31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2021:
Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
"I'm Batman! No, wait, I'm Man-Bat!" Nope, it's the Devil from "Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages" (1922). He's busy showing off his Zaddy Dad-Bod and making booty calls.
Haxan is a pretty wild movie for 1922, and I've had it on the list to use for a while. The first part is a series of depictions of witches in the past and various woodblock prints, drawings, etc., and then moves on to various alleged practices by witches, instruments of torture, and a slight parable through to today (well, 1922). But, that middle section has some pretty crazy things going on. The effects are surprisingly good and add to the sense of being an object out of time.
Like "Nosferatu", the fact it is a silent (well, there is a score), black-and-white (well, there are color tints on the film, which are interesting) movie, gives it an additional level of surreal strangeness and makes it slightly more unnerving and creepy.
Also, this movie is just flat out horny--and not just the ones on the demon's and devil's heads. The Devil is constantly knocking on doors and knocking boots; He's Netflix and Chillin', to put it in the vernacular of today so you kids may understand.
If you want to watch it, Haxan is in the Public Domain and you can watch it on YouTube.
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STEP ONE: I thought I should do this one as digital, as my scanner seems to hate blue, monochromatic paintings. So, here are the pencils on a 1,400px x 2,100px canvas @ 300dpi in Clip Studio Paint.
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STEP TWO: And here's the first pass with large brushes, just to model the figure. Actually, this one was all too similar to the weekly Figure Drawing Sessions I attend, so it was relatively quick and easy.
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STEP THREE: Like the previous Pennywise painting, I did most of this one on a single layer, just 'cuz.
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This was done digitally in Clip Studio Paint.
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