Enlistee's art gallery!

[ChrisW]

Meek - thanks for the background info - it makes the art all the more appreciated.
Terry - [H. Munster]Darn! Darn! Darn! Darn![/H. Munster] sorry to hear it, and congrats on the award.
Frank - obviously you're having too much fun!

[MonsterArt]

I'm also sorry that you can't make it to Wonderfest, Terry. I'm hoping for a sort-of grand caucus of the classic monster artists, that we could all meet up and have a cocktail and draw on bev-naps. Do you think you might be able to attend the Classic Monster Con in October?

[Meek]

Here is the Shakespeare chair varnished and assembled. The color is not quite right but then it is grey and murky out. I'll also post a view of the seat inscribed with Elizabethan styled profanity. "Goats and Monkeys!" is the only real Shakespearean cussin' and that comes from "Othello".

[Meek]

  And here is the seat of the chair--I went alphabetically in listing these but am rather fond of "Fawning headge-born maggot pie!"  "Droning fly-bitten harpy!" refers to my Stepmother and "Goats and Monkeys!" I growl frequently while at work---this is a safe sort of swearing.

[ChrisW]

Goats and Monkeys, indeed! The perfect spot to sit and, perchance to dream...on a midsummer's night, natch!
A true labor of love.

[MonsterArt]

This month's Classic Horror Art Challenge at the CHFB is our beloved CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. Here's my entry...Ricou Browning from THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US...

[MonsterArt]

I've been exchanging computer generated images with Rick Baker recently. He's created some incredible digital versions of the Karloff Frankenstein monster and Lugosi's Dracula. Here is a Kharis I created a few years back. I thought you folks might enjoy it...

[ChrisW]

Frank - beautiful rendering of the creech. What software did you do Kharis in? Is the figure 2D or 3D? And the effect of the bas relief in the Background works well.
I use Lightwave 3D program (+some plugins) at work for the conceptual stuff. I/ve seen some of Rick Bakers wortk on the Computer Graphic Society's pages - incredible stuff. He taught himself Z-Brush - and blows everyone out of the water...

[MonsterArt]

Thanks Chris. The Kharis figure is 3D. Rick and I are both creating these characters in Poser, which has become a really terrific program for folks teaching themselves 3D skills.

[Meek]

   I've been searching for another version of the Creature that I did for my Brother for his birthday; the painting, 4x6 is of the Creature starting to climb over the side of the Rita onto the deck, but I can't find the scan or a copy of the painting anywhere that I've looked. Humph!
  I did find Murder lurking by a lamp post, so he'll have to do for the time being until I can find what the deuce I've done with the Creature(I could ask my Brother to make a copy of the painting and send it to me but he's not one to respond to any request quickly).
  Murder has wax stains on his left coat sleeve and a ring on his right index finger and he ties his cap on in an innnnteresting manner, but most of all I love his "catfish" whiskers. I know Lugosi had no love for the feline race but for me he reminds me of a very large cat--he's so feline in his gestures.

   "Meek"

[Meek]

   Er, I meant "cape" not cap; the ties for the cape go under Murder's armpits.

   "Meek"(typed in extreme haste----and it shows)

[Mike Scott]

Great Creech, Frank!

Meek, your Murder is killer!

[ChrisW]

Frank, did you paint the texture map for the Kharis figure?
Another nice job Meek - the hands are especially well done!

[avenger]

Frank,
    Beautiful job on the Creature !!!
And the Kharis computer image is stunning !

                                       Gary

[MonsterArt]

Frank, did you paint the texture map for the Kharis figure?

I did, Chris. Used a texture map and painted it in photoshop. I wish I had my Wacom tablet back then, I could have done a much better job of matching seams and so forth.

And thanks for the nice words about the Creature sketch, folks!