Mattias: It takes one to make one.

My third and final image is done. Here’s a sample:

It’s about saying “Fuck you” and finally moving out from your parents. Trying to stand on your own two legs, living your own life.

Or maybe it’s about being thrown out into the storm by your own father because he was too chickenshit to take responsibility for his creation.

Well. At least it hasn’t started raining. Yet.

Also, don’t miss (some of) the other stuff happening October 30…

Mattias: Merging parts…

The more I looked at my first image (the one I discarded), I realised that I kind of liked it after all. So I decided to merge it with the last one I made.

A bit like sowing bodyparts together…

Mattias: Frankenstein DIY

My second image. I’m sure the others will catch up and show their stuff too soon, so don’t worry.

Parts of an image about parts.

By the way. Tonight, in a little while, Swedish television will show part 3 of their series about the horror genre, which will deal with Frankenstein and Alien. Coule be interesting…

It will be up on www.svt.se later, so you can watch it there if you miss it on TV…

Mattias: Winter of solitude

The first one that I’m actually going to use is done. Here’s some samples (for the complete picture, come to the exhibition):

 

In relation to the other two images, this will probably be the third, but never mind. I’m showing them here in the order I’m creating them.

This is also the only one with any real connection to Shelley’s book itself. The others are more conceptual. I just got this image in my head and felt that I wanted to do it.

Mattias: First try…

A first image which might turn into something that I will use, but chances are that it won’t. In any case, I thought I’d show it here:

We’ll see what happens with it, if anything…

Mattias: When there’s no more room in the woods…

Last image I’ll be showing before the exhibition, and this is only part of it.

I already asked Raquel to turn into a werewolf for me. For this one, I asked if she could turn into some other kind of classic monster. And so this is the result (it was a bit scary, but she’s ok now):

Raqqemonster goes Little (un)Dead Riding Hood.

This image, when complete, will also be the first appearance of my interpretation of Grandma. Don’t miss it (at Panora this Saturday)!

Mattias: Getting closer…

Been listening to Wolf Eyes while working on images 4 and 5.

I think they’re done now, but I’m only going to show one of them here. Have to save something for the actual exhibition. So here it is. Raquel wrestling the Wolf.

Now I just need to figure out what’s going to be in the last one. Deadline’s getting closer and I also want to finish the next Piracy is Liberation graphic novel this week…

Oh well…

Mattias: No need for hunters.

The Red Hood Clan ain’t nothin to fuck with.

Mattias: In the Mouth of Madness…

Another one done. It may or may not evolve more before the exhibition goes up. It’s often hard to know just after something gets completed. Sometimes it gets completed all over again, sometimes it stays the way it is.

Whatever. Obviously, there were some complications with this one too. Just climbing into the big bad wolfmouth to get to the right angle to draw from. Then keeping Raquel’s voice hanging in the air like that long enough to get it on paper. I’m telling you, I had to work fast on this one.

The Wolf goes by the name of Madness for this one, for referential reasons.

Today’s questions, to take home and think about, are these: Is Granma in reality a wolf? Was she a wolf all along? And why is her mouth so fucking big?

Mattias: First image done!

Thought I’d start this off by showing you my first image for the exhibition, and tell you a bit about the process.

I started by using Raquel as model. Watching her transform into a wolf was quite an experience, and getting her to hold at different stages of the transformation long enough for me to draw her was a bit hard, but she made it excellently in the end.

In the next phase, when I added background, I realised it should really be the other way around, so I mirrored the image, juxtaposing the wolf with the city and the human with the woods. Like no one gets to really feel at home…

I still felt that is didn’t really feel finished yet, so I added some structure and played around with color (we decided that we can only use black/white/red) to reach the style that I will use for all of my images for the exhibition:

Concluding this first post, I’d like to thank Raquel for modelling for me.

Next up:In the Mouth of the Beast and No Need for Hunters.