Category Archives: Ghoulish Glyphs

Ghoulish Glyphs 06: Happy Halloween!

By Josh | Published: October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween! Make it a great one!
I used a Brause broad-edge nib and black Sumi ink on the chipboard back cover of a sketch book for this one. Oh yeah, and a bit o’ Photoshop of course. This is the original scan.
Ghoulish Glyphs has been fun. I look forward to doing it again next year.

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Ghoulish Glyphs 05: Werewolf!?

By Josh | Published: October 29, 2007

This is one of my Dad’s favorite lines from the hilarious Mel Brooks film, Young Frankenstein. The full quote is actually;
Inga: Werewolf!
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Werewolf?
Igor: There.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What?
Igor: There, wolf. There, castle.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Why are you talking that way.
Igor: I thought you wanted to.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No, I don’t want to.
Igor: Suit yourself. [...]

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Ghoulish Glyphs 04: Halloween haiku

By Josh | Published: October 26, 2007

Here’s a quick and dirty all caps font I created entirely in Illustrator with a flat pen brush using my Wacom Bamboo. I then took it into FontLab for spacing and font generation. Back In illustrator, I set the alphabet and wrote a Halloweenie haiku to go with it.

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Ghoulish Glyphs 03: Spider!

By Josh | Published: October 18, 2007
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Ghoulish Glyphs 02: Zombies!

By Josh | Published: October 16, 2007

It’s a zombie double feature!

By the way all images can be clicked to view a larger image. Fancy popups provided by Lightbox 2.

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Ghoulish Glyphs 01: Jack-O-Lantern

By Josh | Published: October 15, 2007

From now until the 31st, I’ll be keeping 26 symbols Halloween themed with Ghoulish Glyphs. Look out for creepy characters, spooky words and phrases and maybe a bone-chilling alphabet.

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