So a while back Evan Dahm put together a zine called “Hail Stan” – printed in B&W on lurid red paper, the premise was that it was misremembered, misspelt, and misunderstood Satanism. I couldn’t pass that idea up, and drew these things for it, then forgot about them until I found them while looking through last year’s working directory just now.
I’m kinda tempted to do more of these. Maybe even package them as trading cards in blind packs…
Authority
A new phone means a new background! I tried to bite my friend Matt Harpold’s style, since he’s done some very nice drawings of this character, but I ended up pretty much doing my usual thing, especially on the figure.
Three hours, Illustrator.
I’ve been watching some digital painting technique videos lately, and I think some of that creeped into how I did the figure. Lots of shading going on, and somewhat more subtle detail going on than normal. I piled up a lot of transparent shapes and some distorted fills while doing this; near the end I found myself really, really, really wishing Illustrator had the “freeze layer” functionality of the late, lamented Expression. Again. Like I do every damn time I do this kind of thing. Time to make a feature request, I guess. I’m sure it’ll be ignored like all the other times I’ve made it.
edit: Hmm. I just fucked around and it looks like I can kindasorta freeze a layer by applying a rasterize effect. Maybe. I’m not entirely sure. I’ll have to remember to remove it before exporting, though; this is something I only want to see happening as I edit, not when I export final art.
Seasonal Illustrator speedpaint. One hour.
Based on what I have sitting in the corner of my living room right now. I wanted to try and capture something of the soft lighting it casts.
Oh and also. How To Celebrate Witchmas.
1. Make a Witchmas pole.
2. Chill.
That’s it.
Hypnotizing vixens like to dress up as witches sometimes.
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I’m at the library. I pulled a big thick tome of Futurist art off the shelves. These are my favorite images. Enjoy! Someday I hope to do a comic that gets described as “a Futurist nightmare”. Or “a Futurist dream”. Either way.
The first piece from Operation Take Post-Its Off My Monitor Bezel. I was asked to design a few members of an imaginary warez group.
The strange shadows of Lord NULL and Ossifrage are, of course, their CYBERSPACE AVATARS. Vexations does not have one; her online manifestation is eerie drones and sourceless whispers.
