May 2020 - Carnival - WIPs

CARNIVAL

Brief: Last months theme was all about being alone, this month... Fun entertainment filled get-together, Something wicked this way comes style sinister creep-fest, or... something else? Interpret the title into a piece of artwork.

Deadline: Midnight on the 31st of May.

This thread is where you post your WIPs (work in progress), final entries should be posted over here: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/current-challenges/606-may-2020-carnival-final-entries

Challenge rules and guidelines:
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challenge-rules/39-challenge-rules

Rules in brief:
- All challenge entries must be your own work.
- You should post at least two WIP images that are clearly different from your final entry and each other.
- Your final entry should contain your image (inserted so it shows up full size) and at least two links to your WIP posts on the forum.
- No chatter in the finals thread – if you have questions, post them in the WIP thread or PM an admin.
- Feedback is allowed & encouraged together with the voting and in the WIP thread.
- Deadline is given in UK time (midnight GMT) with a grace period of 5 minutes for getting the post sorted.
- Each member may cast one vote.
- No cheating! Admins may decide to disqualify an entry that does not adhere to the above rules.

Not related to this or any picture I've painted or intend to paint, but this is the way my mind works...
"Carnivale" was a damn good tv show. Axed far too quickly.

It’s also a damn good Slaine comic originally appearing in 2000ad. I’ve got a hard back copy and find myself flicking through it everty time I lose faith in graphic art as a story telling device (read: cell shading).

I loved Carnivale too. That series had me hooked from the first show. Really upset when they decided it to deep-six it.

Just had a go at "something" but it may not continue further for hand reasons and elephant reasons and... reasons.







Notice how the blue-eyed zombie elephant turned into a red-eyed angry elephant after I remembered that elephants have ears.
And why must creepy, big-headed ringmasters strike such hard to draw poses?

elephants do have ears, yes. But zombiephants might have dropped theirs... somewhere...

If only creepy ringmasters "dropped" their foreshortened arms/hands too.

well... he could be pointing with a bloody stump. Maybe the zombiephant ate the rest...

This.... is not going well.

*nervously checks the countdown again*

what? There's ages left, right? Months!