In October 2017 I had the
opportunity to visit the “It’s Alive” exhibit at the Peabody Essex museum in
Salem Massachusetts. The exhibit consisted of movie posters, props and costumes
from old horror movies that had been collected by guitarist Kirk
Hammett, of the heavy metal band Metallica. These beautiful old posters initially
inspired me to create some posters of my own based on some of the Universal Studio
monsters. I later decided to design my own interpretations of these creatures
and instead of posters I would make six different vignettes. Each drawing would
be made with different types of media (marker, paint, cut paper etc.) and each
with a different illustration style.
The Bride of Frankenstein. Gouache paint.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Cut paper
and colored pencil.
The Mummy. Sepia ink wash.
The Wolfman. Pen and colored pencil.
Dracula. Prismacolor markers.
Frankenstein's monster. Colored pencil.
