HALLOWEIRDO: "THE HOVERING SPENK"

This posting is a bit late, but I was recently invited by J. Chris Campbell and the fellows at Wide Awake Press to contribute to this year's Halloweirdos blog, where different artist provide Halloween-spirited artwork. I decided to work up one of my old Beast du Jour sketches and give it a polish and a fresh coat of paint. He's called "The Hovering Spenk", and he's a very mischievous alien from a planet where intelligent life evolved from pumpkins. His low-grade telekinesis enables him to hover around about two feet off the ground.

This was a lot of fun to work on, and I'm going to be taking a few more of my sketchbook beasties to final illustration stage very soon.

Beast du Jour #12: "Perminous Hoovix"

It being October, I thought I'd steer my Beasts du Jour in a creepier direction to celebrate Halloween and all things spooky!

Perminous Hoovix is on the Smelv system's list of most wanted criminal entities, but he will probably remain there for the foreseeable future as no one seems to be able to devise a method of capturing it. Perminous is a semi-tangible entity from the world of Kraggat who escaped to feed on the brain waves of dreaming children throughout the galaxy -- literally having become the "monster in the closet" for many a fearful tyke. Neither entirely corporeal nor entirely ethereal, Perminous has eluded capture by bounty hunter and ghostbuster alike. There is an entire division of the government on Selinar 6 devoted to the study of Perminous and how he might be captured and contained. Until then, children throughout the Smelv system keep one eye peeled and fixed on their closet doors as they fight to fend off encroaching slumber and the emergence of Perminous Hoovix, come to commandeer their dreams and steer their innocent minds into dark, foreboding waters.