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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. And for God's sakes, children, Frankenstein is the scientist, not the creation.Micron pen and awesome comic book marker.
Completed Christmas Day, 2009.
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Is it bad that I actually like to draw Victor blonde?
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No, I don't think so. I actually often picture him blonde nowadays. I reserve brown hair for Dr. Henry Jekyll, and black hair for Hyde. This drawing is six years old, so I don't really see the characters this way anymore, and you're right; I think blonde is actually more suitable for Victor.
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Oh yes! Someone that agrees with me!
The Sergio A. Sierra version of Vic forced me even more, he wasn't blonde there, but the white color made me think that way.
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Yeah, true. I need to look into that one!
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Oh, you fabulous creature, you. You really captured the mood of the moment here, especially the quiet but intense hatred between the good doctor and his creature, who has a solemn beauty about him despite his appearance.
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Thank you! I'm thinking of redoing this piece, but I'm not very ecstatic about Frankenstein anymore and have taken more to Jekyll and Hyde. Still, your comments are intelligent and greatly appreciated.
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You deserve them, you really do. 
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It may be odd, but I want to hug the creature so much now! I love how you drew him. Absolutely wonderful!
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I wanted to hug the creature...throughout that ENTIRE book. :3
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Yes, well... I'd probably want to make myself scarce for awhile when he is at the peak of a tantrum, coming back as soon as he has calmed down. I want to be there for him, but it would do us both little good if I get hurt, or killed in the heat of a moment.( As long as I am fair,truthful, kind and compassionate to him I should be fine!)
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Haha yeah. Poor thing was entirely misunderstood. Shelley presents a fictional argument for man being inherently good.
Eh. Lots of people hate this book. I don't care. 'Twas thoroughly enjoyable. :3
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I enjoyed it, but after awhile it felt like Dr. Frankenstein was blabbering on all the time about how his life sucked. (It's kinda his own fault in the first place...)Basicly the whole I'm-going-to-play-God-but-skimp-out-at-the-last-second-and-to-hell-with-responsability-for-my-actions,thing. Kinda like a deadbeat dad. Oh well, could have ended in a worse way, right?
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Yeah, Victor Frankenstein is the epitome of an antihero. I DO NOT LIKE HIM. Still, he's necessary for the moral points the monster brings up.
I was really surprised by the ending. The monster still "loved" him in an odd way. I don't know if Victor accepted him in the end, or if he just died like the pussy he is. Or maybe the monster killed him (unlikely)? Isn't it that he rests for a while, and when the captain comes back, Victor's dead and the monster's above him? If that's the case, I'm wondering if Victor and the monster had one last chat.
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I just kinda assumed that the Creature's good nature came out again, and when he realized that Victor's death brought him no peace, or happiness it was a loss of the closest thing to a "friend" or "father" that he had. So, he just kinda gave up in the end and went into hiding/died.
I suppose that once Victor has some time to cool down, that the death of his wife made him understand the pain the Creature felt. Could also be that in the end, when victor was dying, and alone that he just didn't care anymore, so he treated the creature in a way to lessen his anger against man-kind.
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I like that. I need to read this book again. It's been a while. Beautiful interpretation.
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Thanks. I guess it's because I really see the beauty in him, in the tragity.
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Yeah. It's a story with many levels.
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Yeah... I've dreamed about him. though he was an odd mix of the Karlof monster and the orginal. I guess if you don't read the book before experincing the hollywood monster, it's hard to shake off the image of a flatop and neckbolts.
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Yeah, I was really surprised by how different the creature was in the book. I mean, he sounds much more terrifying, but most of that is the intelligence. He's a more eloquent speaker than his creator. None of this "Fire...BAD!" stuff (although that has its own special place in culture and in my heart).
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Same, most of us kinda grew up on it. I guess it's kinda hard for a kid to understand the complex phelosphy of life, death, right wrong... among other topics of the story. I tend to have a hard time seeing the story as a horror story.
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Yeah, it wasn't really horror. I mean, it started out as such, the contest between the Shelleys and their neighbors, who could write the better horror story. Mary won, of course. Still, it's a multi-layered book and can be enjoyed on many levels. On the surface, it's a horror story. Dig deeper, and you get ideas of Man as inherently good, Nature vs. Nurture, what it is to play God, what constitutes a human soul, et cetera, et cetera. Jesus, there's a lot you can get from this novel. That's why it's survived to this day.
Oh, and black and white 50s monster movies. :3
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Oh yes. Silent ones are cool too. Nosferatu and Phantom of the Opera. Not many people seem to know that the first horror movie was Frankenstein, from 1910.
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I saw Nosferatu, but I haven't seen The Phantom of the Opera yet. I watched Nosferatu on my big computer screen with the light off at two in the morning on a summer night. It was creepy cool.
Was it really Frankenstein? I gotta check that out, certainly!
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Oh yes.. it was tenminuets long and you can find it on youtube. It kinda looks like something a highschool student could make in an old family house. Even so, it is intresting.
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Cool! I'll definitely check it out. Thanks for telling me!
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No problem. I have few friends who have the same muses as me. So I have to make some...
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So... I really need to do some more art. That seems to be the best way to meet people on here. XD I still need to do some creature, and snape art... I have some of my other two muse subjects. Maybe some labyrinth.
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Yeah, certainly! Fan art is especially useful for meeting people with shared interests. My two most favorited pieces in my gallery are fan arts for The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hetalia. Also, more obscure interests seem to cling to each other. I've had many a thrilling exchange with my operatic fan buddies and with other Peter Gabriel / old Genesis fans. Do some arts!
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I do have somne hunchback art if you want to look. >.> not a lot.
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Ah cool! It's like from the book fan art. I gotta read that book...that's my favorite Disney movie.
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Well let me warm you.. Frollo isn't as evil, phebus isn't as noble, and Esme isn't as indipendate. I will also recomend getting the audio book.
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Yeah, I heard Frollo was more of a tragic hero. I look forward to that.
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I love Frollo. His plea to Esmerelda moved me so deeply! I would have given him a chance... or would have embraced him.
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Aww. I gotta read this.
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Yes. It's beautiful...
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Merry X-mas! (yeah,I know, it's April now.) But this comes as achristmas present, really. I mean, leaving aside tha folks tend to think Frankenstein is the monster, not the creator, thanks to Boris Karloff, they also seem to think the creature is tall, sluggish, lumbering, short haired, short minded, etc..... in many ways unlike the original creation. I wonder what Mrs. Shelley would feel about that?
Anyway, good job! Keep it up!
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Haha Merry Christmas to you too?
Yeah...I bet the majority of people think of Frankenstein in the Boris Karloff way...I think he's way cooler and more dangerous and human in the Shelley version. Why change it? He's scarier in the original. Have you seen the Lynd Ward illustrations for Frankenstein? They're a bunch of wood cuts...terrifying at times yet still you have this sense that the creature is entirely human, and there is something about the way he hunches his tired shoulders that you can feel sympathetic towards.
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Lynd Ward you say? Thanks for the suggestion ! "runs of to ransack google for images".
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Wow. Impressive work !
All the work on black and white and the shadows are really good. And I like the texture of the clothes.
Good work !
(I have to try to read this book in english >.<
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Oh it's a great book; you'll love it. It's funny how different the monster is from the green guy with the rectangular head and the nails in this neck. The monster speaks more fluently and high class than Victor, haha!
And thank you.
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