31 Days of Halloween : Day 13 - Little Beasties

Here are a couple of little beasties fresh from my sketchbook.  Drawn with an Indian ink pen, then scanned and colored digitally with Corel PhotoPaint 7.   Below is a look at them before I added the color and texture.

My scanner is a bit wonky since I installed it on the new computer.  I think I just need to tweak some settings ... but it sure is a pain to figure out how I had it all set before the crash.  I'm just thankful it is functioning at all.

31 Days of Halloween : Day 12 - Back from the Dead

Here are a couple of old zombies to celebrate my return. (And also my excitement for the season premier of "the Walking Dead" this weekend.)

The zombies were drawn with Indian ink pens and colored with colored pencils.

Oh ... and here is a new "stylized pumpkins" doodle to celebrate the fact that I finally got my scanner working!  (It has been a very tough week.)  The pumpkins are just quick doodles done with Indian ink pens.

Hopefully, I'm done with all of the technical "TRICKS" that have befallen me! 
More Halloween "TREATS" are on the way!

31 Days of Halloween : Interrupted

Whoopsie!  Due to the death of my computer, and only low-tech access online ... I have been unable to post blog updates.  This is the first time I have been able to get into blogger.com without my old browser crashing.

I should have everything worked out by the end of the week and will play catch up with lots of Halloween related art!

31 Days of Halloween : Day 6 - Scribble Doodles part 2

I finished the page in my Scribble Doodles Halloween book by punching leaves from printed papers and embellishing with a touch of gold veining (courtesy of my new metallic gold Sharpie).

So far, so good in my attempt to post a piece of Halloween art or a Halloween doodle every day during the month of October.  6 days down and 25 more to go!

31 Days of Halloween : Day 5 - Scribble Doodles

I finished coloring this page in my Scribble Doodles Halloween book.  I plan to cut/punch leaves out of book pages and printed papers to collage onto the trees.  I will post the finished page soon.  The book page is 8-1/2" x 11".

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Scribble Doodles! books can also occasionally be found in the clearance section or bargain book bin at Barnes&Nobles stores. If you want to see more of my completed pages from the Scribble Doodles series of books, just click the Scribble Doodles link in the labels below

31 Days of Halloween : Day 4 - Doodle Bat

Doodled bat on a 4" x 6" postcard.   I used a black sharpie and Faber Castell PITT pens. 

I'm trying to add a piece of Halloween art each day during the month of October.  So far, so good.

31 Days of Halloween : Day 3 - Skull Doodle

Fresh from the sketchpad ... this skull doodle was drawn and colored with Faber Castell PITT pens.