IF: Slow Monster Race

I just finished a drawing where the frankenstein kid was racing a little dracula kid down a path (in my previous blog post) and I had a thought....a little frankenstein kid wouldn't be terribly coordinated to do a spot of running, much less race anyone...so I thought about redrawing him a little more stiff and a little less runny...and then I thought, "What if there were a bunch of slow monsters running a race...?" - and that's where this illustration came from:

It's always quite funny in a horror movie when you have a slow moving monster chasing someone that's running...and that person looks back to see where the monster is, doesn't see anyone and then turns around and the monster is in front of them!  It's horrible writing...or just supernatural forces at work...

Anyway - what if you gathered all these monsters up and had them enter a race together?  Well, out of these three, I think the Frankenstein would be the most coordinated of the undead (especially since he has the freshest brain)...and would win easily...but since zombies have a knack for stumbling about and ending up at the right place at the wrong time, he could easily come in second without even trying.

Here's a quick color job done in Adobe Illustrator:

Pull our finger...

When monsters get together, they can't help but to pick on those smaller and/or weaker than themselves. 

Go ahead, just give it a little tug...

Here's one thing - both of these guys are undead - one raised through the 'miracle' of science and lightning (or something like that) and the other who is dead, but still rises with the setting sun...but do you ever wonder what kind of smells these fellas are producing?  Such as - Frankenstein's monster is made up of rotting corpses that were brought back to life, shouldn't he still smell like rotting (or past tense, rotted) flesh?  And a vampire, who sleeps in a coffin (presumably the one he died in?) every night for eternity...shouldn't he be getting a little rank at some point? 

I think pulling their fingers is the least of one's worries...

Frankie Stein sketches

I'm working on a new project - I've been neglecting the blog a bit, but only because I've been doing a lot of sketching lately, and not so much finished illustrations.

Here are a couple of illustrations involving little Frankie Stein.

I've pretty much got his character down, and need to work on the supporting cast of characters...and that should take a while as there are a lot of little characters...

Frankenstein: my version

When I was growing up, I always thought that Frankenstein was the monster's name. Eventually I came to the realization - mostly because I kept hearing Frankenstein's monster - that it was just an unnamed monster and Frankenstein was the fella that created him. Well, all that was when I was a kid.
A couple of years ago - I finally bought the Berni Wrightson illustrated version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I had no idea how long and ridiculous the story actually was (being more used to the monster movie of the 30s as well as Young Frankenstein). I did see the movie version that Kenneth Branagh did with Robert De Niro, of all people, playing the monster. It (like the book) went against everything the other movies made iconic. The monster could not only talk, but converse in intelligent conversation. Well - the book faired better than that movie - Branagh's heavy handed directing (the swooping camera...twirling around the director, who also starred as Frankenstein) as well as all the overacting ruined what could have been a spectacular movie (it did try to follow the book's storyline better than the old 30's movie).
Anyhow - I prefer the iconic 30's Frankenstein. This is my version of that iconic monster.

A bunch of new stuff...

I need to blog here more...I've been incredibly busy working at Nickelodeon - and doing freelance. Here's something I created just for fun this past weekend...It's from an old sketch I did earlier this year (trying to expand on my Frankenpenguin picture). It's the forgettable Igor. I want to do a full story about him. But we'll see...