The Witch, 8×10″ gouache on board
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Category Archives: Halloween
Jacktopus
Drawloween: the Conclusion
Here are the rest of them! It was super fun and challenging.
Frankenstein’s Monster (OK Meg’s Monster)
Bat
Amulet
Grave – inspired by the Forks Cemetery
Demon
Mask
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Skull (otter)
8-bit zombie
Candy (laaaazy)
Gore
Just doin skeleton stuff
Mummy
Rat
Witch
Black Cat
Scarecrow (get it??)
Spider
Dragon
Geek Girl Con
A HUGE thanks to everyone who came to this, my favorite convention, and especially to those of you who stopped by to talk or buy art. I appreciate you! I had great neighbors, too. Here is a picture dump of the Drawloween sketches from the last few days! Raven, moon, eyeball (titled by The Husband: Apt Pupil), and alien.
Drawloween 5-8
Today we have this week’s themes: Zombie, Werewolf, Haunted House, and Pumpkin (I snuck into gourd territory). So fun! Have any of you done Drawloween?
Drawloween 3 and 4
Goblin and Vampire
Goblin Shark… get it?
Vampire Penguin. I AM THE NIGHT!
Happy Drawloween!
Drawloween days 1 and 2! Ghost and devil.
If you haven’t seen the Drawloween image going around, there’s a topic to draw for each day of the month of Halloween October. Join the fun!
Ghost
Ghost by Meg Lyman
8×10″ gouache on board
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Who knows what tragic fate met this octopus? Was its demise untimely, caused by an errant seal or bird? Perhaps something more sinister… It’s up to you to put this haunted soul to rest by avenging its death.
This was my first time using Multimedia Artboard, and it was fun to play with! Using watered down white gouache on the black board was super fun. It dries more transparent than you lay it down, giving you some cool ragged puddle effects and opportunity for multiple layers. Next time I’ll try painting more opaque on them to see what happens.
Demonoctopus
An oldie but a goodie. I am so ready for Halloween.
Colored pencil on paper.
La Ofrenda
La Ofrenda by Meg Lyman
11×14″ gouache on paper
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This one was a labor of love. It taught me artistic patience, and that I will forever need extra tubes of M. Graham’s “Gamboge” gouache because I am maybe a little obsessed with it. In honesty, I am very pleased with parts of this and very displeased with others. I suppose that’s always how it is when you’re trying new things… but I bet you can’t tell which parts are which. If not… success!
Here’s a bit of a WIP: I drew it out on 11×14″ paper, transferred it to this glorious cold press paper, Strathmore Aquarius II. So velvety. I underpainted a sort of grisaille of magenta to help me remember light sources. It helped but I didn’t stick to it religiously.
I chose a limited palette simply by picking only a few tubes of paint to use. Then, paint! Some of it is opaque and some transparent. The sugar skull was painted in opaque, and looked awful, so I scrubbed it with a paper towel and got this lovely transparent, textured finish. Also it didn’t buckle but a little bit, which was fixed by wetting the backside (once it was all done) and pressing it overnight. Paper love!
