Kat Powell Artist

I tried something new! A scary story with scary art and moves and changes as the story progresses! Happy Halloween!

                              I was having fun with the idea of creating a few images about the Quarantine.                                                                Mostly involving the plague masks of old! They just look so creepy/cool in those old-timey photographs. I wanted to give them an update. It started with a traditional idea of a family staying home and baking. They couldn't make bread because everyone bought all the yeast! Oh well, you cannot go wrong with pie! But you know, humans aren't the only ones going crazy during quarantine. Dogs need to get out as much as we do! So I wanted to show a kid and his dog getting some sun and....well, I don't know how much fresh air you can get in a mask. No...

 Quick lighting advice. For this video I wanted to experiment with a single light source. When you are working on something like this you need to constantly think about WHERE your light source is. For the first skellie you see sitting right in front of the computer screen, the light will framing his figure and casting an intense shadow around his frame. And a tiny bit of light will show around his eyes. I made the light here the most intense because that is where I want the main FOCUS of the image. Everything else still keeps with the light source but is more muted because the other figures are both farther away and not the focus of the image. By the way, rest your eyes when you can! (And I will try to take my own advice...)

Cover illustration for new book series called Bad Mojo 3rd book in the Slug Pie Series Check them out at slugpiestories.com