Hank Williams

Who knew this is what he was planning all along?

Conway Twitty

I picked up a book of photos of old country singers from the library. I found country singers active during the years leading up to and including the 1970s to have some of the best faces. This is Conway Twitty. Expect more of these.

The Devil Is Coming To Town

Uh oh here he comes. Apparently the citizens in your town couldn't keep it in their pants. You made too many of yourselves. Now you're a viable market! You brought this on yourselves!

Your sleepy town, with its bakeries, fish markets, and produce carts, will soon be replaced with fluorescent warehouses and parking lots.

He will give you a 10% employee discount. He will give you convenience. He will make you wear an embroidered polo shirt and khakis. He will give you wall-to-wall carpeting and central air conditioning. You will give him your health. You will give him your self-respect. He will make your town safe, comfortable, boring and miserable.

You can't resist. Join him or learn to enjoy destitution and isolation.

Wally Wood Study

I saw this panel in an old EC Weird Fantasy. The original is drawn by Wally Wood. I studied it and did this version. It's not entirely true to the original. An exact duplication is mind numbingly boring so I took a little artistic license but not too much otherwise I wouldn't have learned anything new.

New knowledge like: the composition of the figures is fairly complex so it's best to rough out the negative spaces before you even start worrying about their masses. Also, I learned that using watered down calligraphy ink is a good way to get gray values down before laying down watercolors on top of them. I didn't really take advantage of that too much here but it definitely seemed worthy of experimenting with in the future. The original is a bit bigger than my scanner so I had to stitch a couple of scans together. I suck at doing that and my scanner doesn't give me consistent scans so there are some digital artifacts kicking around if you look close. If anybody reading this knows of a good guide for stitching images together send me the link.