Pumpkin Man
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 by Pat
Aside from the naked guy with a pumpkin and a visit from Super Girl, I thought Halloween was fairly uneventful this year.
It was certainly nothing compared to last year when Aaron and I got an invite to the Cirque Du Soleil Halloween cast party and had a chance to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show done proper.
The audience was almost as amazing as the show. We were surrounded by midgets dressed as angels and all kinds of other gender-bending body-contorting lunacy.
I didn’t make it to life drawing today but here’s the stuff from the session on Halloween:
I’ve been experimenting with some different Photoshop textures and effects and it’s really easy to overdo it and come out with something crappy.
I get particularly annoyed by the repetitive patterns generated by tiled textures but what I think makes the biggest difference in these sketches is the soft shading. Sketch 15 is the only one with hard edges on the shading and it’s the only one of the batch that I halfway like.
I do like some of the lines on the others but they get lost in a mess of foggy shading and weak Photoshop crutch effects.
Speaking of Halloween, don’t forget to visit Cirigliano’s Italian Restaurant!