Stop! You are BANISHED to the BLACK HOLE.

Until you roll your number.

I've been obsessing about Nightmare the video board game for NO GOOD REASON over the last few weeks and wanted to do this re-imagining of The Gatekeeper, the sketch for which had been sitting in my book for quite a while. And tonight's the night!

No colour. Only drawings.

I didn't want to post until I'd coloured something but I can't colour something unless I'm at work and it's suddenly gotten very nice out so spending additional time at work to colour for fun seems like a waste of an evening compared to enjoying the 2 allotted months of "The Season that Isn't Rain" that we get. So... only drawings! I might go colour the dragon thing or the running guy later if it gets un-nice out. So... hopefully I won't be colouring them any time soon.

Morror Horror!

I'm really enjoying splashing around the watercolours of late. Trying to get sort of a look that's less of a "spooky design" and more something that's legitimately scary and vague. Like something that you'd have seen in Richard Pickman's paintings. Very freeing in a way.

Murky Crypt

Yeah I might have bought Diablo III what of it? And I gave my Hallowe'en costume a cameo in the BG. I tried colouring this on my teeny tiny cintiq at home which is a loaner from the studio. And while I'm glad to have it, it's total bunk for colouring. Had to do a load of tweaking when I saw it on a proper screen.

Watercolour HORROR!

I'm tired of doing posts that look like drawing exercises. So I've ventured back into playing with watercolour which invariably is extremely frustrating until I take it into photoshop and make myself feel better. Though I'm really rather fond of the bloody handed woman, despite having to digitally make it what I wanted. I need to buy some permanent white ink to do the white liney bits on the actual paper.

COLOUR!

We finally.... FINALLY.... had a little taste of summer for a couple weeks here in Vancouver. It's raining again today but... good god for a little while there we were in shorts. SANDALS even!

I'm so damn tired of grey and I'm so damn happy that my computer is functional again I took the last drawing I did and slapped colour all over it. Planning and finesse be damned. Slap, slap, gradient, crop done. COLOUR!

A most unusual afternoon.

It's a strange kind of day.