‘Dracula Risen’
Basecard art for a trading card by Iconic Creations; acrylics and gold leaf on paper,
A3 / 29cms x 42cms
Prints and art items available at Society6
Work in progress and detail images:
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Wednesday 21, November, 2018
https://bohemianweasel.com/2018/11/21/dracula-risen/
For the Penny Dreadful trading card set, Cryptozoic Entertainment asked me to draw the 22 Major Arcana cards of the Tarot in a way that fitted the feel of the show – but without using actor likenesses. So I took the traits of the main characters, blended them with the Major Arcana archetypes, mirrored the compositions of the original Rider Waite tarot cards (included below for reference), and lavished them with a heady mix of Penny Dreadful themes and symbols.
Everything I put in the cards has a Penny Dreadful reason, and a Tarot reason, for being there. Everything. o.O
Inks, acrylics, gold medium, and 22k gold leaf. Everything except the lettering of the card names and numbers is hand-drawn or painted.
Official info about this set release here: http://www.cryptozoic.com/trading-cards/penny-dreadful-trading-cards-season-1
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Wednesday 1, November, 2017
https://bohemianweasel.com/2017/11/01/penny-dreadful-tarot-sketch-cards/
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”
“In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
HP Lovecraft
‘Dreaming Cthulhu’ in a range of Lovecraftian colours: Cyclopean sepia, non-Euclidean green, Decadent indigo, and Daemoniac black. Now there’s a cosmic horror to suit every mood and occasion. Available here.
The original (available on Etsy here)
In acrylics, pastel, and pencils, 21×29 cms
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Monday 14, November, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/11/14/cthulhu-dreaming/
Sometimes hearts and flowers will only do if the heart’s cursed and the flowers are omnivorous. If you wish to tell someone you love them horribly then let one of these dear little monsters be your messenger.
Greeting cards, as well as diverse ephemera for your haunted house, available here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/bohemianweasel/collections/486329-valentine-horror
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Thursday 4, February, 2016
https://bohemianweasel.com/2016/02/04/horror-valentines/
Illustration (10×12″ acrylics on canvas-board) for Perna Studio’s trading card set: Halloween 2015. Detail images below (click the images see their stories.)
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Now available on REDBUBBLE here.
Some of the Demon Ball goodies on RedBubble
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Wednesday 29, July, 2015
https://bohemianweasel.com/2015/07/29/the-demons-ball/
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Friday 13, September, 2013
https://bohemianweasel.com/2013/09/13/collected-horrors/
Edgar Allan Poe (& friends) ~ 21×29 cms, mixed inks on watercolour paper.
Poe detail: cat & raven (by Soni Alcorn-Hender)
Poe detail: face (by Soni Alcorn-Hender)
Poe detail: Death’s head bug (by Soni Alcorn-Hender)
And how it was made ~
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Monday 2, September, 2013
https://bohemianweasel.com/2013/09/02/a-waltz-for-sketching-poe/
‘Dreamers of Darkness’ sketch card set for sadlittles.com. I took classic literary horror as my inspiration
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Sunday 31, October, 2010
https://bohemianweasel.com/2010/10/31/dreamers-of-darkness/
Original painting for a basecard in the ‘Dreamers of Darkness’ trading card set depicting ‘Vlad the Impaler’.
With historically accurate headgear, and slightly more artistically vague victims in the background.
6×8 inches, mixed media.
Vlad Dracul
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Friday 10, September, 2010
https://bohemianweasel.com/2010/09/10/dreamers-of-darkness-vlad-dracul/
