Thursday, 8 December 2011

Ghost stories

Ghost stories :
Hans Christian Anderson's Little mermaid
Terry Pratchett's Wryd Sisters :)
Terry Pratchett's Mort
A new ghost

Just a few I've been reading... But there's also ghosts or spirits in, Merlin on the bbc (iplayer), Terry Goodkinds the sword of truth series, Ghost Busters, Corps Bride, Beetle Juice and sleepy hollow... Most of which arn't very scary at all. :(
However Parinoral activity is so I AM NOT WATCHING IT AGAIN.... ever.

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Ghost story - facebook

Ghost story thats curcling on my facebook? Don't know why it is but its scaring my little sisters friends and its a nice bit of luck that my projects about 'ghosts'.

Bullying killed her. There and then, Carmen decided that she couldn’t take the bullying any longer. She planned to stay behind, that evening, after school, and tell her teacher what had been happening. Unfortunately, her decision came too late to save her life.

After lunch, her teacher announced that the school was holding a fire drill. When the alarm sounded, Carmen and the other students filed out of the classroom and assembled in the yard outside. As the teachers read out the roll call, the gang of five girls decided that this was a great opportunity to embarrass Carmen in front of the whole school during the fire drill. They moved over to where Carmen was standing, near a sewer drain, and began crowding the poorgirl, getting in her face and nudging her towards the open manhole.

They pushed her and she tripped over and fell head-first down the manhole. When they saw her falling, the girls started giggling and when Carmen’s name was called out, they shouted "She’s down in the sewer!"

All of the other students began laughing. But when the teachers looked down the manhole and saw Carmen’s body lying at the bottom in the muck and the poop, the laughter abruptly stopped. Her head was twisted around at an odd angle and her face was covered in blood. Worse still, she wasn’t moving. There was nothing any of the teachers could do for her. Carmen was dead. When the police arrived and went down into the sewer, they determined that she had broken her neck. Her face had been torn off when she hit the ladder on the way down and her neck snapped when she landed on her head on the concrete at the bottom.

The police hauled Carmen’s body out of the sewer and sent her to the mortuary. Everyone had to stay behind after school while the police questioned all of Carmen’s classmates. The five girlslied to the police, saying they had witnessed Carmen falling down the sewer. The police believed the girls and Carmen Winstead’s death was ruled an accident and the case was closed. Everyone thought that was the last they would hear of Carmen Winstead, but they were wrong.

Months later, Carmen’s classmates began receiving strange e-mails on their MySpaces. The e-mails were titled "They Pushed Her" and claimed that Carmen hadn’t really fallen down the sewer, she had been pushed. The e-mails also warned that the guilty people should own up and take responsibility for their crime. If they didn’t there would be horrible consequenc es. Most people dismissed the e-mails as a hoax, but others were not so sure.

A few days later, one of the girls who pushed Carmen down the sewer was at home taking a shower, when she heard a strange cackling laugh. It seemed to be coming from the drain. The girl started to freak out and ran out of the bathroom. That night, the girl said goodnight to her mom and went to sleep. Five hours later, her mom was awoken in the middle of the night, by a loudnoise that resounded throughout the house. She ran into her daughter’s room, only to find it empty. There was no trace of the girl. The worried mother called the police and when they arrived, they conducted a search of the area. Eventually, they discovered the girl’s grisly remains.

Her corpse was lying in the sewer, covered in muck and poop. Her neck was broken and her face missing. It had been completely torn off. One by one, all of the girls who pushed Carmen that day were found dead. They had all been killed in exactly the same way and were all found at exactly the same spot. In the sewer at the bottom of the same uncovered manhole where Carmen had met her doom. But the killing didn’t stop there. More and more of Carmen’s former classmates were found dead. It seemed that anyone who didn’t believe that Carmen had been pushed, was eventually found down in the sewer with their necks broken and their faces torn off.

They say that Carmen’s ghost is still on the rampage, hunting down anyone who doesn’t believe her story. According to the legend, Carmen will get you, whetherit’s from a toilet, a shower, a sink or a drain. When you go to sleep, you’ll wake up in the sewer, in complete darkness, paralyzed, unable to move, hearing cackling laughter all around you. Then, as you scream in horror, Carmen will come and tear your face off.

So be careful who you bully, because you just might find yourself on the receiving end of the curse of Carmen Winstead.

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Tom Gauld


has the art of simplicity perfectly, I love his childlike little drawings , there fun and they make me smile :)

Mark Ryden



I like his illustrations because there quite ethreal and surreal, and i'm abit wierd so I like that ind of thing. His work is very detailed and he uses 'muted' colours. As much as I like the strangeness i think they are a little to deatailed (some of them) and are just 'nice' images, which is strange because his work stood out on the presentation. I'm not really sure about tyhem but they do make me curious... abit like Alice....
Actually they remind me of alice in wonderland.

Dan McCarthy



I think it's a very cool idea to have the skelington with the 'sheet' over him to show a ghost. It wouldn't have been on my list of idea's and I love how its so diferen't. I love his simplicity and minimal choice for colour. I still get a little confused when it comes to colour. But he has a good tonal range whithin the colours and I think that it gives his illustrations (especialy the one colour ones) depth and intrest and makes them aestetically pleasing. It shows that you don't have to use alot of colours to make an interesting image/illustration.

Monday, 5 December 2011

Angela barrett




I love how soft her drawings look and how detailed they are. It looks like she chooses her colour palette carefully and really conideres everything.  Every drawing of heers is beautifully done. There are no sharp or harsh lines and no outline, It really gives the apperence of fantacy.

Saturday, 3 December 2011

Vera Brosgol


I like Vera's work because its simple and fun. I like the thick lines against the softer watercolours and that the watercolours are not put on in one flat colour. It gives the drawing more depth and texture. I also like that her lines arn't perfectly straight, she hasn't bothered to use a ruler and everything is slightly curved. I think this is better because it makes it imperfect and easier on the eye.Imperfections are much more interesting anyway.
THe bottem picture form 'Anya's Ghost' is an almost perfect colour sceme for my ghost Narratives project, ecept I'm not allowed to use black...