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I was sketching in Photoshop CS5 testing a feature that allows you to rotate the canvas like you would a sketch pad.
The end result was this chubby malformed hellboy-ish looking monster thing.
fat dumb hell boy
- Hellmouth Sketch day 02
New wallpaper for my new monitor.
ok, i can’t say enough about this site: http://sketch.odopod.com/ its hypnotic.
It records your sketches then plays them back for you. here’s one I did of the Grudge : http://sketch.odopod.com/sketches/137619
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE IT RECREATED
I am not sure where the recent “water-inspired” themes have come from, but this one might be one of my favorite drawings to date.
Jenny Greenteeth…the first time I saw anything about this fairly obscure folktale was in Alan Lee & Briand Froud’s “faeries.” An amazing book. No shit, I drew every picture in that book over and over it was amazing.
anyway here’s the wikipedia version of Jenny:
Jenny Greenteeth is a figure in English folklore. A river hag, similar to Peg Powler, she would pull children or the elderly into the water and drown them. She was often described as green-skinned, with long hair, and sharp teeth. She is called Jinny Greenteeth in Lancashire, but in Cheshire and Shropshire she is called Ginny Greenteeth, Jeannie Greenteeth, Wicked Jenny, or Peg o’ Nell.
She is likely to have been an invention to frighten children from dangerous waters similar to the Slavic Rusalka, the Kappa in Japanese mythology, or Australia’s Bunyip, but other folklorists have seen her as a memory of sacrificial practices.
This myth stood out to me as particularly haunting because of its obscurity…this was not the Boogey man, Sasquatch or anything else so obvious. It was just…some missing people.
Who…could…have …
been taken by a water demon.
I guess
dont go near the river.
drowning. Got all these arms but they’re useless. Lack of oxygen and perspective brings you down. I guess the alienation gets you there to begin with…but…alienation and extra, but useless, limbs are probably one in the same.
This is pretty straightforward. Persephone. Above her; Cerberus (the 3 headed Guardian of the gates of the Underworld) and underneath her (you have to rotate the image 180 – then he’s in the upper Left corner) is Hades. Those are his claws surrounding her. I thought if she were naked, it would make her seem that much more vulnerable and in stark contrast to the fangs and claws etc surrounding her.
The story goes…she was picking flowers. Hades (ruler of the underworld) stole her and took her to his kingdom. She was eventually returned to her mother, Demeter, but 4 months out of the year she has to return to the Underworld. While she is gone her mother is so sad that she lets everything on Earth die until her daughter returns. And that’s how we have winter.
Sad story…but she was loved.
Its hard for me to go out sometimes. Not severe or incapacitating, just hard. Even when i want to. So this picture is me, trying to get outside of myself so that I can go outside. There’s more color in this image than i usually use because i wanted the outside world to look inviting. You can’t really tell from this picture…but that couch is fairly uncomfortable.
Here are some initial pieces of sketches I used for Whereigo and After side. This is obviously before I start mucking them up and literally trying to hide my own art.
