At the moment I'm waiting on two drawings I've assigned to the provocative genius KerbCrawlerGhost. One is a "golden shower" illustration involving a stranded Nazi demon humiliating a gagged girl near the wing of his crashed Messerschmitt (click here for a sneak peek) and the other one is inspired by an iconic shunga design of the ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai. In the latter, Hokusai's ninja will be replaced by a villainous plague doctor. The final result and the creative process behind these pieces will be shared in future updates.
Fig.1 Cristóbal López (better known as KerbCrawlerGhost)
More Insight
While waiting and to get into the mood, I bought the artist's digital (PDF) Sketchbook issued in 2023. This 89-page booklet with images in high resolution is highly recommended for enthusiasts (like myself) who want to gain more insight into the working method of this shock artist through the numerous preliminary drawings (helpful visual ideas) which he sometimes turned into greater paintings.
Long Menagerie of Creatures
These fascinating early studies show KerbCrawlerGhost's capability to handle different styles and themes, from cartoonish figures to realism, from blasphemy to occultism. From corny drawings, sticker designs, advertisements, to a storyboard for a movie trailer. Inside the Sketchbook, a long menagerie of creatures and freaks from his crazy universe pass in review, including all kinds of monsters, mutants, hybrids and deformed creatures, pregnant hermaphrodites, a traffic accident with a girl crushed against the guardrail, the mouth of a menacing hyena, a bat hanging upside down from a branch making love to a girl (!), and numerous devilish goats in various poses and shapes.
Short Comic
Furthermore, an early sketch of his version of Fuseli's "The Nightmare", first explorations of "Feeding the Mermaids" and his masterful "Weregoat" series, and even includes a real short comic "Mohwhaiok" (fig.2) involving an Indian girl (Squaw) with nefarious erotic plans. And this is just a small selection of the sketches, drawings and additional notes inside the Sketchbook that provide a unique glimpse into the aesthetic ideas of this extraordinary artist.
Fig.2 From the short comic Mohwhaiok
On the artist's site he adds the following about the Sketchbook:
"This Pdf is a “Beta version” is just the tip of the iceberg of what will be a more complex and extended collection of drawings, to be printed as a book. By getting this PDF version you are helping to fund the first stage of design to complete this project, and to keep it breathing until we pitch the crowdfunding to make it a real 250 pages book of sketches, during the upcoming months."
High Quality
The images below will give an impression of the insides of the Sketchbook but don't represent the high quality of images in the PDF...
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You can obtain KerbCrawlerGhost's Sketchbook and thus help funding his future "Sketchbook" project on the following page (we're not an affiliate)
Click HERE for our earlier interview with KerbCrawlerGhost
