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Revisiting a School Project Featuring the Grim Reaper

This week I’m revisiting a project from school a few years ago. I did this for my Illustration class. Believe it or not, Zap It! is a real product for swatting flies. Google it! We had to take the style from another artist and make an ad in that style for a modern day product. As usual, horror comedy was a theme in my work. As you may have guess, this was done in Adobe Illustrator.

For the artist, I chose Aubrey Beardsley, one of my favorites, who died way before he was able to truly fulf...

The Missing Ladies of Horror

It occurred to me that I haven’t posted the 1st two Ladies of Horror here in the blog, so that’s what I’m posting this week with my usual status or rant. As you can see, it’s Lilly Munster and the Bride of Frankenstein. One thing I’ve noticed is that they are getting better with each one I do. Everything was flat for these ladies and I’ve been playing with gradients with the more current ladies. I’ve also been getting braver on making changes to some of the line work. I finished Elvira, but ...

Improved Covers on the Way

I’m really starting to enjoy writing these weekly reports. This weeks should be short though. While I had a very busy week, it was filled with communications with my Angels Dark and Dumb cover artist, R L Treadway at Atrtink, who has been creating my covers for years. She does the amazing character drawings for me as well. This is Azael, who is the antagonist in Fall for Freedom, Warrant for Damnation, and Cause for Redemption along with Margery the Demon. Besides changing the series name, s...

Who Does She Look Like?

I got another lady of horror in Patrick Nagel style done this week. Guess who she is? Actually, all you gotta do is go to the Vampira post and you’ll find out. Anyway, if you guessed Morticia Addams, you are right. While I’m really happy how she turned out, I’m not happy with the likeness. Spoken like a true artist…never happy and always finding the flaws no one else can see.

I have a long list of other ladies to do, eleven more in total with Elvira coming up next. Got a little help with ...

Warrant for Damnation Preview

Let me start with the boring stuff. Two main things added here on my website this week: the Contact page and newsletter sign up are back. Exciting, right?

What’s truly exciting is that Warrant for Damnation is DONE!!! It’s completely edited and ready for upload on Amazon. WHOO HOO! Only got one problem…I changed the name of the series and I have no clue what I’ll have to do to change the series name for the other books. I don’t like to do anything easy. Remember when I changed my name fro...

Invasion of the Crazy Giant Bugs

Crazy week with only this to share as one of last week’s creations. A very simple one to create, and I guess I could have been more creative with it. Maybe added a few people to the collage.

Not much progress on finishing the final review of Warrant for Damnation. Right now I’m flooded with that feeling of having way too much on my to do list. That vicious cycle of moving tasks from day to day until you have a list you can’t possibly accomplish in a year let along a day or a week. Yeah, ...

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun…or Does it?

Deceiving question. It’s the first thing that came to mind after starting a trip from Denver to Chicago with the weather like this picture, and the pattern of weather was moving in the direction we were traveling. Yes, delays…

Anyway, I’m doing as promised…writing my weekly status report. I love calling them that because it reminds me of all the boring status reports I’ve written over the years, and that I’m probably boring my audience.

I love snow, so 6 inches of it is always welcome....

Welcome & What’s Happening

Howdy all! It’s been a long time! I have overhauled the site and will be active again on my blog. Every week I’ll share what I’m up to along with things I recommend you check out like I have in the past. So, here’s what’s been happening lately.

Warrant for Damnation, The Courier Book 2

It’s finally happening. I’m doing the final formatting, and the Warrant for Damnation EPUB will be published soon. Sorry, no date. In fact, there will be very little marketing for the book until book 3 is...

Mean Winnie Jean’s Horror Happenings in April

Is it really April? Spring has sprung, but were locked indoors. Go outside, put on a mask. What a strange time to be alive!

If youve been to my blog lately, youve seen that Ive been kinda absent. When I came here today to write this post, I first noticed that Handcuffed in Horror lists the theme for February. Well, unfortunately, I had planned to announce last month that Im closing the group. There are just so many horror groups out there and maintaining one of my own has been a time suck....

Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural

[image error]This month I’m reposting an old blog post review of Lemore: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural. This is one of those movies I remember vividly many years later, so I figured it was worth a second mention.

First of all, her’s what it’s about:

A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police, only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee (played by the late Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith), receives a letter stating that Lila’s...