Halloween and Coming Soon

While Halloween has been only a few days ago, and due to the fact that if you are a Halloween fan, everyday is Halloween in your heart, I will post a few Halloween facts and some random artwork from the October season.

The worlds first Jack'O Lantern 
Each and every year during Halloween, practically everyone who celebrates the holiday, will set out a carved pumpkin with a candle inside as a decoration. Now some may question (or not), "I wonder who started this trend"? Well, that can be explained in this paragraph:

As stated in the Book of Bizarre Things (Close enough to the title), the first Jack' O Lantern came about in the tale of a man named Jack, chased the devil up a tree, and carved out a cross right below him so that the devil would not come down. Feeling pleased with this, he returned to his sinful life of sloth and gluttony. When the time came for Jack to go to the great beyond, the lord would not let him go to heaven due to his life of sins. And the devil, who managed to get off the tree would not let him go to Hell ether, for chasing him up an apple tree. Having no-where to go, the devil feeling a form of pity for the man, gave Jack some coal to light his way. One day while eating a turnip, Jack got disgusted with it, and decided to put the coal into the turnip, making the world's first Jack' O Lantern.

This of course, was a tale that was invented in Europe when people used to carve their turnips and use them to make a Jack'O Lantern.

Danger Dolan Halloween Candy
One of the reasons I posted this one is because Danger Dolan has always been a favorite of mine, and I felt the need to post this list of his Halloween Candy List. The link will be posted at the bottom for the website. Enjoy!

As quoted from Danger Dolan.TV: Click Here to visit the website

From delicious hair of the werewolf to blood bags filled with sugary goo, we count 15 of the funnest, most awesome pieces of Halloween candy ever prepared by crazy companies and websites

15 – Insect Candy

• So you might look at these and think, hey, a bunch of plastic insect toys embedded in a lollipop
• Well, hotlix.com process real insects and dip them in candy – yes, they’re real, live insects frozen in time, ready to be eaten with a crunchy, delicious taste
• You can get ants, crickets, worms and scorpions in your lollipop, although the scorpions are more expensive since they’re usually reluctant to become food

14 – Brain-Flavoured Zombie Mints

• These are made specifically for zombies, but regular people can eat them too
• The official website mcphee.com suggests eating these to make your breath autopsy-fresh in case you need to disguise yourself in a zombie-packed street
• They also come in Cthulu flavour, although those will just drive you insane

13 – Blue Cheese Lollipop

• This one started out as a joke, blue cheese on a stick, and then somehow it took off and became an actual thing
• The company that designed it, Lollyphile, they’re been experimenting with lollipop flavours like breast milk and absinthe, and this was their latest attempt at candy that makes no sense

12 – Gumball Eyes

• A ton of bloodied up suckable eyeballs perfect for strewing around any Halloween candy table, and they’re filled with fat-free liquid cherry candy
• Course, they taste just like any other gumball so don’t expect the familiar delicious taste of real eyeball juice inside – for that you’ll need a dark alleyway and some sharp cleavers

11 – Death Mints

• Amazing simply for the case alone, it is, according to the website, the preferred mint of choice for vampires, corpses and zombies – and it comes with 100 mints similar to the brain-flavoured one
• According to reviews it takes about 5 of them to get you fresh breath, but since the case is so cool you can store proper mints in there AND NOBODY WILL KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

To view the rest of this page, go to the link posted above. 

Night Elf Warlock

Note: You may want to look up World of Warcraft or read some of my other posts to know what it is. Because I do a lot of fan art of this game. (in case you don't know what it is) 

For those people who see this by some chance, and go "Oh my, she put a class with a race that doesn't even have warlocks, THAT is not correct lore, where do I even begin on how wrong this is". First off, this is just a "I wish Blizzard would do this"... kind of painting. Just because Night Elves have Death Knights, why not Warlocks? in a way it would be interesting to see that. I would love to play a Night Elf warlock. 

Lore wise, well it wouldn't make sense given the whole demon hunter stories etc. But, still, the idea sounds awesome. 

Of course I did a couple of other paintings of this in the process, but I plan to do something that is a bit more detailed and less sloppy. Which I should have planned it out more, but decided to show it on here anyway. 

As you can see here, I have the purple and green look for the warlock type look (demonology colors) and two minions in the background. Succubus (left) and Void Walker (right). now of course, I plan on perfecting this with marker since I am running close on Water Color paper. 

As for her style in the middle, it's not much of anything that is good in terms of armor, but it shows enough to say that it is a warlock and not just a night elf wearing skull armor. 

I plan on adding a bit more to this eventually in Photoshop CC and hopefully make it a bit more obvious that it is a warlock fan art type and not something that is just a slap of paint on a canvas/paper. 

I also included yellow eyes that I plan to work with later and green lips. 

Again, this is on Water Color paper with tube water color paints. 

The Girl Who Loves Horror & Horrible Reviews

Since it is the month of October, and it's getting around that time when all Halloween fans (myself included) look for a decent scary movie to watch or a nice horror/thriller book to read. Well, on one of my days at school while waiting for the teacher to enter the room, I discovered a blog site called "The Girl Who Loves Horror". Of course, most of it isn't just Horror movies but also books as well. Which I find to be very interesting, given that I enjoy looking at both. Anyway, this blogger reviews horror movies and books and gives a basic summery (similar to Fangoria Magazine) about random picks from different times. Currently, she has a post for a review on the movie "Creepy Crawlies" made in the year 2000.  A movie about a man who goes on a vacation due to his alcoholism caused by a recent divorce that caused him to have problems at work. Soon his vacation turns into a nightmare when he finds out that the island is infested with a rare cockroach that kills people. It's kind of funny, since if anyone is like myself, I can't stand cockroaches, despite the fact they really don't do anything to you, except look gross.

Click here to view the movie review.


Horrible Reviews
This was something that I have always known about for at least a year, and will say that it is a good page to look at if you are going to watch any interesting horror movie on Halloween and you want something that is going to be good.

Despite it's name, Horrible Reviews is a YouTube channel created by a guy from the Netherlands who is pretty awesome. He gives reviews on Horror movies that are everything from mild to I-wish-I-didn't-just-watch-that-clip-because-I-will-never-be-able-to-sleep-or-eat-again kind of movies. He also gives a list of his personal favorites which includes the funny movie Napoleon Dynamite and a few westerns with Clint Eastwood in it.

I'm still not quite sure why it's called "Horrible" Reviews, since they are very good, granted some of the films shown are horrible and just, shocking really, but it is a good place to find a good horror movie to watch on Halloween when trick-or-treaters are not at your door.

Click here to view the YouTube Channel

Minecraft: Creative Mode

What is it?

Minecraft is a game that was created by a Swedish programer named Markus Notch, later made popular by a swedish company known as Mojong and currently owned by Microsoft. The object of the game is that you are a blocky character that roams in a blocky universe, and you need to survive here by collecting items for building materials and kill creatures/animals around you in order to survive. It is also a place were aside from building with blocks to create your own imaginary world, a place to hide from creatures of the night that lurk in the shadows such as witches, zombies, spiders and much more. 

Live Versions of the Game

There are live versions with in the game, where when connected to the internet, one can join a group of people and play games such as mega walls. A really fun game where you join a team in a color group of ether red, blue, green or yellow and compete against one another to destroy what is called a team's Wither. (That's the best way I can explain this). 

Creative Mode & Survival Mode

A lot of people do not know what to think of this game, and often question its blocky appearance and its sometimes faded coloring. But I can honestly say myself, that it is a creative game that challenges the mind to create things out of blocks. Basically a virtual version of the popular Legos. 

In this part, I just wanted to mention the Creative VS the Survival modes. 

In the game, a player is able to choose whether he/she wants to play in Survival Mode or Creative Mode. Survival mode, allows the player to mine resources or chop down resources in order to build shelter and then hunt random animals for food and more resources such as leather and wool to craft certain things like a bed or armor. Creative mode allows the player to be able to have unlimited resources and basically be creative in building whatever he/she wants to. (You also have the ability to "fly" around basically, by pressing the space bar twice) 

The images shown below are examples of a place that I myself have built in Minecraft. Basically a decent sized castle place with a large skull floating above. 

Minecraft is available for both PC and Mac, and you can download it from their website by clicking this link here. It costs about $20.00 to download (purchase). 

Fan Art & Purple Haired Lady

Just got a new thing of marker paper, which I decided to add in here the latest two pieces. The first one is a fan art of the Undercity. Which is a place ruled by the Undead in the game World of Warcraft. Obviously, this looks like more of a child's version of the area, but it does have a unique charm to it that I felt like showing.

The next piece that I am showing is a bit more interesting, and was a Mary Doodles inspired piece. It's called the Purple Haired Lady.  This went along with Green Haired Lady, and was a random test as well for my new Prisma colored marker, Violet.