Day 07: The Horrors of Sesame Street: Grover - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
The Horrors of Sesame Street - Grover

It's the last of "The Horrors of Sesame Street"for now.  This time it's Grover as "John Carpenter's The Thing"--one of my favorite Horror Movies.

One week down!  Next on deck, another half-dozen series on Monster Cereal characters.  After that... I dunno.  I guess we'll all find out at the same time.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick pencils I did digitally in Clip Studio Paint on an 11" x 14" canvas @ 300dpi.  I printed it out on trimmed down 11" x 14" paper.

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STEP TWO:  I transferred the drawing onto a 12" x 16" gessoed chipboard using Carbon Paper/Transfer Paper, which I then painted.  Unfortunately, I didn't think to do a scan of the mid-point in the painting, so here's the finished painting.

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Done with Acrylic on 12" x 16" Gessoed Chipboard.

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Day 06: The Horrors of Sesame Street: The Count - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
The Horrors of Sesame Street - The Count

It's another "The Horrors of Sesame Street"!  This time it's The Count as Count Orlok/Nosferatu.  To paraphrase a joke I saw a while back:

The scariest vampire?  No contest--It's The Count from "Sesame Street"
- "What?  He doesn't count!"
Oh, I assure you he does!

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick pencils I did digitally in Clip Studio Paint on an 11" x 14" canvas @ 300dpi.  I printed it out on trimmed down 11" x 14" paper.

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STEP TWO:  I transferred the drawing onto a 12" x 16" gessoed chipboard using Carbon Paper/Transfer Paper, which I then painted.  Unfortunately, I didn't think to do a scan of the mid-point in the painting, so here's the finished painting.

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Done with Acrylic on 12" x 16" Gessoed Chipboard.

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Day 05: The Horrors of Sesame Street: Prairie Dawn - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
The Horrors of Sesame Street - Prairie Dawn

"The Horrors of Sesame Street" continue!  This time it's Prairie Dawn as the Cenobite, Pinhead.  She has such sights to show you!

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick pencils I did digitally in Clip Studio Paint on an 11" x 14" canvas @ 300dpi.  I printed it out on trimmed down 11" x 14" paper.

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STEP TWO:  I transferred the drawing onto a 12" x 16" gessoed chipboard using Carbon Paper/Transfer Paper, which I then painted.  Unfortunately, I didn't think to do a scan of the mid-point in the painting, so here's the finished painting.

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Done with Acrylic on 12" x 16" Gessoed Chipboard.

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Day 04: The Horrors of Sesame Street: Ernie - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
The Horrors of Sesame Street - Ernie

Yesterday was Bert, so today is, of course, Ernie.  He is Igor to Bert's Frankenstein Monster, which seemed fitting.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick pencils I did digitally in Clip Studio Paint on an 12" x 16" canvas @ 300dpi.  I printed it out on trimmed down 12" x 18" paper.

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STEP TWO:  I transferred the drawing onto a 12" x 16" gessoed chipboard using Carbon Paper/Transfer Paper, which I then painted.  Unfortunately, I didn't think to do a scan of the mid-point in the painting, so here's the finished painting.

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Done with Acrylic on 12" x 16" Gessoed Chipboard.

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Day 03: The Horrors of Sesame Street: Bert - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
The Horrors of Sesame Street - Bert

Hey, hey, it's the second of the "The Horrors of Sesame Street", this time with Bert as Frankenstein's Monster.  And, yes, I will use that as an excuse to include one of my favorite Tweets on the subject from comedian, Joseph Scrimshaw:

Three posts down--that's almost 10% of the way there.  Again, who's counting?  😉

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick pencils I did digitally in Clip Studio Paint on an 12" x 16" canvas @ 300dpi.  I printed it out on trimmed down 12" x 18" paper.

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STEP TWO:  I transferred the drawing onto a 12" x 16" gessoed chipboard using Carbon Paper/Transfer Paper, which I then painted.  Unfortunately, I didn't think to do a scan of the mid-point in the painting, so here's the finished painting.

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Done with Acrylic on 12" x 16" Gessoed Chipboard.

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Day 02: The Horrors of Sesame Street: Kermit - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
The Horrors of Sesame Street - Kermit

I had this idea a few years ago in the back of my mind and decided this was as good a time as any to dust it off and put it to use.  "The Horrors of Sesame Street" will be a series of 6 characters from "Sesame Street" transformed into various monsters.  This pairing was sort of obvious, but I'm nothing if not obvious.  

The good news is that I planned out a half-dozen to get an early start.  The bad news is that I only have three of them finished so far, so it's barely an early start at all, given that they are much larger (12" x 16") and take about twice the time to paint.  Sigh.  So, it looks like I will be playing the part of the Red Queen this October: Running as fast as I can just to stay in place.

Two posts down, 29 to go.  But, who's counting?  😃

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick pencils I did digitally in Clip Studio Paint on an 11" x 14" canvas @ 300dpi.  I printed it out on 11" x 14" paper I had laying about, not thinking about the 12" x 18" newsprint until I had a couple done and printed out already.  Yeah, I'm a little slow sometimes.

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STEP TWO:  I transferred the drawing onto a 12" x 16" gessoed chipboard using Carbon Paper/Transfer Paper, which I then painted.  Unfortunately, I didn't think to do a scan of the mid-point in the painting, so here's the finished painting.

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Done with Acrylic on 12" x 16" Gessoed Chipboard.

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