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I love monsters, so when I was contacted by Mondo to do a poster for FX's What We Do in the Shadows, a show about some of the funniest monsters out there, I was more than thrilled! The biggest challenge was having to choose only a couple of the vampires and humorous elements to put into the painting. Laszlo’s witches’ hat was suggested by [Mondo Art Director] Josh Manderville, and I thought it would be fun to include Nadja’s doll of herself. I wanted to capture Laszlo’s pompous nature, so I chose to have him posing in a manner reminiscent of those classical self-aggrandizing military portraits. For Nadja, with her haughty personality, I figured she would most definitely want to be portrayed seated on her throne at The Vampiric Council. Moody greens and blues make for an eerie atmosphere; and the subjects being vampires, well, it seemed fitting that there be some accents of red.