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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 13: Frankenstein #31DaysofHorror

Ah, Frankenstein. I've said it before and I'll say it again. You're either a Frankenstein person or a Dracula person. I'm a Frankenstein person, myself, and try to influence my students to come to the science fiction side of horror. Since I

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 12: Moon #31DaysofHorror

Not much to say here. It's the moon. I can draw it. Compressed chalk and pastel pencil on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 11: Raven #31DaysofHorror

Hey, not too bad considering holding the compressed chalk actually hurt, so I had it at a weird angle and drew from my shoulder to minimize pain. Carpal tunnel sucks. Compressed chalk on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 10: Alien #31DaysofHorror

Don't blame me. I'm not the one who created American Horror Story: Asylum, forever conflating aliums with whiny characters and animal mutilation. Graphite crayon on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 9: Eyeball #31DaysofHorror

When I saw the theme for Drawlloween Day 9 was eyeball, I knew what I had to do. I love drawing eyes. I'm good at it, too. I wanted to get another entry done for the Chiller Theatre Expo art contest and, from my experience there, they respond

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 8: Zombie #31DaysofHorror

I crashed hard after a long practice yesterday and forgot to upload my Day 8 zombie sketch for Drawlloween. Here it is now. Compressed chalk and charcoal on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 7: Haunted House #31DaysofHorror

I have plans for a much larger piece inspired by the Bates Motel in Psycho. I figured Haunted House day in #Drawlloween was a good place to start. The proportions are a bit too squat, but the idea came out pretty easily. I would use a ruler and actually work

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 6: Pumpkin #31DaysofHorror

Another day, another spoopy drawing. Only this one isn't spoopy at all. It's actually my most straight forward entry in Drawlloween so far. The theme for day 6 is pumpkin. I delivered in sanguine. Compressed chalk on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"

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Halloween 2015: Broodhollow Haunt #31DaysofHorror

I don't know if/when I'll get a new episode of The Haunting Ground up, though I'd like to think the existing series entries are a great tool for novice home haunters. What I do know is that I feel the need to start

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 5: Werewolf #31DaysofHorror

Do you even lift, brah? I didn't intend to create a super buff werewolf, but once the shape started to come through, I couldn't resist. Vine charcoal and compressed chalk on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 4: Vampire #31DaysofHorror

I looked at my blank toned gray notebook and said, "there must be a vampire there. But not just any vampire. A vampire in transformation." Certain strains of folklore claim vampires can transform into mist or fog. I figured an especially cool, cheeky vampire might hide from hunters

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 3: Goblin #31DaysofHorror

Day 3 of Drawlloween is a goblin. I did some digging around last night and discovered that the Chinese equivalent of a goblin is portrayed as a birdlike-humanoid. The motivation and behaviors are the same--protective force, mischievous, collecting small objects. The appearance is different and, to me, far more intriguing

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#Drawlloween Day 2: Devil #31DaysofHorror

Day 2 of #Drawlloween is all about the devil. I played with doing some kind of unexpected twist on the devil, but wound up at pretty straight forward red skin, goatee, and horned devil when the material started to hit the page. I love him. He's so sweet.

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 1: Ghost #31DaysofHorror

So #Drawlloween is a 31 day art challenge inspired by Halloween. Here's my ghost for day 1. Charcoal, compressed chalk, and pastel pencil on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"

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The 2015 MacArthur Fellows

The MacArthur Fellows, aka the recipients of the MacArthur Genius Grants, receive a no strings attached award of $625,000 spread out over the next five years. It is a tremendous honor limited to a select group of candidates from all walks of intellectual and creative pursuits. The award is

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Sally Field, Jhumpa Lahiri, Stephen King, and More Are National Medal of Arts and Humanities Honorees

Last week, the White House announced the artists who will receive the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medals in a ceremony tomorrow. They are a diverse series of visual artists, performers, composers, and authors worth learning about. Sally Field is one of the actors being recognized this year

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Children, The Arts, and The Real Value of Educational Theater

I mention it every so often around here. In my other life, I work in educational theater year round. I love it. I love being able to give young people the experience of interacting with the arts outside of the traditional classroom. What I haven't mentioned here is

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Welp! The Dragon?

Okay, so I let the process guide me a bit too much this time around. I made a very pretty pastel pink background in watercolor and then started doodling in pastel pencils. I wanted to make a cloud monster, but the white pastel pencil didn't show. Then I

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Death Metal

Death Metal is one of the boss fights in Crypt of the NecroDancer, the rougelike rhythm/turn-based strategy game I'm obsessed with. He fights to the fastest song in the game, spawning enemies to battle for him every few steps once his bat shield flies off. His scythe

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365 Sketch 2015: Meditation

Gave my new Faber Castell water-soluble graphite pencils a try. I like how easily they blend with water, but need to experiment with them on actual watercolor paper. I'm wondering how much of the line-art I can get to stay  or if I need to couple them with

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365 Sketch 2015: The All Seeing Eye

It's Eye-ception. It's a floating eye within an eye with an eye within an eye. No, I don't understand where I come up with this stuff. Kind of cute though, right? 365 Sketch 2015: The All Seeing Eye watercolor pencil, watercolor, and marker

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365 Sketch 2015: Invasion

I wanted to draw a robot today. Mission accomplished? I did intend to use more color, but then I sketched in detail with a really vibrant blue and didn't want to wreck it. 365 Sketch 2015: Invasion watercolor pencil

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365 Sketch 2015: Red Chest Mimic

More Crypt of the Necrodancer art. Today, we're exploring the wonderful world of mimics. The chest mimics look like regular treasure chests in the game, only they're bouncing along to the beat. If you move next to them they start gnashing their teeth and chasing you

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365 Sketch 2015: 3 Heads Are Better Than 1

Another day, another monster. This 3-headed cutie popped into my head after a long day of subbing and I can't explain why. All I was doing was working on a treatment for a play that has nothing to do with tentacled monstrosities. Watercolor pencil and nightmare fuel.

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365 Sketch 2015: Happy Blue Zombie

I felt like doing a watercolor sketch of a happy zombie. It's kind of cute? In a deranged, oozing, broke-neck way, of course. Watercolor pencil.