Hell Level 1

Hell Level 1  © 2009 Tom Hicke. [Gouache on illustration board]

Hell Level 1 from my website, tomhicke.com. When time permits, I plan to paint a series of damnation scenes that will snap your eyes wide open in the dead of night.

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Dermoids Rock [Dermoids Wicked Progeny]

Dermoids Wicked Progeny and All Associated Images © and TM Tom Hicke.

A rough sketch from the Dermoids Wicked Progeny concept sketch book. Dermoids Rock feels like a  nightmare rock concert remembered. Imagine a young Axl Rose spontaneously spawning an undead twin from his spine. Cool.

Welcome To The Jungle © Guns and Roses.

Video TM and © respective holder[s].

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Dermoids Scream [Dermoids Wicked Progeny]

These are concept sketches from a graphic novel project. Details are not ready disclosure but the work below definitely speaks for itself.

Dermoids Wicked Progeny and All Associated Images © and TM Tom Hicke.

Countless artists have greatly inspired my work through their words and pictures. Their influences often combine in surprising ways, with bits and pieces merging with half remembered daydreams, lending the work a fresh yet familiar quality. 

A lot of amazing Spanish artists worked for Warren Publishing in the 1970's. I have a copy of Eerie #65 [see page on the right] and quite few other Warren Mags.

A sample of Jose Ortiz's excellent work, from Eerie #65

Richard Corben's individuality, strong draftsmanship, and amazing imagination combine to produce some highly original and entertaining work; he's definitely a favorite that set a high mark for scary and fantastic art.

Edgar Allen Poe Illustration by Richard Corben, © respective owner.

The Thing [1982] TM Universal Pictures.

 

Inspiration from Carpenter's macabre classic...awesome.

How creative people express what inspires them is not always predictable. Eddie VanHalen cites Eric Clapton as a major guitar influence. It must be true, but who'd ever guess?

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