Day 28: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2026

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2026:
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)

It's the Halloween Tradition of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown".  A fun bit of Halloween Trick-or-Treat animation.  Nostalgia is quite a drug!  I oft think "I got a rock!" when something goes wrong, which it seems to do more often than I like, come to think of it.

Side note: From everything I've ever read, composer and Jazz musician, Vince Guaraldi, was and extremely angry man, yet he created some of the happiest music on Earth with the various Charlie Brown shows.  I think of that way too much every time I hear any music from the "Peanuts" shows. 

Also, I'm sure many of you are asking if I did this one only to save time.  Well, I'm not NOT saying I did it 'cuz it would be theoretically easy to do, but it still seemed to take way too long.  Sigh...  And, yeah, that rock looks more like a gray muffin, but that's the way it looks in the show and it would be a travesty to change it!  Well, that may be a bit too far, but, y'know...  That's what it looked like.

Three more days to go, and you better believe I'm counting them down!

Here's an Animated .GIF of Charlie Brown, getting that rock:

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STEP ONE: Here are the quick pencils done on a 2,000px x 3,000px canvas @ 300dpi in Rebelle 8 Pro.

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STEP TWO: Here is the finished digital painting.

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Done Digitally with Rebelle 8 Pro.

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Day 14: The Invisible Man (1933) Mash-Up - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
The Invisible Man (1933)

I often joke about having to use a blank picture and say it is "The Invisible Man" if I ever don't finish a drawing/painting in time.  Well, in this case, I did the Claude Rains "Invisible Man" as a mash-up with Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown for no reason whatsoever.  Well, other than I wanted to do something with "The Invisible Man" since I was doing the Universal Monsters and all.  And the image of having him as Charlie Brown popped into my head, so I decided to go with it (and will do a few more in this vein, perhaps).

Alongside that image, I thought it would have been amusing to have him writing a variation of Rorschach's Journal from "Watchmen": "Invisible Man's journal. October 14th, 2025. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face..." but thought it was maybe a bit too much, with a hat on a hat on top of yet a third hat.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick, digital pencils in Rebelle 8 on a 2,000px x 3,000px @300dpi digital canvas.

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STEP TWO:  And here are the digital inks.

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STEP THREE:  Here are the plain colors also done in Rebelle.

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STEP FOUR:  I opened the color plate in Photoshop and used the Color Halftone filter.  And then I imported the finished picture into Clip Studio Paint and placed the paper texture over top.

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Done in Rebelle 8 with an assist from Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop.

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Day 24: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2021

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2021:
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Time for something a little more light and fun to start the countdown to the final week of "31 Days of HELL-O-Ween".  It's another post from "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"--this time it's Lucy's costume of a witch mask and ghostly bedsheet.  I will admit I have a lot of nostalgia for The Great Pumpkin, having watched it yearly when I was a youngster (yes, kids, there was a time before VCR's and DVD's, or your Cartoon Networks, when you had only one chance per year to watch a cartoon special, or holiday-related show and you better hope you saw it or it was too bad 'til next year... Now THAT'S scary!).

I was very tempted just to do the simple, colored in pen-and-ink line drawing and call it done, but nnnoooooo, I just had to crosshatch, like, a billion lines.  When will I learn?  Onward to the final leg of this race toward the finish line!

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STEP ONE:  In Clip Studio Paint, I created a 1,500px x 2,100px @ 300dpi canvas and quickly sketched out the digital pencils.

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STEP TWO:  And here are the digital inks.  At first, I was thinking about doing a realistic style digital painting, but then thought about doing a highly detailed scratchboard effect...  Nah, how about a shadowed, digital pen-and-ink?  I finally settled on an inking style similar to Gahan Wilson or Robert Crumb with semi-dramatic lighting.

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STEP THREE:  And here's the finished painting, with various layers of color added.

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This was done digitally with Clip Studio Paint on an iPad.

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Day 30: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - 31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

Day 30: It's the Great Pumpkin, 

Charlie Brown!

Hey, it's Charlie Brown's ghost--in this case, he's a REAL ghost!  He had trouble with scissors... and he got a rock!  Oh, darn it, I should have included some rocks around the ghost.  Oh, well.

This was supposed to be an easy one to do--a simple cheat.  Y'know, done in about 30 minutes... maybe an hour at most.  Instead, I updated to Painter 2020, so there was a lot of trying to get used to new brushes and whatnot.  I didn't even think to capture pics of the progress, so none of that for today.

Yeah, I'm a little slow sometimes... :-S

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Done with Painter 2020.

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