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Halloween Sketch Challenge Day 8
For today’s sketch we have the star of the Ring franchise… Sadako! It occurs to me that along with fitting well into the traditional Japanese Ghost lore (specifically the Onryo) She also fit’s into the...
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Halloween Sketch Challenge Day 15
Today’s sketch almost felt like a cheat. When I pulled Black Dog from the Halloween drawing box my immediate reaction was: “But I did a canid on Monday!” And started to obsess about how to make it...
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This is one I grew up with from my Dad’s folk music collection. Burl Ives always had a “favorite uncle” quality about him that I pictured long before I ever saw him as the Snowman in Rudolph the...
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Inktober Day 6
Sometime’s I think that the forces behind the Inktober selection device (Tupperware container with the items in it) delights in giving me all of the stuff I don’t want to draw first and somehow hides...
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Inktober Day 9
This might be my first turkey of the series. I’d had an interesting workout that involved being about fifty yards short of hitting a car that had just made a u-turn so epically sloppy it blocked the...
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The Beautiful Spirit
Not much to say about this one (beyond apologizing for forgetting to post when I should) but I think the way a Ming Dynasty hairstyle turns into pompoms on Dielle. The post The Beautiful Spirit...
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Hiding the Breather
Having fun spoofing my favorite scene in Chinese Ghost Story where Joey Wong is hiding Leslie Cheung in the same way… Though it’s easier to pity Leslie Cheung’s character than Gage. Throwing in as...
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The Flamboyant Tree Spirit
I’m not sure what’s more fun. Putting her in all her flamboyant glory into the niche of the Tree Demon and Frank N Furter, or treating the haunted temple as an office environment. The post The...
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The Ghosts’ and Ghouls’ Party
It was fun coming up with the party attenders… Including Peaseblossom. The post The Ghosts’ and Ghouls’ Party appeared first on Rhapsodies.
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The Spirit Ball
To the best of my knowledge the whole schtick with the mirrors is exclusively western folklore… but I couldn’t resist the temptation to rip off the ballroom scene from The Fearless Vampire...
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Wednesday Halloween Double Feature – Less is More
Well I let my enthusiasm get the better of me and I started my Halloween viewing early (at first I felt a little guilty about it but then I figured we start on christmas before the Thanksgiving turkey...
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Inktober Day Nine – Yotsuya Kaidan
I wanted to do something different than just a generic ghosts this year so I dipped into Japanese folklore with Yotsuya Kaidan. I’d first come across the story of Oiwa from an art book about...
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