HALLOWEEN / "I WANT YOUR SKULLS...!!" (Part 2 of 2)

Hello everybody,

here's the second part of my skull selection.

Since I wrote pretty much everything in my last post about the reasons for picking up skulls as one of my favorite themes when I am not working on my figurative pieces, I think there's not too much to add here.

These are definitely some rarities.

 The first drawing is ballpoint on an A4 paper. 

Nothing was really planned here and I just "went with the flow". 

This was the very first time that I ever used this combination of a green and red ballpoint. I just began drawing and added layer by layer. 

Being an inker for so many years I got really carried away by all the cross hatching. 

It was almost like meditation. 

But after a couple of hundred lines I really began to focus on each stroke because I started to see a great almost three dimensional effect.

In fact, that's the reason why I took those close up shots. 

A fun trip and something I really want to do again in the near future.

Well, and then there was blood...

These are (by far) the most uncommon works I've done till this day.

I used just a little bit of graphite and then blood on hand made paper.

The thickness of the heavy textured paper plus the aquarell-like consistency of the blood itself was a great combination and also a great learning experience.

Creepy?

Maybe a bit but hey, it's all art and Halloween is just around the corner.

As always, many thanks for following, upvotes and resteeming my stuff.  

Cheers,

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