DSC - WRIGHTSON'S MONSTER - Fri. Mar. 24, 2017

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Bernie Wrightson spent seven years of his life completing the incredible pen and ink illustrations he drew for Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN and it is his imagined appearance of the creature the Doctor created that we will be challenged to draw today…

Although he was never described as a composite of whole body parts grafted together from cadavers and reanimated by electricity, this is the popular conception from the films of James Whale.  In the original work, Dr. Frankenstein discovered an elemental principle of life and he then develops a method to imbue vitality into inanimate matter.  And so, he spends two years constructing the creature’s body from materials supplied by “the dissecting room and the slaughter-house” that he then vaguely brings to life.

The creature is never named in the novel, though Shelley did refer to him as “Adam” during a retelling of the tale, seeming to related him to the first human from the Garden of Eden.  

And so, today, you are challenged to draw Bernie Wrightson’s interpretation of the Frankenstein Monster for about a half hour!

The deadline for this challenge is Saturday, March 25, 2017!

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