Art the clown (Terrifier)

November 2024

This is a portret of Art the Clown, the main character from the horror movies Terrifier (wikipedia).

Of course Art the clown had to be part of my "Horror" themed series of drawings. Like Pennywise this clown will immediately give you a bad feeling, even if he smiles at you and has a cute little horn inside his hand. I wanted to show this conflicting feeling in this drawing, where you have a clown (that should make you happy) but that gives you a bad vibe. Besides this "feeling" I really liked the foreshortening in the reference picture, Art pointing his finger towards you gives this drawing a very nice "depth".

The reference photo I used for this drawing was done by Jeremy Saffer (facebook)

For this drawing I used graphite powder and graphite pencils.

A3 paper size.