Halloween Throwback: "Cute Or Death" Sketchery

"CUTE OR DEATH" was borne of a toysketch project for my TOYSREVIL-blog, to be published online for "TOYSREVILZine: Halloween Edition 2015" (on ISSUU, which no longer exists / still images currently viewable here on Facebook tho). This blog-feature however is solely dedicated to my own doodling attempts, thanks :)

I had a collection of reader-submitted art from my Call For Entires and had honestly wanted to "bulk up" the issue, and so this self-initiated doodle project was borne!



The characters I had decided to go with, were classic "movie horror figures" known to most and all (I hopwe :p), given a slight “twist”, with the re-imagined as “babies”! The tagline I came up with, was: "Monsters Were Once Babies Too…"






2 x drawings of each character were used to make a single published page = a “Baby” (or kid/child), and an “Adult”, with the baby-version spotlighted, while the hastily sketched "adult" version ws to be blurred in the background and opacity knocked back in photoshop.





I had felt they needed text / taglines to tied the concept in, so I went with “cliches” that came from the top of my brains... I had rambled on much more on TOYSREVILART, as well a throwback post on TOYSREVIL itself ... but here we are 10 years later!






Shown here are both my initial analog doodles (finished in ink), which were later photographed (I do not have a working printer) and photopshopped to the final page, and published online, cheers.

Hope y'all had a good Halloween, and enjoyed this throwback!

Andy TOYSREVIL