Well, many experiments and accidents in color later, and a website database crash later, I am finally catching up with my Alphabeasts. I truly had fun with this one. Looking forward to “N” and onward, in a much speedier fashion!
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M is for Metsanhaltia
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012Surfing Lune
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
A new Mr. Lune print I will be selling.
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L is for Lamashtu
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
This is way overdue, but I’m still giving it up for Lamashtu.
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AlphaBeasts Catch Up: E through K
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012I’ve been slack posting these over here, so I thought I’d do an AlphaBeast sketch dump of sorts.
J is for Jörmungandr
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
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Santa Wars
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Santa Wars print I will be selling at http://www.charlottecomicon.info/
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AlphaBeasts: Inugami
Monday, December 12th, 2011
For this week’s I-themed Alphabeasts entry, we travel to the far shores of Japan and observe it’s native dog spirit, the Inugami. An Inugami is a sort of “familiar” that takes the shape of a dog and, most often, is created by ritually mistreating an actual canine. The instructions to create an Inugami suggests burying a dog in the ground with only his head remaining visible, then place a bowl of food just outside of the animal’s reach. As the buried dog begins to hunger, his fixation on the food will become very powerful and the animal’s master may then speak to the spirit of the dog, entreating it to serve him or her. When the dog dies, either from starvation or, in another extreme, by the master sawing the dog’s head off with a bamboo saw, the canine’s spirit will be released as an Inugami and will serve it’s master, the inugami-mochi.
An Inugami may be used most often as a tool to carry out acts of vengeance and to act as a guardian to the inugami-mochi. However, the dog spirits exhibit a will of their own as well and may sometimes turn on their masters or possess a human being. Possession by an Inugami is said to cure illness but will also result in the person behaving like a dog.
For my Alphabeasts drawing, I combined a reference photo of Toshiro Mifune with and adorable and ghostly pug and, finally, a favorite line from the movie “Stand By Me”. Sayonara!
Mr. Lune Birthday Present
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
A birthday present for an old friend I haven’t seen in 20 years.
Wedding Invite Triple Threat
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Here’s a wedding invite for some good friends that I collaborated with Henry Eudy http://oh-the-humanatee.deviantart.com/ and Rico Renzi http://whoisrico.deviantart.com/ on colors.
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G is for Gucumatz
Sunday, December 4th, 2011
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