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Frightful, vacant pumpkin eyes!

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Fire. Pumpkin fire. Pumpkin spice? I hear people like that.


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I can trace my fascination with pumpkins to an almost specific time, about this time of year, nearly 21 years ago.

My pre-K teacher had made pumpkin pie. She brought it to school, uncovered it, and showed us. I remember having this fascination mixed with intense dread at the site of that pie. I got myself so worked up over it that I actually threw-up.

And that is a true story.

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Blah! Be afraid of minos giving candy.

Afterthought of the morning : maybe the piece of candy should have been a worm.

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A friend gave me a nice quote about this. He said he really enjoys my drawings of "hairy, agitated beasts performing very precise tasks."

- H. Benjamin Kammer

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I'll be delivering one monster a day until the big day so check back to see the new installments.

Make no mistake, they are all very, very scary.

We'll cap off Halloween with a special 8 panel story. Huge, right? No, not really. But it was fun.

Eat some candy and scare your friends!

water beast, nearly.

Here's the "water beast" nearly there. I'm closing in on it but there's still a little detail work left to do.

I'm at that bizarre point where every other step doesn't feel quite right yet I know this isn't done.

Mino

Here's a pretty stylized Minotaur. I had to get it out of my system or I was going to blow up

And here's a really bad quality picture of the real one I 'm working on.

Illustration Friday: "Safe"

Alexander & Rex

I'd feel safe.

drawings in the car

Click here for moleskine drawings from the ride back.

the ride back from the BJERK-FINK WEDDING

12 hour car ride or something like that. From Riverton, Illinoise back to Greenville, SC in a little red VW bug. And in the back seat. It made for some cramped space and for some drawings. Here is a selection of a few of those drawings in some kind of order.




photos by Annie.

Illustration Friday: "Monster"

Sea monster.....

Illustration Friday: "Feet" [musical edit]

Many feet tall. Atleast 30 feet. Maybe 40.

Such Great Heights
-The Postal Service-
[the musical equivalent of the above images?]

Antique

circa 4th grade