Day 13: Friday the 13th (1980) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2026

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2026:
Friday the 13th (1980)

Hey, hey, done with the "Friday the 13th" (1980) many 10's of minutes before midnight!  This one was done much later than I would have liked.  I had finished the digital painting I originally planned for today, October 13th, and started working on Jason Vorhees for October 14th.  I then realized "Hey, wait-a-minute, TODAY is the 13th!  Why don't I finish up Jason for today's post instead, and flip-flop the two?"  So, I finished up Jason for today's post instead, and flip-flopped them.  Sigh, if I were a smart man (and I've never been accused of such a thing), I would have noticed that much earlier and done it right the first time.

Originally, it was gonna be Jason with his trademark hockey mask and machete, even though he didn't get it until "Friday the 13th: Part 3" (that's right, folks--he was a zombie kid in the first one, and wore a gunnysack over his head for the second one, before moving on to the hockey mask in the third movie).  Y'know, half-@$$ it a bit.  But, then I thought it would be more interesting to do up the child, Jason V., as he was in the first movie and ask for the hockey mask.  And here we are...

Here's an Animated .GIF of young Jason, fresh from a swim in Camp Crystal Lake:

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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 13: Friday the 13th - Part 10: Jason X (2001) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2023

 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2023:
Jason X (2001)

Hey, it's Friday the Thirteenth for you Triskaidekaphobics out there.  Because I'm a little slow sometimes, I didn't even realize that I should do a "Friday the 13th" movie for 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween on Friday the 13th until last night, so here we are--just in time!  And here's my Hot Take: Jason X (A.K.A. "Jason on Space") is probably my favorite of the "Friday the 13th" franchise.  I found it relatively cleaver, er, I mean clever, self-referential, with a bit of satire sliced into the movie as well.

Sure, most of the movie is just yadda-yadda because we need it for the plot to go forward, but it amused me enough to say "I see what you did there".  Dumb or not, I was along for the ride.

This was done with Acrylic Paint and a palette of: Paynes Gray, Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Primary Cyan, Turquoise Deep, and Cadmium Red Deep.

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STEP ONE:  Here is a quick breakdown done with some random colors to suggest the general layout on the page.  It is painted on an 8-1/2" x 11" extra thick cardstock which was primed with a 50/50 mix of gesso and matte medium.

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STEP TWO:  And here's the next pass with various colors to just try to get paint on the page and get the figure worked out.

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STEP THREE:  It's the finished painting done with lots and lots and lots of back-and-forth.

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Done with Acrylic paint on 8-1/2" x 11" gessoed cardstock.

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Unwanted Valentines: Jason Voorhees

Unwanted Valentines:

Jason Voorhees

This time, it's a Valentine from Jason Voorhees from the "Friday the 13th" franchise.  Most of the "Friday the 13th" movies are in the "let's get naked and split up" vein of the killing teenagers genre.  They were OK when I watched them growing up, although I am probably one of the few that thinks "Jason X" (ie. "Jason in Space") is probably the best of the bunch.  Not that it is saying much, of course, but I am always a sucker for self-reference and meta-humor.

I debated doing the "We're a Machete Made in Heaven" as "We're a MATCH-ete Made in Heaven", but thought the misspelling would be more confusing.  Saying puns is one thing; spelling pun is something else entirely.  Oh, well.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital pencils, done on a 1,500px x 2,100px at 300dpi.  I used a blue-line layer in Clip Studio Paint to quickly scribble the image.

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STEP TWO:  The digital inks were also done in Clip Studio Paint over top the digital pencils.

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STEP THREE:  The coloring was done in Clip Studio Paint on a Normal Layer below the inked layer.  As much as I like using Clip Studio Paint for everything, it turns out (unsurprisingly) the .jpg engine works much, much better in Photoshop.  So, I imported the project into Photoshop, the canvas was re-sized to 200dpi (which dropped the size down to 1,000px x 1,400px) and saved each layer as a separate .jpg. 

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Done digitally in Clip Studio Paint with an assist from Photoshop.

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