Halloween Art Party 2025: Groovy Ghouls and Ghosts at Ghast-un-bury! 👻

[Mythmaker]

Here we go again!

For this year’s theme I’ve decided to continue the narrative from the previous one!

Halloween Art Party 2025: Groovy Ghouls and Ghosts at Ghast-un-bury!

After a long detour, the Flying Phantom ghost train has finally arrived at Ghast-un-bury - just in time for this year’s annual wailing festival!

Your task for this year is to:

• Design and illustrate fantastical festival performers, bands, or festival-goers.

• To be clear - this is basically a music festival (like Glastonbury), but with a halloween theme.

• It’s up to you what form your creation takes - as scary or beautiful, alive or un-dead as you like, just as long as it communicates ‘halloween music festival’ in it’s design.

• All styles are welcome. You can post more than one.

• Humans are also welcome at the festival providing they sign the waiver*

• As with last year - consider adapting your design to use as your avatar so we can parade our creatures around the forum!

*Those attending the festival do so at their own risk. The festival organisers cannot be held accountable for injury, loss of limb or life, including being eaten by other attendees.

As always; This is not a contest - it’s just for fun!

Happy painting!

[sooz]

How fabulous! I really enjoyed doing this last year.

[Mythmaker]

Hey! How’s it going?

Sorry for being quiet - I’ve just been caught between being unwell and very busy.

I thought I’d set a little challenge for the remainder of the weekend:

Do a page of quick sketches to generate ideas. Aim to do at least 5 different designs, but don’t be fussy with them - say a maximum of 10 minutes per sketch.

As an example - here’s the one I posted in my sketchbook for the 2022 theme:

If you come up with something you like, you could try doing another page with multiple variations on the same idea.

[Mythmaker]

I thought perhaps I should lead the charge…

I tried to stick to the rules - no fussing, just scribbling! This took about 50 minutes.

[Corentin]

Hey! @Mythmaker it was too sad to see you monologuing here so I took the time to make a few doodles as well to support the topic!

I hope there will be more, I wish this part of the site was more animated…

[Mythmaker]

Well - I thought you’d have few finished pieces already!

Those look cool though!

It might pick up, but as long a few of us have some fun then it’s served it’s purpose.

[Corentin]

Actually I’ve been working on another piece for a few days but motivation and energy are difficult for me to get these days… I hope I can finish it for Halloween, even if the Halloween spirit is shunning me!

[edgarej]

Here’s my entry myth… it’s inspired by your eye-creature from 2022:

[Mythmaker]

Cool!

You really nailed the concert vibe, and it looks great for a quickie!

Feels more like a party now!

[edgarej]

Thanks

You, @Corentin, and I make a great trifecta

[Corentin]

Hey! Here’s finally my proper illustration for this topic. I’m not entirely satisfied with it but I’m tired of working on it so let’s say it’s good enough and just in time for Halloween! LOL I’m sorry but I’m not really into big modern festivals with loud banging sounds, more into traditional countryside fairs with charming choirs etc. (They’re singing “Spooky Scary Skeletons”. Of course).

[Mythmaker]

Yay!

Well, Glastonbury is made up of lots of stages and venues of different sizes. Some are very small and intimate, so this fits just fine in my opinion!

Hmm… I suppose I should get going on my own…

[Mythmaker]

Tum te tum…

Sure is quiet in here…

Kind of… umm…

Spooky!