With Halloween just around the corner, we’re excited to share a collection of mysterious, bizarre, and spine-chilling illustrations. We asked our artists to submit their favorite images that relate to the season. It’s a fun collection of work that we hope you enjoy.
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- Hal Mayforth’s illustration can really give you a scare! Can you say, “Boo?”
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- Mark Fredrickson
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- Shaw Nielsen illustrated costumed kid characters and Halloween-themed background art for this year’s Publix display. The artwork is meant to be wrapped around bins filled with various candies.
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- Jonathan Carlson developed this illustration for This Old House Magazine.
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- Seth
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- Yao Xiao’s “Black and White Masquerade” was originally designed for a theme party. The concept is a Steampunk masked ball.
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- PUSHART’s “Boogie Man” image was originally created for Orange Coast Magazine. The story described how trick-or-treating has transformed over the last 50 years in Orange County, CA, since the days when tales of the boogie man haunted the orange groves near developing suburbia.
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- Martin Ansin created a limited edition screen printed poster for the 1931 film, Frankenstein.
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- Halloween also coincides with a possible game 7 of the World Series for the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park. (John Dykes)
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- Anthony Freda’s alarming illustration represents the unnerving merger of corporate and governmental powers. The piece is being used to help promote a national march in Monsato.
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- Roman Muradov shows off his morbid side with the moonlit narrative above.
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- Brian Ajhar’s illustration was done for the Fall issue of Scholastic’s Storyworks Magazine. The only requirement was that Brian has to include a book in the image.
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- Robert Neubecker
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- Peter and Maria Hoey created a t-shirt design based on vintage Halloween masks.
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- Bob Staake
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- Phil Foster illustrated a spooky nightmare for the American Bar Association Journal.
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- Traci Daberko created a web banner and landing page for Mind Touch’s Halloween blog post.
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- Nigel Buchanan’s character was created for a ghastly alphabet book.
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- Stuart Brier’s monster was done for a book project raising money for a children’s charity. The concept is taking children’s monster drawings and rendering them as professional illustrations.
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- James O’Brien’s screen print of a sea creature rising up out of the water is for a Halloween art poster exhibit.
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- Rafael Ricoy’s illustration is about different types of phobias and how to cure them. The piece was published by El Pais Newspaper in Spain.
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- JF Podevin’s theater poster depicts Macbeth becoming king of Scotland through regicide. His reign marks his spiritual death.
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- J.D. King’s personal piece “Los Diablos.”
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- Edison created a full page illustration for Scholastic, retelling the story of Frankenstein
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- Sharon Tancredi
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- Raul Arias
