Monster Party

Monster Party

Here is art for a Wolfbait poster promoting our show at Smalls on Halloween night. The concept is of course, classic movie monsters having party but doing very modern stuff like playing Guitar Hero and bonging beers (and how did a skeleton get a cell contract? Is it pay as you go?).
First, the pencils. Obviously inspired by Jack Davis and “Mad Monster Party”.




Next the inks, for which I used Pigma Micron Markers. Not a lot of cross-hatching as I decided early on that I wanted to use gray markers and ink wash. You can see that I didn’t even ink the laboratory background. I left it t=in pencil to give it a distanced effect.




I’ve been very inspired by Eric Powell and J.H. Williams’ use of greys and I wanted to give it a shot. I used anything I could find; Prismacolor markers, Faber-Castell brush pens, ink wash and graphite.