Countdown to Halloween #Drawlloween Day 21 - Skull

Skull and Crossbones

Goopy slimy skull

video reference Art for Kids Hub 

Indian Skull

Countdown to Halloween #Drawlloween 2020 Day 20 - Monster

 

Drawlloween 2020 Day 19 - Vroom Vroom Vampire

If you are familiar with Kat and Bones from Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress novels Cat is pictured on the front of One Foot in the Grave. I drew her and the bat possibly being Bones? IDK but they are a romantic couple.

Tell me; can you still see it? Please don't tell me everything that is wrong with it. I already know it's awful perfection lol (I'm kidding)

The reference I used

Drawlloween2020 Day 18 - There's A Clown in My Closet

 So the reference for the clown is by Michael from Behance. I tried to make a closet but it is very amateurish, I know. 

Countdown to Halloween #Drawlloween 2020 Day 18 - Black Cat

My cat didn't turn out as I wanted it for the first time, probably because I didn't have the specific Crayola marker FFS. I tried coloring the cat with a black marker (not Crayola) and then went over it with a water brush expecting it to look similar to the one in this video but this is what I got instead on my first attempt. I just ended up smearing the pigment of the black marker all over the page. 

Here is my second attempt. Not much better but she could be one of the cats from the Aristocats. I love Scat cat and Thomas O'Malley and Toulouse :)

It might not be as charming as I had hoped it would, because you know, 3rd times a charm? It was much easier, however, I made a mess with the negative space but it ain't all bad.

It's not black but it supposed to be black but my black marker is running out of ink and I totally made a mess of it, but it's a cat in a witch hat! Reference @ Art For Kids Hub

Book Review- Even Witches Get the Blues

Reading and reviewing this book contributed to 2020 #FraterfestRAT

Even Witches Get the Blues by J.D. Winters

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I chose this book for #FraterfestRAT because it only had 14 chapters. I am shaken by the news at the end. I never could have imagined. It was shocking sad and exciting at the same time. Haley is the protagonist with amnesia and intuitively comes to understand she is a witch. With some magic, she inherits a run-down shabby Bar and Grill that belonged to her parents only she has to contend with demons and a murder case to which she is the number one suspect. Ugh. Knowing this doesn't make the conclusion any better, however. Her grandmother and boyfriend are very significant characters who I liked a lot.

Alternate book cover 

Publishers Summary:

Everyone remembers Haley Greco, except for Haley herself.

Haley is a witch with amnesia and she might be the most normal thing in the spooky town of Moonhaven.

She wakes up in a strange motel room, no idea who she is, with just the clothes on her back and, weirdly, the deed to a property in Moonhaven where everybody seems to know her. Back for less than a day she discovers, in no short order, that she has an entire missing family, a town history as a wild child, and a grandmother who seems to want her to prepare to save civilization. Not only that, she's the lead suspect in a murder and Deputy Sheriff Shane McAllister knows more about her than he should. The real murderer is on the move. Can Haley clear her name and regain her memory before it's too late?

Fraterfest Readathon ... I come prepared

I posted this on my other blog post (my WordPress blog) but sometimes we need to reinforce it. 

Fraterfest begins today (see sidebar) and I am reading Pawsitively Cursed (Witch of Edgehill #2) by Melissa Erin Jackson to start off with. I am not a big fan of horror books (although I'm willing to read a good one) but I do like the unreal creepy scary stuff once in a while; the kind made in paranormal fantasy, thrillers, and crime novels, not necessarily horror. I find the sick dark and morbid stuff to be too depressing so I avoid it. I guess you can say I scare easily. Ok, I'll admit it, I am a scaredy-cat. 

Here's the list of books I have lined up in no particular order. I just know I want to read them but most importantly they are on my kindle.

UPDATE October 24 - I have read/listened to 10 books total. My favorite is Betwixt. Least favorite is Dead After Dark

1. Something Wicked by Louise Marley 
2. Even Witches Get the Blues by J.D. Winters 
3. Pawsitively Cursed by Melissa Erin Jackson 
4. Dead After Dark -The Son by J.R. Ward 
5. Night of the Living Dead by John Russo & George A. Romero 
6. Betwixt by Darynda Jones 
7. Once Haunted, Twice Shy by H.P. Mallory 
8. The Necromancer by Rhiannon Frater 
9. The Haunting of Beatrix Greene Ep.#1 by Rachel Hawkins, Ash Parsons, and Vicky Alvear Schecter. 
10. Déjà Dead (American in Paris Mysteries #1) by Susan Kiernan-Lewis