Dr Destiny by J.J.Kirby

This is just an incredible take on Dr Destiny by the too rare J.J.Kirby.

This was drawn as character designs for an online game. I bought several of them based on my love for J.J.’s art and kept this one under my sleeve, as it’s probably the best of them.

You’ve probably got every nightmare you could think of here. Snakes, flies, spiders, crawling insects, a creepy baby doll (a nod to Toy Story?), tentacles, a clawy paw, staring eyes and what looks like Sadako from Ring. And let’s not forget the creepy fumes all around him nor the liquid dripping upwards from the cracked ground.

In terms of style, this is the perfect piece for JJ to show off his skills as it’s both cartoony and creepy at the same time. The difference in textures is amazing. Just look at the scales on the snake’s tail, the sense of movement within the tentacles, the fine cross-hatching, the vaporous distortions of the spirits within the fumes. I love for instance that the last one on the bottom right is two creatures in one as the maw of the upper one is defined by the spiky hair of the one below. Great stuff.

Dr Destiny is perfect with his Skeletor like grin, looking at you like he is going to invade YOUR dreams.

And needless to say that the inks are pitch perfect here, not a drop of white-out and hardly a visible inked line. Perfection I tell you.