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I don't consider myself an artist, but I’ve
always enjoyed it—mostly with pencils or similar art mediums. I’ve never
been fond of painting, so just never did it often enough to get good at it.
My mother, bless her, kept every single little scribble that I put on paper
from the moment I was old enough to hold a crayon, and I have them all in a
big brown art envelope—chronological, of course. By age five or so, I was
constantly drawing things with which I became obsessed: scenes from the
Wizard of Oz, the nativity scene (I was enamored with it), Christmas,
Halloween, Easter—loved holidays. I became very much a copycat artist,
drawing my renditions of album covers—Grease, Saturday Night Fever,
Donna Summer, Boy George. And of course, two themes of my artistic endeavors
were…horror and sex. Here are a couple of examples from the later years,
when I was actually more in control of the tool in hand…so-to-speak.
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Halloween Book Cover 1985
Perfect example of my copycat work. For
a series of years starting in 1985, I did pencil renditions of
albums and books released in conjunction with the
Halloween movie series. This is the cover art from the novelization
of the original movie.
Halloween II soundtrack cover 1987
My final year in high school, and I
attempted the album cover for the Halloween II soundtrack.
Headless Horseman 1990
Guess I was bored when I took a year
break between Music and English degrees. From August to
October, I completed two pictures with cool pencils
that allow for color blending. The headless horseman here is a rip-off from a cardboard Halloween decoration my mom would
hang on our back door—you know, one of those cheesy things you'd find at the five and dime. Everything surrounding the horseman in my
drawing comes from my imagination (and memory from various
celluloid adaptations of the Washington Irving story over the years).
Christmas Card 1994
Ah…finally, the sex.
This one was a
Christmas card I drew for Danny with a Christmas poem I’d
written on the inside. How gay! There was this mushy note about how I
never give away my art because it’s a part of me, but I was giving this
to him because he’s a part of me. As soon as we moved in together
in 1998, I took the card from his memorabilia and put it in my art folder where it belongs….
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Halloween II Book Cover 1986
A year later, and as anal as ever, I
went chronological and did the cover from the novelization of
Halloween II.
Michael Myers 1988
Cool. I was working in a video store when Michael Myers returned for Halloween 4. The
promo poster featured his face to the left as it is here,
with a scene from the movie on the right side. I, instead, picked up the
hand and knife from the Halloween book cover and fit it snuggly
into the angle created by Michael’s neck.
Witch 1990
Hotness. I finally had a unique thought
with my second 1990 drawing. Came up with this one all on my own, and
threw in just about every Halloween cliché imaginable: bats, rats,
skulls, cemetery, full moon, owl, snake, spider.... Guess it wasn’t that
unique after all.
Naughty or Nice 1996
Damn was I horny in my 20s. This was
done after I started working at Barnes and Noble and stumbled upon a Tom
of Finland art book while shelving. I think this is about the last
serious artwork I’ve done. I just got so involved in my education, my
writing and domestic life to take the time to work on anything major.
From this point on, my art folder is mostly filled with fairly descent
doodles I would do in my school notebooks and stuff.
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