Day 18: Plan 9 From Outer Space - 31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

Day 18: Plan 9 From Outer Space

How many of these darn things am I gonna do for the abysmally cheesy "Plan 9 From Outer Space"?  Well, three of the from the looks of it!  In this case, Eros (played by the unfortunately named Dudley Manlove), the, um, "Mastermind" behind the infamous ninth plan in the "How to Conquer Earth" instruction book.  Or, something like that.

Anyway, I happened to pause when Eros had a peculiar look on his face and thought I should draw that.

In this case, it is done with black and white colored pencil on toned cardstock.

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Done with colored pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" toned cardstock.

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Day 16: Plan 9 From Outer Space - 31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

Day 16: Plan 9 From Outer Space

Hey, I'm over the halfway point and still managing to (barely) keep my head above water on this!  This time out, it's Vampira from "Plan 9 From Outer Space" as one of the resurrected dead, part of the (snicker) sinister "Plan 9".

OK, to be honest, this one gave me a lot of trouble and still did not turn out quite the way I wanted it to, alas.  I did the original layout in colored pencil to keep the lines present when I worked over it with charcoal.  I did the background in soft charcoal, then sprayed a workable fixative over top.  When I did the charcoal on Vampira's dress, it just wasn't able to get dark enough and kept lifting out.  Sigh.  So, I broke out some ink and used that as the black for the dress and hair, etc.  I then used black and white colored pencils to continue with the shading/highlights.

Here is the drawing as it progressed...

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Done with charcoal, ink, and colored pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" toned cardstock.

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Day 12: Plan 9 From Outer Space - 31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

Day 12: Plan 9 From Outer Space

"Plan 9 From Outer Space", along with "Invasion of the Saucer Men", is probably one of the movies that terrified me most as a dumb, naive kid; it terrifies me as an adult to think the six-year old me was afraid of this movie.  And thus began my inordinate fondness of horrible, B-Movies growing up.  Alas, I've seen probably 75% to 80% of the movies on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" with Joel/Mike and the robots in the corner.  A childhood wasted.  Sigh...

This was done with charcoal and white chalk on 8-1/2" x 11" gray-toned cardstock.  Below are the pics showing the progress of the picture.

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Done with charcoal and white chalk on 8-1/2" x 11" gray cardstock.

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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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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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