Growing Up with Monsters

There are few artists who can match Jack Davis' funny monsters. This is the frontis piece to the book Growing Up With Monsters by Carla Laemmle.

Tales From the Crypt #40

I found a jpg file of the original black and white pen and ink art for this Jack Davis (master I am not worthy) cover on the internet. It seemed like a good exercise to color it up without looking at how the original published comic's cover, to the lower left, had been completed. I didn't want to stray too far from how an EC comic book cover done in the 1950s might look; but I do have more subtle shading and hues than was done then. I also seemed to use fewer warm colors than the printed cover.