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Okay, so, I love the holiday Halloween. It's my favorite holiday of the year (take that Christmas!). I, traditionally, have to watch at least 100 horror/scary/goofy movies in the month of October. My favorite Halloween movie of all-time is, in fact, Halloween.

Compared to horror films now, it's relatively tame. In fact, the first time I watched it I was like "that was it?" But it's amazing at building suspense. There's something about it that I just love. It was the grandfather of slasher films (of which I also love). It's really pure in that genre. No extra stupid things. Just a dude who stalks and kills people for no reason with no remorse. Now that's scary.

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The B&W version of my Lord of the Rings Periodic Heroes post this week. Again, using Alphonse Mucha as an inspiration (this is two of four pieces I'll be doing like this).

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Okay, let me clarify that I did NOT draw this. So, in case you were wondering how I got awesome overnight, it's because I didn't. This was drawn by the amazing Randy Green. I got a really cool pocket brush pen for my birthday and I wanted to ink something with it. It's been months and months since I've really inked anything, so it was fun to pull it out and practice.

Original Pencils:

Granted, his pencils are better than my inks. My bad - ha! Part of my problem is that I shrunk the picture down to ink it - so the little details became really teeny tiny. Also, I need to work on my feathering (which he rocks). So, yeah, it was fun practice (of which I will keep doing). That and it's a little cathartic too.

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Another warm up sketch - Roland Deschain from Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.

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Another warm up sketch. This is Princess Aura from the Flash Gordon series.

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Another warm up sketch. This is DC's The Question.

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Sorry for the lack of posts, lately, but I've been working on the following pages for the majority of a week and a half now. They're from an X-Men script that Marvel sent me, and I sent them off to the editor today, so fingers crossed cause I busted my hump on these things. Hardest I've worked on pages, yet. I should be getting back to more regular posting of stuff now (as I take a breather before starting on my next set of pages).