RAGZ DANDELION

RINGING MY MAGIC TWANGER!

2010-01-05T07:48:15Z

First new sketchies of the new year!
These first three are pen renderings done trying to get to sleep a few nights ago. Not sure why, but I had the need to draw Miss Namikawa from "Invasion Of The Astro-Monsters"!

and a lil' emo Ragz comic-

Today was spent mostly trying to refresh my brain in some Maya software gearing up for getting back to school next week. So to relax, let out some steam and just do what I wanna do, I conjured up this tribute to one of my fave tv horror hosts of all time-The Ghoul! Done in pastels!

Hey hey ova-dey!

Clicky on pix to embiggin them!

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION 2010: MORE DRAWING!!!

2010-01-02T07:31:23Z

A few quickies to start off the new year with-

Mantis- a 1970's Marvel comic sexy girl. I'm on a huge 70's comic kick right now and I just had the urge to draw her out real quick, which then led to me wanting to color it. A sloppy piece, lotsa jaggedy lines, bad inking and sloppy coloring.but frag it! Just wanted to do a quickie.

An original character of mine, inspired from a poor sap who loses the skin on his hands in a bad b-movie called "Death Bed." I dug the idea and created a new character around that simple concept. Who knows wear he'll end up.

Not much else to report. Workin' on a commission, readin' comics, watching bad movies and the Twilight Zone marathon and that's 'bout it!
Happy New Year!

OH ME, OH MY, OH ME!

2009-12-30T17:45:28Z

I'm gonna try and do this post, even tho' I am under the influence of pain pills. Pain pills that was acquired from a visit to a hospital in Orange County a few days ago. As I eagerly await this so called healthcare reform that is supposed to help us without proper healthcare, we thought we might as well see if I can get any answers from a visit to a hospital while on vacation. This hospital shall remain nameless, but it was the worst experience I've ever had at a visit. I wasn't in intense pain, but for a few days before I've had numerous kidney stone attacks and I needed to know where I was at with them, how many more I have to deal with and if everything else was ok. Instead I got an incredibly rude admission nurse and a slimey eye winking doctor who suspected that I was only there for some quick fixes to a drug addiction. They didn't seemed concerned at all that I wanted answers and that I needed to know where I was at healthwise. They just wanted to know what drugs I wanted. Sure, this is southern California, not far from Hollywood and L.A. where all the rockstar drug addicts go when they've run out of their own connections, but c'mon. Just cuz I have long hair doesn't mean I'm on drugs. This is 2009, right? Who did they think I am? Steven Adler? Anyways, once the catscans were done and that in fact I have a urinary tract littered with stones, they changed their tune a bit, but I have never been treated like that in Vegas. Just one really bad experience all around.
But, the rest of the trip was ok. More than anything, I'm glad we made the trip because for me, it was a personal victory that I managed to drive there and back without getting lost. Now, the trip from Vegas to California is not much of a big deal to most people, but for me it was a major accomplishment. I hate driving, for one. Two, I get lost easily. Three, I've never driven that long or that far before. So, I feel pretty good about that. Course, we couldn't have made it in the old car, but the new one, which we have dubbed "The Galactus Herald", did just fine.
As the wifey went out and about with her friends and family members, I stayed mostly in, cuz of the discomfort of the stones, but we did catch a showing of "Sherlock Holmes", which I enjoyed quite a bit. Downey Jr. does a great Richard Burton voice, and watching it makes me wanna start smoking a pipe.
The rest of the time I worked on some artwork, read alot, and caught a public access channel showing of "Santa Claus VS. The Martians" which was all I really needed. Yeah, kind of a boring vacation to most, but It was a nice break from the Vegas life of homework and a change of scenery was nice. We'll be moving there in about four months and I'll have plenty time to get acquainted with the area.
So here is a smattering of artwork done during the trip-

A Martian from "Santa Claus VS. The Martians"

Finally finished coloring this piece for the wifey. Rockitqeen Atari Stacey & Noona as Black Lanterns.

A collage of sorts drawn from an issue of Gothic Beauty, littered with old Ragz lyrics.

A pen drawing of Fantasian Lord Zeyathon.

The Scarlet Witch.

A character I based on various Gary Oldman characters.

And a few zombies to end it all with-

Also while in California, we visited the Art school out there and it looks like all my credits will transfer. It'll be strange being in a new school with new instructors to get used to, but it's also exciting and I think a fresh atmosphere will be good for the final year. It's time for a change for the new year!

MERRY KRAMPUS!!

2009-12-23T19:48:08Z

So, right now I'm at a Starbucks in Orange County, California, trying to get my rickitty old iBook to co-operate with thier wi-fi in hopes of giving everyone a quick heads up. It was a long ass four hour drive out here from Las Vegas a few nights ago, but overall a pretty mellow trip. Visited the art school yesterday in hopes of setting up plans for the move out here before summer. Looks promising. Hopefully I'll make it thru the holiday without having to spend it in a doped up pain relieving stupor due to some problems since the kidney stone passing of last fall. I experience random bouts with intense pain on my right side and concerns with pancreatis, gall stones or just plain death of my innards play with my fears. I really need to find a doctor, but no one in Vegas will take ya without health insurance. I'm in a no win situation. But, alas, hopefully you all have a nice holiday. Till I'm back, I leave ya with my vision of Santy Claws just ripe for printing out and for ya to hang from your festivus pole!
Season's Greetings!

Tired Ol' St.Nick

RAGZ'Z DREAM HOUSE!

2009-12-18T22:48:42Z

Last class fer tonight, then some break time! Finished up some 3D modeling stuff, where we had to create a room, fill it, texture it and light it. Maya, the 3D software used to create this stuff, is very difficult to wrap my nibbly little head around, but I do actually like what I came up with. Most likely it still suffers from many mistakes and incorrect applications, but this is what I gots- I want a room like that in real life! But working in the 3D digital world is a big challenge for me. It frustrates me into Hulk like rages, but I'm slowly gettin' there. To relaxe, I tackled another final assignment, where we had to do a "travel poster" in gouache and pastels. Tho not as realistic or "video-gamey" as all that damn digital stuff everyone seems to prefer over actual artistic expression, I'm much more inclined to get my hands nice and messy, grab a real art tool and let it all out on paper made out of the dead corpses of trees. Hence this- I love the pastels! I got lost in the colors and the mess and the rubbing of it into the paper. And it doesn't look like the soulless digital pixelation that is required in the field today. Granted, all the Pixars and Disneys and such do some good stuff with it all, I still rather see imperfections and the grains of real paper and the smudges done by actual fingertips than Waicom tablets and applied mistakes instead of real ones. But, I soldier on, trying to make that transition to digital. That's what the real world requires. I've just always had a struggle living in the real world. The break allows me some time to breathe again and to tackle the pastels some more, mayhaps get more done for my dream horror comic and to do some commissions. Til then, screw reality for awhile!

SOMEDAY I'LL BE TOPS AND I'LL SHOW YA'ALL!

2009-12-18T06:41:37Z

Almost done with yet another quarter in the art school. This one was a tough one. But a few classes-Illustration & Comic and Sequential Art class was my faves, and I came up with a few good things for that. Such as this little ditty inspired by the old Creepy & Eerie comics from the 70's. A nasty lil' tale called "Deadline" Enjoy-(clicky on the pix to embiggen!) The lettering is a bit janky, but I can fix that up in Illustrator when I include it in my upcoming horror anthology comic I'm working out in my noggin'. Winter break is long overdue and I can't wait to get out of town for a few days, work on my own personal projects, readjust and start getting things ready for the big move in a few months. More artwork to come!

SO DRAWETH I!

2009-12-02T00:46:21Z

More here n' there sketchies done to relax at the end of the day-

The next one was inspired by a scene from the movie "Delirium-Photos of Gioia" ,a 1970's spaghetti horror flick by Lamberto Bava. I like the weird character from the flick and adapted it to my own style-

Here's the pic that inspired me-

She looks like she could be the sister of one of my creations,the sexy Plazmo-

Other than that it's been a rough week,which I won't go into here, but the frustration of being an artist without a gig is gettin' to me, so pass along my work and suggest me to family,friends and people in the biz who may need artwork with a twisted twist!
Spankin'!

The Day After Black Yesterday!

2009-11-29T01:24:24Z

For some reason I woke up with an image in my mind, For some reason I needed to draw it out. Then for some reason I felt the need to play with it around in Painter and Photoshop. For some reason I spent way too much time in my day on it. And for some reason I felt the need to post it.
Here be it-

It's not particularly a good piece. I don't know why I felt the need to comment on the sad state of the Black Friday chaos that has taken over the country on a day after the fact. I have no idea why in the center of the piece is some albino naked alien thingy. Everyone has glowing dollar signs in front of their eyes, which doesn't make sense since their all spending money instead of receiving it. And all of their bags are empty. Maybe some psychiatrist can figure it all out. But I felt the need to create it and to share it with ya'all, when I really should be working on other, more important projects. Hmmm.

Other artwork over the past week includes these -

This is a comic panel we had to create for one of my classes. Featuring my creation Father Fear defeating some demon thingy. Here's another Father Fear quicky thing I sketched together for the heck of it late one night with marker.

This is an animated gif I thru together working on sequential drawings, trying to practice on keeping proportions correctly without using a lightbox or tracing paper-

And here is some concept idea for a character I call Space Woofer.

And a few nights ago I got to meet Steve Niles, writer of the sooper excellent "Thirty Days of Night" vampire graphic novels and other coolio horror related comics. This picture was stolen from Alternate Reality Comics site, which the owner Ralph posted. He's also a sooper excellent guy. When in Vegas, check out his store. It's the best pace in Vegas to be. Also check out his site at http://alternaterealitycomics.net/

I'm yhe guy with the cap on backwards and with the handful of funny books.

Ok, that's it. Time to get back to work.
Hope ya'all had a safe Black Friday! I stayed safely away from all the madness. I should've dug out this-

and watched it.
Maybe next year!

DOODLY SQUATZ!

2009-11-18T02:40:58Z

A whole lotta scribbles n' paint splots for ya!

Here, being the final result of the painting I did using myself as a refernce all doodlied up as Edward Scissorhands, which I posted a few blogginz back.-

It turned out ok, never really did much with gouache before. Actually, this was the second attempt. The first didn't turn out all that well and was smaller than required, so I redid it and it turned out much better. Still have a long way to go before I get to the Alex Ross level.

Here is another piece done over a few days relaxing over the tube, done in ink pen and grey markers-

And here are a few more scribbles, done to wind down and just for the heck of it-

That be Barnabas Collins from the ol' Dark Shadows tv show.

A re-creation of my fave scene from "The Innocents", one of the greatest ghost story movies ever.

and three nurdz referenced from a magazine I had laying around. It cracks me up!

and there ya go!

SCRIBBLETIME!

2009-11-10T06:01:26Z

Sometimes ya just wanna draw something without any planning or concern about media or whether it's perfect or if it's a masterpiece. This is one of those where I just sat down on the couch and let my mind wander and lay it down without any restrictions.
And it was done with an ink pen, one of the worst tools to use when drawing. It not forgiving of mistakes and each line is a commitment. Plus it fades and turns a nasty color after a few years.
But the heck with it. I like it because of that.
So be it!

SCISSORHANDS OF FATE!

2009-11-08T22:40:28Z

One of my projects at school is to create a painting in the style, or at least, the technique of famed comic book illustrator Alex Ross. One of the things that Ross does that sets his work apart from others is that he uses models dressed up in superhero outfits as reference. So we had to take photos of our subject in costume for reference for our painting.The problem for us poor art students is that we don't have the money to hire models and rent out costumes for them to wear, which just may be the crux of the problem solving we are to learn as artists. We must use our own reference in the long run, to create our own masterpieces and to survive in this business.
Well, with such a short time period to get all this done and with the lack of people willing to dress up for me for free, I dug around the Ragzpad and dug out my old Edward Scissorhands hands and slapped on some whiteface, ratted up the hair and had the wifey take some photos of me for reference. Here's what I got. Not the best likeness cuz let's face it, I'm no Johnny Depp, but here is me, as his older, grumpier Edward S.

I look like a tired worn out Edward with a bad early 80's Adrienne Barbeau hardo.
Anyways, I also took some of the pics into photoshop to tweek 'em and get more of the coloring I want to do for the painting, and they turned out kinda neat.

I'll try to post the actual painting when finished.

I need to find me some people who'll model for cheap so I don't haveta do it for myself,cuz what if I need a model for a Vampirella piece? Yikes, just think of the horror of that!

Many other projects are in the works, such as some artwork I want to do featuring some of my fave Marvel Comics characters. I've been reading some old Defenders comics from the 70's and I just love the second and third string characters such as Dr.Strange, Nighthawk, Yondu, Killraven and Warlock.

This is a quick character study of the Japanese superhero Sunfire, to get a nack at drawing his all so cool mask-

and here's a full figure of him, which I want to place a nifty Tokyo skyline behind him and do some stuff with it in Illustrator.

Another piece which will be posted when finished.

And now I leave ya with a Ragzter with a goatee sketch I whipped up for no reason whatsoever.

RAGZ SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGZ!

2009-11-02T04:25:11Z

For illustration class, we were introduced to the scrape-o-licious world of scratchboards. I've never done anything in scratchboard before, but I attempted it and I find it an interesting way of doing things. The theme we had to create the artwork for was El Dia de los Muertos-The Day of The Dead.
Here's what I came up with-

Mayhaps I'll try more in the future.

AT LEAST IT WASN'T RELIGIOUS PAMPHLETS!

2009-11-01T22:17:39Z

I'm so broke that this is all I had to hand out to trick r' treeters last night!

SCORE!!

HALLOWEENIES!

2009-10-28T03:45:46Z

A lil' trick r' treet comic I whipped up for ya's-

clicky on it for to embiggen it!

WE'RE ALL HUMINARY STEW!

2009-10-26T02:20:58Z

A caricature of my fave movie actor Vincent Price for a class-

And dig this delicious tune sung by Mr.Price-

BEAUTY IS ONLY ONE PHOTOSHOP FILTER AWAY!

2009-10-21T01:36:50Z

Once again, another school project,this time the subject had to be my own mug, done in color pencil-

The version you see here has been tweeked in photoshop and Corel Painter for dramatic effect. I took it from a picture I took a year or so ago and I like it cuz it freeks my sister out. She thinks I look like a serial killer in it. The drawing turned out ok, but my nose looks a little too white, but here ya go.

Not much else, artwise to post, so I leave ya with a little notebook sketchie I did while watching "Good Will Hunting" in English class.

It's better to lose your skullcap than your skull!

2009-10-19T02:17:18Z

For one of my classes I had to come up with a one panel comic and supply three different captions for it. I call upon you, my friendz, to vote for what you think is the best caption for it.

#1-"Would it kill you to at least wear a shirt?"

#2-"Wait! I don't think my health insurance covers this!"

#3-"Hold on! Wait! I think I left the oven on!

Please vote in the comments OR if you have a better caption!

Thanx!

RAGZPLOITATION!

2009-10-11T06:29:59Z

When I first moved out here to Las Vegas in 1994 there used to be a dozen cafes all within' walking distance and I could sit there for a few hours and drink Italian Sodas and draw all the interesting people hanging about. It was a pretty interesting scene of a bunch of self important artists and college types, so there was no shortage of unique things to draw. When I got up this morning I really wish there was a cafe around cuz I just wanted to sit outside and draw, but they are all gone now. Everyone of them. So I went to the closest thing still around-an Einstein Bagels. Shitmutherfuckinay. It cost me $10 for a dry bagel sandwich and a small coke. I wasn't pretty happy with that, but I did get to sit outside and draw some streets. Nothing came out too great, but I felt like I accomplished somewhat what I originally planned. I should've just taken the ten bucks and hung out at the local Ren Fair and drew, but I had already spent money I didn't have. Crappers.
I did draw this up today, at home while watching movies and without having to spent money-

I call it "Til Death Do Us Fall Apart" and it's for one of my classes. I like it.

I've also been working out a character called Doberman Jones, based on various blaxpoitation bad asses from the 70's. Here's a rough character sketch of him so far-

I plan to do more with him in the future.

That's 'bout all I've got.
Spankin'!

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised

2009-10-06T22:56:25Z

It seems like anytime i have time off to recoup,regroup and reload, that week is taken down by something, and last week again I was wracked with the remaining remnants of kidney stones ripping thru my urinary tract. If you've never experienced the joy of giving birth to a porcupine with devil horns and that shoots lasers non stop out of it's eyes at your pee pee factory, then you have no idea of the grueling torture that having kidney stones brings. It's the worst. Yeah Yeah, I'm getting predictable and replaying events that i wish not to. I knew it was coming from my last bout with the stoneys last month, as the doc said that I had a cluster of the buggers crammed up and jelly tight in my right kidney, so I knew this was coming. But this time the labor pains weren't slow and building. Nope, it sprang out upon me in a flurry of sweats,nausea and throbbing relentless stabbing knife soaked in battery acid pain! I managed to stay out of the hospital this time,but boy am I sore now. Sheesh, I just can't seem to get rid of them, I've cut way down on the soda, it's mostly water and iced tea these days instead of the Mountain Dews, which may be why I've been passing them more frequently these days without the sugary sodas gunking up the works. But I'm tired of whining about them, so there ya go.
We did manage to get a new car, just in time to get back and forth to another fulltime session of schoolin'. I didn't get near as much artwork done over the break because of the stones and a flu bug from earlier in the week, but here be some leftovers from some life drawing sessions and notebook scribbles I dig. Enjoy!

I name this guy- CharKole!

This is some Emo Vampire guy

My RockitQeen Atari Stacey and Noona!

A Nazi Zombie from the movie ShockWave

an outerspace sketchy

Some guys head floating in a tube with spider legs.

and I call this "She Watches Herself,From Behind"

The painpills I've got from my last visit to the hospital don't really seem to help, except the pain in me pinky toe which I stubbed earlier in the day on Saturday. So now I'm a limping kidney stoned mess. New cd's by KISS,Danko Jones & Ace Frehley have helped to ease the pain also, but the most inspirational thing(other than the new car)that has given me some oomph thru it all was the viweing of "Anvil: The Story of Anvil" I watched Saturday night right before the stones started barreling their way thru my lowers.

What a great movie! If yer ever in need of some "hope", this is the flick to see. It'll make ya believe in something, whether it's the undying loyalty of pursuing a dream,the power of heavy metal, or just never giving up,or that ignorance is truly bliss. It's a must see! I needed this, and I need the blinding vision of "Lips". That guy refuses to give up. A true rock n' roll hero. All the pussies like Kurt Cobain and Metallica could learn alot from that guy. Good Stuff!
Gonna go listen to an Anvil album now and pulverize any remaining stones with their rockin' heavy metal power!

TODAY'S VAMPIRES SUCK!

2009-09-25T02:49:03Z

Finally, for creative writing class we had to write an excuse letter from a character from a movie,book or tv show. This is my entry. Sorry Twilight Fans.

Dear Fans,

I’m sorry I am not able to make it to the Vampire Convention this evening. I feel it’s in your best interest that I do not attend because I would most surely put a damper on the festivities.

Although your convention sounds very desirable to me. A real vampire such as myself would most likely upset most of you for ,you see, we are not the beautiful and charming creatures that your authors and movie makers have romanticized about in your favorite vampire novels and films. We are decrepit creatures. We are not in any way attractive. We stink of death, our minds are weak and we are bad dressers. We drink human blood, not artificial blood. We kill for that blood. We need it to survive. There are no substitutes. And, since we are dead things, we don’t even digest that blood. After a few hours of drinking it, it leaks out of our orifices’ and makes quite a sticky mess.

We do not sparkle. Unless you catch the moonlight glistening off of unhealed wounds dripping with puss and rotting scabs.

We don’t have sex because, again, we are dead. Our sex organs don’t work anymore, our seed is dead and we have no urge to procreate with you. We just want to drink your blood from your dying body.

The only difference between us and zombie is that our minds are still intact. We are sentient beings that are forever trapped in a rotting shell of a carcass that forever thirsts for blood that can never be satisfied.

So, it’s best that I not appear at your event. In fact, it might be better for you to pass on it too and get yourself a life. Maybe try to go out and find other humans to associate with. Hell, if you still desire to play around with supernatural things then try an incubus or a succubus, at least they are closer to what you think a vampire is than what we really are.

Just sayin’…

Signed “The latest popular vampire character”

THE LAST SURVIVOR

2009-09-24T19:57:46Z

NIGHT GALLERY!

2009-09-24T06:52:00Z

It's been a very busy day trying to finish up stuff for the artwork companion to my stories for creative writing class. Got a few more to go, but here be what I finished up today! Scroll down for previous posts for their accompanying stories!

Goldilocks and The Three Brains

Jane and The Jungle Lord

The Slayer of Angels

A few more to come!

LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER

2009-09-23T18:29:12Z

For creative writing class we had to write about a taboo, so I dug out the lyrics to an old song I wrote and recorded back in my schlockstar days and drew up a picture to go along with it.
I bring you "SCARY LOVE"

SCARY LOVE

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH THAT YOU FRIGHTEN ME
SOMETHING IN THE WAY YOU PEEL MY MIND
LOOKING FOR A MOMENT OF CLARITY
BUT YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU WILL FIND

WHAT PART OF LOVE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
DID YOU THINK THAT I WOULD SET YOU FREE?
DON'T YOU KNOW FOREVER NEVER ENDS
AS I WRAP YOU UP TIGHT IN MISERY

YOU WON'T BE THE ONE TO GET AWAY
YOU WILL BE MINE TIL' MY DYING DAY

MY COMMON SENSE IS TINGLING
BEST TO DIG THAT OUT OF MY HEAD NOW
CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT THE MADNESS THAT YOU BRING
GOT TO LIVE UP TO OUR SACRED VOW

IN SICKNESS AND IN MADNESS LOVE WILL SURVIVE
YOU MADE A PROMISE THAT YOU WILL KEEP
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU'RE DEAD OR ALIVE
THE COURSE OF LOVE RUNS THICK,RED AND DEEP

YOU WON'T BE THE ONE TO GET AWAY
YOU WILL BE MINE TIL' MY DYING DAY

copyright 2001 Media Babies Entertainment

You can also check out the song here-http://www.zshare.net/audio/660167280ab2e199/ if you so desire to ad it to your mp3 player of choice!

The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do

2009-09-23T06:18:24Z

Another school quarter be almost done. Just gotta finish up some stories and artwork for the stories for creative writing class. Then it's a week off til I start anew with fresh classes. I'm almost done with story "Slayer of Angels", just gotta type up the last few pages. I won't post it here, it's just way too long, but it will appear in some media form in the future, maybe as a comic,animated film or something or another, but here are some more "concept" art for it that I shall share with ya-

The angel Zacharael

A gargoyle from the story

The Slayer of Angels

More artwork from "Slayer of Angels" and my other creative writing stories will soon be posted, including the artwork for "Goldielocks & The Three Brains","Suicide note from Gilligan","Scary Love" and much more!

Finally made it to another life drawing session on Saturday that I got some great poses from, including the Zacharael pose above, plus this one, where the guy posed with a little acoustic guitar. I kinda flubbed up on his left hand, so I fixed it by darkening in the area and giving him some Paul Stanley pants. That led to further enhancements and a final outcome that came to this-

Mayhaps I'll post the final rendition of my Ragzdandelion 3D model from Maya class. Right now I'm too tired to dig it out of my massive files to upload it, so fer now, I'll leave ya with a quick sketchie of yours truly-

EATING BRAINS MAKES THE PAIN GO AWAY!

2009-09-15T05:22:56Z

As ya might've noticed, or not, I changed my userpic to this-

Yep, it may look like another sculpture of yourz truly, but actually it's a painting done in ZBrush, one of my fave new 3d modeling software programz. I was working on a school project and after many hourz of frustration with it all I ended up going on a "let's try this tool" wingyding and eventually came up with what is now my new userpic. I feel much more comfortable in ZBrush than in Maya, but I stills gotsa long way to go.

Not much else on the art end. I haven't been able to make it to life drawing sessions due to homework needin' to get done and car problemz. I got a brand new starter for the car for my birthday this year! I wanted to go check out Cheap Trick doin' Sgt.Peppers at The Hilton,but again, low on fundz, so I got the cd instead. Oh well, I've seen Cheap Trick like 10 times by now anywayz.
Here'z a drawing/painting I did a few weeks ago for the Facebook Comic Con Dan Brereton Tribute. I did my best to emulate his watercolor style,but I comes nowhere near the master. Brereton rocks!

I've been working on an epic of a story for the final in Creative Writing class, involving a few old characters from my Fantasians gang, revamped and renamed. I'm not sure what I'm calling the story yet, but so far the working title is "Slayer of Angels." Here is a rough thumbnail sketch for what I want the cover for the story to look like-

I may make a video "trailer" for it too. 'Course it'll be posted when done.

Another project for creative writing was to rewrite a fairy tale. Mine isn't all that terribly original, but here'z ya go-

THE THREE HUMANS

David Hanson

Goldie was once a pretty girl that used to live once upon a time in a far-off country. Now she’s a zombie, a walking dead thing that roams aimlessly about in the city, in search of brains to eat.

One night she was shuffling about in an abandoned city seeking out brains, but there weren’t many brains to be had, as all the other walking dead had eaten most of the people, so she had to settle for some kitty brains she found in the pet store. You would have thought she was as happy as a queen and quite content eating her fresh kitty brains instead of wanting to shuffle off about the city meddling with other people’s property. But it happened that the kitty brains weren’t as satisfying as you would think they’d be, so she aimlessly walked out of the pet store and stumbled about onto the deserted city’s streets once more, until she came to a part of the city where zombies had never been before.

Now, in this part of the city was a small little old house where there lived a family of three living humans. The first was a Great Big Human, the second was a Middling-Sized Human, and the third was a Little Teeny Tiny Human. The zombies hadn’t been to this small house.

That was, until now, when Goldie stopped before it and smelled that brains lived there.

Juicy, human brains.

Goldie slowly made her way into the house thru the unlocked door and looked around with her dead glassy eyes. She was disappointed that the humans weren’t there in the living room, so she slowly made her way into the kitchen where she saw no living humans either, just a table with three bowls on it. Each bowl had a few drops of soup left in them, and if Goldie was still a living thing she may have taken a sip from each bowl. She wouldn’t have liked the soup from the Great Big Bowl because she would’ve found it too spicy. The soup from the Middling-Sized Bowl she would have found to be too salty. But the soup from the Little Teeny Tiny Bowl she would’ve liked just fine. But now, she was a zombie and didn’t pay any mind for the soup in the bowls at all. In fact, she didn’t have a mind at all. Just a hunger for brains. Juicy, human brains.

Goldie could smell those brains, but didn’t know where they were, so she looked everywhere, under the table and into the cupboards. She could find no one, not even sitting in the three chairs that were in the living room. There was a Great Big Chair, and a Middling-Sized Chair and a Little Teeny Tiny Chair. But there was no Great Big Brain, or a Middling-Sized Brain, nor a Little Teeny Tiny Brain sitting in them.

There was a staircase in the house and Goldie slowly made her way up the stairs. When she reached the top of the stairs she moaned and groaned in happiness as she saw, in a bedroom, a Great Big Human sleeping in a Great Big Bed. She quietly waltzed over to the Great Big Bed and chomped into the Great Big Humans skull like it was a fresh crisp apple. Before the Great Big Human could scream out in pain, Goldie had munched out all of his brain. The brain tasted hot and spicy, but it wasn’t enough to satisfy Goldie’s hunger, so she made her way to the Middling-Sized Human sleeping in the Middling-Sized Bed. She bit into the throat of the Middling-Sized Human and sucked her brain out through her neck before it could scream out in terror. The brain was salty, but still not satisfying Goldie’s hunger, so she turned to the Little Teeny Tiny Human sleeping in the Little Teeny Tiny Bed and ate up its brain with one quick swallow.

Drooling and dripping in blood and human brain juice, Goldie the zombie stood there for about an hour, then shuffled on out of the house, hungry again for living, human brains. She didn’t care if the brains were spicy, or salty or just right, or if they were great Big Brains, or Middling-Sized Brains, or Little Teeny Tiny Brains.

As long as they were living, human brains, was all that mattered to her.

and that's it fer now!