!" and is just seemingly sliding down under the table and out of view. Makes me laugh! Day 20:: Serpent - And here we have a King Cobra (illustrated from several photographs). Day 21:: Alien - Just your run of the mill alien as I draw them. I've drawn a few... Day 22:: Pumpkin - Oh ho! It's a 2-for-1 special. You get a pumpkin and pumpkin pie... with a pastry pumpkin on top. Day 23:: Monster (Freestyle) - Yeah, so here's a pretty weird monster. He's all fuzzy, except the green bits are skin. He has horns and wings and three eyes... as well as some gimpy fang teeth. He's super friendly though. All of my creations, were they to come to life, are pretty harmless. Day 24:: Hunter's Moon - Illustrated from several photographs of Hunter's Moons. Day 25:: Dark Forest - Is there really a face in that tree or is it just your mind playing tricks on you? Also, it's that an owl, or something far more sinister? Who knows, it's a dark forest! Day 26:: Toad - So, umm... I illustrated this from one photograph. That toad was pretty cute, this one's not so much. He's also super fat for a toad. Oh well. His arms and fingers are pretty cool for a drawn toad though. Day 27:: Swamp Thing - There is nothing more terrifying to me than this very real swamp thing that lives in the waters around here. The Mississippi or American Alligator. I like alligators and respect them, but I do not want to meet one in the wild. He turned out pretty OK, though he's a little too fat near the back end (ha ha) - (illustrated from two different photographs). Day 28:: Raven - I illustrated a Crow, because I like them better than Ravens. Also I illustrated it from my own photograph that I took a few years ago up at New Found Gap in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He landed on the stone wall, he allowed me to take his photo, I said thank you and he flew off. Here's that photograph. Day 29:: Mary Shelley - I took this from a sepia toned portrait of her. Another portrait showed her hair as light brown, so I went with that. This portrait showed her sitting at a desk and you can tell she has daisies a the collar and the wrists and I know it was painted during The Romantique Era, and I know that fashion, so I just finished the dress.
I may detest the story of Frankenstein, but I do give her props for being the first female horror writer, because that's cool, even if I don't particularly like her story.
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