“when your problems overwhelm you; go get drunk it’s party time!”

when you’re undead, dead, or a reanimated collection of corpses what better way to spend the afterlife than to PARTY!!!

chocula, frankenberry and booberry decided to set aside their differences to hold a total rager known as “spoons toons and booze” at the knitting factory last saturday. frankensmo was slated to host [coincidentally frankensmo doesn't even drink!] but a scheduling debacle led to the event being canceled and frankensmo was left to wander the streets; but our monster friends are now further immortalized in this ink drawing!

the middle cleanup pencils above were done using the sample blackwing i was sent by pencils.com! more on this soon! i used a bunch of windsor newton inks and a higgins for the brown.

would you want prints of this? because i might make some REGARDLESS!

artist statement:

“i drew these smaller ones first then i drew the bigger one. after inking the red guy i made some ink from blackberries and colored in his eyes and gums. goes on red, comes out purple. brutal.”

to be a freaking sick hunter gatherer and make your own ink go out and ravage some bushes [the berry kind]

if you decimate 1/2 cup of berries add 1/2 tsp of vinegar and 1/2 tsp of salt. you can change the proportions too: for 1/4 cup use 1/4 tsp. i just threw crap together and crushed it.

try and scoop out the guts before you add the other junk. or cram them through a colander or busted up window screen so you get all berry blood. keep it in a little jar locked up tight so it doesn’t magic itself to death.

the vinegar helps the color stick.  the salt keeps if from turning into rotted fruit stank.

i found out about the vinegar stuff on this wussy website.

if you don’t know what the different between tsp and tbsp is punch yourself in the teeth.