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Concept Art and Illustration from the mind of Chris Young

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Forces of Horror Anthology Banner Art

Thanks to Sheri Davis and Roger Sampson, I am now contributing various pieces to the "Forces of Horror" anthology. As the tag line says: "Five short films, 3 actors, one location".  Each film will be of the 7-10 minute duration. All 5 shorts, which are stand alone stories, feature 5 separate horror genres (serial killer, zombie, vampire, monster and ghost story)and use the same 3 core actors (man, woman and child) in a variety of roles (sometimes the victim, sometimes the villain) all shot at 1 location! I'm sure this will prove a fun and challenging project to be involved with. Below is a Facebook banner I've created for the anthology in general, with the actual house as the center piece (not without considerable embellishment, of course).

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"Snake With A Human Tail" Poster Art

Spencer Gray has given me the opportunity to create a one sheet for his brand new short: "Snake With A Human Tail" a savage story of betrayal and unexpected vengeance starring Marv Blauvelt, Sheri Davis and Billy Blair. It will be doing the horror festival circuit starting in October. In the meantime, you can follow the project on Facebook for updates and more info.

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Poster Art for "Service" Short Film by Jerry Pyle

While at HorrorHound Film Festival 2014 I was privileged to see the great new horror short "Service" byJerry Pyle. It was quite impressive, so I was thrilled to have his approval on creating this original one sheet. I look forward to seeing what he does next. In the meantime, you can catch "Service" yourself at a film festival near you.

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Bill Oberst Jr. Presents "Still Waiting For My Closeup"

To help promote one of Bill Oberst Jr's latest endeavors I created a promotional poster including art, info and a title. I'm sure it was an entertaining and enlightening evening.

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Bill Oberst Jr. Performs The Book of Genesis

In honor of the exceptional one-man show of the Book of Genesis performed by Bill Oberst Jr. I created this one sheet for promotional use.

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The Pnakotic Atlas: Y’ha-nthlei

If you didn't already know, there's a cool iPhone and Android App that provides landmark and geographical locations for the works of Lovecraft called The Pnakotic Atlas. They take art submissions to illustrate the entries, and Y’ha-nthlei from The Shadow Over Innsmouth is my second submission. You can see it below. I hope to do more, so watch this spot and download the app!

"Y’ha-nthlei was not destroyed when the upper-earth men shot death into the sea. It was hurt, but not destroyed. The Deep Ones could never be destroyed, even though the palaeogean magic of the forgotten Old Ones might sometimes check them. For the present they would rest; but some day, if they remembered, they would rise again for the tribute Great Cthulhu craved."

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Lord Bateman Character Sketch

This is the first of my character sketches for the Bill Oberst Jr film project: "Lord Bateman". This is the man himself, posing with some of his favorite accessories.

Plot Summary: "In Medieval Europe, a devout nobleman becomes convinced that he is actually a demon who was cast out of hell and is now being called to return to it."

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The Pnakotic Atlas: Nyarlathotep

While listening to the always excellent H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast I recently became aware of a cool little App that provides landmark and geographical locations for the works of Lovecraft called The Pnakotic Atlas. I also discovered they were taking art submissions to illustrate the entries. Fortunately, one of the slots available was a favorite of mine: Nyarlathotep. Below is my contribution to the cause. I'll be doing more, so watch this spot and download the app! "And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet."—H. P. Lovecraft, Nyarlathotep

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Lord Bateman Series Part_5: "Village"

The village near Lord Bateman's castle is also very strange and mysterious. Not to mention the small ominous looking figure who haunts Bateman's days and nights.

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Lord Bateman Series Part_4: “House of Debauchery”

This is one of my concept illustrations for the Bill Oberst Jr. project “Lord Bateman”. Lord Bateman finds a ruined house mysteriously appearing in the woods. It is overgrown and crumbling, but inside it is filled with every manner of human and demonic debauchery. There are lights from a few rooms within to entice Bateman inside.

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Lord Bateman Series Part_3: "Castle"

In todays film concept art there are strange and fantastic things happening in Lord Bateman's life. Some of them don't really make sense. Architecture, clothing and social morays may clash or seem out of place. It's all part of the mystery of his dark world. Even the castle he lives in stands as a dark oddity over the rocky hills.

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Lord Bateman Series Part_2: "Bedroom"

The concept art below is part two of my pre-production illustration portfolio for the Bill Oberst Jr. film project "Lord Bateman". This room lies within a foreboding castle. In my next post you'll get to see how that turned out.

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Lord Bateman Series Part_1: "Study"

I have been greatly honored by the exceptional actor Bill Oberst Jr. in that he was generous enough to let me take a stab at creating pre-production art for his personal film project titled "Lord Bateman". I have several more completed and will post them soon. “Lord Bateman as we envision him is, in his human form, a kind man of European royal lineage who loses his inner struggle and gives in to his desires and mental nightmares,” says Oberst. “In his demonic form, he is the physical manifestation of a conflicted, weak man who surrenders to evil.” Oberst says that he and Thomas want to depict a demon who “looks and acts like a classic ancient or medieval demon, not a pretty human with special effect contact lenses. We want hell on earth; a being who looks like he climbed out of Satan’s womb…and we want to do it with practical effects.” The character will have both a hellishly brutal demonic side and an intimate, sophisticated side evoking classic dark literary characters like Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edgar Allan Poe’s Roderick Usher, he said. “Lord Bateman is the horror that all men fear we will become at one time or another in our lives. He has become sin. He has become lust. And neither of those is very pretty to look at.”