The Ink Of The Bride Of Frankenstein

While watching THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN with my daughter Tabitha this past Halloween, I was reminded of how much I enjoyed doing simple pen-and-ink drawings of the wonderful characters that inhabit James Whale's film. These are all from around 1999, and most appeared in the very first Sketchy Things volume. Is it me, or does my Bride look a bit like Scarlett Johansson? Attention, Universal Studios casting...

A Simple Wolf

This is one of my very favorite pen-and-ink sketches. Very quick, very loose, but totally captures the Wolf Man dynamic. This was before I had the luxury of DVD and screen capture, so I had to pause my VHS cassette of Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man and draw like the devil. It's actually like "life drawing," only with a TV instead of a live model. You've got one minute to capture the gesture! Go!