Inktober 2018 - I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)

Inktober 2018

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)

Yes, yes, Frankenstein is the name of the scientist and NOT the Monster (to steal a joke from Frank Conniff, the **REAL** monster is the one who points that out).  Anyhoo, "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) was the obvious follow-up to "I Was a Teenage Werewolf", released about 6 months later.  And, it is yet another terrible B-Movie I watched as a young, impressionable child.  These type of B-Movies also helped to form my tastes in movies, culture, and other media, but let's not think about that.

It involved a teenager in a car accident, a doctor who's last name happens to be Frankenstein, an alligator pit used to dispose of any hapless and accidental witnesses, and the hideously disfigured teenager brought back to life trying to find a new face.  It also had a neat trick where the last minute of the movie was in color (something used again by the same company in "How to Make a Monster" (1958), in which the Teenage Werewolf and Teenage Frankenstein get to fight each other... and features masks from "Invasion of the Saucer Men" and... but I digress.)

And, sure, in the color portion of the movie, Teenage Frankenstein was more the red color of a boiled ham, but the promotional posters had him as green, which is where I decided to go with the drawing/digital coloration.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the pencils, done with an ebony pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock.

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STEP TWO:  The inks were done using a #10 brush and Pro Art Pro-4100 ink.

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STEP THREE:  After it was imported into Photoshop, it was colored over a Multiply layer.

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Done with Pen-and-Ink on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock / Digitally colored.

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