Inktober! Halloween Round-Up

Inktober!

Well, I suppose it makes more sense to show whatever was done with the Halloween-based, Pen-and-Ink drawings for Inktober without the colorized layers on top.  So, here they all are in their inky, black-and-white gory... er, glory.

Happy Halloween!

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All were done with pen-and-ink with a No. 8 brush on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock.--although, the Mummy also used Copic .5mm marker, as well.

I almost forgot how much fun it is to work in straight up pen-and-ink.  I'm definitely gonna have to do this some more.  :-)

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Wizard of Oz (1939)

Wizard of Oz (1939)

Well, for the last of the Halloween-based Inktober drawings, I figured I'd do a witch.  And, which witch is the most famous witch of all?  Elphaba, The Wicked Witch of the West, of course (OK, I read the book "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire... I haven't seen the musical, yet). 

And, since it is "The Wizard of Oz", I guess the term "B-Movie" really doesn't apply all that much.  Oh, well.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the rough pencils on a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of cardstock.

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STEP TWO:  I inked the pencils with a a #8 brush and Pro-Art 4100 India Ink.

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STEP THREE:  I scanned the pen-and-ink drawing into Photoshop and colorized it over a MULTIPLY Layer.

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Done with pen-and-ink on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock, colorized in Photoshop.

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Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

This was a movie which I saw when I was six or seven.  Ah, my time as a youngster in Central Wisconsin in the mid-1970's, spent staying up waaaayyyy too late on Friday nights to watch "T.J. and the A.N.T." (All Night Theater).  They would show old B-Movies featuring "Godzilla", various monsters and space aliens, broken up with "The Andy Griffith Show", "Charlie Chan", and other shows they must have gotten dirt cheap for syndication.  But, as I was a kid, I didn't care.  I was there for the B-Movies.  Anything involving robots, spaceships, monsters, aliens, and their ilk, I was in.  (Sadly, I've probably watched 80% of the movies shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 without Joel/Mike, Tom Servo, and Crow T. Robot in the corner.)

As for the Ed Wood, um... classic (?), "Plan 9 from Outer Space", to my young mind it was a terrifyingly realistic plot to take over the world using zombies!  Looking at it today, of course,  "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is a terrifyingly realistic plot to take over the world using zombies! 

I know I usually do the pen-and-ink, B-Movie Halloween series with some sort of monochromatic color scheme on these, but in this case I can only think of Tor Johnson in washed out black-and-white.  Colorizing him just seems... wrong.

And, now, the step-by-step for those interested...  And even those of you who aren't interested, of course.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the rough pencils on a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of cardstock.

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STEP TWO:  I inked the pencils with a a #8 brush and Pro-Art 4100 India Ink.

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STEP THREE:  I scanned the pen-and-ink drawing into Photoshop and did a grayscale over a MULTIPLY Layer.

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Done with pen-and-ink on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock, colorized in Photoshop.

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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

The Creature from the Black Lagoon, A.K.A. Gill-Man, was a creature I knew more about from pictures in various monster magazines and books then from the movie, itself.  It did eventually show up in one of the many Saturday Monster Matinees they would show on TV when I was growing up.  As I was a kid with a fixation and imagination bent toward anything with monsters, aliens, and robots, found it great, scary fun.  I haven't watched it recently, so I wonder how it holds up to a more modern viewing.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the rough pencils on a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of cardstock.

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STEP TWO:  I inked the pencils with a a #8 brush and Pro-Art 4100 India Ink. 

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STEP THREE:  I scanned it into Photoshop and colorized the Creature with three values of green over a MULTIPLY Layer, but also added some more color to the lips, and blue background.  I added a couple simple bubbles just 'cuz it amused me.

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Done with pen-and-ink on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock, colorized in Photoshop.

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Frankenstein (1931)

Frankenstein (1931)

A staple of October Halloween movie marathons, the 1931 classic "Frankenstein".  While the movie is good in its own way, it in no way matches up with the great novel by Mary Shelley.  It did take me a long time to finally get around to novel, but I was really surprised how completely different the Monster was from his depiction in the movie.  In the movie, he was slow and shuffling, a near mute.  In the book, he had super-human speed and grace and spoke several languages; in spite of all that, he was still rejected by society for his appearance.  I am usually not a fan of epistolary novels (stories told in a series of letters), but this is one with which to make an exception.

And, yes, Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, NOT the Monster. :-P

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STEP ONE:  Here are the rough pencils on a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of cardstock.  Many times, I do prefer the pencils to the finished picture... This is probably one of those times, too.  It probably has to do with the pencil line being somewhat sketchy, so your brain picks the best potential lines to emphasize.  Once it's inked, the line is essentially "locked down" and what you have is what you got.

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STEP TWO:  I inked the pencils with a a #8 brush and Pro-Art 4100 India Ink. 

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STEP THREE:  I scanned it into Photoshop and did a monochrome coloration with three values of green over a MULTIPLY Layer.

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Done with pen-and-ink on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock, colorized in Photoshop.

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The Mummy (1932)

The Mummy (1932)

Hey, it's that time again for Monochromatically colored pen-and-ink drawings for Halloween B-Movies from the past!  (Click the Label B-MOVIE to see the rest.)  And it's Inktober, which is also a thing, I guess, for the past few years?  So, it's a twofer! 

I watched this movie when I was a kid, and the Mummy as unstoppable force of nature -- long before there was a Terminator movie -- was a concept which filled me with, well, horror.  Then again, my 6 year-old mind was constantly bubbling over with terrors and monsters aplenty.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the rough pencils on a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of cardstock.

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STEP TWO:  And here are the inks.  I used a Copic .5mm pen and a #8 brush and Pro-Art 4100 India Ink.

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STEP THREE:  I scanned it into Photoshop and did a monochrome coloration with three values of blue over a MULTIPLY Layer.

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Done with pen-and-ink on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock, colorized in Photoshop.

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