No Halloween Art 2024

Important announcement from Mandy and Sally

No Halloween art this year unfortunately, but you can always go back and re-read the Halloween comic which is available to read and download on the blog! Just mosey on over to the "Neat Links" section in the top right sidebar and you'll find it!

The updated download now includes four additional bonus pages that were exclusive to the physical version of the comic! These pages have behind-the-scenes sketches and a look into how most of the pages were drawn up from roughs to final line art!

As Mandy said, I've been working on a new comic lately at a snail's pace, which means I didn't have time to get around to making some sort of Halloween art as I usually do every year.

In the meantime, go re-read that comic and hope you all have a Happy Halloween!

The Summoning on All Hallows' Eve

Hey guys! Guess what?

My newest comic book "Tales of Propinquity: The Summoning on All Hallows' Eve" is now available to read directly on this blog site!

Click riiiiight around here to head over to the subpage that contains a Google Slides presentation of the entire comic! Or if you're visiting on a desktop, the link can also be found on the right sidebar of this page underneath the "Page of Links" link.

Have fun reading and I hope you enjoy the comic book!

Happy Halloween 2023!

The big spooky day is back!

On top of doing a full 20 page Halloween comic, I had to squeeze in a simple Halloween illustration which, of course, ties into the comic.

For a limited time from October 31st through November 3rd, I'll be offering a full PDF download of my comic for free over on dojipocket.com! You can find the link to the page right about here!

After November 3rd, the comic will have its own dedicated page here on the blog site.

It will also still be viewable on my Instagram and Twitter pages at @animatedslacker as well.

I'll make another post here when the comic gets its own subpage page here on the blog, but for now, get on out there and get your spook on! Happy All Hallows' Eve!

New Comic Book Announcement

I got exciting news to share!

I usually create a simple illustration for Halloween every year featuring some of my characters from the different story projects I got going on.

HOWEVER! This time, for this year, I decided to go with creating a comic! A whole 20 pages of comic starring Mandy and Sally up to spooky Halloween shenanigans!

And (I think) it came out amazing!

I pushed myself to create this comic from script to panels in about under a month to get it completed on time for it to be posted for the Halloween weekend. I am really happy to create something that looks like a very real comic book once everything was all put together!

The whole comic will be posted on my Instagram and Twitter account (@animatedslacker) in sections starting on October 27 through October 31st, with four pages being posted daily during that time interval.

Currently, I'll be posting small sneak peaks leading up to October 27 on both my @animatedslacker and @dojipocket accounts. Links to my socials are on the "Page of Links."

Of course, when the whole comic is fully posted, I'll post the whole comic here on the blog for everyone to read, all free!

Follow me on Instagram and Twitter @animatedslacker to follow the lead up to the comic!

Happy Halloweens 2022! - Day 3

You already know the deal. The future celebrates Halloween over a period of three days!

And since this year is all about "Class of 2422," we're gonna celebrate Halloween like the future: over a period of three days with three illustrations!

For the final day of Halloweens, Marilyn had to do a lot of convincing to Robert for the two to go trick-or-treating together. Robert used the excuse of not having a costume, which Mary was more than prepared for.

Needless to say, Robert ended up having a lot of fun with Mary this Halloweens night!

Originally, the idea of this drawing was supposed to be the sole art for this year's Halloween drawing, but about a month ago, I was thinking about world-building elements I could implement for the culture/society of the year 2422, and a three-day Halloween celebration was one of those elements.

And plus, Halloween is my favorite holiday so there might be a tiny hint of bias in there somewhere. Maybe.

Before I go on, here's the roughs for this drawing

Once I decided on the three day Halloween theme, I originally thought of doing a three panel comic (one panel for each day) of Marilyn convincing Robert to go out trick-or-treating with her with this drawing serving the final panel.

The first two panels didn't really stick to me as very interesting since I couldn't figure out how to make that story fit into just three panels, so instead I went with using other characters to create like a multi-day progression (the 29th-31st) of different characters in different scenarios played out in the course of a single day, as evident of the progressing shift into the night as seen in the backgrounds of these drawings.

I didn't want to just make three different drawings with all of them taking place in the same time of night, so the progression of sunset to night over three drawings was more interesting to create.

I guess in a way, there kind of is a story that's played out in these three drawings, like an A-plot, B-plot, and C-plot going on at the same time.

Either way, this was a fun challenge to do three different Halloween illustrations instead of the usual one. Hope you enjoyed them!

Happy Halloweens 2022! - Day 2

In case you forgot, in the far off future, Halloween is celebrated over a span of three days! From the 29th to the 31st! It's a lot of fun, I assure you.

And since I themed the year to "Class of 2422," I've created three illustrations to observe how to celebrate the future's Halloweens!

October 30th sets us up with a little debate between Aika and Ted about whether or not a scary costume is a necessity for Halloweens.

I do all my drawing at night, so you can imagine that when I had to pull up image references for Aika's costume, which is Kayako from the Ju-On movies (The Grudge), it was uhhhhhh kinda spooky for me to say the least; I'm not much of a horror movie kind of guy.

Not sure if I said anything about this, but I went back in and redesigned Ted's hoverchair. I was absolutely not satisfied with the design I put out before, but I think I figured out a design that's sleek, futuristic, and easy to draw.

It's funny that his pirate ship costume covers up the newer design completely. Good thing I'm here with early roughs for this drawing where it's visible!

Aika's kind of harsh with her words in general, but I felt it was a bit too harsh for Ted, especially since I hardly picture these two interacting with each other much anyways.

See you tomorrow for the third and final drawing!

Happy Halloweens 2022! - Day 1

Did you know that Halloween is a three-day long holiday in the far-off future? For those living in the year 2422, it's a very true fact!

Of course, since this year is "The Year of Class of 2422," we must observe how Halloween will be celebrated in the future: not with one, but with THREE illustrations for Halloweens!

Starting off the first day of Halloweens, October 29th brings us a curious scene of farm girl Nelly teaching our Earth-visiting alien Nevadri a thing or two about carving pumpkins for the spooky season.

Something about that organic pumpkin really spooks out Nevadri. Let's hope we don't bring the extinction of pumpkins into our timeline.

The background art was originally a bit more elaborate, but I felt the need to tone down certain details in order to match the simpler backgrounds for Day 2 and 3's artwork. You'll see what I mean during the next two days.

Here's the process for the art:

The concept was pretty much nailed from the get-go, so it was a matter of refining the drawing. You'll soon see this is the case for the next two drawings.

Happy Halloween 2021!

Halloween is back, which means another round of Halloween art!

Something that I came to realize is that every time I use Sally and Mandy for the Halloween art, Sally is always on the left side and Mandy on the right. I don't know why that's been the case; it's just a coincidence.

And because Mandy is always on the right side of the drawing, we always see the left side of her face facing us, which is a side I hardly draw in general.

It's just a minor detail I wanted to point out.

Anyways, Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween 2020!

Halloween is back! You can't beat the chilly autumn weather, fun spoops, and free candy!

Well actually, is Halloween cancelled this year due to that darn coronavirus? I don't know, but it's not stopping me from making another Halloween-themed art piece this year!

So for these past few years, I would alternate between Marilyn in a witch costume and the Sally/Mandy duo for Halloween. This year calls for Mary, however the new witch character I created not too long ago seems like the perfect fit for the Halloween art this year (and her name is Autumn too! Very fitting for the season!)

I drew up two different Halloween drawings, one featuring Mary and the other with Autumn. After getting feedback for the two ideas, it appears that Autumn the witch is taking center stage for the Halloween art this year!

You gotta have some fun as a witch during Halloween night! You just gotta!

Regarding the Marilyn version of the Halloween 2020 art, I'll recycle that for a different occasion down the road. Maybe. Not sure yet. I've been told it can serve as a PSA kind of image since the idea with her relates to the virus thing happening currently. Anyways...

Happy Halloween everyone!

October 2019 Animation Practice - Jack

YOOOOOOOO WHY DIDN'T NO ONE TELL ME I FORGOT TO POST OCTOBER'S ANIMATION FROM LAST YEAR AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

For October's animation, I wanted to do something a bit spoopy with a splash of humor, and with a jack-o-lantern somewhere in there for good measure.
My voice-acting returns in this one!

It was a funny idea of "what if a jack-o-lantern came to life" sort of situation. I wanted to add color, but I was out of October at the time. I like how this one came out.
This animation is almost long enough to be posted for the Doji Pocket channel for content! Man, I miss making stuff to post to the official channel. One day, I'll have something new to post! I swears!

I can't believe I totally forgot to post this one on the blog! Good thing I was scrolling through past posts out of boredom; that's when I spotted the gap between September and November!

Happy Halloween 2019!

Another year, another Halloween!
And of course, I'm back with another Halloween illustration!

Looks like Sally wants to share some sweets with her best friend Mandy. Too bad Mandy's not really interested in her offer or returning the favor.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Happy Halloween 2018!

Another Halloween, another drawing of Marilyn for the spooky holidays!

Happy Halloween everybody!

Inktober 2018: Roasted

The third topic for this year is "roasted!"

Initially I wanted to do something related to roasting (in terms of making a sick burn to someone, like a witty comeback) but I didn't know how to execute that idea so I went with this cutesy idea of a jack o' lantern roasting a marshmallow over himself since jack o' lanterns usually have a small candle inside of them. 

Simple idea, but I thought it was a neat drawing.

I just remembered I never finished with redrawing/coloring my favorite Inktober drawings from LAST year! Ahh geez...

Happy Halloween 2017!

Halloween's back again, which means that I bring yet another drawing to celebrate this spooky season! And what's spookier than you and a best friend dressing up in the same costume? How about that your best friend is dressing up as YOU for Halloween?

Ooof, that's scary. Especially if it's an annoying friend that did that. Oh well, sucks to be Mandy right now!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Happy Halloween 2016!

Halloween is back! It's that time of the year again for scare, frights, and bites! (If you're a vampire that is.) And candy! TONS OF FREE CANDY.

To mark today's spirit of scares, I drew up a (rather nice-looking) drawing of Marilyn in a (rather nice-looking) witch costume!

Happy Halloween everybody!

Pre-Halloween Drawing

It's not much of a "pre-Halloween" thing, but rather than a drawing that was done way earlier in the day of Halloween. Its purpose was to draw out Chris as Marty McFly for the actual Halloween drawing which was posted here if you don't remember, which you should have ya lump-fer-brains.

But yeah

Warding Off Spirits

I posted this one on my tumblr and Deviantart page on Halloween. I know that at this point it's pretty late, but I still think it's funny no matter what time of the year it is.

I put this one off since I wasn't ready to introduce Daisy on my blog at the time, but here I give an in-depth explanation/description of what I post; it's all mainly one liners on stuff outside the blog, so it's always a good idea to follow this page more than my other pages.

Summoning Bloody Mary (Happy Halloween!)

Halloween's practically here, and I still don't have a damn costume set. It sucks considering Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Oh well, here's a comic strip I wrote last week-ish.

Well technically, he did nothing wrong here.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Happy Halloween!

My favorite time of the year is finally here! Time for candy-lootin'!

In case you can't read it well, the dentist is saying "Can't wait for pay day!"

Halloween's Around the Corner

Ooooh boy, Halloween's approaching rapidly; can you believe that?!
Halloween's one of my favorite holidays because when else is it socially acceptable to dress up weird and take free candy from strangers?
Aside from that, I found myself drawing a lot about Halloween lately, but I bet that's not just me. I bet other artists are finding themselves in the Halloween spirit. Even before October started, I had a ton of stuff based on Halloween. Like for example, I noted out how some stores sell these Halloween items waayyyy too early. I know it's something that's been happening in the past, but this year's a little crazy.
Did you know I found some stores that are already selling Christmas items? Halloween hasn't even come to past yet and already with the Christmas stuff on sale! Heck, I remember seeing an advertisement in September about meeting Santa.

I haven't made an effort to find my costume yet. I think this is the third year I'll be going as a clown again. It's not because I want to, but the whole moneymoneymoney situation thing, yaddayaddayadda; long story short, I chose the clown costume to wear for as many years as I can and really, I ain't even mad. Think about it: I get to be a goof and be scary to those with a phobia of clowns; it's a win-win!

Let me just end this off on this note: You're never too old for Halloween.