The Invisible Man (1933)

The Invisible Man (1933)

I was watching the 1933 Universal Movie "The Invisible Man" with Claude Rains, and was inspired to do a drawing for Halloween.  In the scene, he has just come in out of a blizzard with his trademark bandages, round sunglasses, a wax nose, a fedora, and overcoat.

Visually, I've always thought "The Invisible Man" was interesting, but it is impossible not to think about the Doom Patrol's Larry Trainor/Negative Man/Rebis--particularly during Grant Morrison's run (my personal favorite).  I dunno, in the drawing above he sorta looks like Frank Miller's version of The Spirit after some sort of horrible accident in which he has to be bandaged up... :-D

On a side note, after watching several of the Universal Monster Movies lately, I don't remember them being quite so campy and filled with slapstick when I last saw them on TV as a sullen teenager.  The scene with the police and some bar patrons chasing Griffin/The Invisible Man around a table in a Keystone Cops manner while he strips down, laughing maniacally, and ends with a patron taking an accidental truncheon to the head made me laugh out loud--literally.  As a kid, I remember that scene as a lot more creepy.  Then again, compared to the horrors of raising kids and making mortgage payments, a cackling madman hellbent on ruling the world and running around naked is pretty funny.

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Here are the loose pencils on a 8-1/2" x 11" piece of cardstock.

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Here are the inks, done with an el-cheapo/generic No. 4 Round Brush and Speedball Super-Black India Ink.

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I then scanned it into Photoshop and colorized it as a monochrome with a MULTIPLY Layer.

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Done with pen-and-ink on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock, colorized in Photoshop.

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Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Aliens - Sligs

Sligs

Here is the original entry for the Alien Race: Sligs to the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe".

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And here is my entry to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Redux.  

Fourth and final entry for the OHOTMU "Aliens: Sirians to Sligs" page!

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Here are the pencils, done with blue pencil lead on 8-1/2" x 11" paper.

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Here are the inks, done with PITT brush-nib pen.

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After it was scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop, I used a MULTIPLY LAYER to colorize it.

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Done with Pen-and-Ink on 8-1/2" x 11" paper, colored digitally.

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Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Aliens - Sirusites

Sirusites

Here is the original entry for the Alien Race: Sirusites to the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe".

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And here is my entry to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Redux.  

Three of four entries on the OHOTMU page.  One more to go!  :-)

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Here are the pencils, done with blue pencil lead on 8-1/2" x 11" paper.

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Here are the inks, done with PITT brush-nib pen.

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After it was scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop, I used a MULTIPLY LAYER to colorize it.

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Done with Pen-and-Ink on 8-1/2" x 11" paper, colored digitally.

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Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Aliens - Siris

Siris

Here is the original entry for the Alien Race: Siris to the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe".

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And here is my entry to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Redux.  

This is two of four entries on the OHOTMU page.  Two down, two to go!  :-)

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Here are the pencils, done with blue pencil lead on 8-1/2" x 11" paper.

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Here are the inks, done with PITT brush-nib pen.

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After it was scanned into Photoshop, I used a MULTIPLY LAYER to colorize it.

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Done with Pen-and-Ink on 8-1/2" x 11" paper, colored digitally.

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Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Aliens - Sirians

Sirians

Here is the original entry for the Alien Race: Sirians to the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe".

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And here is my entry to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Redux.  

It is one of four on the page, so the rest of 'em should be coming in over the next few days if all goes as planned (which it never seems to do, of course).  :-)  

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Here are the pencils, done with blue pencil lead on 8-1/2" x 11" paper.  For some reason, pencils always seem to look better than inks to me.  Granted, I'm not the best inker in the world, but I think there is usually more potential in the pencils before the inking "locks" the linework down.  Then again, that may be a high-faulting way to say "My inking really needs work..."  :-)

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Here are the inks, done with PITT brush-nib pen.

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After it was scanned into Photoshop, I used a MULTIPLY LAYER to colorize it.

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Done with Pen-and-Ink on 8-1/2" x 11" paper, colored digitally.

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