Category: Markers

Figure Drawing Fridays-Week 1

Figure 5_27bFigure 5_27a

decided to start a new theme for Friday and that is Figure Drawing Fridays. The goal will be to draw a male and female each week. Any style or media goes. Last night I worked on these two with ink and markers.  As I started to prepare to draw, I decided to look at some books of two artists I really admire, Frank Cho and Adam Hughes.  They are both known for their comic book artwork and for their skills at drawing the female form.  And that put me in the kind of head space I wanted to try for this week’s figures.  I am very inspired by Adam’s use of markers and that is what had me reaching for my markers for these two pieces.
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The Haunted Mansion’s Singing Busts

Singing Busts

As we near our time in the Haunted Mansion(for now), we make our way past some crypts and hear some familiar music being sung by these 5 characters.  Probably the most iconic of the characters in the graveyard scene, these characters are still to this day a great looking effect.

Singing Busts original

This is the original drawing in ink and marker before the color job in Photoshop.

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Haunted Mansion’s Cemetery Caretaker

Caretaker

This is one job that most of us would not want!  He is the originally named, Caretaker.  We run into these two just after escaping the attic of the Haunted Mansion, right before we make our way into the cemetery,  They are like the Shaggy and Scooby Do of the Mansion.

Caretaker ink

This is the original drawing in ink and marker before the color job in Photoshop.

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Organist of the Haunted Mansion

Phantom Organist

Today’s foray into the Haunted Mansion brings to the end of The Ballroom where we get to see a room filled with dancers and a huge dining table where a birthday party is taking place.  The music for the party is being played for us by this ghostly character.  And, as he plays, skulls fly out of the pipes of the organ.  But, this is not the end of our trip through the Haunted Mansion, we will be looking at the views from outside, in the cemetery.

This piece was done with ink and markers and colored in Photoshop.

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Enter, If You Dare..

The Mansion color

“Have you ever seen a haunted house? You know the kind I mean. That old, dark house that’s usually at the end of a dimly lit street. The owners haven’t been seen for years; no one really knows why. The windows are broken and boarded, and the shutters hang loose on their hinges. The trees have grown wild; their branches brush against the sides of the weathering house, making strange noises in the night. There’s a high, vine-covered fence around the property… is it there to keep somebody out? Or is it there to keep some… THING inside? It’s a house that people avoid walking past at night. Strange sounds come from within the walls, and it’s said that eerie lights have been seen both in the attic windows, and in the graveyard at the side of the house.”

That is a description of the eerie mansion that is the home of 999 happy haunts, as described on the record, The Story and Song of the Haunted Mansion.  And anyone who has made a trip to visit this Mansion at night would probably agree with the description.  This is the view you get as you enter the queue and pass the horseless hearse, snaking in front of the mansion as you are on your way to the porch and into the Mansion.

The  drawing was completed with ink and markers and colored in Photoshop.

The Mansion

Here is the original non colored version.

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As Time Goes By

As Time Goes By

8″x10″ ink and marker drawing

“We’ll always have Paris.”

    This is the last week of the month of love theme, and possibly my last piece for this theme.  The drawing is from a scene from the movie, Casablanca.  It’s a complete classic and made to perfection.  I love everything about it.  It has some great quotes and amazing music.  I named this piece after the song, As Time Goes By, which is a song that has a big impact on the characters in the film.  It’s about the joy and pain that love can bring and the hard choices that you have to make.  And it’s got Nazis ruining everything.  I know people might have problems watching a black and white movie from the 40’s, but to me it’s a must see.

“Kiss me.  Kiss me as if it were the last time.”

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