A Sinister marriage of Nightmarish Proportions!

The extremely kind folks at Horrornight Nightmares.com and Gomez Studio Inc.
sat down on a dark, and rainy night to discuss the possibility of combining forces for next year's Haunting season.

The final outcome of such a meeting well you will have to tune in periodically and find out!

Mark is plowing a new path when it comes to Horror Forums. He and his staff Jenn, and Jordan have created a site that is powerful enough
to contain the most up to date horror information and History of Halloween Horror Nights.

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well... uninformed and aggravated to the point of fracture.

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hassle free.

At the moment we are still working out the details as to what I will be bringing to the table, but I assure you that is will be
Sinister enough to make your skin crawl.

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Army Of Darkness Tutorial

Army Of Darkness Tutorial
by: Lazaro Gomez

I would like to start off by saying THANK YOU to my
fans, and to anyone that maybe viewing this Tutorial.

By doing this I hope that I can help other artist like me to achieve their goals as I have.
The painting you see before you is an exercise for me because I am still getting used to Photoshop, it is a great tool
but it lacks the traditional feel of other software such as Painter. And perhaps I should have done this painting using Painter
but my goal was to practice, practice, practice.

Many people ask me what brushes I use as it is a common question among artist. And so I am using this Painting as a tutorial and you
will see what tools I used to make it. A lot of the time I use brushes that come standard with the software. Hard and Soft Brush and a few others
but as far as Custom brushes, I have them but rarely use them. So let's get started!


1. Reference



It is almost vital to work of a reference, so for mine I used the all mighty Internet and found an image that I wanted to paint. For this painting
I was looking to challenge myself and try to overcome some things that effect me as an artist. Those will be listed through out the Tutorial. So here
we have a painting by John Bolton. I have seen a lot of paintings and photos of Ash and at first I was gonna use the Movie Maniacs as Reference but decided to go with the Movie Poster.








2. Outline



Now that we have our reference, we can move on to the next step. I open the reference image in Photoshop and begin to map out the key elements that will guide me along as I paint. Many people use many methods to make this step work for them. Some make a layer on top of the reference and trace over the outline, some free hand the process. For me, I have done both. So its preference really.








3. Color Selection or Pallet



I normally make a pallet but being that I had the reference right next to the painting, I opted to not make one. I simply selected colors as I went. Plus I didn't have to worry about Lighting because all that data was in the Original image.












4. Shapes



shapes are important in any drawing or Painting. It is easy to get tangled up in drawing the " PERFECT " line when in life and art there is not such thing. So I tend to view things in shapes rather than their actual form. I have learned that it makes it easier for me to view the work and keep all the guess work OUT! Try it some time, you will be amazed to find out how quickly your render will come together.










5. Refinement



Here you will begin to take those shapes and start refining them. For this painting I used the SMUDGE tool GASP! a huge no no in the art biz, but I have found that it can come in handy if used properly. Here is where I use my hard and soft brushes, at different Opacity and Flow levels. Along with Dodge and Burn another one of those popular no no's, again used right it can be a blessing. In Photoshop it is hard to use tools in the traditional sense so we gotta fudge it a little to make it happen. I combine my soft brush with a chalk brush to give me that added texture that is lacking in this Software.






6. Side Note Info

Ash has signature features that are important, and can't be ignored. So keep an eye out for things like this when painting, it helps to sell the painting. In this case its that signature eye gesture, mouth, and the Chainsaw. One could take artist freedom as I have done but not too much, if not you will again get lost and the painting will be ruined.



























7. Final


Thank you for viewing! Please feel free to ask any questions, and or leave any comments.

Zombies any one?

Ok, so its apparent that my favorite aspect of horror is the undead. Ever since I saw Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero I was hooked so here is my tribute to George!

Night of the Living Dead, directed by George Romero, is a 1968 independent black-and-white zombie film. Ben (Duane Jones) and Barbara (Judith O'Dea) are the protagonists of a story about the mysterious reanimation of the recently dead, and their efforts, along with five other people, to survive the night while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse.

George Romero completed the film on a $114,000 budget, and after a decade of cinematic re-releases, it grossed some $12 million domestically and $30 million internationally. On its release in 1968, Night of the Living Dead was strongly criticized for its explicit content, but in 1999, the Library of Congress placed it on the National Film Registry as a film deemed "historically, culturally or aesthetically important",


"They're coming to get you, Barbra!"

Doodle To Art!

Well for good practice I start the day with a doodle or sketch.
A lot of the time it helps me with a few things, for one it helps
loosen up my hand and I try to keep the doodles loose enough that they
can become anything. Another thing is that when I have projects to do
it helps to get my mind in gear. It's the perfect way to avoid creative blocks.
Much like writers artist go through the same thing!



So I start off with a single layer dark it and create a second Layer in
which I start to doodle. For this I use a big 10px solid brush and lay down
some dark color usually almost black, R52 G52 B52.



Once that is done I pick a lighter color and place the brush settings at 25% Opacity
50% Flow. From there I start making shapes until something comes up.

Now by this point I have a clear vision of what I want to create, So I move froward
into thinking of Lighting. Once I figure out my Shadows, Mid tones, and Highlights, I
begin to refine areas of interest.

Once the painting in complete with the steps mentioned above I begin to work with an
OVERLAY layer and use a soft brush with BLACK and WHITE to enhance the lighting. After that
I start to play with effects.




















So listed below are some samples of The Daily Doodle Exercise.