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A fun halloween themed pic for my room #237 at the Dark-Arts-Asylum .... They are currently running a contest for all of their members to submit an image that best sums up their room interior. Lots 'o fun!
I recentley got a book on halloween nostalgia and have been inspired to draw something with that feel to it. I like how the little cat guy and the little witch came out.
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I'll have to find that. Who is the author?
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Al Sarrantonio. He has a book out, "Toybox" that is full of short stories with some of the best and most creative monsters. It's one of my favourites ^^ [link] 
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Thanks! I'll have to check it out once I'm done with two other books.
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I love old halloween stuff^^ One day when i have more money I'm going to collevt all the old paper mache lantersn and stuffs. As for this drawing, I want it painted on the cealing so it is the last thing that I see when I g o to sleep and the first thing I see when i wake. i know it will put me in a good mood! I love the ghost he's my favorite part. Can he be my special friend?
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You bet! That's the friendliest ghost I know.
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Ok, the ghost IS cool, but how bout that witch!!! she is so awesome and this entire image does make me feel like a little kid. Vintage style... you have a unique mind, my friend. This is ace!
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Thanks! I like how the witch came out too. I think my favorite though is the cat kid, I like his pants.
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I'm also quite fond of the "jack in the box"
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very kewl. halloween makes me all warm inside lol. once again very kewl pic *claps*.
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you never seem to disappoint with the goodies. very cool.
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it really reminds me of this story I read when I was little "in a dark dark room" hehe ^_^
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That sounds cool. Was it a good book?
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That picture totally kicks ass man, reminds of Halloween of 97 when my mom got a lot of halloween decoration from the 1960's and decked out the house. I think We wound up doing a mixed them of halloween and christmas that year.
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Wow! That must of been cool to see. Hope you took picture!
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my mom might have like one or two. But knowing my luck I wouldn't be able to find it. >.< It was awesomes though, that year I went as a Romeroesque zombie and it was gold.
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Ha ha! That sounds cool.
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ooh great! I love that ghosts face. ^^
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I love Halloween.
This is great. You really captured the season.
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Thanks! I ahd a lot of fun coloring this one up.
By the way, Bryan Baugh has told me that you guys have been talking. Such a small world.
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Yeah, We're both doing stuff at Viper. His stuff is great!
How do you guys know each other?
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We've been best friends since college since '92 or something like that. We both shared our monsters with each other and been best pals ever since.
His new Viper stuff looks cool!
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Did you go to CCAD as well?
I went there in 95.
Good times.
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I met my wife there as well, we were both assistants to Tardino when he was the dean of illustration!!!!
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Man, that's awesome.
I only completed my freshman year, but I learned so much just being in that enviroment and trying new things. I LOVED IT.
I tried continuing at a local college here in Texas, but it just wasn't the same.
I spent most of my time in the basement level of the dorms where I lived and the monthly trip to Used Kids.
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Yea, I actually liked going to school there but I hated freshman year. 2D design, Lettering and all that stuff. I only letter on the computer, I will NEVER use guache to letter anything!
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HAHA... Guache...
Yeah, if I never mount and wrap anything again, it will be fine by me.
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Oh yea, I hated that. IDid you take 2D design where you had to cut out a million squares out of chroma paper. Man that was a pain.
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HAHAHA! Oh yeah... I had to make a book out of it.
Hella lame.
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It sure was. That class probably hit me the hardest, I couldn't really focus and try to learn anything because they throw you in head first with those things. That probably isn't bad, it's either sink or swim, but when all your classes do that you can't help but slack off a little in all of them just to finish in time. Crazy times indeed.
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CCAD... Those were the days. Another new favorite drawing by the way.
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Yea! I didn't know that. I graduated around that time and then moved out to LA to work at Sony Television.
I took pretty much all of Botts and Hazelrigs classes and spent most of my time in the 3D illustration lab. Good times.
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i want my whole house to look like that
loved it fav'd it
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thats the coolest looking ghost I've seen in a while..
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Very very cool! Love the blowing effect that you've added to the ghost
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Cool! That Ghost kicks ass; it's nice to see a slightly varied ghost from the formulaic "looks a bit like Ghostface from Scream" style spook.
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Thanks. Yea, I wasn't sure where I was going with it but I wanted it to be different looking and not like any of my other drawings as well.
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Well it worked! It's got me in the mood for next Halloween now though!
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in the words of Sonic the Hedgehog, this is way past cool. i like each of those characters in this piece
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This piece (like most of your work) really inspires me. Not to mention that I'm gonna be that ghost now for Halloween 2006.
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pretty damned cool! i think i'll stay out of your room...
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Another visit to The Overlook!
The key is in the lower right coner here: [link]
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Ha ha! I wondered if anyone would get the room number. Kudos for cathching that one!
I miss those old big wheels. Every time I see one I think of the Shining and the souond it makes when it goes over the carpet.
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I read in an interview with Stephen King that in one of the editions of The Shining novel, (I think he said it was the first edition but don't quote me on that) the scene in room #237, by pure chance, ended up being printed on page #237 of the book. Supposedly this wasn't planned, as the scen appeared on a different page in his original manuscript, and 237 was simply a random number that he picked out of thin air. But changes in the spacing (manuscripts are always typed double-spaced while books are printed single-spaced), plus the size of printed text (always smaller and more compact than manuscript typeface) naturally caused some shuffling of the page numbers (as it always does) and by coincidence, the scene in Room #237 ended up on page 237. Freaky, huh!?
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