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Clowning Around With Scooby Doo
Scary clowns have been around for a long time. Grimaldi. The Joker. Pennywise. So it would’ve been odd if Scooby-Doo, a cartoon that prided itself on introducing monsters to impressionable young minds, didn’t include that particular ghoul in its rogues gallery. And it did. In the tenth episode of season one they introduced a ghost clown that’s been creeping kids out for the last 55 years. This week, in a misguided effort to fix what was never broken, I decided to redesign that monster.
The Things They Call ‘Art’ These Days
When I was a kid, toys were toys, cartoons were cartoons, and monsters were monsters. Simple childhood concepts. But, as it turns out, you can now make a posable action figure of a Scooby Doo monster, call it an art doll, and hardly anybody looks at you sideways.
Investigating Colored Pencil Solvent with Scooby Doo’s Velma Dinkley
This week I worked on a Scooby Doo tribute featuring Velma Dinkley and the Ghost of the Black Knight — the very first spooky villain Scooby and the gang encountered back in 1969! — and experimented with some colored pencil techniques for the first time.