Halloween Fun

A while ago I designed a new character while watching a Photoshop demonstration by Michael Bear back in July. His subject was a boy and his dog, which quickly turned into a ghost dog. I was very interested in this match between boy and dog and drew up some sketches.

 

Bear is a golden retriever mix with an incredibly long tongue. Barry is the classical blond haired, blue-eyed boy, with a lobe of bow ties.  After designing the two, I drew some activity sketches for them and thought it would be fun to give them some friends. During a head drawing session, I found 2 such people. Seen below, Ryan was the name of one model and I felt the name fit the face very well. His sister is based off another model but with a name change to fit her dress-wearing-tom-boy attitude.

This month I thought it would be fun to dress everyone up. I had originally planned to do 13 images for the 13 days of Halloween, but ran out of time so instead I focused on the individual characters.I painted them with gouche on illustration broad, then put on backgrounds in Photoshop. The logo was designed in Adobe Illustrator.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Count Barry.

She-wolf Delilah.

Mummified Ryan.

Bear is the red dog, 2nd in from the left.