Monster - Updated

I've recently been experimenting with different rendering styles, to try and add some diversity to my work. Even though this is only a sketch, I may actually draw a story in this style sometime! This image is a possible design for the Horror anthology I have planned, for a story I've written featuring a character given life by a certain Mary Shelley...

UPDATE: Added another character sketch of the design I plan on going for. 

Creatures of the night...

...what music they make (Bela Lugosi in the 1931 Universal Classic Dracula)! On this night where the Moon is full, and the Wolfbane is blooming...  I thought I would share a teaser of my latest project. 

More news coming very soon...

Karloff

Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster… drawn using Procreate on the iPad. I was inspired to draw this after watching the original 1931 Universal Frankenstein on Blu-Ray… Karloff’s performance in that movie makes him one of the all-time greats, and the definitive Frankenstein’s Monster.

Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster. Drawn using ProCreate for iPad.

Bad Blood... the Vampire Saga has a name at last

As I mentioned in a previous post, I've been working on my Vampire Saga story (which will be named BAD BLOOD: A VAMPIRE PROPHECY) for quite awhile now.... I first came up with the idea as a 14 year old who had been inspired by the Stephen King classic Salem's Lot, specifically the 1977 TV adaption starting David Soul and James Mason. My story has changed a lot since then, but elements from the story as written back in 1999/2000 will still be very prominent in the version that will see print. Here are some pages that I drew back then. The first one is something I'm still very proud of to this day, and hope to use somewhere in the final version. The second image is possibly the style of artwork I'll be going for... a watercolour wash, to separate it from my usual, old-school style superhero artwork. And the third, is a character design sketch for the master vampire. As it is though, I'll be doing something totally different for the main big-evil. Something totally different from any vampire ever seen before.....

The fourth image is a more recent piece featuring one of the lead-characters (the same character featured in the first piece of artwork). And believe me, this guy would eat both Team Edward and Jacob for breakfast...

Fingers crossed I'll have more to show and tell soon......

One of the main characters in
BAD BLOOD: A VAMPIRE PROPHECY.

An old page of artwork, from a previous version of the story.
Drawn around 1999-2000.

Character design sketch for the main, master vampire.

BAD BLOOD.

BAD BLOOD: A VAMPIRE PROPHECY and all related characters are ™ and © 2012 Simon Williams. Do not use without permission.

I bid you... welcome, to my home.....

And for my first post here, I thought I'd show you a character sketch from my upcoming creator-owned project, working title: Vampire Saga.

With the recent surge of Vampire related films, comics, TV series etc.. you may ask what will my upcoming Vampire project have that others do not?
Let's just say that I'm going to do my very best to make this one of the greatest character-driven horror stories in recent history. Wait and see... you'll see stuff in this you've NEVER seen before.

Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.....

Artwork and character © 2009 Simon Williams.