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Veronica’s Veil

When I was a child the church my mom and I would attend had these beautiful stations of the cross. The 8th station, Jesus meets the women, was very touching and had a tearful Veroinca holding her stained veil. The church got new stations, and I always wish I had a picture of the old ones, because it was so simple and so touching. I wanted to illustrate my own to have as a print around my apartment.

Dracula’s Day Off

For a while I’ve been drawing cute little illustrations of classic monsters in everyday situations. I started thinking “when you live forever what do you live for?” Probably video games, and not much else. In my opinion, imortality seems pretty depressing so I tried to draw Dracula in a “depression den.” I took a look around my couch and noticed the things I have laying around and thought about drawing that, but had to modify (Dracula probably wouldn’t have a bunch of potato chips, more like blood bags).

Demolition Lovers

Demoliton Lovers, 2022, Laura Fear

“And we’ll love again, we’ll laugh again, we’ll cry again, and we’ll dance again. And it’s better off this way, so much better off this way…”

My favorite album of all time is Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance. I remember the first time I ever listened to it, on the floor of my bedroom as a 12-year-old fledgling goth girl. I fell in love, and it changed my life. For those not in the know it’s a concept album following the story of a man whose lover died. To be reunited he has to send the souls of a thousand evil men to hell. In the end they are reunited briefly, only to have his sins catch up with him and the two are executed in the end. Heavy stuff.

The album artwork was something that always struck me as beautiful, of the lovers in a final painful embrace. And I always loved the rough texture of the watercolor and the imperfect red wash of blood covered in faded black marker done in a rush. It was a challenge to emulate this texture on my tablet and mimicking the drawing style of Gerard Way as close as I possibly could. I erased as little as possible, tried not to vary the width of the markers so things could bleed into each other, and kept all of the sketches and blue lines.

Hell Hath No Fury

I’m almost at my two year anniversary of being single. My last boyfriend broke up with me because I found out he was cheating on me and didn’t like me not being OK with it. Truthfully I wasn’t that angry about it at the time. But last year I had a very close emotional relationship with someone afterwards that put me on a pedestal and then cut me down very swiftly. And a few years before that I had a very intense love for someone who rejected me that I won’t even begin to discuss. I felt like I just needed to get my rage out in a visual form.