{"id":813930,"date":"2025-10-24T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/?p=813930"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:11:13","slug":"six-horror-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/six-horror-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Six horror artists whose terrifying work will haunt your dreams this Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s the spookiest time of the year. If you're a Halloween enthusiast or generally a creepy content devotee, you might be looking for horror-themed, monstrous, or otherwise terrifying art -- but it can be tough finding artists who specialize in that kind of subject matter. Artists are a multifaceted lot, and most don\u2019t constrain themselves to a single genre. Even the most talented creature designers tend to do it as a subfield of concept art. So, to help the thrill-seeking reader find some new favorite pieces, I set out on a Halloween hunt for horror artists. I had two parameters to help narrow my search:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Their subjects had to go beyond mere scary faces and staple creatures -- e.g. vampires and werewolves -- into the realm of the unsettling and even upsetting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. On the other hand, I avoided artists who specialized in gore. Some blood and guts is to be expected from any artists of this genre, but I didn't include any whose whole body of work would be at home on Cannibal Corpse album covers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Within these parameters, it turned out there are still plenty of artists doing fantastically frightening work. Here are six horror artists to follow if you're looking to creep yourself out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Content Warning: There's plenty of scary and\/or upsetting imagery, including body horror, throughout this blog post.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This post's feature image is by Igor Krstic<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    David Romero<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    He goes by the username CinemaMind on his social media accounts, and has the same surname as legendary Night of the Living Dead<\/em> director George Romero, so it\u2019s not a huge leap to guess David Romero is inspired by horror movies. If you did so, you\u2019d be right! Romero initially went to Philadelphia's University of the Arts<\/a> to study film, but realized the visions he had in mind could be more easily realized in animation. He started out with illustration on a freelance basis, seeing it as a means to an end to practice for his personal projects. But he became incredibly prolific, racking up over 700 pieces on Deviantart<\/a> alone and making a name for himself illustrating \"creepypastas<\/a>.\" And the practice paid off, as he ended up finding success in animation too, starting a Youtube channel<\/a> that\u2019s scored a number of hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For example, the short horror animation below, entitled \"Pleasant Inn.\" Content Warning: blood and violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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