Pennywise the dancing clown

I want to try and write a little something about the pictures in the gallery. Since I started this blog, I've been doing that whenever I finish a painting, but I want to write about the old pictures too.

You may or may not have seen the portrait of Pennywise in the celebrity gallery. I drew this a long time ago, but it's remained in the gallery because I think it's very simple but effective.

I first saw the movie 'Stephen King's IT', when it was first shown on TV, way back around 1992, and I was at once terrified and amused by the scary clown with fluffy red hair and razor sharp teeth. The clown, played by Tim Curry, is merely the visible form of a much darker spirit which possesses the town of Derry.

Clowns are supposed to be funny, right? But look into the eyes of Pennywise, and you won't be laughing. He's the eater of souls, a clown gone wrong. Ronald McDonald he aint!

I enjoyed drawing the hair, or more accurately, drawing the backround around the hair. As his red hair is very bright, in black and white it's almost white, so I left the white of the paper showing through, and the background suggests the shape of the hair. I think it looks more scary in grayscale than if I had coloured it, the colour might have put some life back into this ghost of a clown!

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