The Bride of Sketching

A special friday night drawing session where we viewed the 1935 classic THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and stopped every few minutes to sketch a pose. My figure drawing is rusty but I got a few okay sketches out of the night. Turnout was good from the drawing session and there is talk of another possible one.

I wrote Shelly but I think this is really Lord Byron...

Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.....

Una O'Connor as Minnie.....

Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Pretorius.....

Boris Karloff as The Monster....

O.P. Heggie as the hermit in the forest....

Dwight Frye as Karl....

Elsa Lanchester as The Bride....

Monster Mash-Up.....

Extreme Take

Earlier, I posted the drawings for a head turn and eye blink. The next step of the animation was to show an extreme take (like an exaggerated surprise). Here are the three drawings for that sequence....

The Derelict: Concept Sketches

Concept Roughs for The Derelict.....

The Fool: Concept Sketches

Concept Rough Sketches for The Fool....

The Fool & the Derelict

Class Assignment: Character design for The Fool and The Derelict....

J.C. Leyendecker at the Haggin Museum-Part IX

Here are some prelims and roughs along with a few paintings not posted yet....

If you are reading these posts and are a long time Leyendecker fan, I'm sure my write up on these works hasn't broken any new ground for you. However, my hope is that you might on a visual level as I post rare works and close ups, something the two main Leyendecker books don't get into as much.

For those new to Leyendecker's work, I hope this has inspired you to seek out more information and works on this artist who was Norman Rockwell's hero.

And for the new and old fans, I hope this inspires a trip out to the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California. The gold mines use to be farther up the highway in the foothills but, today, there remains a great one half hidden away at the Haggin.

Many thanks to the fine folks at the Haggin Museum for their help and assistance.

J.C. Leyendecker at the Haggin Museum-Part IIX

More early works of J.C. Leyendecker this time including some rarely seen pen & ink...

Early works in Graphite...

FINAL PART...
PART IX
COMING SOON...