ARCHIVE: CLASSIC HORROR FILM DRAWINGS CONTINUED  

This week I thought I'd feature a little pen and ink rendering of one of my favorite Universal monster movies: The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) directed by Jack Arnold, starring Julie Adams and Richard Carlson and distributed by Universal International.  The film was originally released utilizing polarized 3-D glasses and is considered a classic.  The Creature is among the pantheon of iconic Universal movie monsters along with Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Dracula, and Phantom of the Opera.  In 2012 Universal announced a reboot is in the works and could be hitting theaters in 2014.  As an interesting side note, the woman depicted in this drawing is the film's star Julie Adams.  I had the pleasure to meet her at a documentary film festival a couple years ago while giving a talk on an upcoming documentary graphic novel.  She was discussing her involvement in the film.  To access some past Halloween posts, check out my BLOG ARCHIVE. 

  

 

HALLOWEEN INSPIRED FILM DRAWINGS CONTINUED

Here's a little pen and ink rendering of mine from the 1959 film The Angry Red Planet also known as The Journey to Planet Four by American International Pictures was directed by Ib Melchior. This film was shot on a shoe string budget of $200,000 using an antiquated film technique known as CineMagic which involved splicing live action footage and hand drawn animation.  I've always been a fan of the simple creature designs from this era and the bat-rat-spider design from this film is no exception.  

 

THROUGHOUT OCTOBER 

Every week throughout October I thought I'd share some small renderings of mine of classic Halloween inspired films I've watched since I was a kid.  I've drawn much of my artistic inspiration from classic horror films.  This week I thought I go way back and kick it off with two iconic Universal movie monsters.  The Wolfman (1941) directed by George Waggner starred Lon Chaney, Jr. and featured Claude Rains. The original film Frankenstein (1931) inspired by Mary Shelley's novel of the same name or also known as The Modern Prometheus was directed by James Whale and starred Boris Karloff.  To access past Halloween posts, check out my BLOG ARCHIVE.