So I've been illustrating a demented children's book for about 3 years now. When my friend told me he was writing the book and asked me to illustrate it for him I had no idea it would take this long! hahaa! He JUST finished the first book and is working on the second book. We are about to start looking for publishers. It's been a long time and I have to draw a few more illustrations to catch up to the end of the book but I can finally see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Definitely a labor of love!
The premise of the book is this: Vex is a 9 year old boy tormented by his nightmares. He has such trouble with them that he can no longer sleep and the nightmare creatures become "Spookies" in his waking world. No one but Vex can see the Spookies but they are definitely there. Vex is also tormented by an uncaring mother and a crazy spaztic spoiled sister. My friend named the sister Twink- which I explained to him means something derrogatory in the U.K....hahaa! But he wants to keep her name as Twink. Anyway- Vex's only hope is a man named Bob Macabre. Bob runs the Nightmare World of the Spookies and shows up to teach Vex how to defeat them.
Here are some of my drawings I've done...I hope you guys like them! As I've said in my profile, any feedback is appreciated! Positive as well as negative. Actually, I consider it all to be constructive. If you would like to visit my friend's Bob Macabre page, here is the link http://myspace.com/crashlaresh. His name is Sam but his Pen Name is Crash LaResh.
Vex being stalked by Spookies on his way to school:
Vex's teacher gets pissed and sends Vex to the school shrink:
The School Shrink, Dr. Glumberger, greets Vex:
As Glumberger describes the pills and treatments he wants to give to Vex, his 9 year old mind conjures all kinds of bad things:
After his encounter with Glumberger Vex is hassled by the school bully Gank McQuade:
As Vex falls through the door after school, Twink and Mom step over him, acknowledging him with sarcasm and derision. Twink is saying "Why are you so weird?" before bouncing away to play in the kitchen.
Vex can hear the Spookies clawing to get at him through the floorboards:
Twink getting ready for bed- Kitty hate!:
And this elegant creature is a FLART- it gorges on the souls of sleeping children. FLART is one of the stinkiest and most foul Spookies existing in the Nightmare Realm:
I am working on the next illustration now and will post it when it's done. I hope you all have been well! Tricia __________________
Long Story Short: go to Front page my friend Clints site to the left of the article about me http://www.clintcatalyst.com/blog/she-aint-ugly-shes-my-shyla is a SQUARE RED AND GRAY button that on the left of the Green Straight Jacket pic says "Move This Blog Up! On Blogsurfer" and it will move us up in the ranking.Which makes us happy. #2 2) Download & install the Alexa toolbar .Point of all this? I promise that even as few as 5 of my friends & 5 of Shyla's friends add Alexa tonight? By this time tomorrow, we'll all see a notable improvement. Which helps ALL of us.And if y'all will be so kind post a review on out sites while at our links.You can do so by clicking the little clip board icon on the way to the right of the toolbar. Deal is: Alexa is a site 'ranking' system owned by Amazon.com. With the Alexa toolbar included on your browser, it shows at any moment the ranking of your sites, my site, the buzzfeed site...fkn' everything. Ok that was the short of it, Written by my friend Clint Catalyst he's trying to get us to both go viral,so please read the post and help us two southern fried freaks out.Clint is a huge talent and has been a awesome friend to me. As a "third force" workin' to help my home skillet Ugly Shyla ♡ capitalize on her skyrocketing ~*viral*~ status [i.e., help her to obtain a bit of the greenage & notoriety that Paul McCarthy, whose doll is including among the list & is doing JUST FINE with his big international gallery shows; ya n...aw mean?] I've added a piece about Miss Thingus Herselfness here http://www.clintcatalyst.com/blog/she-aint-ugly-shes-my-shyla // Now, this only takes a second, EmEffers, & it's not like I'm asking you to vote for me for me for some Model Mayhem contest, nor am I spamming you to buy one of my products or go see me perform at some locale 2,927 mi from where you live. // Instead, it's THIS SIMPLE Melody Cruz (who just called & kindly volunteered) AS WELL AS ANYBODY ELSE WHO'S AN ACTUAL FRIEND, EVEN & ESPECIALLY IF YOU'VE EVER ASKED ME TO HELP YOU PROMOTE SOMETHING: 1) Front page of my site, to the left of the article about Shyla http://www.clintcatalyst.com/blog/she-aint-ugly-shes-my-shyla is a SQUARE RED AND GRAY button that on the left of the Green Straight Jackt pic says "Move This Blog Up! On Blogsurfer" -- Each time a person clicks it, the action moves the huge-ass article about Shyla [and I do mean HUGE..big sexy em-effing photos of her pin-up photographs, visual art, dolls, ~&~ linkage to the various sites with juicy teaser photos]... I SAY, EACH TIME A PERSON CLICKS THE BUTTON, IT MOVES THE BLOGATURE TO THE TOP OF THAT SITE'S BLOGROLL. A quick 2 second click now, maybe one later when you think about it? BAM! Yes, that *WILL* MAKE A DIFFERENCE. —ALSO, if any of you have blogs of your own? The next tip will help YOU while you're helping her (& me, & any other cool blogger) ALL AT THE SAME TIME. It's also quick & easy, so spare me the symphony of sighs. (Aiight? Or +AHEM!+ "Please" & "Thank You," that is...) =] 2) Download & install the Alexa toolbar for either Firefox/Mozilla/or Internet Explorer. For whatever reason, it isn't compatible with Safari, but that's not the point. Deal is: Alexa is a site 'ranking' system owned by Amazon.com. With the Alexa toolbar included on your browser, it shows at any moment the ranking of your sites, my site, the buzzfeed site...fkn' everything. Just so you know: the main # is a site's ranking OUT OF THE ENTIRE WORLD, so don't freak your geek/feel the need to be embarrassed if your URL wields a scary #. Besides, after you've had it installed for around a month, you'll be able to see break-downs by country, as well as even which state you rank highest in. Translation? Some of my friends started out with a rank of 22 million something. What's exciting is watching how quickly a couple of articles can make your number increase. For a personal site, making it into the top 100K in the world is kind of a big deal. In fact, only one of my friends has done it thus far with a personal site--but she's since fallen out of that bracket. The top 100 K means you're 'up there' competing with every company, web-zine, magazine, social networking site, et cetera. When I first added the toolbar, my worldwide stats bummed me out, as they were pretttty bad... though I've since made it as far up as 172K (still a far way to go from the top 100, which hopefully someday I''ll hit... but that was better than what it is now, anyway: I've dipped back down to the 185K range intl., 40,000 in the U.S., & 17K in Cali, where the majority of my traffic originates. Point of all this? I promise that even as few as 5 of my friends & 5 of Shyla's friends add Alexa tonight? By this time tomorrow, we'll all see a notable improvement. & the day after that? Even better. That goes for Shyla, as well as you, as well as me... because we can either all help each other & benefit when the river rises, or suffocate in bitter "Me!It's Team Me!It's All About Me!" cunty competitiveness. Too brash or direct, kiddos? Delete me from your friends' list. But when you see me showin' somebody else 'The Love' tomorrow, or next week? Don't come weaseling around thinking it's your turn, bub. 3) Ah! & of course, if you already utilize Mixx/Digg/StumbleUpon/Yahoo buzz/Google buzz/Delicious/Plurk/Fark/Hipstr/Bordom/or any of the other sites of that nature? Here's another neat little tip that you'll notice: If you've tried them in the past, though quit after a couple tries because "nobody gave YOU any traaafffffic," answer me this: did you only post links to your own content, or did you have enough respect for the communities that you contributed to them elsewise? For every single URL you toss into the forum, contribute to at least 5 others. Amber Osborne knows this to be true, & I've never had a single conversation with her about it. Haven't, 'cause there's no need to: I already see her workin' that social media magic a lá Miss Destructo. It's something so, so basic; maybe that's why it's so easy for most folks to overlook. Whatever the case, congrats to Shyla for a post on BuzzFeed catchin' the attention of the Huffington Post—& by proxy, that opening the proverbial floodgates. Now let's help her, which helps me, which helps you. Unless, of course. you'd rather try your luck playing TEAM SOLO-N-SO, to which I respond: Best of luck! x o x o x Clintasaurus Maximus
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The Hooligan provides advice on all matters weird, strange, macabre and squinky, msg me if any specific questions crop up on my post and I'll point you in as close to the right direction as I can... Remember am expecting B I G hugs for this...
Night of the Living Dead has got to be up there for it's sheer simplicity and the fact that it kick started modern horror as we know it away from cheesy b-movie and giant monster flicks. NOT THAT B-MOVIES AND GIANT MONSTER FLICKS AREN'T WAY COOL COS THEY ARE. But NoLD really did mark a massive change in style and was Romero's first outing.
Gore wise I like em' bloody and really disgusting. More limbs coming off the better, only problem is I haven't see a film ye
A corpse head I made for R. S. Rhine- creator and "Deaditor-In-Chief" of "Girls and Corpses Magazine". He has been awesome to my husband and I so I made this as a Thank you present. I still need to send it to him...hahaa! I've been busy working!
I took this photo in Props Storage at the Opera House- I work there all the time and love playing in Props Storage...heheh. I've photographed my dolls up there a lot.
I'm illustrating a book called "Midnight. Me, and Bob Macabre"- written by a friend of mine..Sam A.K.A Crash LaResh. We've been working on the book for 2 years now...labor of love. I made this to use as a postcard to send to Sam as a surprise.
My friend Tammy took this picture of my babies and I for Bizarre's "Proud to Be Different" section. She gave me permission to post it as I want. I think the people at Bizarre are amazing for creating the section and site and for keeping it running! RIP Sophie!
This is a doll I made for our Wig Master out at the Opera House (Jim McGough). He tried to sleep with it the first night but kept waking up to keep an eye on it...haha! He then just set it on a shelf in his room. You can't see it but it's wearing a bear suit which I happily set on fire with my torch...haha!
An illustration I did for the book "Midnight, Me, and Bob Macabre" by Crash LaResh. Ok...this will sound funny to you guys in the UK... The little girl in this picture is named "Twink". I explained to my friend Sam (Crash) what Twink refers to in the UK but he decided to keep her name the same...hahaa!
This is Twink getting ready for bed after a day of tormenting her big brother Vex...and her unfortunate kitty.
