#berniwrightson

How Page 5 in the new #SketchBook is goin'... Added a few more characters. Can you spot 'em? ••• #HuckleBerryHound #HannaBarbera #BeagleBoys #Disney #DuckTales #DennisTheMenace #HankKetcham #HunterSThompson #FearAndLoathingInLasVegas #ScottShaw #BerniWrightson #SwampThing #BettyAndVeronica #ArchieComics #DanDeCarlo #CrackedMagazine #DanielClowes #Melbin #UgglyFamily #Ink #Tombow #Fudenosuke #Microns #SketchbookArt #JeauxJanovsky #JeauxJ #JeauxJanovskyArt #HandDrawn #GunControl (at Culver City, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpcvQnWr86t/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Bernie Wrightson, the late “Master of the Macabre,” was born on this day in 1948. Wrightson was one of the greatest illustrators to work in the comics medium, and indeed any medium. Here are some prints published as a portfolio by Christopher Enterprises in 1976. You may recognize the first, “Siegfried,” as the cover of our fifth issue, from December 1977, and the second here, “Counsel to a Minion,” as the back cover art from the October 1977 issue. The others are “Visitor,” “Breakfast,” “Change,” “Loggerhead,” “Hunter,” “Waiting,” “Freaks,” “Mementos,” and “Taking No Chances.” Despite his love of disturbing subject matter, Bernie the man was truly one of the nicest guys in the comics industry. We and all who knew him were saddened by his death in 2017 at the young age of 68. . #berniewrightson #berniwrightson #masterofthemacabre #horror #horrorart #heavymetal #heavymetalmagazine https://www.instagram.com/p/CVinf4OlWNo/?utm_medium=tumblr

Detail of the #inks for the new giclee print I’ll be releasing soon based on the #KelleyJones #Batman #REDRAIN series. Last week @DesignerCon invited me to take over their IG account for a few hours to give a mini-tour of my studio and do an #artdemo . THANK YOU DCON!! Out of fear (and more fear) I knew I had to bring something cool to the takeover. I had always loved the Kelley Jones version of Batman. He was my generation’s #BerniWrightson! So I used the opportunity to finally do my version of one of my art heroes' version of the iconic character. Plus, I had Batman on the brain from releasing the #Joker print the week before. . I left the last post with scanning the pencil sketch, doing a little clean up in photoshop, and then printing out the sketch onto bristol board. In this case, it’s cold-press watercolor paper that I had closest to me. It feels like bristol so why not?! . Once the sketch is printed I’ll spend about 10 minutes going over it with an HB pencil to tighten up the drawing. Also (by dumb luck) the toner from my printer doesn’t permanently stick to the paper’s surface. Which is great! I can erase the printed sketch after inking it. So yeah… . TOOLS: @winsorandnewton #series7 sablebrush size 0 @alvindrafting circle templates @drphmartins blackstar #indiaink @rotringofficial #rapidograph ink @fabercastellusa #pittpens . Once I’m done #inking I’ll scan it at 600dpi, drop it into photoshop, and save it as a bitmap tif. . I was showing the final piece to a friend and he suggested it needed more to balance it out. He was right. Stupid jerk! I designed this as if someone were going to get it tattooed on their upper arm. So I added some spooky smoke behind it to help tie the composition together. I wasn’t sure how it would look so I printed out the #inked drawing and sketched how I wanted the flow to go. Then with a sheet of vellum, I inked the smoke lines with a Pitt pen. Scanned it and then added that and the circle in photoshop. . . . . #brucewayne #detectivecomics #artistsoninstagram #skull #calavera #mementomori #brianewing #gotham #arkham #comicbookart #illustration #design #detail @capsulesbook #DCON #DESIGNERCON #tattooflash #neotrad (at Arkham Asylum, Gotham City.) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-LdrZpwHD/?igshid=zeg5nrzacv2d

Heroes for Hope - starring the #XMen : a #marvel #comicbook from 1985-1986, with some pages written by #StephenKing and illustrated by the late #BerniWrightson Proceeds of this comics went for charity following the famine in Ethiopia. Other contributors of this issue includes : #GeorgeRRMartin , but also Harlan Ellison and among the illustrators #StanLee or #FrankMiller among others.

Sad to hear of the passing of #berniwrightson RIP. This guy was a legend.

Got some goodies in the mail today! #comic#graphicnovel#joe_hill #berniwrightson #read#books#comicbook#comicbookart #thehauntoffear

Starting up on Page 5 in the newest #SketchBook. Thanks to those of you who have already wrote in with some real great #Cartoons/#Comics #Character suggestions! Keep 'em coming! 🔥🤘🏼🔥 For now here's a #BerniWrightson #HouseOfSecrets 92 era #SwampThing, #Betty of #BettyAndVeronica #ArchieComics fame (Gonna go with #DanDeCarlo on that), and #CrackedMagazine swinging in with a #DanielClowes-ian #Melbin of the #UgglyFamily! Harder to do with a #BrokenPen than you would think! It does help make some interesting scraggly #LineWork. 😁 #CrackedMonsterParty #Archie #Ink #Tombow #Fudenosuke #Microns #WhiteOut #PrestoJumbo #SketchbookArt #JeauxJanovsky #JeauxJ #JeauxJanovskyArt #HandDrawn (at Culver City, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpb9UvAOVlc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Bernie Wrightson’s cover art for the first issue of the Gargoyle miniseries, published by Marvel in 1985. . #gargoyle #berniewrightson #berniwrightson #marvelcomics #1985 #defenders #thedefenders https://www.instagram.com/p/CMocCrMljia/?igshid=czb36zksp3y