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This summer I've been doing a whole series of "Monsters and Girls" illustrations, and selling them as original art pieces on the Store Page of my official website.This particular drawing was a lot of fun to color.
This drawing has already sold. But a few other original "monsters and girls" art pieces, are still available for sale at my website store.
Here's the link... cryptlogic.bigcartel.com/
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Haha cool. Thanks Dave.
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Dammit!! Β I'm finding it hard to decide if I love your girls or the monsters more!! 
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Haha, I get that a lot!
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Another amazing piece of awesome!
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Love how your artwork is in the picture like little easter eggs man, also this is a classic horror movie cliche the monster/murder is outside the window but the girl or guy doesn't notice until it's to late. Love the look of the girl and the monster is cool man.
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Thank you for your very kind words!
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No Problem man keep it up
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I like the spicy horror books the girl is reading. The remind me of the Haunted House of Lingerie series by Fastner and Larson.
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Huh, never saw that one!
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If you mean the zombie outside the window... He just keeps roaming around looking in windows for pretty girls to devour.
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Once again, awesome.
Say, have you tried an alien abduction cover?Β I think you could do it justice, my friend.
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Ahh, that would be fun. Thanks for the suggestion.
I sorta got burned out from drawing an overload of space monsters for this book: www.amazon.com/Zap-Draw-Fantasβ¦
...but that was several years ago.
I've pretty much stuck to earth-bound monsters from beyond the grave since then!
But perhaps it would be fun to goof around with some aliens again if the cosmic urge strikes me.
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Ah, I see.
Well if you do, could you make it into a threesome.Β three girls, in a lab, being prepped for experimentation.Β I dunno, I think it's never been done before.
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Why am I thinking Creepshow? Great work, Bryan.
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Probably because there was that famous Jack Kamen poster for Creepshow, of the ghost outside the window while the little kid sat in bed, reading comic books.
But glad you like mine too!
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Love your stuff buddy. Was this an intentional homage or that creeping 80s horror movie subconscious?
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Who knows. Creepshow is one of my all-time, top-10 favorite movies. It's been pretty deeply ingrained in my subconscious since I first saw it, when it originally came out, in 1982, and I was 10 yrs. old. That movie is definitely in my blood.
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I hear yah - I was 11 and my dad took me to see it. A double feature with The Howling. Howling scared the crap out of me but loved Creepshow.
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Oh man, that would be one hell of a double feature! And one hell of a childhood memory!
Of course The Howling is another of my all time favorites and I got to see it when it was new, also.
But damn, to see it back to back with Creepshow ...at the theater? That is awesome dude! JEALOUS!!
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Cheers Bryan. It was my love for Fangoria and EC Horror comics from a very early stage. I think you and I had similar upbringings. All the best mate.
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Yep, sounds like it. I got my first issue of Fangoria when I was 10. It was the issue with XTRO on the cover! And I first learned about E.C. Comics from reading Stephen King's nonfiction book "Danse Macabre" when I was probably in the 6th or 7th Grade. At which point I immediately started scouring the back-issue bins at my local comic book store trying to find them! Luckily a few re-print books already existed by then, so I was able to buy them with my lawn-mowing allowance and deepen my education of Horror History.
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Mine was The Bloody Best of Fangoria (circa 1981 - 1982) followed by an issue with Malcolm McDowell in Cat People. I became fascinated with SPFX make-up thanks to my Dad taking me to see American Werewolf in London. I remember seeing lots of articles about The Beast Within and thinking that was going to be so awesome but the photos in Fangoria were better than the final product. Did you have the issue where they ran a comic story where movie killers all fight it out? I remember being disappointed that Michael Myers beat Jason Voorhees lol. Prior to American Werewolf I was already an avid reader of Famous Monsters. The classic Universal monsters and the Hammer horror movies were my faves before AWIL. My Dad used to buy horror comics for me too. Wish I had them now. You're making me nostalgic now lol.
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Ooo, yeah, I got that one too. That was the first "Bloody Best of Fangoria" issue if I recall... The one with "Evil Dead" on the cover... And "The Deadly Spawn", if my photographic memory serves? They did more of those issues in later years. "Bloody Best" was Fangoria's version of the comic book double sized Summer Annual issues back in them days of the 80's. God, what a great decade to be a kid that was!
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Yes indeed. The Bloody Best of I had was Volume 1. Had a picture of Jack from AWIL, Mrs Voorhees head twice - from Parts 2 and 3, Altered States. That was my treasured possession and launched my buying of Fangoria regularly.
Hey Bryan, do you remember a magazine called Cinemagic magazine, also by Starlog - I used to have a Super 8 camera and tried to pull of some of the spfx from that and Fangoria - I think that's the reason I loved the movie Super 8 so much.
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Hmm - I remember "Cinemafantastique" - but the title "Cinemagic" is escaping my memory. Still, I bought so many horror & sci-fi movie magazines back then. If it was about monster movies and it was on sale at news stands in the 80's, I probably owned a few issues! ...I will have to check. I still have my collection.
Another magazine of the 80's that I remember fondly was "Fantastic Films" that covered a much wider range of every kind of fantasy or special effects film - from sci-fi & horror, to children's animated films. My favorite issue of Fantastic Films was the one with E.T. on the cover... because inside it had a GREAT (if short) article with tons of photos about Creepshow. That same issue also had an interview with Rob Bottin (right after he finished working on The Thing) and a very extensive article on The Secret of NIHM. Which was one of my favorite animated movies as a kid.
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Lol, Bryan, I had that exact Fantastic Films magazine - the cover was a painting of ET and Elliot, the only place I've seen that picture. Medium shot of the two of them.
Rob Bottin - I always remember his picture with beard and fangs in his promotional shot with lots of Thing makeup pieces around him.
The first issue I had of Cinemagic had the face of the Greek god Pan makeup fx. It was by Jeff or Craig Reardon. And Don Bluth, another of my childhood heroes. Don't get me started on Dragon's Lair or my personal fave, Space Ace.
I have a hankering to watch Poltergeist now. Keep up the great work Bryan - and yes, Im still waiting for a scantily clad Geena Davis facing off against The Fly.
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Yep you know the one I mean!
I must tell you. I have watched The Fly a hundred times, and during every viewing I think, "My God, This is one of the BEST horror films of my youth! And one of my all-time favorites. WHY THE HELL haven't I done a tribute illustration to it???"
So then I try... and I can never get it right.
I've probably drawn about 10 different rough sketches trying to find just the right approach. None of them have successfully captured everything I love about that movie in one drawing.
Perhaps the only solution is to do 2 or 3 different Fly tributes. I've started to think that might be the only way.
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My parents took me to see The Fly at the drive-in. Fantastic movie and I quite enjoyed the sequel as well when it came out.
There's a great website with the making of the Fly 2 and other monster films called Monster Legacy. One of my favourite later monsters was the Kothoga from The Relic - some great pictures of that creature and behind the scenes at the same website. Here's the link if you're not familiar: monsterlegacy.wordpress.com/
I think the original Jeff Goldblum Fly is a difficult creature to illustrate. Reference material is tough to find and the creature itself is a misshapen non-symmetrical abomination (to put is nicely). There are some good concept sculpts shown in the special features of the DVD, however. I absolutely loved its face. Martin Fly from The Fly 2 was a more streamlined design - pulled off very well throughout the film. The fact that you love the film as much as you do is always going to be demanding work when you pay homage. I have the soundtrack on vinyl still. I'll have to upgrade to iTunes one of these days.
Digging the conversation by the Bryan.
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Yeah I love the Fly soundtrack. I must say, for many years (certainly during his early Cronenberg years) Howard Shore was one of my top two or three favorite film score composers. In the 80's, half the fun of watching a new Cronenberg movie was hearing new Howard Shore music! And yes I had the Fly score on tape cassette for years when I was in high school and college. Then at some point later, an extended CD edition came out with more tracks. WOW that's a good soundtrack to draw to! So many different emotions going on in it... but a constant sense of morbid melancholy floating over the whole thing...
I would say my top three favorite Howard Shore movie scores would be:
The Fly.
Existenz.(those are his two strongest for Cronenberg in my estimation)
...But he topped both of those with his Silence of the Lambs score.
...Well depending on what day it is, I might say his Fly score is even better than his Silence of the Lambs score. I really can't decide which of those two is better. But I think his Existenz score (not the greatest movie but an amazing score) is right behind them in third place.
I was super excited when I first heard the rumor (way back in 1998) that Shore would be composing the scores for the Lord of the Rings movies but... damn... in my opinion his work on LOTR was severely disappointing. I'm not saying it was bad... And I'm not saying that to be a contrarian or to knock LOTR just because it's popular... I don't do that. I'm saying, as a longtime Howard Shore fan, having followed his scores for years, I found his LOTR music really lacking. After all these years I've gotten used to them... But I still don't feel that the LOTR scores had ANY of the power of his early work. They just sound like generic fantasy movie scores to me.
I've always collected a lot of movie soundtracks going all the way back to 1980 when I was 8 years old and my mom bought me The Empire Strikes Back (by John Williams) soundtrack album - by mistake. She thought she was buying me one of those "The Story of Star Wars" type records that recreated the story through spoken dialogue and sound effects like a radio play... But when I listened to it - it was like a new discovery - "No mom! You made a mistake but it's okay! Don't return it to the store! This is BETTER!!"
...And I've been rabidly addicted to movie scores ever since!
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I would say The Fly ranks as his best with me. 'Plasma pool' and 'Ronnie's visit' (I think that's the names of the tracks) were favourites of mine for a long time. And yes, Silence of the Lambs was great work too. To be fair on Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers tracks on Edoras and the Horse Lords in general reminded me of his older works. Some of the strings work in there actully sounds like The Fly at times. He was Cronenberg's go to guy. Videodrome was on my list back in the day of must see movies thanks to Fangoria but it also developed my love for James Woods' acting.
The first 'soundtrack' I received was a disco version of Star Wars called 'Star Wars and other Galactic Funk' by Meca. It was John Williams themes with more of a disco back beat but it also had sound effects of R2D2, laser blasts and ships flying by. I listened to it daily and one of my friends and I used to play the record and record us acting out new Star Wars scenes. My love for that lead to a string of John Williams soundtracks from my folks right through the 80s. My 10 year old son now loves to listen to John Williams music. Have to pass on that legacy. Lol.
Again similarly, I have bought soundtracks from the 80s forward, my CD cabinet is full of soundtracks. I even used some soundtrack music at my wedding. I have a soft spot for John Barry's Somewhere in Time which my wife and I used for our wedding. Now it's iTunes. Filling my playlists with soundtracks. Hans Zimmer is in my list but at present I'm a big fan of Michael Giacchino. I really feel Giacchino is the new Williams his scoring. I absolutely love the soundtrack of Super 8. In fact, that's one of my new favourite films. It really does take me back to the time period where I got my own Super 8 camera...
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Ahh, yes, I had that Meco record when I was a little kid! It came out the same summer as Empire Strikes Back.
I believe it was called "Star Wars Medley" by Meco. I used to listen to it and wait for the part where Chewbacca roared. Then I would pretend to be Chewie and "mouth" his roar sound effect. Which was very impressive to my little sister. Haha. Yes I was a weird kid. Wonderful, silly childhood memory.
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I looked it up on Google - too much news about Islam and Meca - you're right it was Meco and the album was Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk - the one I had anyway.
I loved Close Encounters back then too - the soundtrack was very evocative (to sound arty lol) but there are certain parts of that soundtrack when listened in stereo that gives me goosebumps. I think Williams is a real master of emotive music.
Have you ever watched an old movie called "The Monster Club"? It starts of with Vincent Price who is a vampire taking old John Carradine into a club patronized exclusively by monsters and he tells a series of monster stories to Carradine who is a horror writer. There's a really good story where a film director goes to this village which is inhabited by ghouls... it's the inspiration for an RPG adventure I'm writing atm.
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Yeah the Close Encounters Score is great. I understand what you are saying about it...
The score for Jaws is much the same way. The casual fan thinks it just goes "dum-dum-dum-dum" (shark theme)...
But that is just one small portion of a score that is filled with rousing high-seas adventure music, and low, moody atmospheric pieces.
Ahh, "The Monster Club". Been yeeeears since I saw that... I seem to recall viewing a rare videotape copy in college... but yes, fun film. It is based on a novel by R. Chetwynd Hayes (I might have the spelling of his name wrong, I am just spouting this off the top of my head), who is a fun author because he never worried if anybody thought his monster stories were corny or unbelievable, he just straight up wrote them anyway.
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Yes, Carradine actually plays Hayes in the film. Someone has put the film up on YouTube... I may have to have a refresher. Okay, next old film that I'm getting back into: The Beast Must Die! I'd love someone to do a remake of that with modern effects. I'm also hankering to sit down to watch Poltergeist again. Jerry Goldsmith's score is quite good on Poltergeist. I wasn''t very fond of the sequel however. And yes, the first I heard about Poltergeist was in Fangoria!
Jaws - the track Out to Sea, breathtaking stuff. Doesn't do as much for me as Close Encounters but yes, similarly evocative. There's some great frenetic composition in Close Encounters. There's even a bit of When You Wish Upon a Star chucked in there. Not my favourite part but still beautiful music.
Wojciech Kilar's 1992 Dracula soundtrack is high on my list for post 80s music.
Are you familiar with Michael Giacchino? Super 8 - awesome soundtrack.
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Kilar's music for Dracula is indeed wonderful.
I'm only barely familiar with Giacchino... Aware of him of course, but he hasn't yet done a score for a movie where the music really jumped out at me and made me think, "Wow, I gotta buy that soundtrack!" ...Something that used to happen to me all the time, while watching movies, when I was young... And which seems to happen less and less as I get older.
It seems like, when I was a kid, a teenager, and even into my 20's, I could barely keep up with all the movie soundtracks I wanted to collect. But since getting into my 30's and 40's, I've felt much less "captured" by movie music. There's been a few exceptions of course... Certain things here and there have grabbed me and become new favorites. But as I get older, those "new favorites" are fewer and further between. I find myself more and more impressed with the old stuff, and less and less impressed with new stuff.
If I was going to check out any of Giacchino's scores it would probably be for Super 8 (which, yes, I loved) or Let Me In (which I loved even more).
...Actually - check that - now that I think about it, I do seem to recall thinking I "I gotta get that soundtrack!" while watching Let Me In, the first time.
I just forgot about it till now... (something else that happens when you start getting old).
Thanks for reminding me!
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I'd definitely recommend Giacchino's Super 8 soundtrack. I'll have to revisit Let Me In. Giacchino also scored the new Star Trek films and I think the score for the first installment was the best part of that film. Check out a track called Enterprising Young Men from that soundtrack. He's also done a lot of work with Disney Pixar to my surprise, particularly The Incredibles. He's one to keep an eye (or ear) on.
I don't think I'll ever put any composer above John Williams. I have a huge soundtrack collection both on vinyl and CD. I don't think I lost interest in soundtracks in the sense that they weren't as impressive, more likely I met my wife to be and focused on other things. Kids have occupied most of my time for the past 10 years, now they're both becoming more independent I have more time to listen to my old music. I'm going through a soundtrack renaissance at the moment. My cheesiest soundtrack, but one which holds a special place to me, is John Barry's Somewhere in Time. I really love some of the tracks on that soundtrack. And the 1976 King Kong soundtrack by Barry is something great to me as well.
Do you remember an old horror film Without Warning? Jack Palance vs an alien with organic death Frisbees. It was one of the first movies I watched on VHS. I found it by accident on YouTube the other day. Classic B-grade horror from the early 80s.
Are you doing many commissions these days, Bryan, or is work keeping you busy enough? I'm about to start a job illustrating a Feudal Japan gaming system - should keep the drawing bug busy for a couple of months. I injured my drawing hand somehow and have to take regular breaks, which is a pain in more ways than one.
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That must be why I haven't gotten into much Giacchino. Other than Super 8 and Let Me In, most of the movies he's scored have not been favorites of mine.
I have never been a Star Trek fan and haven't followed it in any form. I saw the 2009 (prequel? reboot?) movie, and thought it was okay but - felt no connection with it, and have never gotten around to seeing it again. I don't even remember the music.
And while I appreciate the Pixar movies (all of them are worth watching at least once), the style of music in Pixar movies is too far away from my tastes.
That said I have a massive collection of horror movie soundtracks, from horror films old and new, mainstream and obscure, classical and electronic.
I just can't get enough spooky horror music when I'm drawing my monsters.
Yep I am keeping pretty busy these days!
Very sorry to hear about injuring your drawing hand!! That is terrible.
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I'm only a fan of one track on the Star Trek soundtrack that being Enterprising Young Men. Check it out on YouTube. It's a nice piece. Oh and in terms of style, The Incredibles soundtrack (I must admit I got into these because of the kids) is a homage to 60s James Bond music.
Another fave of mine is the soundtrack from Interview With The Vampire by Elliot Goldenthal. Yes, I even liked the Guns N Roses take on Sympathy for the Devil. If you haven't got that soundtrack, it's worth a look. Not as iconic as Dracula. The soundtrack for Hannibal by Hans Zimmer is one freaky soundtrack too. Zimmer's use of creepy effects in his music makes it a disturbing listening experience.
The hand is frustrating. It's not arthritis but the bones seem to be displacing for some reason. I can't think of a world without drawing lol.
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Awesome!Β Love the book covers; nice touch.Β This is why you should do all your reading on the second floor.
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Ahh yes, that is a good point about the second floor.
But then of course some flying vampire would probably be going after her instead!
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Or a hilarious ladder wielding vampire!Β
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Judging by her taste in literature, this gal is my Dream Girl!!!
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Haha! Yeah, I must admit... I sorta love the idea of my cute girl characters, thrilling to the sexy, scary adventures of my other cute girl characters.
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