Mine for Horror Week: Wrightson's FRANKENSTEIN

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

My contribution to horror week. Nice juicy scans of five of the illustrations Berni Wrightson did for FRANKENSTEIN.
Along with "the Black Cat," this is the apex of his career, for me.

The style Wrightson chose to use was following the approach of Franklin Booth(and led me to studying him), which is
mistakenly called crosshatching, and there is plenty of that too, but what's surprising is that, when you look at it closely,
it's more made up of parallel lines than anything else.
Side personal note: When I was first reading comics with an eye to maybe being an artist myself, this, Dave Sim, and
Bissette/Totleben all hit me at the same time and warped my hand for life. This stuff is dear to my heart. Enjoy.
(And for those interested in seeing the rest, I think it's only fair to leave this link. )




And the greatest single piece of them all. I've nearly gone blind failing to imitate this kind of linework.
(c)Berni Wrightson.

Comments

[taggerung301.insanejournal.com]

*looks at this
*looks at own sketchbook
*breaks down crying

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry, there probably aren't more than a dozen professional artists who wouldn't do the same, and those who wouldn't are the sort whose opinion isn't worth the having.

[abbadie.insanejournal.com]

I was once optioned for work at a comic intended for`public awareness, which had been started by Ruben Lara, creator of the mexican comic Chanoc. He showed me some "rough sketches" he'd made for the following issue: the pencils were intrincately and realistically detailed, with careful shading, worthy of those old Creepy pencils-only stories.

Now THAT is de-moralizing.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Yep, that's pretty much always been my reaction...

[geoffsebesta.insanejournal.com]

check my response below...