Day 29: Robot Monster (1953) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2023

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2023:
Robot Monster (1953)

Meet the titular "Robot Monster" (1953), Ro-Man, an alien gorilla from Mars as part of an invasion force wearing a diving bell with a radio antenna on top of the helmet and somewhat shot in 3-D--what's not to love?  The story is... well, nothing to speak of, I suppose.  [Spoilers: It was all a concussion-based dream--or was it?]  It's considered one of the worst movies ever made (a long list, of which I've probably seen too many), right up there with "Plan 9 from Outer Space", "Troll 2", and so many others.

And, yeah, I know there's no skull inside the fishbowl in the movie itself, but it was on the movie poster and it looks pretty darn cool--so in it goes!

This was done with Acrylic Paint with a palette of Paynes Gray and Titanium White.

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STEP ONE:  Here is a quick breakdown done over some hastily scribbled pencils.  It is painted on an 8-1/2" x 11" extra thick cardstock which was primed with a 50/50 mix of gesso and matte medium.

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STEP TWO:  And here's the second and third pass with acrylic paint.

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STEP THREE:  It's the finished painting.

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Done with Acrylic paint on 8-1/2" x 11" gessoed cardstock.

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Inktober 2018 - Robot Monster (1953)

INKTOBER 2018

Robot Monster (1953)

OK, "Robot Monster" from 1952 is one of the, um, "classic"(?) B-Movies.  Ro-Man, the gorilla-bodied monster with the fishbowl/diving helmet is the quintessence of B-Movie Monsters, if you will.  

There are times when every bit of something, from inception to completion, is just broken and every fork in the road taken goes the completely wrong direction.  This is one of those examples, and yet there is a goofy charm about Ro-Man which always pulls my attention.

The movie is mostly boring, but when I saw it as a kid on one of the late-night creature features, the titular Robot Monster was strange enough that it held my attention whenever he was on screen.  Ro-Man kills almost the entire Earth's population with a death ray, leaving one family and a couple other people alive.  Robot Monster chases said family, creepily falls in love with the daughter of the family, more chasing, something, something fake dinosaurs fight, it was all a dream.  The End.  Or was it?  Or was it?  Or was it?  (If you've ever seen the movie, those last three questions will make marginally more sense.  But, only marginally.)

Just for fun, I threw in a vague skull inside the helmet, ala the movie poster for "Monster Robot". It was cooler that way.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the hastily scrawled pencils, done on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock.

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STEP TWO:  The page is the inked page with a 1.0mm black gel pen and #10 brush with Speedball Super Black ink.

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STEP THREE:  After it was scanned into Photoshop, colors were added 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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