This illustration is a response to another Draw This In Your Style challenge. This one was hosted by artist Peter Brockhammer and I was drawn to the balance of whimsical playfulness and bloody horror in the original. I was partway through the ink work when my kids pointed out that my own style of drawing is probably too similar to the artist’s for this to be a stylistic challenge but it was still fun to adapt a digital art work to my analogue ink and watercolour. As a fan of gothic horror novels and movies, it was also just a fun subject to play with. I don’t think I have drawn blood spatter since I created my Alfred Hitchcock bookmark a couple of years ago. Spatter is always fun.
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Oh!. She even has on a blood ring.
Yes. I liked the way all those red elements led my eye around the original composition so I tried to make those elements pop in my rendering too.
She has such a scary gleeful expression. And I like the blood spatter.
Thank you. Spatter is always fun, isn’t it?
Yes. And nothing like it for livening up an image (with its look and its many connotations!)