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The Storm Arrives
I clearly did not pencil that middle panel, and besides using some fake pencils to fill in tons of blacks, I think I’ve avoided relying on digital art. But I just could not get that sky to look right. So after drawing and erasing, drawing and erasing, and drawing again, I scanned it in, cut out the sky, and used that instead. I just could not do it! Need to work on my pencil technique clearly.
Ah, wait.
Vitor…. Frank-einstein.
How on Earth did I miss that reference?!
I like to think of him as the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpappy to the Victor we all know and love.
For the sky, did you try charcoal and stump?
Also, glad that someone else got the golem creator reference. Although golems in the jewish tradition are more “man-as-a-surrogate-god” things and Shelley’s creation is more tragedic in the ancient greek understanding. Although the mechanics may seem similar (for the Shelleys got their inspiration somewhere…) the “creating an animated being from dirt” thing with the original golems is more profound (mysically speaking) than the “bring flesh back to life” that is Frankenstein monster’s point. There are a number of reasons for that, one being the emergence (a the time) of science (physiology, to be precise) as a yet-not-completely-understood replacement for religion.
One other being that “Frankenstein” was a critical reflection on modernism as well as a try at Tragedy, not a work of mysticism.
Sorry for being so wordy, I fear I busted the “25 words per page” rule 😉