🎃Headed to a pumpkin patch this weekend? Perhaps you’ll spot an eastern cottontail!
🐰These rabbits thrive in brambles bordering open fields, and they are fond of farms, gardens, and other green areas tended by people. The Eastern Cottontail Diorama in the Hall of North American Mammals features two rabbits on an October day in Ithaca, New York. They’re using their large eyes and pivoting ears to scan the surrounding pumpkin patch for danger. Startled cottontails will bolt for cover, showing the puffy white fur on the underside of their tails. The white flash seems to advertise that the speedy rabbits are off and running. For predators, it’s too late for a surprise attack. Some may give the cottontails up for lost and hunt for other prey. The Museum is open from 10 am–5:30 pm, so plan your weekend trip!
A horror comic originally posted on My Patreon! Reposted here with somewhat easier to read layout.
The pages are pretty big, so you may have to right-click and open them in a new tab to view them properly. Alternatively, here’s a link to an Imgur Album.
This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while; something a bit different from my usual cel-shaded aesthetic. I haven’t done real digital paintings like these in a long time and doing it again has got me re-learning a lot of old tricks as well as learning a few new ones. The overall “look” of this comic is heavily inspired by the classic illustrations of Stephen Gammell, who you may know better as the illustrator for the “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” trilogy. The actual subject matter, however, is largely inspired by my own nightmares throughout the years.
This was a fun comic to both write and draw (I re-wrote the final lines about three times actually). I haven’t done anything horror-themed in a long time, much less on this scale, and I certainly haven’t done any kind of digital painting like this for a long, long time. I’m more used to doing more cel-shaded cartoony stuff, but it’s good to know I can make stuff like this as well. Overall, I’m proud of this.
reblog because this is one of my favorite comics and characters I’ve ever made
reblogging this and a bunch of my other horror themed stuff for Spooksmas Season
Some fanart featuring Nick Nocturne, host of the Youtube horror review series Night Mind. Highly recommended if you’re into analysis and discovery of new-media horror stuff.
Not sure how canon this depiction of Nick is, but I thought it was funny and it gave me an excuse to practice drawing action lines.
Hello everyone! last night I had one heck of a long and detailed dream set in a haunted house attraction, of all things! Soon as I woke up the first thing I did was run over to my sketchbook and draw out everything I could remember before I forgot it:
Here’s a more detailed description of what happened, with separate drawings for each one:
So to start out, I dreamed I was going into this massive warehouse that was converted into a series of haunted house attractions. Each one was set inside of a giant tractor-trailer truck parked in the warehouse, each with its own unique horror theme. One of them, which I didn’t go through, had a post-apocalyptic/radioactive mutant theme, and next to the ramp leading up to the door was this big inflatable sculpture of a monster who looked like a living hazmat suit. Its eyes glowed green, and it was reaching out of a puddle of glowing green nuclear waste.
The one I did go through, however, had a more generic “haunted house” theme, but with the additional story of it being haunted by the spirit of a little girl, or infested with haunted dolls or something along those lines. Either way, the entrance was this little fake dirt path lined with astro turf with a door set on a painted backdrop of a dark forest. Along the path was this statue of some kind of vaguely bird-headed shepherd, leading a flock of animatronic ghostly things with similar heads. Their little arms/legs rhythmically ticked up and down, and all of them were made of off-white cloth (the “shepherd” was the only one with eyes). Next to the Shepherd was, inexplicably, a model of Zero from Nightmare Before Christmas.
Going through the house was a blur, and the hardest part to remember. All I can recall is wandering through a long dark hallway, occasionally bumping into things or having something drop down at me or pop up from behind a corner, most of which was too dark to make out. There was some clever-looking shadow and light effects, but overall it felt rather low-budget and even poorly maintained in some places- some of the attractions seemed to move too slowly or too quietly, or not at all.
The “window” here, for example, seemed to be a TV screen framed with curtains, projecting a silhouette of shadowy figures pressing against the “glass”, backlit by a fiery red light as if they were inside a giant furnace.
The only encounters I can recall with better clarity is this one here, which I saw peek out from a shower curtain after I poked my head into a bathroom, its two long fingers twitching as its eyeless head looked left and right.
The other encounter I recall is this ugly thing I found in a dead-end hallway, which I hereby dub the “Early Bird”. It didn’t attack or make any noises, just sitting there still as a statue while robotically chewing on the hunk of floorboard it had in its beak. The hole it emerged from was glowing bright orange and seemed bottomless.
Going up a flight of stairs I ended up in “The Bedroom”, supposedly the place where the girl’s ghost lived. At first it was rather unimpressive- other than being dark and having some furniture that was pushed out of place, it didn’t look like anything more than an old bedroom. That’s when the wardrobe, facing backwards against the wall, revealed a hidden drawer from which an ugly but very fake-looking doll emerged, cackling with low-quality audio. I could even see the metal arm propping the doll up. It lingered there, still and quiet for several seconds, as if its batteries died.
Finally, I asked out loud, “Are you supposed to do something, or…?”
That’s when I heard an annoyed “harumph”. I turned around and there, sitting up in the bed, was an oversized, animatronic orange and white tabby cat, dressed in baby-blue pajamas and holding a teddy bear. It genuinely startled me, mostly out of the sheer absurdity of it all and the fact that I didn’t see it at all when I came into the room. The giant cat just started at me with disapproval, snorted, and went back to sleep. I took that as my cue to leave.
Going out a side door, I encountered a set of spiral stairs, with what I assume was supposed to be the ghost of the dead girl. She was “played” by what looked like a teenage girl in a cheap Halloween costume she threw together at the last minute, consisting of a black robe, witch hat, and a feathered bird mask. She laid down upon the stairs tangled in old baby blankets, reaching out to me and grabbing at my ankles, pleading in a raspy voice “Please… I need skin… I need your skin…” But her poor choice of costume and hammy performance just left me more confused than anything as she slid backwards down the steps and landing with a loud thump.
As I went down the stairs to the bottom level, I saw her duck into a side room where a stagehand helped her back up on her feet, ushering her into a hidden back room. She looked like she was embarrassed by her performance, almost on the verge of tears. Feeling bad for her, I whispered quickly to her, “I think you did a good job!” before she and the stagehand vanished from sight.
The very last thing I remember, and the very first thing I drew here, was ending up in another hallway lit with blacklights and filled with soft, eerie ambient music. One whole wall was covered with chicken wire, separating the hall from a vast indoor garden of sorts filled with glowing mushrooms, moss, and other weird plants and fungi. Walking amongst the fungus were these strange metal robots, about two feet tall and three feet wide, bright yellow and totally flat. Their segmented bodies moved on a set of long, thin legs made of wire, and had flat cutout heads shaped like some kind of deer. Their walking reminded me of the “strandbeest” sculptures of Theo Jansen, but a bit clumsier. Right about then is when I woke up.
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Well, this might just be my most thematically appropriate dream so far for the season! All kinds of spooky stuff here that’s sure to be prime inspiration fuel for anyone out there. I noticed a lot of the monsters here have a kind of bird motif going on, or at least a very pointy cone-shaped head and mouth. It almost feels like a theme of sorts, though it clashes with all the other weird things I saw in the house. But hey, since when are dreams consistent?
Either way, glad I was able to share this with all of you. Hope you enjoy it!
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