Fable Part Two

The second part of the fable illustration. This is the part of the story where the vampire has slaughtered all the girls at the party and will now start to stack the heads in the window. The very window two posts down. Done in Painter. It is not really completed. Close enough to pass, although one day I would like to redo the bottom where the girls are... either more graphic, or painterly stylized like the vampire. 

So, soon I should be dumping quite a bit of end year CCAD art on here. And a ton of sketchbook pages I've enjoyed scrawling out recently. So if you actually watch this place be checking in during the next week. If I ever get off my butt, you may also find a link to a brand new website with what I have right now for a portfolio. Speaking of that I need to do some light hearted illustration, cause everything I have right now is pretty dark.

Fable Part 1

In electronic Illustration we had a fables assignment. Before you judge me as a murdering psychopath, let me explain. We had to choose a fable to give two illustrations and work in painter. I was browsing for some russian folktales when I found this Romanian vampire tale. It's a rather bloody and grim tale, but after hearing about everyone's disney-esque  choices for subject matter I had to go with. Also... vampires are awesome illustration material. In the story the vampire takes his victims and stacks their heads in the window. I wasn't going to do this, I thought it may be a bit spooky, but my teacher talked me into it. Well, suggested and I jumped at his approval. So I did my best to keep this tasteful.  In the story he rips off their lips to make it look like they are smiling, one of the more grotesque details in a rather unspecific tale. 

Here's a link to the tale. In the next illustration I'm kind of combining all the elements I like from all three, but I used number two primarily. 

http://www.draculas.info/vampires/romania/vampire_stories_from_botosani/

Here's a few bonus sketches.