Day 06: The Invisible Man (1933) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2026

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2026:
The Invisible Man (1933)

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Here's "The Invisible Man" (1933), as portrayed by Claude Rains.  And, yeah, he isn't wearing pants.  I was debating just having the entire robe open and floating, but boxers with hearts on it seemed more amusing. 

The movie's special effects amazed me as a kid when I watched it.  Heck, they are still pretty amazing when I watch it now, IMHO.  And those awesome, awesome sunglasses are pretty darn cool.

And, here's an Animated .GIF of The Invisible Word Balloon... er, Invisible Man:

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STEP ONE: Here are the quick pencils done on a 2,000px x 3,000px canvas @ 300dpi in Rebelle 8 Pro.

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STEP TWO: Here is the finished digital painting.

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Done Digitally with Rebelle 8 Pro.

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Day 14: The Invisible Man (1933) Mash-Up - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2025:
The Invisible Man (1933)

I often joke about having to use a blank picture and say it is "The Invisible Man" if I ever don't finish a drawing/painting in time.  Well, in this case, I did the Claude Rains "Invisible Man" as a mash-up with Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown for no reason whatsoever.  Well, other than I wanted to do something with "The Invisible Man" since I was doing the Universal Monsters and all.  And the image of having him as Charlie Brown popped into my head, so I decided to go with it (and will do a few more in this vein, perhaps).

Alongside that image, I thought it would have been amusing to have him writing a variation of Rorschach's Journal from "Watchmen": "Invisible Man's journal. October 14th, 2025. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face..." but thought it was maybe a bit too much, with a hat on a hat on top of yet a third hat.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick, digital pencils in Rebelle 8 on a 2,000px x 3,000px @300dpi digital canvas.

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STEP TWO:  And here are the digital inks.

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STEP THREE:  Here are the plain colors also done in Rebelle.

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STEP FOUR:  I opened the color plate in Photoshop and used the Color Halftone filter.  And then I imported the finished picture into Clip Studio Paint and placed the paper texture over top.

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Done in Rebelle 8 with an assist from Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop.

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Day 07: The Invisible Man (1933) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2024

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2024:
The Invisible Man (1933)

One week down, three-more-and-some-change to go!

No, it's not the promised "Invisible Man" if I were to fail to get one of these daily drawings/paintings done for "31 Days of HELL-O-Ween", but the 1933 classic Universal Movie with Claude Rains.  The character is so visually interesting, I almost have to include him every year.  Also, dig those crazy "Double D Richardson" Antique Railroad Sunglasses: Always the coolest, Daddio!

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick pencils done with colored pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" extra-heavy toned cardstock.

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STEP TWO:  Here's the first pass with Acrylic paint.

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STEP THREE:  And here's the finished painting.  I originally had the checkered lapels on his robe, but it was rather distracting, so just went with the plain color to bring the focus back up to his face.

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Done with Acrylic on 8-1/2" x 11" extra-heavy toned cardstock.

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Day 23: Hollow Man (2000) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2022

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2022
Hollow Man (2000)

It's a Paul Verhoeven remake of "The Invisible Man", "Hollow Man" (2000).  Being Verhoeven, there is a lot of action, interesting visual effects, and blood, too.  I always thought it was strange to have characters go mad with power after becoming invisible, but then again Plato's "Ring of Gyges" was about that very thing (look at me, showing off).

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STEP ONE:  Here are the quick, digital pencils done in Clip Studio Paint on a 2,000px x 3,000px canvas.  Alas, they are pretty dark and barely visible (appropriately enough, given the subject).

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STEP TWO:  And here's the digital scratchboard.  It was a black canvas and using a pen brush with a transparent color--it acts like an eraser, but with the normal brush settings.  Every digital paint program should have this feature, IMHO.

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STEP THREE: And here's the finished digital drawing.

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Done digitally with Clip Studio Paint.

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Day 17: The Invisible Man (1933) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2021

31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2021:
The Invisible Man

Hey, it's the Invisible Man--NOT the one I will have to use if I completely blow it and am not able to get a posting done in time (it's the Invisible Man, naked in a snowstorm right next to a polar bear!).  For this one, I decided to take a more Virgil Finlay / John Totleben (American comic book artist best known for inking "Swamp Thing" in the 80's--and in my personal Top Five of best Comic Book Artists) approach to the drawing and work more with the line width and variation to get an image.  They used stippled lines, varying line weight to give an almost etched look to their drawings.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital pencils in Clip Studio Paint on a 1,500px x 2,100px canvas.  I did the background in black and did the blue "pencils" in a normal layer.

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STEP TWO:  Here's about the halfway point.  Rather than use white as the pen color, in Clip Studio Paint I prefer to use the Transparent color, which acts like an eraser tool to carve away the black background--it's easier to pick the color, than to switch tools back-and-forth, IMHO.  When I use my Wacom at home, I have the first button set to switch colors between the Primary, Sub, and Transparent, so it's just a couple button clicks to get to it even easier.

I did a series of dots across the face and in other places to know where to aim the thicker lines to add more highlights ont he drawing.  To be honest, with the lines underneath, I wasn't able to see the digital pencils properly.  So, a lot of it was just trying to match up somewhat closely to the reference picture.

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STEP THREE:  And, after lots and LOTS of noodling, here's the finished drawing.  I think it has a more ghostly, ethereal look to it by using the series of varied line-width, although I do want a few more darks in the facial features of the head.  Tsk.

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STEP FOUR:  Behind the scenes special footage: This is about the half-way point on the first attempt at the digital scratchboard, but it seemed a little bland.  While I do think I like some of the dark areas a little more to give more contrast, the gray areas are just kind of "dead" and uninteresting.  Nothing really wrong with it, per se, but nothing really right with it, either.  So, I abandoned ye all hope who scratched here and started over again.

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This was done digitally in Clip Studio Paint.

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Day 06: The Invisible Man - 31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

31 Days of HELL-o-Ween 2019

Day 06: The Invisible Man

Hey, it's Day 06 of my increasingly bad idea of doing a monster drawing a day for the month of October.  Ugh!  What the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks was I thinking?

Anyway, I joked I would be posting drawing of blank panels by the end of the week and calling them "The Invisible Man".  While I may, yet, here's a legit drawing/painting of The Invisible Man.  BTW, the whole time I was drawing this, I was thinking about Rebis/The Negative Man (Woman) from Grant Morrison's run of "Doom Patrol" (one of my favorite comic book runs), of which he/she/hir was an obvious nod to The Invisible Man.

This drawing was done with Indigo Blue colored pencil and gouache (an opaque watercolor) on 8-1/2" x 11" toned cardstock.

Here are two progressive pics.

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Done with colored pencil and gouache/watercolor on 8-1/2" x 11" toned cardstock.

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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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