“Despite the constant ridicule he endured year after year, Linus continued to wait vigilantly in that pumpkin patch until eventually… the Great Pumpkin came… with a vengeance… and a bag of toys.”
Category: Halloween
InkTober Ends
As my first InkTober ‘draws’ to a close, the Trick-or-Treaters continue to shiver to my door. I hope you enjoyed the past thirty-one days as much as I have. Thanks to Jake Parker for the challenge and to all who followed, shared and commented on my daily drawings. It was a lot of fun. InkTober […]
The latest string of DirecTV spots featuring Rob Lowe tap into some scary side effects of an actor who just has cable. Lowe’s personification of each of these characters would not be complete without costume and makeup. For this reason I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some ‘Less Attractive’, ‘Super Creepy’ or ‘Painfully Awkward’ […]
Gored Gourds
Once the pumpkins are gutted, everyone craves the carve. We have four orange canvases that will be creatively transformed at some point this week. Every year I aspire to create something more Ray Villafane, but end up with a standard, three-holed lantern with a slightly unpleasant expression.
Coulrophobia
Some people have a legitimate fear of clowns. If you’re lucky you may run into this one on Halloween playing a mean-looking bass.
Horrifying
Halloween is just around the corner. Do you have your costume idea ready? Make sure it isn’t a crappy one.
Halloween Costumes
When I was a kid I had this strange fascination with those commercially ‘boxed’ costume sets. You know the ones. The cheaply, mass-produced, one-ply molded plastic masks, brightly emblazoned with the latest pop culture characters. Often times the proportion of the mask was nowhere near what it should have been to make you look convincing […]