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Billy, the decomposed boyby `alohalilo

Traditional Art / Drawings / Macabre & Horror

This is another of the drawings I found in my closet last weekend. I've published it in sketchbook one, but I never had it in a high enough resolution to put on the net. Now that I have the original I've scanned it in more detail.

I've always liked the idea that on Halloween, the dead join in the fun, blending seamlessly with the hoards of children who are wandering the dark. I had a little story I wrote about it, featuring this little boy and his cat.

When I was living in an apartment in Valencia, I only had like, three kids come around trick-or-treating. But the very first one was a teeny tiny little little girl dressed like a rumply princess. She said, "Tick O cheats!"

She and her mother had barely turned to depart my doorstep when I ran to find paper and write it down. That's the sort of thing you don't want to forget.

Oh, and this is one of the few drawings I've inked with a pen rather than a brush. You can tell in the line quality, which is more wobbly than a brush would have made. Appropriate for a moldy boy.