13 Days of Halloween

smceccarelli · 5 Oct 2018, 08:15

It´s a long time since I´ve tried some sort of social media project. I’ve had this idea of making a mini-campaign around Halloween to feed the ever hungry portfolio. Instead of the 12 days of Christmas, I’m calling the 13 days of Halloween - starting October 18. The idea is to design unusual creepy trick-or-treaters that may be skulking around your neighborhood on Halloween night.
Each should stand alone but also allow to be included in a group shot at the end...cannot say that I didn’t get the idea from Jake´s Inktober in the past two years. Maybe I´ll even use it as a final nudge to start my prints shop (in planning since six months...).
Anyhow, here is the first in the making....Crazy-Bot

NessIllustration · 5 Oct 2018, 14:06

@smceccarelli A neat idea, and I love your rendering!

burvantill · 5 Oct 2018, 14:30

Wonderful! Great idea!
Is this digital?

JennyJones · 5 Oct 2018, 15:28

@smceccarelli Wow! Robots are not usually my thing but this is really wonderful. I love the way he is painted.

artwithashley · 5 Oct 2018, 15:33

@smceccarelli - How fun is this!! Love your art and your idea. Crazy-Bot is really great. I love how doesn't even have a bag to hold his candy.

Sas · 5 Oct 2018, 16:40

@smceccarelli wow what a neat idea!!! I love your bot

xin li · 5 Oct 2018, 17:09

Really interesting design and love the rendering style.

smceccarelli · 5 Oct 2018, 17:58

@burvantill Thank you! Yes it´s digital - ProCreate, because I’m traveling...

Teju Abiola · 5 Oct 2018, 18:00

Wow! I love this idea & your always awesome painting skills.

Johanna Kim · 5 Oct 2018, 18:24

Great idea! Gorgeous digital rendering. Love the textures.

smceccarelli · 5 Oct 2018, 21:11

Second one - a Fish-Out-of-the-Water. Still some tweaks here and there....

burvantill · 5 Oct 2018, 22:18

@smceccarelli okay, you have officially become the moon that I am shooting for.

smceccarelli · 6 Oct 2018, 07:10

@burvantill Not too far...I’m just a satellite orbiting the illustrators I admire

smceccarelli · 6 Oct 2018, 07:12

Number 3...easy one but hopefully creepy enough.
The Shadow.

LauraA · 6 Oct 2018, 07:21

@smceccarelli Loving the clever concepts here, such as the fish having to wear a bowl on his head that keeps the water in (not to mention the bloody red mouth), and how the shadow covers candy on the floor.

I love the blue in the stomach, but I'm a bit curious about it. Is it because he's digesting candy or is it a bit of color that got through because the shadow's...um...person?...is translucent? Could be both, of course, and it works very well as part of the design.

xin li · 6 Oct 2018, 07:37

@smceccarelli wow. would love to see your process of creating this bot in procreate. I am experimenting with painting in procreate also.

smceccarelli · 6 Oct 2018, 08:14

@xin-li Unfortunately ProCreate keeps crashing on my iPad (I got used to it and it doesn’t bother me too much), so I sometimes turn off time-lapse recording to help it cope with larger files - and I did for the bot because it had a lot of layers.
I do have the recording of the fish head, though, if you’re interested.

Lewbotart · 6 Oct 2018, 09:42

beautiful work

nasvikdraws · 6 Oct 2018, 12:10

@smceccarelli Love all of these (and your other work too). Very very inspiring. The last one is especially strong because of the simplicity.

What brush are you using in Procreate?

smceccarelli · 6 Oct 2018, 12:14

@nasvikdraws Thank you! I always end up using the same two: Nikko Rull and Pencil 6B.