The Abomination or Cousin ABOM'

Disneyland's Haunted Mansion has ghoulish portraits all through its halls. Though dated by many of Disney's latest rides still remains one of my favorites. For years now I have kept thinking how cool it would be to do such types of images. As I make more you'll see the here. This sort of family picture one might find in the Addams family home. Your family may have old pictures with museum style mattes, borders, or frames. We do. If you chance into the Mansion keep a look out for the ghostly pix. The Grim Grinning Ghosts come out to socialize!

Arioch

The Knight of Swords as known by some, Arioch, God of Chaos, peers through the roiling stuff of chaos. He watches the spheres he has dominance over plotting and planning. He with the other lords of entropy fight a never ending battle with those of the Order and Law. Patron to the Wizards and Emperors of Melnibone' he grants knowledge and power to the worthy. Arioch rarely comes when summoned, but for Elric the cherished, and his loathsome spirit drinking sword, Arioch comes for the prospect of blood and souls as sacrifice. Even Arioch doesn't know what his fate is at the conjunction of a million spheres, or at the tip of Stormbringer. My rendition of Arioch is very primal and deathly, somewhat elemental and insane. The surface of his skull is like Magma. I used Star flairs for his eyes to suggest he sees all. The color range moved from greys to red/blue hues and now rests in purple. My best portrayal of the stuff of pure chaos calming around Arioch's visage as he leers. The inspiration here are the Eternal champion books by Michael Moorcock. If you started out with the Elric saga, Arioch was a look into the pantheon of Chaos. In later series like Corum and Hawkmoon you discover gods more powerful. All theses novels are centered around one spirit, Erekose and it's incarnations, damned for upsetting the Balance never to know peace.

BioConstruct

A creature made not by nature but by the Great Race of Yith to fight the Elder Races and the Fungi from Yuggoth. Drawn as a visual aide for a Call of Cthulhu adventure I hosted for some friends back in the early eighties is meant to be a part of a larger picture that has never been completed. The scenario
states that the players find a teleportation device used by a cult in brazil in league with the Fungi. As they venture through it they find themselves on Pluto in some well terra formed caverns for some some alien purpose. The Fungi are blocking their passage through the caverns and a huge firefight ensues. The crab like creature comes literally out of the wall and starts to eat the Fungi unwittingly saving the adventurers who would have wound up with their brains operating servile machines on some Fungi outpost in the galaxy. The Great Race designed these monsters for only one purpose: Kill the Enemy! The Wars took place long before the PreCambrian period on earth and extended beyond the solar system. The old war machines, if you would, go on and keep fighting. All of this is based on H. P. Lovecraft's literary horror works and the Chaosium game Call Of Cthulhu.

Death

Browns dominate this image of a deathlike specter. Awash in what is the murk of unreality, Its quest is unknown. Denial is its constant victim, will it come for you? Everyone who does this sort of art always seems to use sepia or yellowish shades of brown. It fits here.

EyeStalk

Another portrait. Using aluminum foil for the borders and an Electron Microscopy photo in the background add to the strangeness coupled with an alien landscape. The subject is a creature from an alternate reality a large eye atop a stalk or neck that ends in tentacles. Our subject floats for in its world it lives in a gaseous environment like Jupiter or Saturn.

Face of Pandora Blue

An older picture using Photoshop's Airbrush on pencil. The picture is a study of femininity in facial features.

The Interdimensional Gloom Masters

This was to be the picture of the "Things" that were supposed to co-produced this website in conjunction with Time/Life books. I scrapped that idea in favor of the all done by me site! This was a recycle project of some clinical professionals who sent me some junk mail with their kissers all over the postcard advertisement. Those poor unsuspecting bastards.

Gate

This is just plain old fun with my computer. Twisting pictures in and out with my Dad as we took old negatives, scanned them, and made inverses. This gave us a really good greyscale image. The pictures were all of bones from the Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles. So it gave me the idea to simulate the negative of a negative. The skull is pencil tweaked in photoshop to appear as a clearish negative or x-ray(that was hard because I have no training in these programs so it's learn as you go). The background was crumpled paper scanned and layered with a mesh of filigree and a gate. My original intent was to use a triskelion as a center piece but the skull was much cooler. Multilayered and processed into bluish greys, submitted for your viewing.

Goth Chicks N1 and N2

A pencil drawing of two girls I met at Helter Skelter back in the day. The N stands for nameless to protect their identity.

L&R(Love and Rockets)

Another study of the female face. I drew this one while listening to Love and Rockets after seeing Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Irvine Amphitheater. Yes these are real women I draw.

Maximum Series Three: SubUnit A

The possibility of opening a door to another dimension and seeing something scary on the other side is realized here. Imagine yourself opening the door to SubUnit A. Is it Friend or your fucking doom! More Airbrush on pencil.

Mural

An ethereal look at the Eye of Horus. This is inspired by the Evil Victorious story site. The clock symbolizes the movement of time and the tilt of the eye and the crown are leaning towards the sway of evil, Set's time. The faces are entities that exist outside and only view this as a part of the cycle in this universe. Transitory since they are transpararent.The crown is the new synthesis, good always triumphs to evil being the top dog. The purples and dark hues are used in the crown to demonstrate this. The frame is to give you a baseline to show you that the power of the forces at work here go beyond anything that confines. Basically there is no escape.

Nightmare

Amorphous writhing faces right out of hell. This is my perception of what a tortured mental patient sees and cannot get away from as they are strapped to their bends and straight jackets. Since the image is a part of the patients mind it is ceaseless and unrelenting in its torture. Drugs and shock treatments are only a momentary reprieve only for "Them" to come back.... they always come back. White pencil chalk used on a background of permanent marker conjures images of ghosts. The background is a collection of scanned images and textures. Mostly crumpled paper on my scanner layered gave me this effect. As I worked the image changed and took on a life of its own once again going the way of the purple. The original intent on the back story for this one is something unclean spilling out and over into a somewhat placid view. Also inspired by the Evil Victorious story site.

Recognizer

You are sucked into a world of shadow. Most things native to this new world seem to be indifferent toward you, until you come across the most vile denizens that recognizes your energy as something like food! Captured here is hunger and pains of starvation.

Watcher

A Surreal 3-d illusion starring different human body parts. Brain, Eye, and Finger bones float atop what appears to be an alien ocean or the barrier between realms or dimensions. That's the beauty of Surreality, you could be as creative and weird as you want. There are no borders!

Necromancer

All pencil, while colored in Photoshop. Necromancer was a project from a "How to draw Heads and Faces" book I picked up at the Bookman in Southern California way back in the 80's. The Multi-skull Curtain in the background was also in pencil and duplicated with several layers. I twisted and augmented the skulls so as not to appear too redundant. I must admit it's difficult to get a good background going, especially to fit the overall image. Caught as she conjures spirits to divine some new information, the Necromancer gazes into realms beyond. For what reason do you weave your tapestries of gloom Necromancer?

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